Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Card from Marianne for Caroline




This wonderful little card sailed in yesterday! Marianne has folded a map of SE Asia with Malaysia on the front side (in flight magazine, by any chance?!!), making its way across the sea to China under a big sparkly sun! What an original idea Marianne - I love it and am so happy it arrived intact! By the way, it's much brighter in real life than the pic shows - Marianne always uses such beautiful colours! I tried scanning but that flattened the boat, so I took a photo so you could see the form better and despite adjusting the levels, it's not doing it justice!! On the reverse there is some text in Dutch which reads " Met je verstand kun je ver komen. Met je verbeelding overal" which in translation I think means something like this: "With knowledge you can come a long way, with imagination you can get everywhere"! I certainly agree with this - Thank you Marianne!

P.S. Thanks for the kind messages re my upcoming operation!

7 comments:

  1. gorgeous gorgeous simple yet so effective

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  2. Oh how wonderful!! It's amazing the boat made it without getting shipwrecked!

    Operation?

    I'm heading over to your blog. XX

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  3. Love the idea of sailing in the sun. Wonderfully done.

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  4. Hahaha!!!! I didn't thought the boat would make it to you!!!!!! I was nearly convinced it would get ripped off. Or shipwrecked as Lo said it!
    No not from an inflight magazine. I searched for a malasian map and copied that twice so there is a map to be seen everywhere .(two the same maps glued together)

    And indeed operation....... I am off as well to your blog.

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  5. I think it means smooth sailing for all that your life holds for you. A wonderful card, so clever with the origami boat! Who'd a thought it could sail through the mails so safely? What a good omen!

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  6. I like that sayin, "Imagination can take you anywhere!" So true. That is truly creative to add a paper boat to the front. I'm amazed it stayed on.

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