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t this takes me a fair drop of time so there are a few simple things i ask in return all of which you can find here in the guide i ll look forward to reading your posts and i know for a fact i ll see many of you in the comment sections of each other s blogs too i ll pop back here tomorrow with the final communal count of 2013 julie posted by julie kirk at 06 00 12 comments labels my month in numbers blogging meme statistics lists numbers memory keeping by numbers birthday 40th dressing up party photo booth super heros dr who 50th email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 21 november 2013 found a mouldy minion hi hi the human brain is hard wired to recognise faces it s likely an evolutionary thing and sometimes this cognitive function leads us to recognising faces in things that aren t really faces bear with me on this science bit there s something inane heading this way any minute promise in our house we re very fond of finding these faces in places and i ve blogged at least one of them before now that time we found a potato that looked like a marc john s drawing how could i not blog about that my photo folders are scattered with them and i know we re not alone there s a whole world of faces in places photos over on flickr and i ve just come across faces in things on twitter and so with the knowledge that this is definitely a thing and not that i m just a little bit odd i just had to share our latest face with you today according to wikipedia objects incidentally perceived as faces evoke an early activation in the ventral fusiform cortex at a time and location similar to that evoked by faces so all i can say is prepare to have your ventral fusiform cortex activated last week james was putting some fresh lemons into the fruit bowl when something amongst the old ones in the bottom of the bowl caused him to shout over to me there s a face in a place here and naturally i had to go and look and he wasn t wrong was he is that not the cutest most poignant seen better days lemon you ve ever seen if not i insist on seeing your photographic evidence to the contrary personally i can see some family resemblance between it and a minion from the despicable me films or a toy story alien what do you think if nothing else it makes me feel better about my lapses in household management how does that old saying go she who has a perfect spore free fruit bowl shalt never get to blog about a mouldy lemon now wouldn t that be a terrible pity julie posted by julie kirk at 11 33 11 comments labels faces in places humour mouldy lemon despicable me minion toy story alien email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 19 november 2013 plundering pages for cardmaking what s in a name hi you what s your name why do i ask because when i m browsing my old book collection looking for an interesting page to plunder i love it when i accidentally stumble across a familiar name this is my latest find which made the perfect addition to the card i made for my sister s recent birthday but i m not only excited about finding my own name in this case inside a 1960 s girls annual no in recent weeks i ve sent out several envelopes stuffed with plundered pages to friends whose names i d happened upon in various books both ladies have names which i m imagining they don t come across that often in books so i couldn t bear to keep them to myself i just had to tear them out did you just wince and post them off to a rightful home with their namesakes similarly i was delighted to find this image to use as my focal point for the card because if you don t know her let me promise you that she actually does look rather like this if you read my post on sunday she s the superhero sibling i wrote about in my simply a moment post whenever someone enquires about ordering a custom pack of plundered pages and we re chatting about what themes and topics they d like me to find for their personalised pack i often ask if there are any significant names they d like me to keep my eyes peeled for at the same time i can t promise to find any but it s great when i do because i know how much fun it can be adding a very specific as if it was tailored to you detail to a project i ve made various projects for myself featuring familiar names and while i know you could type print stamp out any name or phrase you fancy there is something particularly special about finding it on a page out of the blue fully formed then just snipping it out and being inspired by it for example i built the entire sentiment of this card around this phrase with my name the card just wouldn t have been the same if i hadn t taken it as my starting point are there any unique hard to find or simply significant names you d like me to stay vigilant for in my book browsing i d be interested to hear and who knows maybe i ll get in touch one day with that all elusive name julie p s you can find similar numbered background text pages as used down the spine of this card here in my shop or browse all the available plundered pages packs and as today was my turn to post a dt project on the 3djean blog my card also features rose organza trimming and vintage style tickets from the 3djean shop posted by julie kirk at 06 33 6 comments labels plundered pages vintage paper names personalised text etsy greetings cards email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 17 november 2013 simply a moment november my super hero sibling hello you i m joining in again with simply a moment a blogging meme hosted by alexa at trimming the sails who reminds us once a month to stop and document a fleeting moment of time to learn more you can read alexa s tips on how to record your own moments and if you do join in there s a link box on her november moment for you to add yours i actually forgot i was meant to consciously memorise a moment on the 15th until the 16th and while alexa always stresses that it s perfectly fine to choose another day when i thought back to the previous day to see if i could remember back to anything worth capturing one vivid perfectly formed moment leapt to mind and this is it my super hero sibling date friday 15th november 2013 time 12 30 pm ish location mam dad s hallway the party preparations are fully underway now mam s juggling quiches pies and finger food in the kitchen dad s sprinting around the house with a toolbox tending to last minute tasks and really all that s left for jo the birthday girl and i to do is the fancy bits pinning up the rows of comic book style bunting we ve been preparing for weeks finding the best spot for the paper pom pom garlands oh and the small task of t urning the hallway of a suburban house into a tardis superhero themed photo booth complete with dressing up box and props so not that much to do really every time a crowd pleaser style song comes on the radio an all request day on radio 2 in aid of children in need mam asks jo who s created a 16 hour playlist for her party tonight have you got this one on there and every time jo replies no then shoots me a but i have got 16 hours worth of other songs on there and people are bound to like some of them look i move the step ladder into the hall so i can reach up to pin a pom pom garland to the ceiling of the tardis as if with all that time on his hands the doctor had taken up papercrafting standing on the top of the three steps i manage to press the pin into the plaster and successfully hang the garland and then i start to tilt backwards and no dr who pun intended but time begins to bend and to stretch out giving me time to think a lot of things in just a few seconds things like uh oh this feels a bit unsafe but i ll be able to right myself in a second i always do it ll be fine followed swiftly by i m flapping my arms like something in a cartoon this isn t getting any better i m still tipping backwards ok there s nothing i more i can do about this this will either really hurt or else someone will just have to catch me and with that i slipped off the ladder straight into my sister s arms the second thing she said to me after her extraordinary catch was i quite literally had your back there and didn t she just and if i was prone to sentimentality i would leave that story right there on a profound life affirming note all metaphorically perfect she had my back then and always except i think i d rather end this moment by telling you the first thing she said after she prevented me from falling backwards on to a hard floor as i think it gives a far more accurate portrayal of sibling relationships because the first thing she said after grabbing me was urgh i just touched your boob now that s what i ve come to expect from a sister if you d like to read more moments do drop by alexa s and thank you for reading mine julie posted by julie kirk at 17 02 12 comments labels simply a moment alexa trimming the sails tardis birthday party decorating ladder fall catch email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 12 november 2013 overheard just shooting the bries hi hi it s been a while since i shared an overheard so what better way to jump back in than with a snippet of conversation about one of my favourite major food groups cheese just shooting the bries when sometime this summer uncharacteristically for me i didn t record the date of this one where my housing estate what i was walking through up and out of the housing estate heading towards the shops one sunny afternoon this summer a few metres in front of me two elderly men stood chatting their shopping bags on the pavement between them well when i say they were chatting that might have been an overstatement an exaggeration there wasn t exactly a bubbling back n forth happening in fact i rather got the feeling that i d approached them just as they were reaching that point in a conversation where you realise that you have ab so lute ly nothing left to say one of the men was standing silently ever so slightly nodding in agreement while the other somewhat resigned to the desperate turn the conversation had taken declared cheese cheese cheese you can t beat cheese here s a photo of cheese enjoy p s jean does this count as a mention on my blog you ate some of that cheese part of me wishes i d heard more of the conversation so i d know exactly what the question was for the answer to most emphatically be cheese but another part of me is glad that i m now free to speculate had the other one asked what s the best toastie filling or the best mouse bait who knows what do you think they were talking about i m sure you ve got some creative interpretations julie posted by julie kirk at 17 36 9 comments labels overheard conversation humour cheese more cheese email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 8 november 2013 blog book tour kirsty neale s hoop la or my friend wrote a beautiful book come look hello ahoy and welcome you ve reached another of the stops along the book tour celebrating the launch of hoop la 100 things to do with embroidery hoops by my good and oh so talented friend kirsty neale while you re settling yourself in here i should probably just mention that if you ve been following the other posts along the tour then this post is a tiny bit different to some of those let me explain with one of those you know i like to be honest with you disclaimer ish type statements kirsty s publishers didn t send me the book for review purposes kirsty sent it to me pre release simply as a gift to a very proud friend i didn t make one of the projects from it just so i could take part in this blog tour no i made something from it long before the book tour was organised and purely because i needed to make something to take on a crafty holiday where friends and i planned to exchange handmade gifts and with a beautiful book containing 100 gloriously fresh ideas sitting on my desk it seemed perverse to try to think up something of my own i was not paid to take part and none of the links in this post are affiliate links so now the official bits are over and done with how about we just look at the prettiness here s what i made i fell in love with the christmas wreath which you can find on page 105 of hoop la so settled myself down in front of elementary one night and made a start on recreating it it really is a wonder that i got anything done while jonny lee miller vied for my attention on tv but hey that s crafty dedication for you like many of the 100 ideas in the book this project was easy to adapt to suit the supplies i already had to hand apart from the hoop itself i didn t need to buy anything new to make this while i followed the design pretty closely when it came to wrapping the hoop i did substitute kirsty s original white yarn for some fine parcel string i found a while ago which i d been saving for the perfect project and this was it yes you heard me correctly i did just admit to saving some string for best and naturally i used beads from my own stash but i did keep them to a very similar selection as those in the book as the project was already so nice i saw no need to reinvent the wheel hoop as for the actual making of part i actually followed kirsty s instructions to the letter this included gluing the beads as well as wrapping them on to the hoop a step which i d omitted at first until my carefully placed beads began migrating then i realised just how important and useful it was which is when i went back and did as i was told the lesson being kirsty knows best 100 times all of which as i m someone prone to going off piste or even of wandering off down the road before we even get anywhere near the piste and what is a piste anyway and doing my own creative thing without following the instructions trust me should be taken as a recommendation in itself in short i had a lot of fun making my version of kirsty s christmas wreath i ve long harboured a desire to try my hand at dry stone walling and this with the way you get to arrange different shaped beads close to one another was the next best thing and i could do this not on a windswept hillside but indoors while watching jonny lee miller which was a bonus and finally those of you who ve been visiting me here from the start won t need any explanation of why i m beyond happy to be sharing details of a book by kirsty neale you ll know that together we hosted a creative blog the copy paste project we never did decide which one of us was copy or who was paste for two splendid years during which we shared all kinds of ways in which you could take inspiration from external sources to create wonderful new things of your own and while we let that go a few years back i m just thrilled at the way things have now come full circle no hoop based pun intended and now i get this chance to copy and paste kirsty so this stop on the book tour may not come from a place of complete and utter objective professionalism 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