Off to Mönsterås

Though I overslept and didn't wake up untill 12.13 I have now managed to pack all my books, clocks, pendants and boxes, and in a moment I will be off to Mönsterås to set everything up in the shopwindow whish I will be able to use for the next two months or so. I have the camera with me and I promise to take lots of photos whish I will post here later. I'm a bit nervous about all this but I'm sure it will work out great. Wish me luck! :)

Amazing stuff

My blog didn't really want to do what I wanted last time I did a feature like this. So today I try to post the pictures in a new way. I hope they are not too small.

So here is todays feature for Etsy's Promotional Frenzy Team. There are some great stuff in here. :) List of all the items and links to the shops are under the picture.

1. galla15 - Seed Bead Multi Strand Bracelet

www.etsy.com/listing/69723208/seed-bead-multi-strand-bracelet-tan

2. Galeaz Glass - Sun Drenched Stained Glass Panel http://www.etsy.com/listing/69699815/sun-drenched-brilliant-red-lilies

3. CalliopeAZCreations - Amethyst Swarovski and Keshi Pearl Wiggle Ringhttp://www.etsy.com/listing/69729195/wiggle-ring-keshi-pearls-amethyst

4. BountyofBeads - 6 Piece Turquoise Czech Rondelle Bead Dangle Drop Set http://www.etsy.com/listing/69732592/6-piece-turquoise-czech-rondelle-bead

5. NewCreatioNZ - Pendant necklace with fine art print http://www.etsy.com/listing/69723302/antique-brass-glass-pendant-necklace

6. DellCoveSpices - Gourmet layered spice wedding & party favorshttp://www.etsy.com/listing/69518756/spice-favors-for-weddings-bridal-shower

7. AddSomeStitches - Pink on Pink Granny Square Pursehttp://www.etsy.com/listing/69724115/pink-on-pink-granny-square-purse

8. Tyss Handmade jewelry - Orange flower earrings http://www.etsy.com/listing/69675658/burning-orange-lovely-flowers-dangle

9. RhettDidntGiveADamn - Chrome Swan

http://www.etsy.com/listing/69611240/chrome-swan-hood-ornament-from-a-vintage

10. Glitterbird Glamour - Orange & White Pendant Necklace http://www.etsy.com/listing/50293666/orange-and-white-pendant-necklace

11. Makenzi & Madilyn - Fruity colors necklace

http://www.etsy.com/listing/69606816/fruity-spring-colors-pink-jade-sterling

12. Crimson Hill Soaps & Scents - Choose 3 Soaps & Save http://www.etsy.com/listing/69472155/choose-3-soaps-save

13. CrystalPhotography - Berry Blue

http://www.etsy.com/listing/69745329

14. Kelly Designs - Hot Pink & Orange Tree Logo Design http://www.etsy.com/listing/69745427/pre-fab-hot-pink-and-orange-tree-logo

15. terraverdegoods - Cleopatra's Milk Bath http://www.etsy.com/listing/69724809/cleopatras-milk-bath

16. Dylana Designs - Roots Rasta Halter

http://www.etsy.com/listing/69748776/roots-rasta-halter

Also in celebration of having my Etsy shop being added to favourites by 100 people on Etsy I have a sale till the 31th of March. Use the coupon code 100HEARTS to get a 20% discount.

I hope you all have a great day. :)

100HEARTS sale!

In celebration of having my Etsy shop being added to favourites by 100 people on Etsy I have a sale till the 31th of March. Use the coupon code 100HEARTS to get a 20% discount.
I hope you all have a great day.
/Martine

How to use a shopwindow?

Hello, everyone!

I hope you are all well. My cold is still holding on but I feel a bit better at least. I posted a new notebook on Etsy today. It has a wave of blue glass beads on the front and I'm very happy with how it turned out. you can find it here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/69672359/blue-wave-notebook

Maybe you wonder over the title of this post and that is what I'm coming to now. My grandfather is very suportive of my bookbinding. Almost too suportive but I could never ask him to stop coming with ideas, build me machines, buy me tools and borrow and read every book on the subject he can get his hands on at the library. You could say he has an ON/OFF-switch, and curently it is ON.

Anyway! He came up with the idea of hiring a shop window and then set out on the task of finding a shopowner who would like to let me use part of his or her window. After talking with what seemed like almost every shopowner in his hometown and comparing prizes he called me back a couple of days ago. Lo and behold! He had found a shopowner who was willing to not hire me the window but to lend me 1/3 of his window for free. And not only that but he thought that one month was a bit too short and suggested two months instead. Still for free. The shopowner explained that he was of the opinion that I didn't need to pay because if people stoped and looked at my things in his window they would atomaticly look at his things too so he would gain from it anyway.

Of course I am very exited about this. The shop in question is not in my hometown but in Mönsterås, the town were my grandparetns live and my mom grew up. It is a small but very cosy little town whish was quite important for the shipping industry back in the days. The window I will use is quite big and in the middle of the main road.

I will be able to have my books in 1/3 of the window. The rest will probably be used by two other people at the same time. I'm not sure what the others do but I think one of them weaves tapestries and the other paint ceramics. My space is about 1 m x 60 cm x 3 m and I will be able to hang things from the ceiling.

When we visited my grandparents last weekend I took a photo of the window so I would now what I have to work with. You can see the picture here on the right. The people outside is my grandfather and my little sister.

So by this I now turn to you, dear friends. Do you have any suggestions for me? Have any of you displayed your crafts in a shopwindow? How did it go? Are there anything I should make sure not to do? Anything you can tell me is great, and if you have nothing to tell me I'm still very happy that you stoped by.

I hope you all have a great day and that spring is on it's way wherever you are. I'm so happy that the sun is shining and nearly all the snow is gone here. :)

True of false?

My family thinks that I should make more extreme books if I want to sell anything. I thought my books were unique enough for people to want to buy them but maybe I should try to carry out some of my crazier ideas and designs.
What do you say? Do you think my family is right? What kind of books would you buy?
Any ideas and sugestions are very welcome.
I hope you have a great day
/Martine

Do we have enough books?

I would really like a libaray like this. :)

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/8ggUCv/features.cgsociety.org/stories/2009_05/2009_05_stockholmlibrary/15-render-FG.jpg

Soon back again... hopefully

ENGLISH:

Hello!
I am sorry that I haven't been that active here lately but I had a friend come and visit me. She is a very good friend of mine and we hadn't seen eachother since November. She went home yesterday but I have now catched a nasty cold and don't really have the strength to do much. Hopefully it wont last that long and I can be back to making books and talking with you guys in no time.

If you want something to do while you wait you can visit my deviantART page http://www.blueshadowm.deviantart.com There are not many books there but you can find a bunch of photographs and drawings made by me. :)

Hope you all are well
/Martine


SVENSKA:

Hej!
Jag är ledsen att jag inte har varit särskilt aktiv här på sistone men en vän till mig kom och hälsade på. Hon är en väldigt god vän och vi hade inte setts sedan november. Hon åkte hem igår men jag har nu fått en hemsk förkylning och orkar inte göra särskilt mycket alls. Förhoppningsvis så håller den inte i sig så länge så att jag snart ska kunna vara tillaka och tillvecka böcker och prata med er.

Om ni vill ha någonting att göra medan ni väntar så kan ni gå och ta en titt på min deviantART-sida. http://www.blueshadowm.deviantart.com Jag har inte så mycket böcker där men det finns istället en hel hög av foton och teckningar som jag har gjort. :)

Jag hoppas att allt är bra med er
/Martine

Lavender baths

ENGLISH:

I just came home after walking to town and back in the snow and I feel really tired and cold. A bath would be really nice and I found that Terraverdegoods on Etsy sells lavender bath salts. I just love the smell of lavender. Maybe I will buy some lavender bath salts when I'm not broke anymore.

You can find it here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/67834039/gentle-lavender-bath-salts

SVENSKA:

Jag kom precis hem efter att ha gått genom snön till stan och tillbaka och jag känner mig jättetrött. Ett bad skulle vara väldigt trevligt och jag upptäckte att Terraverdegoods på Etsy säljer lavendel badsalt. Jag älskar doften av lavendel. Kanske ska jag köpa lite lavendel badsalt när jag inte längre är pank.

Du kan hitta det här: http://www.etsy.com/listing/67834039/gentle-lavender-bath-salts

The workshop

ENGLISH:

Hello everyone!

I thought that I should show you some pictures of my workshop. It is not much and it's quite crowded with so much materials in such a small space but I like it. Also these photos were taken before I cleaned and put everything in its rigth place so it looks even worse than it usually is. :p

SVENSKA:

Hej allihop!

Jag tänkte att jag skulle visa lite bilder på min verkstad. Det är inte så mycket och det är ganska trångt med så mycket material i ett så litet utrymme men jag gillar det. De här fotona är dessutom tagna innan jag städade och lade allt på sin rätta plats så det ser värre ut än det vanligtvis gör. :p

Seen from the door to the laundry room/Sett från tvättstugan

Seen from the window/Sett fån fönstret

Some really nice things

ENGLISH:

EDIT: I know it looks really bad but I've been working on this for hours without getting the blog to do what I want it to so I give up.

Hello!

Today the challenge of Etsy's Promotional Frenzy Team is to in some way promote one item from each member's shop. And it is some really nice thins in that list, belive me.

There are however so many things so this is just half of them. If you want to see the whole list you can go here: http://www.etsy.com/teams/7512/promotional-frenzy-team/discuss/6779990/page/1

SVENSKA:

ÄNDRING: Jag vet att det ser väldigt dåligt ut men jag har hållit på med det här i timmar nu utan att lyckas få bloggen att göra som jag vill så jag ger upp.

Hej!
Idag var uppdgaet på Etsys Promotional Frenzy Team att på något sätt marknadsföra och visa upp en sak från varje medlems shop. Och det är en del riktigt fina saker, tro mig.

Det är dock så många saker så det här är bara hälften av dem. Om du vill se hela listan kan du gå hit: http://www.etsy.com/teams/7512/promotional-frenzy-team/discuss/6779990/page/1

jQjewelrydesigns - Labradorite and Silver Circle of Enlightenment Bracelet

http://www./etsy.com/listing/33625367/labradorite-and-silver-circle-of

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krystasjewelry - Flo - Swarovski Crystal Filigree Drop Necklace

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67796184/flo-swaorvski-crystal-filigree-silver

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zenbreeze - Cemetery Photo

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67819073/historic-cemetery-mausoleums-jesus

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CrochetedbyCharlene – Hope the Pastel Bear

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67586338/hope-the-pastel-colored-crocheted-teddy

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Petite Hermine - Crystalized Honey Drops Necklace - Swarovski Crystals

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67743185/crystalized-honey-drops-necklace

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Powers Of Love - Pink & Pearly Baby Boots

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67802420/pink-pearly-baby-boots-booties-6-12?ref=pr_shop

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Sewinggranny - Teddy Bear Quilt

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67821289/teddy-bear-hand-quilted-baby-quilt-by

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TheMayflower - Peach Chiffon Flutter Sleeve Dress

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67765090/real-peach-chiffon-flutter-sleeve-mid

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Greenhouse Glassworks - Glass Candle Holder

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67822550/blue-purple-stained-glass-candle-holder

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Sea Flower Studios - Woodland Flower Necklace

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67827191/woodland-flower-necklace

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Rabbit Hollow Prims - Superbowl Sunday Sale Primitive Victorian Bunny Door Greeter

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67829035/primitive-victorian-bunny-door-greeter

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Linda B - Purple and White Classic Pearl Bracelet Set

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67789761/classic-pearls-purple-and-white

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Makings By Mary - American Girl Doll scarf and hat

http://www.etsy.com/listing/67830881/scarf-and-hat-set-for-american-girl-size

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CrimsonHill - Natural Shea Butter Soap

http://www.etsy.com/listing/58754158/natural-shea-butter-soap-magnolia-orange

Facebook

ENGLISH:
After some thinking I decided that it would be a good idea to get a page on Facebook. So now you can find me there too. Please go and like it if you want. It would make me very happy.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Dragon-Books#!/pages/Green-Dragon-Books/172381376140884
(I know that the URL is ridicoluosly long but I can't seem to shorten it.)


SVENSKA:
Efter att ha funderat lite så bestämde jag mig för att det nog kunde vara en bra idé att göra en sida på Facebook. Så nu kan ni hitta mig där också. Gå gärna dit och tryck på gilla-knappen om ni vill det. Det skulle göra mig väldigt glad.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Green-Dragon-Books#!/pages/Green-Dragon-Books/172381376140884
(Jag vet att länken är löjligt lång men jag lyckades inte korta ner den.)

NewCreatioNZ

ENGLISH:


NewCreatioNZ is a lovely little Etsy shop wish sell beautiful photos, bookmarks and painting among other things. The thing I liked best however is the painting of an ocean shoreline. The painting is made using acrylics and Paua shells on canvas board and is devided in three parts. The painter has really captured the feeling and magic of a real shoreline.
I would love to have a painting like this on my wall.
You can find NewCreatioNZ here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/NewCreatioNZ
And the painting is here: http://www.etsy.com/listing/52110889/sea-shore-acrylic-mixed-media-paintings


SVENSKA:

NewCreatioNZ är en fantastisk liten Etsy shop som säljer vackra fotografier, bokmärken och målingar bland annat. Den sak som jag tycker bäst om är en tavla föreställande en strandlinje. Målningen är gjord i acryl på duk och dekorerad med pauasnäckor som glänser av pärlemor. Tavlan är också delad i tre så att man kan hänga alla tre bredvid varandra eller på olika ställen i huset.
Konstnären har verkligen fångat känslan och magin av en riktig strandlinje.
Jag skulle älska att ha en sådan här tavla på väggen.
Du kan hitta NewCreatioNZ här: http://www.etsy.com/shop/NewCreatioNZ
Och tavlan finns här: http://www.etsy.com/listing/52110889/sea-shore-acrylic-mixed-media-paintings

Custom made book for my grandfather

ENGLISH:

My grandfather really likes my bookbinding and has helped me a lot with buying tools and building machines that i need. He is also very active in an association wish work to preserve old buildings and such. (In swedish it is calle a hembygdsföreing but I couldn't find what it would be called in english. A direct translation would be a native district association.) The members of that association get a free subscription to a small magazine wish comes out four times a year. He asked me if I could bind togeather the magazines from 2010 and of course I said yes.

I wanted to have the name of the magazine on the cover in some way but since I don't have the tools or knowledge to print letters on a book I used another technic I have used before but then only for decorative patterns.

I drew the name as it was printed on the magazines and cut it out in a thin pasteboard. I then glued the pasteboard onto the cardboard wish would be the front of the book.

After that I bound the book in the way I usually bind books. I found that I had a red cloth wish had the same colour as the name had on the magazines so I used that on the cover of the book.

I used a folding stick (is that the right word?) to push the cloth down into the letters.

I was a bit scared that the smaller letters would disapear but I was able to make them visible and the whole thing turned out really well.

My grandfather was very happy with it and said that I had made it way to nice and that I didn't have to put so much work on it. He asked me a lot about how much it would cost with or without the letters and if I could make soft covers and so on. He said he would take the book with him to the associantion's next meating and ask if any of the others would like to get the same thing done with their magazines. Hopefully someone will be interested.

SVENSKA:

Min morfar tycker väldigt mycket om mitt bokbinderi och har hjälpt mig mycket med att skaffa verktyg och bygga maskiner som jag behöver. Han är också väldigt aktiv i hembygdsföreningen där han och mormor bor. Medlemmarna i hembygdsföreningen får uppenbarligen en gratis prenumerantion på en hembygdstidning som heter Bygd och Natur och som kommer ut fyra gånger om året. Han frågade mig om jag kunde binda in de tidningar som kom 2010 och självklart svarade jag ja.

Jag ville ha med namnet på tidningen på framsidan på något sätt men eftersom jag varken har rätt verktyg eller kunskap för att trycka bokstäver så bestämde jag mig för att använda en teknik som jag har använt mig av förut men då bara för dekorativa mönser.

Jag ritade av namnet från tidningens framsida och skar ut det i en tunn papp. Sedan limmade jag på pappen på den tjockare papp som skulle bli bokens framsida.

Efter det så band jag in boken som jag brukar göra. Jag upptäckte att jag hade en klot i samma röda färg som användes på tidningens framsida och bestämde mig därför för att använda det att klä in boken i.

Jag använde ett falsben för att trycka ner klotet i bokstäverna. Jag var lite orolig att de mindre bokstäverna var så små så att de inte skulle synas men jag lyckades göra dem synliga också och alltihop såg väldigt snyggt ut.

Min morfar blev väldigt glad över boken och pratade på om hur fin den var och hur jag inte hade behövt lägga ner så mycket arbete på den. Han frågade mig massor om vad priset på boken skulle bli med och utan bokstäver och om jag kunde göra en bok med mjuka pärmar. Han sa att han skulle ta med sig boken till hembygdsföreningens nästa möte och fråga om det var någon annan som var intresserad av att få sina tidningar inbundna också. Förhoppningsvis så finns det någon som är intresserad.

Inspired Designs

ENGLISH:

I thought I should tell you about a shop I found reasently. It is Inspired Designs wish you can find here: http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeartstringsByJanice The shop sells charms in different designs like butterflies, hearts and crosses. The charms are small, cute and very well made. They doesn't cost much and some of the money goes to charity, each design has it's own cause.

All the charms come with a short thread of Japanese silk wish is supposed to break when you no longer need the help the charm represent. I think it's a beautiful thought and the small poem wish is on the site is really beautiful too:

"Once this truth becomes one with your heart,

This silken cord will break apart.

You will no longer need this outward token.

The heartstrings within will not be broken."

So if you want a new piece of jewelry and at the same time give money to a good cause this is absolutely the place to go.

SVENSKA:

Jag tänkte att jag skulle berätta om en shop jag hittade nyligen. Det är Inspired Designs och du kan hitta den här: http://www.etsy.com/shop/HeartstringsByJanice Shoppen säljer halssmycken i olika designer som fjärilar, hjärtan och kors. Syckena är små, söta och välgjorda. De kostar inte mycket och en del av pengarna går till välgörande ändamål, varje design har sitt eget ändamål.

Alla smyckena kommer med en kort tråd av japanskt silke som är tänkt att gå av när du inte längre behöver hjälpen som smycket representerar. Jag tycker att det är en väldigt vacker tanke och den lilla versen som finns på shoppens hemsida är också vacker:

"Once this truth becomes one with your heart,
This silken cord will break apart.
You will no longer need this outward token.
The heartstrings within will not be broken."

Så om du letar efter ett nytt smycke och samtidigt vill ge pengar till välgörenhet så är det här absolut stället att vända sig till.

The truth is out there. But so are the lies.

The deniers have fair wind on the internet

The lies about the Holocaust lives
(by Else Christensen)

A simple search on the internet leads to thousands of websites where the holocaust and the extermination of people during the Second World War are denied. It’s declared that there have never been any gas chambers and the number of dead is exaggerated. But even the deniers’ most hardy myths are easily destroyed with facts.

Just before his suicide in 1945 Heinrich Himmler, head of the SS, maintained obstinately that the Jews of Europe died by natural causes in the concentration camps – by infectious disease.
Himmler’s words became the foundation on which the first holocaust deniers built their theories on. The Frenchman Paul Rassinier, one of the deniers’ pioneers, asserted in his book Le Passage de la Ligne (To pass over the line) from 1948 that it surely occurred a few isolated murders or gassings but that they where performed by extremists and where not Nazi politic. “Never at any point had the authorities concerned within the Third Reich any intentions to give order that – and nor did ever give any order that – the Jews where to get exterminated”, Rassinier asserts.
Since Rassiniers book was published the conspiracy theories has only grown stronger and stronger. All over the internet myths which try to deny the Nazis’ mass murders flourish. The conspiracy theories can look convincing but the truth is that they are contrary to all scientific and historic facts.
That the holocaust in fact did happen has been confirmed by testimonials from thousands of survivors, by SS-guards and not in the least by the hundreds of thousands official documents that the Nazis did not have time to destroy before the war was over.
One of the most widespread myths among the holocaust deniers is that the basement in the Birkenau crematory can not have been used as a gas chamber, since the doors went inwards and would not have been able to be opened if the room was filled of dead people. This argument however is built on the earliest architectural blueprints for Crematory II in Auschwitz-Birkenau, in which the doors actually was planned to be opened inwards. Later drawings, however, show with all desirable clarity that the door was changed so that it opened outwards. The change was made in close connection with the decision to build gas chamber in the crematory in 1943. But the holocaust deniers choose to disregard all later architectural drawings, just like they ignore for instance the fact that the Nazis ordered gas-proof doors for the crematory.
In the beginning it was only the most fanatic, or gullible, who listened to the deniers, but in the middle of 1970’s the followers started to change their tactic. The deniers of the new time used an academic way of writing, footnotes and references to acknowledged scholars and institutes. Many of them showed of academic titles, of which some – but not all – where fake. Now the argumentation consisted of complicated chemical and technical analyses, and different connections were based on, among other things, false documents – everything with the purpose to convince the reader that the extermination of the Jews never happened.
In the constantly growing internet the deniers has got ever increasing possibilities to spread their theories on a number websites. But the sites always bear the mark of the deniers: details which have been taken out of content to give a seemingly obvious support for false myths.

Statement:
Zyklon B is a delousing agent and does not suffice to kill people with. If the Nazis really had decided to exterminate the Jews they would have used another gas.
Fact:
The terrifying truth is that Zyklon B actually seems to be more effective on humans than on the lice which it was supposed to extinguish. Humans die within 5 – 10 minutes after being gassed with a concentration of only 300 ppm (parts per million).
Lice, on the other hand, are cold-blooded animals with much lower metabolism and do not die until after several hours at an exposure of up till 16 000 ppm. Another advantage of Zyklon B was that the gas already was being used in the camps and therefore easily could be bought in without it arousing suspicions.

Statement:
The crematories were built to burn the people who died a natural death, for example during typhus epidemics. What some say are gas chambers are in fact just morgues.
Fact:
Many prisoners in the concentration camps did die of typhus and other contagious diseases but not so many as it would justify the number of crematory ovens that the Nazis installed in, among others, Auschwitz.
The rooms wish the deniers call morgues could also be warmed up, which would be totally unfitting if they where supposed to hold dead bodies. With the help of the heating system the gas chambers held a steady temperature of 26 – 27°C, the temperature in with Zyklon B is most effective.

Statement:
The Nazis can’t have used Zyklon B in the crematory buildings. The combination of the poisonous gas and the heat from the ovens would have caused violent explosions.
Fact:
It is true that big quantities of the gas Zyklon B in the air together with the heat of the ovens would have caused a violent explosion in the crematories. But scientific examinations shows that the great quantities of concentrated gas that was needed to kill people in the gas chambers was 200 times less than what was needed to cause an explosion. Even if the Nazis would have overdosed the gas substantially the quantities would still have been too small to cause an explosion.

Statement:
The number of Jews who died in the holocaust is greatly exaggerated. At the most 200 000 – 300 000 died – and that of natural causes.
Fact:
Scientists estimate that between 5, 5 and 6 million Jews was murdered in the holocaust. The myth that “only” 200 000 died is taken from the study “General Psychologus” written by an unknown author, Alexander Scronn. The name is most likely a pseudonym and the book was published in 1965 in Brazil – a land where a lot of German Nazis lived after the war. Scronn says that his numbers is based on facts from The International Red Cross.
Scronn’s statements have many times been denied by The Red Cross. Despite this, the deniers still use Alexander Scronn as a witness for the truth.

Statement:
One cremation takes one hour, so it would be impossible to burn 1. 1 million people during the three to four years in which the crematories in Auschwitz – Birkenau was in operation.
Facts:
This statement is a classis among deniers who consistently compares the Nazis’ burning of corpses with regular cremation. Normally the purpose is to give the relatives a fine and uniform ash after the dead, and because of that the oven must be turned off between every cremation so that the ashes from different corpses do not get mixed up.
The Nazis used methods wish mostly reminds of industrial mass burning. If the oven constantly is filled with new corpses it will reach considerably higher average temperature. Furthermore, a lot of the time goes to burn the torso. The Nazis new about this, and however horrible it may sound prisoners in the so called Sonderkommando were ordered to beat on the torso on the burning corpses with iron bars. The survivors have told how they stirred among the corpses. With that the cremation time in the ovens was prominently shortened.

Statement:
Hitler did not know about the holocaust, and the extermination was not the government’s idea.
Fact:
The statement that Hitler was not guilty of the holocaust was latest presented by the British, self-taught historian David Irving. But the hatred of the Jews was the foundation for Hitler’s whole politic: “When I come into power will the extermination of the Jews be my first and most important task”, said Hitler already in 1919 to the journalist Josef Hell.
During the war the executions and later also the gassings were strictly supervised and inspected by both Hitler and Himmler. As a rule the Führer gave all his orders orally and only to a few people at a time, and because of that there are no written orders with Hitler’s signature on them. But among others has Rudolf Höss, commandant on Auschwitz, in a testimony said that he before the mass extermination was called to a meeting with Himmler in Berlin. Himmler said to him: “The Führer has given the order of the final solution about the Jews. We, the SS, are to carry out that order. The existing extermination centres in east is not capable of accomplishing the planned big actions. I have therefore chosen Auschwitz for this purpose.”

Statement:
If prisoners had actually been gassed with Zyklon B there should have been clear marks of prussic acid on the walls. The scientists have found none.
Fact:
Even if the theory is right, the statement is wrong for several reasons. First and foremost, the concentrations and quantities of gas that was used were way too small, and the time of exposure was too short. Normally the gas was in the gas chambers for only 20 – 30 minutes at the most – which, according to the experts, is not enough for it to leave deposits.
Furthermore, the members of the Sonderkommando – the Jews who worked in the crematories – have told how both walls and floors in the gas chambers were scrubbed thoroughly after every execution. The cleaning was necessary, because according to SS-men and the Sonderkommando the chambers where besmeared with among other things blood, urine and excrements. In the year of 1944 the Nazis blew up the gas chambers when they evacuated Auschwitz. Since then the ruins has been partly under water for many years and the remains of the gas have been washed away in greater extent than in for example the delousing rooms which the deniers often use as a comparison. Despite this has scientific examinations at several occasions confirmed that there is in fact traces of Zyklon B in the walls that are left of the gas chambers.

The memory dies slowly
Historians estimate that in the whole world there are to this day still 350 000 people left who survived the holocaust. The youngest of them are soon 70 years old and it is only a question of time before there won’t be anyone left who experienced the cruelty of the Nazis.
105-years old survivor Leopold Engleitner still writes books about his life and more and more victims who earlier lived anonymous lives now choose to tell their stories before it is too late. Their stories are immortalized in newspapers, books, movies and on the internet. Here the descriptions lay side by side with the myths of the deniers. While the survivors slowly disappear their children and children’s children found a worldwide network to keep the memories alive.
In several countries, among them Sweden, the victims of the holocaust are honoured every year with the International Holocaust Remembrance Day on the 27th of January – the date when the Russians liberated the people in Auschwitz.

I know this doen't have anything to do with bookbinding but I think it is a really important subject. We CAN NOT allow the truth to be forgotten.
I only translated this article. It is written by Elise Christiensen and it is printed in Världens Historia (History of the World) number 2/2011 wish is published by Bonner Publications.

Jag vet att det här inte har någonting med bokbindning att göra men jag tycker att det är ett väldigt viktigt ämne. Vi FÅR INTE glömma vad som faktiskt hände.
Jag har bara översatt den här artikeln. Den ursprungliga texten är skriven av Else Christensen och kan hittas i tidningen Världens Historia nummer 2/2011 som publiseras a Bonnier Publications.

Världens historia: http://varldenshistoria.se/
Bonnier Publications: http://www.bonnierpublications.se/default.asp?page=77

A new blog

ENLISH:
I thought that I should start a new blog where I can post pictures of books I'm working on, dates of fairs and events I will be attending and let you know what other things is going on in my workshop. It is also so that those of you who doesn't wish to become members on Etsy still can buy books from me.
I will write everything here in both english and swedish. So if there is something you can't understand just read on and you will probably find it further down.
I hope you will enjoy following my work here and don't hesitate to ask me if there is something you wonder or of you wish to comision a book from me.
Have a great day
/Martine


SVENSKA:
Jag tänkte att jag skulle starta en ny blog där jag kan lägga upp bilder på böcker jag jobbar på, datum för marknader jag kommer vara med på och låta er veta vad annat som är på gång i min verkstad. Det är också så att de av er som inte vill bli medlemar på Etsy ska ha en möjlighet att köpa böcker av mig.
Jag kommer att skriva allting här på både engelska och svenska. Så om det är någonting som ni inte förstår fortsätt bara att läsa så hittar ni det säkert längre ner på sidan.
Jag hoppas att ni ska tycka om att följa mina project här och tveka inte att fråga om det är någonting ni undrar eller om ni vill beställa en bok av mig.
Ha en fantastisk dag
/Martine