Friday 23 March 2012

Darcy's Postcard Challenge Israel


Gil is in Jerusalem visiting the Safrai Art Gallery, his parents gave him the idea and the money to go as a birthday present (although his birthday was a month away,) they were worried about him, they thought he looked pale and exhausted after all the work he had done to get his paintings in the galleries.

He was sitting painting yet another lovely view one afternoon and he noticed out of the corner of his eye a funny little bird, which later he found out was called a Hoopoe and decided to capture it on paper for his postcard for Lavinia.

On the back he wrote.

Dearest Lavinia,

                          Thank you so much for sending me your photograph, you are even more beautiful than I had dared to imagine! I will treasure it forever! Now the only other wish I have is that we will meet someday soon! I feel I already know you and that we have met before somewhere?!
I am in Jerusalem visiting the Safrai Art Gallery (an early birthday present from my parents) the Hoopoe bird on the front just came and sat near me while I was painting so I thought I would paint him for you!
 I will send you my postcards from where ever I am and dream that we will meet soon!

                                      Gil XXX


 Lavinia smiled at the funny little bird on the front of Gils postcard.
She was glad he thought she was beautiful, no one had told her that in a long time and it felt good.
She would write back to him and ask for a photo of him, she really wanted to ‘see’ him too!
Lavinia had quite a collection of postcards from Gil and they were overflowing from the book she kept them in. She wanted something or somewhere safe to keep them. Safe from prying eyes, not that she thought anyone would go snooping around but they were hers and they were precious to her and she wanted to keep them secret.
It was while she was in the library the idea came to her, gathering the books she had chosen she hurried off to the little second hand book shop on the corner, inside she looked for the biggest, thickest book she could find. The young man at the desk gave her an odd look, Lavinia just smiled and gave him the money and hurried of home as fast as she could.
She arrived home exhausted but she was determined to carry out her plan, in the understairs cupboard she found Anthony’s toolbox, with a sharp knife and a ruler she cut into the pages of the book just a few pages at a time until she had cut out a niche big enough to hold all the postcards and more! She smiled and arranged the beloved postcards inside and put the book onto the bookshelf.
That book became her most favourite and the most ‘read’ book she was ever to own!


If you want to see more stories and postcards pop over to Darcy's blog.


Thank you for all your kind comments last week!

15 comments:

Sid said...

Another lovely postcard challenge !!

Janet said...

Superb drawing of the bird. your heroine is obviously a fan of the altered book! A girl after my own heart!

Janet xx

San @ Made in Hem said...

What a funky bird! So well drawn!
Didn't we all have a book like that during our teen years to hide the special notes from our friends? Lavinia is just a little late with receiving such personal mail! ;)

mags21 said...

a great drawing. a good read as well look forward to next weeks...

Glenys said...

Great card and story..it is a great adventure!

Darcy Marshall said...

oooo gorgeous hoopoe bird, much nicer than mine. I love her idea of storing the cards in an old book, how fun to have it hidden in plain view in a bookcase.

Alison xx said...

Wonderful card and such a lovely story. A xx

APG Jamie said...

it came out wonderful <3 it

gottahavemoxie said...

I so love bird drawings and yours is reall neat. Such an ineresing looking bird. Love her idea to keep her treasured postcards inside a carved out book.

Tamoonstone said...

This week I have learnt that a Hoopeo is Israel's national bird. This postcard challenge is not only fun and creative but also educational!!! :-)Excellent drawing - really great!

Šolanje na domu-Waldorf said...

What a great birthday gift, don't you think? :) He did a great job on capturing the bird. Great postcard!

donnalouiserodgers said...

lovely card

Gina said...

Stunning feather effect on your bird! And I love how you have shared with us her/your storage idea :D XXX

Jen said...

Love the story. Your painting is super too.
Jen x

Leialoha said...

So beautiful the way she's making a special book to place his cards in...it is a well read book indeed...such a thoughtful carte postale this week...aloha from DC