Stitching a Story

Dear Readers,

I changed my template because of difficulties with the size of my photos.

We have an issue with our Macbook Air - I use it normally to resize my

photos - but now I can't. So this was the solution. We even don't know if

it can be repaired - we have to wait - till our expert son solves the problem.

I enrolled in a workshop with Karen Ruan -  Stitching a Story - "work on your own*

I can at any time ask her questions and the answers are coming so fast - so the enthusiasm

is not interrupted. Here you can see more:

http://karenannruane.typepad.com/stitching_a_story

Now on the hunt of nice, really nice story books - 

I found two charming small books with very beautiful illustrations.

I decided to start with RAPUNZEL

It is a story first published by the Brothers Grimm and here related and illustrated

by the young Austrian author Eleni Livanios

RAPUNZEL@ellermann by Dressler Verlag GmbH, Hamburg

ISBN 978-3-7707-7588-0

If you don't know what is Rapunzel - it is this salad - Valerianella is its official Latin name

I use the first of those names - Ackersalat

See how many names exist only in Germanys different countries and

in German speaking countries:

Other names are Feldsalat, Nüssli, Weitere Bezeichnungen hierfür sind:

Ackersalat (in Schwaben), 

Mäuseöhrchensalat oder Mausohrsalat (Eifel, Hunsrück, Saarland, Luxemburg), 

Nüsschen (Waldecker Land, Nordhessen), Nüsslisalat oder Nüssler (Schweiz), 

Rapunzel(salat)(Thüringen, Sachsen), 

Rawunze (Mittelhessen) und Rawinzchen (Schlotheim, Thüringen), 

Schafsmäuler bzw. Schoofsmeiala(Franken), Hasenöhrchen (Unterfranken), 

Döchderle, Sonnenwirbel bzw. Sunnewirbeli, Sonnewirbele (Baden), 

Ritscherli(Ortenau), Vogelsalat (Südtirol), Vogerlsalat (Österreich), 

Wingertsalat (Pfalz), Schmalzkraut (Hessisches Ried). (Wikipedia)

so first thing I did was a half-cover to protect the outside

and  overpainted the red label which was printed on the booklet.

My version of a plant of Valerianella - Ackersalat - salad from the acre.

The curtain was certainly a bit plain - that's why I added the

wonderfully tatted  lace-band - I assume my grandmother did it.

Such things were safely stored in my mother's stashes and now

in mine - hopefully those treasures will be passed on and on....

I thought there must be more curtain

Yes, that's it. Mysterious moving of the new curtain.

Here I am preparing lace with sorceress' hats, a sign that she is everywhere.

She is watching the young future father who he steals the salad from her garden. - 

I am not sure yet how to insert this element between the pages.

We will see.

Just stay tuned......