… the story of my life!
For the christening I also made a card …
Again, I’ve used left overs from the christening book … and thought an easel card would look nice displayed!
Some close-ups:
close up of name
close up of top card
… and a photo of the baby Antonis!
Aunty, Antonis, Mummy
On Sunday, one of my dear cousins baptized his baby boy, who is 8 months old. Antonis is such a cutie, all that black hair and big eyes.
I wanted to make something special for him, so I set about making his Christening book. With the help of Sfragidomania, I chose a shape for the book, and they cut some miniature crowns, and she name in Greek.
I chose, blues and greens, and basically played around with the Prince / Frog theme, inking bottom half green [for grass] and top half blue [for sky].
I’ve told Giouli [Antonis’ mum] that I still have some white pages, so when the photos come back, I can make 2-4 layouts so that she can add to the book to keep as a treasure!
Instruction layout and book
I made an instruction layout, as I was sure that many people had not seen such a book before … it’s fairly a new trend in Greece, but is becoming ever so popular.
The instructions say: Give me joy, by adding a blessing to my book.
instruction layout
And now the book, as always if you press on photos you can see a bigger version.
Cover - kept it simple, just to focus on the shape, and beauty of the paper.
Pgs 1,2 highlighted the date, and used the froggie from the invitation.
pgs 3,4 My name is ... Antonis. He is actually wearing a froggie t-shirt.
pg 5,6 comment boxes, princes and frogs
pg 7,8 carriage and castle
pg 9,10 free open spaces and added my blessing too.
pg 11, 12 clothes hanging, a peel off coloured in ...
pg 13, 14 froggie and tree
pg 15, 16 birdies and flowers
pg 17, 18 comment boxes, and chipboard embellies
pg 19, 20 more space and another photo of Antonis
pg 21, 22 a thank you from Antonis, and a Handmade by me!
back cover
The book was a success, and everyone wanted to write in it … I even got a couple of ‘bravos’ from the guests … and the often asked question:
How did you do it???
… and for my Greek scrapper friends, I got the question from the Godmother: Do you order from the internet, like I’ve seen on Menegaki??? LOL Obviously Scrapbooking is making its rounds, in many Greek circles!
On Sunday morning, at 11.30 my cousin Manoli and his wife Giouli were christening their son Antonis. The church was high on top of the hills over Galatsi. The view from the top was absolutely fab!
view from churchyard
Panoramic View of Athens
Zanis and Katerina
Enjoying the view
The Church itself was quite small but managed to get a few shots inside as well …
Outside before entering ...
Daddy with Godparents
Ready for your 'dive'
Time to dive
The theme of the christening was the prince frog.
So here are some touches …
The froggie candle
Froggie seat / trunk with clothes in ...
Froggie bobonieres
Here is Antonis …
Ordeal over ...
Then it was time for eating, drinking, partying, and lots of chatting with family and friends …
Rena signing the book with the kids input!
Rena surrounds by kids
Katerina thinking about what to write in the book ....
Ilia and Ilias
Peek a boo, I see you
The Zevgolis Family
Isn't the lower lip likeness uncanny???
Me and my Aunt Mary
Aunty Katerina, Antonis, Mommy
Finally have to tell you about the balloon story …
Giouli had two balloon displays made … one with a frog on it, and the other with a huge balloon with Antonis name on it, and many balloons inside …
We had to get them from the reception area to my Aunt Mary’s and the end of the even …
It was so big, that it wouldn’t fit inside the car …
So we actually had a friend, John, holding it outside of the car …
and the large balloon broke, so all the little balloons escaped!!!
Trying to fit the balloons ...
Look in the sky you can see the ones that got away!
Driving in car, with balloons hanging out!!!
… and that’s all folks ….
Have another entry to do to show you the Christening book and instruction layout … but I’ll have that for later!!!
This weekend has absolutely flown by ….
My friend Katie from the UK was visiting Athens for a few days, with two of her friends. Due to work, I couldn’t meet up with her until Saturday [she had arrived Thursday], but I was so happy that I was able to see her. We last met up in 2003, September again, so 7 years had passed … it felt like yesterday.
The day was cloudy, drizzling at some points, and we spent it down in the centre but it was fun, and we had some good laughs.
Tavern in Plaka that we ate at.
Shirley, Sonia and Kate
Katie and I
Sonia, Shirley, Katie and Syntagma
Katie and I again
Guards on the move at their half hour mark.
The shutterbugs!!
The girls again, look at the dark clouds!
Katie outside the Baby Grand Hotel ... really groovy hotel!
I’ve been back 17 days now, and I still haven’t got into the swing of things …
Work started head on, and so much running around, and getting things in order that I haven’t managed to blog, now do any of my beloved hobbies …
Hopefully, things will find there own rhythm now,
and I thought before showing you my new creations I should share some photos from my last weekend on Naxos …
These are taken on the 28th of August, my last evening in the village … it was the saint day of St John, and I walked about 2.5 km to get there …. I do this every year and took some photos along the way:
An old windmill
view of village from cementary
Panoramic view of village
privately owned windmill
Once in the churchyard, my nieces found me, and stuck by the side …
sofia and I enjoying the sunset
We spent the rest of the evening together in the village, as it would be the last time I would see them before my leaving ….
Guess it’s time for me to start scrapping now eh???
Great layout sketch!
Another great sketch … check out
for inspiration by the DT team!
