I have my dear friend Chris, who is also our host this month at Art Journal Journey, to thank for these wonderful British embellishments. In fact, she wants us to share Where in the World we are. Today it's obvious we are in London.
It's no secret my grandmother (grandparents raised me from birth) was British through and through. Her parents were second generation American, but were so British, they had maids and butlers who did everything for them. Fortunately, both my grandmother and her sister, Aunt Betty, were educated. Aunt Betty was a medical doctor, nearly unheard of in the 1930s. But I digress.I have a few step out images for you to peruse as I show you the capital and largest city in England and the largest city in the entire UK. According to the latest statistics, there are over nine million people who call London home.
I started by laying down a quarter of the napkin, gifted by Chris. I then adhered the first image which was Big Ben from the Thames. Next was the image of the Tower Bridge that passes over the Thames, over which I laid a strip of gifted (by Chris) British flags ribbon. I found two images in two different travel magazines of the guards at Buckingham Palace.Bleubeard
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15 thoughtful remarks:
I still miss London very much. I was born just a short distance from the tower! Valerie
To start, that is a very interesting family story of yours, dear Elizabeth!
I have a Perth friend who grew up in South Africa and she had a Nanny there.
A former work-colleague has a woman coming in once a week to do the cleaning. I just cannot imagine this. Someone else picking up after me. No.
Wow on Aunt Betty and...
... please more, this is interesting!
London. Looong ago. And thanks to the then-boyfriend not good memories. Not London´s fault!
I think... I should give London, and maybe Paris, too, a second chance. I think you yell right now, "yes, you live just around the corner!".
Well, more or less. 7 days this year to take off of work... But Ingo has none and I do not dare to travel by myself.
Great page making me want to go!
My mother and my brothers were born in England - a country I have not visited. Love the iconic images you have shared today.
...thanks for the short visit to England.
This is a great travel theme!
good morning enjoyed your post I like your journal page too
My father's family is from England and my Mom's from Germany
Lots of T storms going on here all night and still this morning Happy weekend Kathy
I'd love to give living in London a try :)
I like living near enough to London to visit often (though not as often as I would like) Great images gifted by Chris to create your page.
What a great spot to visit! I've never been.
Well, as you know, I'm an Anglophile so I think this will be my favorite from your current travel series!
That's a cool page and a way to celebrate London and at least part of your ancestral home. Maybe more than part, but you only mentioned one grandmother and I don't know your family tree. I love the tape or ribbon with all the Union Jacks on it. As well as the big flag too. This is a great page.
DNA ancestral inheritance is something I am very interested in and perhaps you have a lot of "British DNA". One of my grandparents (my grandmother) had Polish parents. Well her dad was from Poland and someone on the mom's side had a little bit of Baltic along with a lot of Polish, but basically my grandmother grew up in a Polish family. Anyhow, to get to the point, I've never felt very Polish. Even though it was part of my cultural and inherited background. My other grandparents were Scandinavian, and I always felt very Scandinavian. In fact when I have been in Scandinavia including Iceland I have often been mistaken for being from whatever country I am in. (That is until I open my mouth and speak English.) :)
I had my DNA done and a few years back I did my Mom's too. I figured I better do it before I couldn't. She came back at 37% Polish/eastern European. Which makes perfect sense considering her mother's family was basically Polish. I came back only 4% Eastern European. I think there might be something to that which explains why I have never felt very Polish even though my grandmother fed us pierogies and other Polish dishes and also shared Polish family culture with us. Perhaps you feel British because of your DNA as well as what culture your grandmother shared?
I don't believe our DNA controls everything about us, but certain traits are 100% controlled by our DNA, so maybe there is something to it. At least a little bit. :)
Hope you're having a better Saturday than me and that I didn't babble on too much in my comment. hugs-Erika
I'm 96.3% Swedish, 3.5% Finnish, and .2% broadly Northwestern Europe when tested on 23 and Me. So much for being "100% Swede, not a Norwegian in the haystack", as my grandmother used to say. It wasn't a Norwegian. It was a Finn--LOL! You have an interesting history.
Have you ever visited England? With such close connections, I’d think you would want to see it. Not all English people had butlers and maids, though — some of them had to BE the butlers and maids to the rich British people — remember that one of the writers (Jean Marsh) of the famous TV series “Upstairs Downstairs” was the granddaughter of a woman who had been “in service” to a titled family. And she played the maid, too.
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You really have captured London so well! I'm glad the bits and pieces were useful- no mistaking which country we're in! We had plans for a couple of days in London but have had to postpone it. Thanks so much for this page for my AJJ theme, which shows how close England is to your heart! Hugs, Chrisx
Interesting story about your family. I agree with Iris! As for me: I love London. Try to visit twice a year. I guess I was a Londoner in another life!
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