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Here are my two photos, the Compostela’s and district certificates and the credentialsView attachment 76855
Nice! And I love that map. Where did you get that?I enjoy looking at my old credentials and remembering when and where I received each stamp. I have cancelled my 5th Camino scheduled to start in two weeks and instead of packing I framed a couple of my old credentials. Ivar has a great map for sale in the store that I've used to show where we have walked. How are you displaying your credentials or your Compostela?
Please share your ideas.View attachment 76854
Nice! And I love that map. Where did you get that?
I'm pretty sure he can get more. He was very helpful for me with this and other purchases. He is also very responsive to questions.Saw it! Sold out.
Mine too! Although seeing the lovely ones pictured on this thread almost inspires me!Perhaps I am in the minority...my credencial from 2013 rests in its mailing tube somewhere in my office. It has always seemed to me to be an inadequate summation of the many wonderful experiences I enjoyed on my first Camino.
Back in stock now:Saw it! Sold out.
I enjoy looking at my old credentials and remembering when and where I received each stamp. I have cancelled my 5th Camino scheduled to start in two weeks and instead of packing I framed a couple of my old credentials. Ivar has a great map for sale in the store that I've used to show where we have walked. How are you displaying your credentials or your Compostela?
Please share your ideas.View attachment 76854
Oh my... I just ordered it at the Wise Pilgrim...Back in stock now:
The Big Map of the Caminos de Santiago in Spain and Portugal
There are close to 50 routes across Spain and Portugal, and 4 that enter the Iberian Peninsula from France. It is printed in Santiago de Compostela on a soft textured and heavy duty (250g) paper stock. It is poster size large and measures 50x70cm, or 19.5x27.5in. Hang it to plan and be...www.santiagodecompostela.me
Me too. I sent it to the mother of the (murdered) deceased young man. It is now on display somewhere in the Amazon jungle.No. I did frame one Compostella, as I did it In vicari pro, and gave it to the person on whose behalf I walked.
All the others are in a box.
We bought the map in Santiago's Cathedral gift shop.
One of the reasons we had ours framed is that there are many people that are not very familiar with the camino. It's easy for us to use this as a "show and tell" about the camino, major towns and cities we hiked through, and that the total distance we hiked is roughly 500 miles.
Mine too.Mine also in their mailing tubes in the closet...
These are my son's credencials, distance certificate, and Finisterre certificate, but mine are framed exactly the same way in a different room. My Compostela is in a Compostela frame I got at the Pilgrims Office in Santiago, sitting at my desk at work (where I haven't been for a long time).I enjoy looking at my old credentials and remembering when and where I received each stamp. I have cancelled my 5th Camino scheduled to start in two weeks and instead of packing I framed a couple of my old credentials. Ivar has a great map for sale in the store that I've used to show where we have walked. How are you displaying your credentials or your Compostela?
Please share your ideas.
After our first camino (2015), we bought a map of Camino Frances. We went to a frame shop and placed the map at the top, two of our credentials in the middle, then our Compostelas at either side. It is hanging in our dining room. After our second and third caminos, we had our Compostelas individually framed and hung these in the dining room as well. We have plenty of wall space for several more.
I enjoy looking at my old credentials and remembering when and where I received each stamp. I have cancelled my 5th Camino scheduled to start in two weeks and instead of packing I framed a couple of my old credentials. Ivar has a great map for sale in the store that I've used to show where we have walked. How are you displaying your credentials or your Compostela?
Please share your ideas.View attachment 76854
Mine too.Mine too.
But I’m certainly enjoying seeing all of these. I think I’ll go have a look in the closet.
Gorgeous!I enjoy looking at my old credentials and remembering when and where I received each stamp. I have cancelled my 5th Camino scheduled to start in two weeks and instead of packing I framed a couple of my old credentials. Ivar has a great map for sale in the store that I've used to show where we have walked. How are you displaying your credentials or your Compostela?
Please share your ideas.View attachment 76854
Wow, Love it.I used a modge podge transfer technique to create some wall art. They are in storage right now as I am re-doing some rooms and they will go up afterward. I turned them into markers and signposts.View attachment 77331View attachment 77332View attachment 77333View attachment 77331View attachment 77332View attachment 77333
I enjoy looking at my old credentials and remembering when and where I received each stamp. I have cancelled my 5th Camino scheduled to start in two weeks and instead of packing I framed a couple of my old credentials. Ivar has a great map for sale in the store that I've used to show where we have walked. How are you displaying your credentials or your Compostela?
Please share your ideas.View attachment 76854
I enjoy looking at my old credentials and remembering when and where I received each stamp. I have cancelled my 5th Camino scheduled to start in two weeks and instead of packing I framed a couple of my old credentials. Ivar has a great map for sale in the store that I've used to show where we have walked. How are you displaying your credentials or your Compostela?
Please share your ideas.View attachment 76854
That's great. I've also made the journey in Italy from LaVerna to Assisi to Rome. I recognized the testimoium immediately.View attachment 77375
This frame is the one I treasure the most, it is my longest camino, started from Proceno over 100 Km north of Rome, so that allowed me to get the Testimonium in Rome, then up Italy, into France via Montginevro down to Samport into Spain to SDC then Fisterra, Muxia, a journey of 3300 Km and to carry regards from Peter to James, as that was what I had promised to do when I was embracing James behind the Altar at the Cathedral.
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We're all confusing compostelas and credentials in this thread! My first compostela is framed, and all the others, save three pro vicari (which have been sent out to the survivors and, which I've since learned, have all been framed), are in their tubes, resting on a shelf. My collection of credenciales is something I quite value, and I take them out from time to time to review the steps I had taken. The old Canadian credential was in book form, and not open to framing but the current one, and the Québec credential which I have also used, could be. I note the comments about the stamps fading and would suggest that you ask your framer about museum glass, which would help.
A retired constable who is a member of the local Camino group in Ottawa advised us to keep our credentials as they could be useful support for our alibis. If the investigating team ever asked us where we were on the night of September 14, we could check our credentials and tell them that we were in Belorado sleeping with five Germans and, boy, did they snore.
View attachment 77391View attachment 77392This is what I’ve been doing this lockdown week, something I’ve planned to do for ages. And it was great fun! Now, whenever I go into that room I stand and study the photos again and again. Is that daft?
It’s really good to see all the beautiful ways others have framed theirs.
Buen Camino!
I had a similar dilemma. I took my 2 credentials to a professional framer who suggested putting them between 2 sheets of glass. I used the result to create a room divider between the living & dining rooms. It hangs over a cabinet where I have other Camino momentos & guide books. What great memories. Camino Frances 2019.I really want to get my credential framed and I’m a bit “stuck” because I can’t think of a creative way to be able to see both sides. Any thoughts???
Wonderful! And very creative. I’m glad to know this is possible. Thank youI had a similar dilemma. I took my 2 credentials to a professional framer who suggested putting them between 2 sheets of glass. I used the result to create a room divider between the living & dining rooms. It hangs over a cabinet where I have other Camino momentos & guide books. What great memories. Camino Frances 2019.View attachment 77755View attachment 77756
Hey Thanks. I've been thinking about this for a good while. Even as I was walking... I really worked to get all the stamps on one side of the credential. I succeeded in getting the SdC stamp as the last one on the front page; but then walked to Finisterre and those stamps were on the back. In retrospect, I was naive to think I could squeeze it all in.@Bradtheknife, your ideas are so unusual and creative, and I am impressed. You must have the patience of Job to see this to completion. Please share a photo/s of your finished project with us.
Your are an inspiration to me. I did the Portuguese from Porto 5 months after my second total knee replacement and it went fine. Your only a few years older than me.I have four red and gold tubes containing my compostelas lined up across the back of my computer desk. Every time I look up from planning my next camino, there they are to nudge me on. I have considered getting framed my one distance certificate, for walking the 1,000 km VDLP, But now I am deeply into planning the 1,300 km Camino de Levante, to be walked next spring, God willing. It will be my fifth camino walked, and my longest yet. I am planning to start around the date of my 73rd birthday in April. I like to have my credencials for the VdlP to hand for planning the final part of my route: Just where did I stay in such and such a place from Zamora to Santiago? I won't find that out from looking at the wrong side of a framed credencial. I must get two major health issues settled before I leave: a knee replacement (and recovery) and a COVID-19 vaccination. I am hopeful for both. I do not know how active camino walkers decide to put down the pack for good. Someday, I know that I shall find out. Until then, my credentials will remain essential parts of my planning process.
Thank you. My knee repacement is tentatively scheduled for three months from now, so around the end of November. If I begin my next camino in early April, that will be around four months after my surgery. My younger brother, who had both his knees replaced some years ago, was hiking up a mountain four months later. He is a retired physical education teacher and very disciplined in staying active, so I know that I shall have to work at staying in shape before the surgery and regaining my mobility afterwards. But fortunately I have the option to not book my flight to Spain until I have been vaccinated for COVID-19 and regained my mobility.Your are an inspiration to me. I did the Portuguese from Porto 5 months after my second total knee replacement and it went fine. Your only a few years older than me.
There is a website that has images of over 3,000 sellos.Thanks to all the posters and ideas presented here. I am facing the same issues as everyone else. The credential itself is double sided, and I don't want to permanently hide one side. So, I have come up with several solutions. First and most practical has been scanning each individual stamp, trying to exclude the neighboring stamps, which sometimes overlap.
How did you get both sides of your credential? Made a copy?
You could photocopy it or, like mine, I display two different credentials.How did you get both sides of your credential? Made a copy?
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