Have you ever been to Poland? I was here, in the beautiful capital city of this country, and I´m not gonna lie if I told you it was stunning! This city is georgeous! Let me take you there in my photos, so you can explore this city with me!

It was rainy the whole weekend, but it didn´t ruin the beauty of this city. Krakow, the capital city of Poland, country in central Europe, where many things are possible. My and my friends bought cheap accommodation by Airbnb and planned our short trip to this country. We wanted to visit Auschwitz - the concentration camp, and the next day Krakow. So we jumped into a car and started our short adventure! We got lost for like a seven times, almost got in the opposite direction on the highway, but we made it alive.

First stop was the concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. I always wanted to visit one of the concentration camps. And I highly recommend it as a "Must seen once in a life". I mean, it´s very emotional and also very educational, so I think everybody needs to see, how cruel the history and people was and can be, and how important is to learn from it and don´t do the same things over again. We had several problems with getting here, because there were no guides free in our language (I recommend to reserve it some days before). So we need to wait some hours to get free ticket without guide. Which was sad, because you don´t have much time to explore everything and the guide tells you about everything, but neverthless, the experience  was strong.

 "Work sets you free" - this slogan was "welcoming" prisoners right at the entrance

the prisoners didn´t have a chance to escape

 prison, where many people came and never came back

Prisoner´s shoes. You can find there also their glasses, toothbrushes, combs, braces...and the saddest room full of human hair, from which Nazis made cloth. It is forbidden to take photos in there.

The suitcases which will never have the owner anymore.

The second part of the concentration camp was in another city nearby. It was very huge, so it was almost impossible to see the whole area, and also it was raining all the time. It was almost like the sky was crying over this sad place.

 The last station.

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Now, straight to the more enjoyable things. And that is, of course, our visit in Krakow. We didn´t have any plans on what to see, my only planned stop was the Japanese Museum of Art and technology. But there were so many other things to see! Krakow historical centre was full of beautiful buildings, such as churches and so on, an also full of life. There were so many different people and cultures, street artists, tourists. And so many fun things to do! Every meter offered different type of fun. We let ourselves be tempted to visit the Butterfly garden, which was full of butterflies and terrarium exotic animals. You can touch the animals here, which is amazing, but on the other hand, it was sad look at some of the butterflies, because kids are allowed here too. And you can imagine what kids can do to that poor animals. But anyway, it was fun and unique experience.

The second thing we got ourselves into, was the fakt Madamme Toussaud´s museum. I was in the official one in Hollywood, but my friends weren´t so we came here. Some of the figurines were terrible, Harry Potter and Ron and Hermiona for example, didn´t look like the original actors at all! They looked more like a figurines in some chinese boutique dressed like they are from HP movie. But it was very funny to see, how terrible they can look.But not to be only mean, some figurines looked quite similar to the original ones.

Then we get to the centre and decided to get some food. There were local market with all the things, you can possibly imagine! Hand made products, souvenirs, antiques...And there were stands with traditional polish pretzel, so we decided to taste it. It tasted fine, but nothing special I guess. 

Now just enjoy beauty of this city:

Then we went to Wawel castle, from which you can see the whole city. There were also some museums inside the castle. And from there, I saw the japanese museum. From now on, I was very impatient! :)

 view from the castle

And then we finally came to Manggha - Museum of Japanese technology and arts. There were everything you want to know about Japan - history, clothing, food, army, replica of japanese house with zen garden. There were also many interactive exhibits - you can try origami, some games, try kimono - which they can help you with and tell you something about wearing it. By that time, there were special exhibition of japanese games. There were som traditional games like shogi and go, also Playstation and Nintendo, then some manga and anime and also many Pokemon. I spend very great time in here, I definitelly recommend to visit this museum, if you had the chance!

 So that was our trip. Have you enjoyed it with me? Have you ever been to Poland? Are you planning on visiting Krakow? Let me know your polish stories down in the comments!

Do you know the famous Wreck this journal? No? That´s a huge mistake! It is very creative book, where you can do anything and have so much fun. You don´t like books? Then this is also for you, becasu now you have great opportunity to destroy some! This book tells you ways, how to destroy it. You can do it like pages say, or you can come up with many creative ideas like me. Be a part of an new phenomenon called Wreck this journal!

It´s a page, where you are suppose to scratch on that black spot. I use a pin and scratch some girl that came to my mind. To not leave the other page blank, i draw the other half of the face here with a pencil. It was quite hard to not make a hole to that page, but I was really enjoying this page a lot. 

2. Color outside the lines page

 

This is my favourite page so far. It´s mainly because I love Little prince so much, and this drawing came out pretty well in my opinion. I draw it with watercolors and then glued some shiny little stars. Oh, how I love the page and the amazing book with amazing story! ♥ 

3. Poke holes page

 

You need to make holes to this page - so first I made several holes using sharp pencil. Then I decided to put something personal to thi book. And it is my latest obsessions - watermelons! I love having watermelongs on everything - clothes, stationary, phonecase, why not in my WTJ? So the holes transformed into watermelon seeds and the rest of the page is just juicy watercolored watermelon. Feeling the summer vibes too?

4. Crack the spine page

This rule tells you to crack the spine of a new book, so I did it and drew this spine with black gel pen. I like this so much, it´s the first time I tried something like this, I mean human anatomy thing.

 5. Color the edges page

 

Once you have "cracked" the book spine, you can decorate the book edges. Since I have my WTJ that personal, next of my many passions is native-american (indian) colors and textures. So I decorated my WTJ edges with indianic style. And with my watercolor set draw this angry-looking indian. Love my WTJ even more, when it has so many colors!

6. Collect W´s page

 

I didn´t really have an idea with this page, and I don´t really like the result. First of all, in my country we speak Slovak language, which doesn´t use letter W very often. So it was hard to find any in newspapers. But I did find some, but it wasn´t too much so I drew some of them. And this is the result. As I said, I don´t really like it, but it´s finished, so... 

7. Sew this page

 

 This was a though one. If you never tried to sew a piece of paper, then you don´t know the real struggle. It is very hard! But I take it as a challenge and now, I really love it! Wolves are my most favourite animals, so again, something personal here. The word is Ookami - wolf in Japanese. I used black gel pen and some watercoloring on this page.

8. Cover in tape page

 

You need to make some pattern in this page using ONLY tape. So I choose three of my washi tapes and made this simple, but yet so beautiful pattern. I like this page and I don´t really know why. I mean, it´s not ugly, but it´s very simple. Is it that ting, that makes it so beautiful to me?

9. Add numbers page

 

This was the easiest decision! First I saw this page, I knew a would like to make it as it is from Matrix movie. Green numbers flying around, you know what I mean? 

  

10. Collect stamps page

Last page for today, where I was supposed to collect the stamps. I don´t have any pen-friends, but I have found collection of stamps when cleaning out our garage. My mother wanted to throw them away, and now they are decorating my WTJ! 

How do you like my creations with WTJ? Do you have your own WTJ? Or do I inspired you to buy one? 

Let me know in the comments! And leave a link to your page, where I can look at you WTJ creations!

Hello, dear friends! :)

Imagine that - it´s a friday night, you are tired to go out, so you open a bottle of wine. The next day you feel fresh and full of new energy, and maybe have som creative time. But you don´t have an inspiration! So what about grabbing that empty bottle and make something cute? I want to present you my idea on cute, low-cost room decoration.

What you´ll need:

 1. The first step is very easy. All you have to do is glue some pages of newspapers on the whole bottle. Let it dry.

 2. The next step is, when the bottle is dry, you just paint it with the color of your choice. I chose white acrylic paint, because it goes well with my furniture. Then you glue the rope on the places, where you want it to be. I chose only bottom and the top of the bottle, but it can be the whole bottle too.

3. Now you make the little hearts - you draw the shape you want (heart, star, triangle...) on the hard paper, cut them off and make more of them. Then you cut double more of these shapes from newspapers + one extra. The one extra shape glue to the centre of the bottle. Then you can make a bow over it (or under - it is up to you).

4. The vase is complete now, the two things left are twigs and hearts. You paint twigs again with the color of your choice, I painted mine with white. When it´s dry, you arrange them to the vase. Last thing is to glue together heart cuttings. you glue hard-paper hearts onto newspaper ones, then glue some small piece of rope (so you can hang the hearts) and glue the last newspaper heart. Make as many hearts as you want.

Finally, you hang the hearts randomly to twigs. And that was it. Quite simple, right? This is my final decoration:



It´s not that Great, but I like them a lot. Bunny is very cute. Do you like bunnies? Let me know in the comments, if you would like to have bunny as a pet!