Castlefest 2014

A few months ago a new penpal of me, told me, that there is a folk/medieval festival in the Netherlands which is worth to visit. Normally we wanted to make our holiday in the Harz this year, but we changed our plans then. We wanted to go to this festival. :) And it was lovely. Okay, it is much bigger than the Festival Mediaval, but it also had other things to offer. We got know some more new bands like Cesair, Trolska Polska or Amma. And we've seen old bands like Faun, Omnia and Corvus Corax. And of course we saw bands, which we knew before, but never seen before like Folk Noir, Asynje or Zirp. :) I was happy that we had three day tickets as the row in front of the ticket sale was veeeery long (esp. on Sunday). First we thought that the festival was very expensive in comparison to the Festival Mediaval. The food was very expensive (the cheapest was 3 € for a sweet pancake), but you got water for free and of course the tickets were cheaper. So maybe we paid the same as for the other festival. ;) 

We had so much luck with the weather on all three days. Hehe, first we expected to go more to a medieval festival, but we looked nearly normal in our medieval clothes. The costumes were very interesting. It was like a go and see. ;) 

I also liked to see all those different stalls. You could buy everything for Larp, medieval and wow, so many boards games (sadly those were in Dutch or English). But for our hobbies there was much to find. It was good that we didn't have so much money with us. ;) We only bought some fudge, CDs and a medieval belt for Fynn.

Result of these two festivals we've visited: Our son likes the Castlefest, my husband likes the Festival Mediaval and I'm not sure, I like both a lot. :)

Friday

The Moon and the Nightspirit

Folk Noir

Folk Noir (Kaat)

Euzen

Saturday

Asynje

Rastaban

Cesair

Faun

Sunday

Scarlet Stories

Thordis in front of Amma

Fun in front of Trolska Polska

Costumes

The Wicker Man

Part of the festival

Creative Friday

Today I decided to make the first autumn decorations for our flat. Thordis helped me with it and she loves doing crafts. I saw this at Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/pin/246220304598361183/, so I thought to try it with the german word "Herbst".. and this is the result:

 Which of the letters do you like most?

Long plan, finally made it..

As you might know, I had some of the "HOME"-letters which I always wanted to decorate.. This weekend I couldn't help Volker with housework as I have hurted my left foot, so I decided to make something else productive. I haven't been creative a lot lately so I was afraid that this project will end up not like I wanted it to be, but see yourself..
For the white I took gesso. Then I put a crackle stamp on all those letters and at the end I took Distress Ink, so that it looks special. What do you think? Is it okay?

Geocaching in late spring

We also made some geocaching tours in May/June. Here are some impressions what we have seen during our trips.

Here we made a multi with 5 stations. The puzzles in the stations were much fun to solve. :) And sometimes we thought we were wrong. We also made a longer tour out of it as we walked some paths and found out that there were other stations on it. ;) But it was still a lot of fun.

Another day (on fathers day) we made a two multis in Schwalenberg. It is a very nice historical town. In that multi you had to find things on the walk through the city. As I still have problems with my Achilles tendon I hoped that the final was in the town, but we had to go into a close forest (~2 km). First I was afraid I was wrong as we couldn't find anything. But after falling bad (because of all this mud), hurting the left hand very bad, we found the cache. I never wanted to be out of a forest so fast. ;) But we still wanted to do another multi there. In the description was written, that there was a café. So we hoped for some warm coffee and tea (it was only around 10°C that day). But the location of the other cache was more like a lost place. ;) But still it showed us some nice view points over the little town. :)

And the last geocaching tour was with team Gyldenale. ;) We wanted to make 8 km round on Pentecoast. Well, we made the first 5 caches (of 17), but then we returned to our cars as it was just too hot (over 30 °C). So we looked for the caches with the car. At some places we parked 100-150 m far from the cache and then we walked there. Most of them were hidden very easy, but at one cache we had to look over 20 minutes. :( At least we found it. 

After finding 16 caches, we only had the mystery in front of us. After solving some riddles (which was hard at two of them as well), we found the cache of the mystery close to a path which we already passed by looking for one of the first 5 caches. But we found it. :) And after the caching tour we really needed a barbecue and some beer. ;)

Medieval market in Rahden

Yesterday we were at the medieval market in Rahden. There is a museum of some old houses. So it was just a perfect location for a medieval market. Sadly we were there alone as nobody was interested in that market. But we slipped into our medieval dresses and spent some hours there. They had some delicious food. I tried the feta in bread, we skipped the meat this time as we wanted to make a barbecue in the evening.

Some of the stalls we already knew from markets in Vlotho and Schaumburg. But as we haven't been to the market in Vlotho for such a long time, they were new to us again. ;) I bought some new soaps (Calendula and Verbena). We also wanted to buy an elf or fairy for Thordis, but they were very expensive. Guess that will be one of my new projects. I want to make a fairy out of felt. I have the feeling that they got very popular lately. They are too cute, what do you think?


Only bad point was one of taverns. First we asked what kind of beer it is (and they couldn't really tell) and then they never came back to us to ask what we want to drink. Six women were standing there and 5 of them doing nothing. Why should we scream at them to get a drink when they have nothing to do. So we went to another tavern.


But still it was a very nice market. And I especially liked the one band that was playing there "Waldkauz". They played pagan folk and reminded me a lot on Faun or Omnia. ;) I don't know if they are selling a cd, I need to find out.
So I hope that we can go there again next year, too. :)