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Retired Hospital Scientist. ( worked in hospital Pathology Departments ) Live in Sydney, Australia. Hobbies are photography, bushwalking, manual scrapbooking, making items with photos online with Snapfish, x-stitch, reading, watching TV documentaries. I have a boyfriend, with whom I go out as much as is possible - we share lots of things in common - watching movies, walking. We used to go caving, canyoning, but these things are pretty well out of my reach these days. I've just taken up digital scrapbooking, & have to admit I'm addicted - but that's OK. I manage to mostly fit other stuff into the day, that needs doing. I have a feathered baby called Monty. He's a very talkative, inquisitive cockatiel, & I would totally miss him if anything were to happen to him. I have to scrap while he's in the cage, otherwise he's on the keyboard, removing the keys! Jesus is my Lord & Saviour, & my Home is Heaven - I'm very much looking forward to being there with Him.
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This is an annual festival in Valencia, Spain, in which statues & effigies made of many subtances, including papierr-mache, cork, wax, wood, are made, to honour the patron Saint of carpenters, St. Joseph. It is said that carpenters used to hang their candles on pieces of wood called parots in Winter, when it was dark, so they could work. At the end of Winter, they would burn these bits of wood, as they no longer needed them. So too, these statues, which take a whole year to make - there are very many of them "planted" around the city - get burnt in a giant bonfire at the end of the 2 week festival. I think that is bizarre, but, that is the tradition. It is such a big deal, that school children get the 2 weeks off school, & special foods are made & eaten as well. I know about this, because my brother & his family live in Valencia. Las Fallas in Valencian means 'the fires'
I used Ole by Scraps N Pieces, & 2 frames by Marisa Lerin from DigitalScrapbook for this LO. The photos are from my Sister-in-Law's posts on Facebook.
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Sounds like you have a great story there, Doska. The event is probably not widely known about as it is only held in the one city of Valencia. Thank you both for your comments.
Wow Jill, you're busy. Again a nice layout about a traditional festival in Spain. I think it's nice that Jesus' stepfather Joseph is honored as a carpenter (Jesus was that before he started teaching). I also like carpenters (they wear such nice traditional uniforms), one saved my life when I was a kid.
It's very interesting, I don't know this party in Spain. Very nice page Jill