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Roofing-tile with violinmusic and violin

October 6, 2005 at 10:43 AM

In Holland some people, mostly in villages, have the custom to put their names near the door-bell on a roofing-tile. They also often have those same roofing-tiles on their roof of baken clay. Most of the time they put the upper layer from a table napkin with gnomes, flowers or animals with glue on the roofing-tile. Later they varnish it against the rain. So the pictures are not painted but cut out of a table napkin. There are specialised shops in Holland for this sort of hobby and decoration. You can see an example of such a roofing-tile from family or person H. van Dijk, number 32 with gnomes in my neighbourhood.

So with this idea I also want to have a roofing-tile next to my door-bell instead of a boring door-plate with only my name on it, but I didn’t want a common one with “welkom” or in English!! “Welcome” on it with gnomes, flowers or animals from table napkins (you could buy these napkins in those specialized hobbyshops). I found 2 miniatureviolins in these shops and a paper with music and a woman of the administration of our machinefactory made with her hobbyclub those roofing-tiles, which I attached next to my door-bell now. Because I live in the Eikenlaan (Oak-avenue) she used leaves from oaktrees on my door-plate-roofing-tiles.

But the music on my roofing-plates are for piano. But only specialists like us know that. My neighboorwoman was astonished because of my beautiful roofing-tiles next to my door-bell and admired them a lot.

A man in our village sold miniature Wind-mills which I have now in my garden.


From Evelyn Ray
Posted on October 6, 2005 at 3:58 PM
I love the one with the sheetmusic.

Evelyn

From Gwen Falconer
Posted on October 7, 2005 at 3:14 AM
Aw, pretty!

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