From summer back to winter

We're back from our lovely and wonderful honeymoon!!! :) And I almost froze to death waiting for the train from the airport to Karlsruhe. ;)

While I was away two beautiful parcels arrived. With lovely content. :)



From Doro...



...and from Nina.





And another great thing happened. Finally the other feature of our wedding invitations on Bildpoeten went online. :)


Source Susann Probst

At the end of our honeymoon trip the travel journal looks like this.

The material I collected...



...the weekly overviews...



...and the daily journal.



There's still some things to do. The daily headings are still missing, picture pages have to be printed and the collected materials have to be included into the entire journal. But I'm happy I managed to write down our experiences and all the lovely memories every day. :)

So, I'm very happy to be back and looking forward to December, the christmas month. :D

The little things -Strasbourg

Today I would like to show you some inspiring spots I found during a weekend trip to Strasbourg, when we visited a good friend of mine. While we were walking along the streets, I stopped every time I saw something beautiful and took a picture of it. :) I would love to share those pictures with you.

Isn't this house just too cute with its adorable decoration? I'm buy the way a lover of houses, for example half-timber houses. :)

I like the different roofs of the houses, the slightly different colors and the different shapes. :)

Look at this cute house! I love how small it is compared to its neighbours. Like a little child next to its parents. :D

I hope you like my little findings. :)

Travel journal update

Wow, it's already October! Time has flown, as always! :)

I just wanted to keep you updated on my travel journals.

I almost finished the Reutte travel journal yesterday (so still in September, yay! :D). One problem that occurred was that some pictures of our trip are missing. Basically all pictures I took with our small camera. So today I have to start looking for them, hoping we didn't lost them somehow...

I still have to develop all pictures (as soon as I find the missing ones), which will take a while. But as I've finished the entire layout, there isn't much to do, just glueing the picture to their right places.

So here is a little peek at the journal (cover's still missing too).

I realized that my system for travel journaling works perfect for me! It's so easy to put a page together. As you see, I didn't try to make fancy pages. No stickers, no extra drawings. When I include the final pictures, I'm sure I will decorate the pages a little, but I like to keep it that simple. :)

And I haven't started with our Sicily journal yet, but I prepared a lot: Wrote all the texts during our vacation and collected and sorted every memorable snippet! So putting everything together won't be such a big deal, I guess. :)

As soon as I finish the two travel journals (hopefully on Wednesday, as it's an official holiday in Germany), I will tell you about my October project! :)

Last journey preparations

Last preparations for our journey are going on...:)

For collecting every ticket, map, post card, snippet of magazine, etc., I made little pockets for every day. Normally I just collect everything in one big envelope. But back home, it's quite exhausting to arrange everything. So this time I'll use separate pockets. :) I added some extra paper, just in case I'm suddenly in the mood of writing something down for our travel journal...you never know. :)

I've never felt so prepared for a journey like this time. :)
Wish you a great and wonderful time, while I'm gone! See you in 10 days! :)

Status of our travel journals

As I've already told you, I've never finished a travel journal before. But to be honest...I've also started just one travel journal. ;)

These are some piles (unfortunately there is much more ;)) of our collected travel materials, at least organized:

For some of our travels I made some simple travel journals with very little text, so at least I have a rough order of what we did:

In a separate post I will show you our travel journal of our easter trip to Reutte (Austria) in detail, which I already showed you on one picture in the last post.

So this is the status of our travel journals. I would love to see yours. :)

How I organize our travels

I have given this a lot of thought! And it took me quite long to find a good solution for us. This is how I ended up doing our travel journals, but I'm still not sure if this is the ultimate solution. But it works. At least till now. :)
If you have a good way of documenting your travels please let me know! :)

I love the idea of "project life"! I love the layout and the easy way of "scrapbooking". But I think for a travel journal the size of the albums are too big and they're also not that cheap.
So what I did is to use the idea of a given layout for designing our travel journals. But instead of using those cool photo pocket pages, I just use a predefined layout and glue the pictures, tickets and snippets at predefined places.

This is a page of my idea book with all the possible layouts and a sample page of one travel journal I started but didn't finish yet!:

So I basically do this:

During the journey
1. Document every single day (preferrably on a laptop)
2. Collect every ticket, map etc. for every day

Back at home
1. Write full texts based on the documentations
2. Decide how to layout the page by considering the written texts, the collected travel material and the taken pictures
3. Print pictures
4. Put everything together

The final really lovely thing we do since our last vacation is to write one postcard to ourselves. Both of us write down a little text on the same postcard and we are not allowed to read each other's text. From our vacation spot we send this postcard and it is so exciting when the postcard arrives back home. Reading the written texts together is so fun and quite often you read about things you totally forgot. :D

How do you organize your travel memories? Do you make travel journals or do you collect all the pictures in an album?

September project: Travel Journals

I actually wanted September to be a knitting month. After a long knitting pause, my fingers are itching (do you say this or is it just a German expression?!).

BUT we recently booked a second vacation in the middle of September. A vacation hopefully full of good weather, lovely water, snorkling, hiking, taking fotos, relaxing, a lot of quality time and yummy food. Our destination: Sicily! :) :)

So I decided to work on our travel journals in September.

Ahhhh, travel journals! I love and hate them at the same time!
I love the idea of them and I stockpile every little snippet of our vacations, but I've NEVER finished a travel journal yet! It's shocking and kind of depressing...

The list of "real" vacations together are by luck not that long....YET! But I'm getting nervous...and kind of worried. That somehow the list is going to be so long that there is no way making all the travel journals in a lifetime...
(And I'm only talking about the travels we made together and totally ignoring the vacations I made without him...)

So this is my plan for this month:

Is this doable? I hope so! I don't wanna fail at the first project I blog about. :)
What about you? Do you have any project plans for September?