Now, in the “Everyday Songs” post I talked about songs that I wake up with in the morning… but there are no songs that I go to bed with in the evening or that make me fall asleep. In fact, I hardly sleep. I suffer from insomnia. I sleep maybe 4 or 5 hours a night, and some nights I don’t sleep at all. No song can change that, BUT…. there is a sound that I fall asleep to almost every time I hear it. That ‘noise’ comes around every year in July (that’s righ now!) so I’m catching some extra sleep these days. You know why? the Tour de France started!

Here’s the ‘story’ (scroll a bit further for the translation) and the art journal page I created.

The journaling is in Dutch, here’s the translation:
With a bag of peanuts and a nice cool drink I curl up on the couch: ready for the broadcast of the Tour de France. Each year, in the month of July, I follow this heroic cycling race. Every day , for three weeks, I install myself in front of the television in the afternoon to watch yet another stage of the bicycle race. Here come the cyclists: a mixture of bright, colored garments and helmets. Images of rotating legs. Flickering wheels and derails. The broadcast is accompanied by the muffled sound of cheering people that stand along the side of the road and the monotonous murmuring voices of the commentators Maarten Ducrot and Herbert Dijkstra. Slowly but surely my eyes get all heavy… and in no time I am asleep. No matter how exciting the stage, no matter how high the mountains the cyclists have to climb and no matter how chilling the descent: I doze off. I’ve missed quite a few thrilling finals!

I wonder what song or sound makes YOU fall asleep?

The Casper blog Pillow Talk is fun to visit with all kinds of facts and posts about sleeping or you can check out more ideas on the Casper Facebook Page!” They, as well, like to know what sounds help you hit the hay.

However, this years’ tour is thrilling and spectacular right from the beginning!
The riders seem to be nervous, and there were a lot of accidents and battles
going on in the riders platoon…

[Are you getting tired of me talking about bicycles yet?
Hang in there crafters… there’s something creative in this post too!
It’s even a video, to make up for my ‘sports-talk’]

..

‘The tour’ get’s really interesting (and scary!) though when the tour caravan
reaches the high mountains! It takes a lot of courage and sweat to climb the
‘Col du Tourmalet’ (2115 m) in the Pyrenees and the ‘Col du Galibier (2645 m)
a mountain in the French Alpes.

Heck, it even takes courage to sit on the couch in front of the TV screen…
(picture men throwing themselves from a mountain with 50 miles an hour!)

I found inspiration in the race and wrote a haiku for today’s Haiku my Heart

In my last post, I promised to spoil you today with a video that shows you
the awesome ‘thing’ I made! I keep my promises, so here it is!

This book combines two new (to me) binding techniques that are described
in the book Cover to Cover by Shereen LaPlantz.
(I know, I know – I never can seem to take the easy way!)
The little sign on the front are Japanese characters and says ‘haiku’.
I use this little book to collect all the haiku’s I make for Haiku my Heart.

There’s this special haiku in the ‘hidden section’ (behind the spine)

(‘recuerda mi corazon’ is the name of Rebecca’s ‘haiku my heart’ blog.
It is Spanish and means something like ‘remember my heart’)

It’s mid afternoon my friends… I’m off… it’s time…
Guess what I will be doing the rest of the day 😉

Enjoy your weekend!