I'm uploading my entry to sneak in before the deadline. I'll add details tomorrow. Craft Barn Alpha Challenge O.
Edited to add: I'm back from my travels and brushing away the tumbleweed that has been floating around this blog for the past month. We started in Luxembourg with a birthday party in a vineyard on a hill overlooking the Moselle and ended in Nice in a friend's apartment overlooking the sea. In between we visited Frankfurt, Prague, Vienna, Budapest and Maribor & Lake Bled in Slovenia. It has been so hot that we perhaps didn't manage to see all that we could have but we saw A LOT of wonderful things.
When I saw the Craft Barn letter was O I immediately wanted to do O for Ossuary which is a place they keep bones. About 60km outside Prague is a town called Kutna Hora which has many different things to see - a silver mine, churches etc but it also has an ossuary. Nothing can prepare you for the sight of the remains of about 30,000 people used to 'decorate' this church - there are bone chandeliers, a bone coat of arms and pyramids of skulls. It is really gruesome and not my cup of tea at all but worth visiting.
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| A sample of the delights at the Ossuary at Kutna Hora, Czech Republic |
Anyway ossuary was not in my dictionary so I went with plan B. I figured owl would be a common entry but I have a fab little owl die and stamp set I wanted to use so we have officious owls - here I'm referring to those people who put on a uniform and suddenly become Hitler. I kept the pages monochrome because for them everything is black and white and kept the BG text to signify the blah, blah, blah of bureaucracy. I thought the googly eyes gave them an extra hint of megalomania and I drew the all important hat.
Now I have to catch up with D which I have an idea for...
Cute page. A bit harsh for the poor old wise owl to be officious though.
ReplyDeleteGreat stuff Rukhshana !!
ReplyDeleteWhat a wonderful idea - an officious owl????
ReplyDeleteSandy
Great to have you back and your holiday travels sounded wonderful although not so keen on all those bones in the church! I've heard of ossuaries before but thought they were purely repositories for bones not then to use the bones to decorate especially to decorate a church. Most odd.
ReplyDeleteLove your officious owls; sadly have met a few of them :)
Lynn xx
I believe they are usually places where bones are deposited but I think this man took his remit a bit too far when he was told to 'do something with the bones'. Bones were a feature of this holiday as we saw many reliquaries as well - boxes where the remains (such as a toe or a finger)of a famous saint were housed.
DeleteRukhshana do you think you could make some Officious Owl badges? I desperately need one to send to a Jobsworth Council Officer who is a real pain in the backside :)
DeleteLynn xx
Love your dictionary pages, Rukhshana. Your trip sounds amazing. That must be where the name of the dish Osso Bucco comes from,
ReplyDeleteLucy x
Oh Lucy, I love Osso Bucco but now I shall always think of the Ossuary when eating it LOL!I think they are both derived from the latin os meaning bone.
Deletelooks fabulous
ReplyDeleteLOL, this is cute :)
ReplyDeleteThanks for playing with us at the Craft Barn
Izzy
Great interpretation and those owls do look officious! MMx
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