I know that it has nearly gone a week since we welcomed the new year, but I had to make an illustration of the impressive fireworks Prague showed us. I never seen such firework show before, not even the world championship in fireworks at Stockholm water festival sometime back in the 90th was even close to this show. Colorful pyrotechnic in all directions and as beautiful it is I can't help myself from thinking of fireworks all down-sides: All the money spent and lit on fire, that it is too many people blowing a hand or an eye away and of course all the dogs scared to death. Anyhow we had a great view from our balcony and we are hoping that 2013 will be a good year. It will for sure be a year full of new experiences and all we are asking for is good health.
During week 24 I have been working on preparing thank you gifts for kids teachers and friends. I like to give something symbolic which also can be useful. This year I decided to buy water bottles for the teachers and to make them personalized writing their name and some flowers on them. I bought plain smaller bottles at IKEA. With my Cricut i designed and cut it out of permanent vinyl. With adding vinyl on the bottles, they can only be hand-washed otherwise the vinyl will come off. After five years in Germany I have gotten so use to saying Frau Janssen rather then using her first name. So I decided that I will use the last name because that is the only name the kids use. Funny how you get use to something that I from the beginning thought was so stupid and old fashion. When I was playing around with my Cricut I also figured out how to transfer my wine ladies into svg file which is needed so the machine can cut out my illustrations. I did a test with iron on transfer vinyl. I made the
I must agree, Prague showed wonderful view of fireworks this year...your picture expresses it perfectly! Happy 2013 and all the best!
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