WOYWW #593

Here’s a photo of the big work shop, the ‘restoration and conservation studio’ of the Zeeuws Archief.

… and there will probably something like this on my desk:

My job is, to save paper and documents like this from further desintegrating. Ain’t that the most wonderful job for a paper lover like I am?!!

When I get home on Wednesday, my ‘weekend’ starts and since I can’t get enough of paper, I dive into my own little atelier to play with my art journals. Here’s a spread from a couple of weeks ago.

The Chronicles of Marit 2020 – Week 36

This spread is all about Corona and yes, the numbers are increasing rapidly in the Netherlands. I write this post on Sunday afternoon and on Tuesday, there will be another press conference by our prime minister. I expect stricter measures will be announced – I just hope I won’t be send home from my job again because there’s no way I can take those original documents I work with back home with me, so when we all have to go into another lockdown, I will be without a job again… keep your fingers crossed!

I’m still a member of the Dutch Dares design team, a scrapbooking challenge group on Facebook. The challenge for October is Food and Drinks and here’s my take on the theme.

It’s getting difficult to get those layouts done in time because besides my job, I’m also writing and filming tutorials for my new online workshop KRONIEKEN that starts at the end of this year (it will be in Dutch only, sorry.) I committed myself to stay a design team member until December so there’s two more ‘dares’ to go… I think I can do that.

And what are you up to? I hope you are well and healthy still. Thanks for your visit and I hope to pay you, fellow desker, a visit back in the next couple of days to take a peek at your desk and stay in touch. Have a great day, stay safe!

Last week, working at the Zeeuws Archief was kinda bizarre… the building I work in happened to be the center of a film set. The film is called “De Slag om de Schelde” (“The battle of the Scheldt“) the street was turned into a war zone and the Zeeuws Archief building was choosen to act like the headquarters of the German nazi’s. You can imagine how strange it was to step into my workroom (the room right above the front door) and see a Nazi-flag hanging in front of my window…

Of course, when the filming started, my collegues and I sat in the front seat – we all stood at the top windows watching! I brought my camera and took photos but those weren’t nearly as good as the pics my collegue Daniël Obbink took. Here’s a compilation (thanks for letting me use these Daniël.)

Today is my first day off this week (I went to work yesterday also, to make up for the hours I missed because of taking a Paleography course) and I have a long list to slay, so I keep this blogpost short, but I can’t go without showing you some art now can I? Here’s my latest art journal spread

The Chronicles of Marit 2020 – Week 3

The sentence (“you are not worth it that I lift my tongue for you…”) is from a text/letter I had to transcribe for the course. The phrase comes from a letter (from 1779) sent by a captain to his bosses in which he complaines about the behavior of his first steersman. I think this is swearing at its best!

And now, dear readers, I’m off to get some work done (are you a transcriber to my newsletter? I hope to send one out this weekend.)
Enjoy your weekend sweeties, do something fun! Go see a movie!