Cologne Template Freebie

Cologne is Germany's 4th largest city and today's Major Cities of the World Template Series template features that city's famous cathedral.

Get the Cologne Template today and also pick up the other German templates I have offered in my other template series. Those templates include Germany, East and West Germany, Munich, Berlin (and Berlin 2) and Nurnberg.

Thanks to the Ephemeral Victorian (which is now gone) for the lace picture frame.

Freebie for Wednesday: Berlin Template

Another German city with today's digital scrapbooking freebie, the Berlin Template.

I was very disappointed that when we lived in West Germany, we were never able to travel to Berlin because of my ex-husband's military cleareance. It was a complicated mess back then and he could never get the ok to travel to Berlin without losing his security ranking for x number of days.

And then there was the issue of the "duty train" which was the only way US military could cross into East Germany while on vacation. Aarrgghh!!!

I certainly hope that military families have an easier time traveling around that beautiful country than we did in 1986.

Once again you can use parts or all of the Germany and East/West Germany templates as a double layout or simply use those elements on this template. There is a Checkpoint Charile element on the East Germany Template.

Munich Template For Today's Freebie

Here is the second of three German cities requested in a row for the Major Cities of the World Template Series. Look for another one later in the series.

The Munich Template features the cover of a book by Sasek called This is Munich. I just loved the man on the cover so I thought I would feature the whole book.

Tomorrow is the Berlin Template. Yesterday's Nurnberg template, this one today and the one tomorrow were all requested by the same person. Remember to look up the Germany template trio (East, West and unified) to use with these templates,

Freebie: Nurnberg Template

Today's freebie for your digital scrapbooking is the Nurnberg (Nuremberg) Template. No matter how you spell it or how it is pronounced, there is no denying that the city is full of history!

Nurnberg dates back to the Middle Ages and has a famous walled city that surrounds Nurnberg Castle. Nurnberg was also the site of the Nurnberg Trials after World War 2.

When my ex and I lived in Germany, we went to Nurnberg to the Christkindlesmarkt . It is like a huge crafts exhibit with tons and tons of Christmas stuff! It is situated in the town square in the shadow of the great church, Liebfrauenkirche.

Nurnberg is truly one of Germany's jewels! I consider myself very lucky to have been able to travel there while my ex and I were stationed in Germany with the US Army.

Make sure you check out my West Germany and my Germany templates from the Countries of the World Template Series to go along with this template.

Please Don't Embarrass Yourself on My Blog

Usually I try to be very neutral on my blog and not try to offend anyone for no reason. However, sometimes there IS a reason and I find it impossible to keep my mouth shut!

Such is the case this morning when I read the comments I got on my "Sweet Story" post from yesterday.

Monika from Austria near Germany wrote:

there is no East und West Germany since many many years, please update
your politicians knowledge about Europe
thanks a lot.

My response is simple:

Monika,

If you would read the entire posting about the East and West Germany templates (which was linked to the post you commented on) then you would see WHY I made an East and West German template. Perhaps YOU should update your ENGLISH.

Deltapdawn

A Sweet Story About East and West Germany

Great! Since my boyfriend is from former East Germany and I am from West
Germany, your templates will be used to scrap our special love-reunion ;-) I am
so happy that there's no border - otherwhise I would have never met him!!

How great is that? Thanks to Susanne for submitting these comments. Get the East and West Germany templates here if you missed them.

Guam Template Freebie

Today's template was requested even before I had decided to do a Countires of the World Template series. It was the third country requested. The East and West Germany templates sort of slid in front of it (so that I could keep all the German templates together.)

This is another template where you can do the journaling in a "free hand" style since I did not include a journaling box. I couldn't really find anything that fit in with what was already on the template. If you use a handwritten font for your journaling it looks like paper scrapping does.

The "seal" on this template is actually the Coat of Arms for the country. I thought it said it all so I used it. Also, the photo corners were scanned from a paper scrapbooking element I picked up in Hawaii. It is two canoe oars crossed with some leaves and flowers added. There is also a spear across the oars.

So here is the Guam template. Please let me see your layouts when you are finished.