On the Camino

This wrapping paper is made by cutting out stars from blue and yellow paper and placing these on sellotape which is stuck onto the brown paper

For this year's card I went around everywhere in Santiago de Compostella that I could think of that had sellos and had them stamped on cards - not a last minute card that you can make but if you collected any sellos on your own Camino you could photocopy parts of your credential and then glue them onto a card?

For Saint James' Day this year I wanted to do a picture frame but with a difference so I found these box frames with string in them (originally sold in the pound shop for Mother's Day).

The Pilgrims' Festival in Canterbury starts tomorrow for anyone interested

Image taken from http://www.bidorbuy.co.za/item/198307532/1965_HOLY_YEAR_OF_SANTIAGO_DO_COMPOSTELA_SET_OF_2_MHL_SG_1732_1733.html These are stamps produced for the Holy Year in 1965 - one shows Saint James and the other a Pilgrim

Episode 3 is on BBC2 at 9:00 on the 19th April. The BBC website ( https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0004b6f ) says that: The pilgrims are on the tenth day of their journey, with 65km still to go before they reach Rome. Today’s route takes them through an isolated and overgrown wood which is a total revelation to Mehreen, who has never experienced anything quite like it before. The group arrive in Sutri, a medieval town with an even older history. They visit a magnificent Roman amphitheatre, and the pilgrims don’t hesitate to take centre stage. Lesley auditions for ‘producer’ Les, fittingly with a piece from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, while Maximus Gregorius (aka Greg) is challenged to a gladiatorial tussle by Brendan.

For Easter last year I decided to make my family something that could be attached to the outside of our bags and that showed that even if we are slow walking the Camino we get there! Hence I made everyone Sloths with Velcro arms and legs allowing them to be attached to our backpacks