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e 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 heck when we shared a blog we referred to one another as blog wife but you should know this being her friend and talking to her while she was making the book has made me keenly aware of the level of time care and attention to detail she put into it and the finished result certainly reflects that but you don t need to take my word for it to see for yourself you can watch the adorable promo video kirsty made which features many of the 100 hoops read more about hoop la on the publisher s site look inside the book via amazon visit kirsty s blog where she s been linking up to all the other review posts on the book tour where none of the other participants ever refer to her as their blog wife at least i hope not kirsty will have some serious questions to answer otherwise and visit the full list of all blog tour participants via the stitch craft create site thanks for spending some time at my stop on the tour today i ll see you soon julie posted by julie kirk at 00 01 10 comments labels kirsty neale hoop la book embroidery hoop beads crafting f w media vintage lace email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 6 november 2013 storytelling sunday a three zebra day hello you yes i do know it s not sunday but sian who hosts storytelling sunday over at from high in the sky insists it s ok to share a post up to a week after the official 1st sunday of the month and anyway some of you may well be reading it on a sunday and it s definitely a story so i m going ahead with it the three zebra day date friday 6th november 2013 imaginatively called zebra this little chap has been faithfully watching over me for more than 15 years now and occasionally his skills are still called upon his origins are a long story which handily i wrote all about here explaining where he came from and why but in short he s been a friend during some tough times in the past but also a pocket companion on all kinds of journeys and he s accompanied me and those family members i ve thrust him onto through a whole range of life experiences he s a talisman a totem a touchstone and for much of the year he gets to relax his splendidly striped self on top of a picture frame in my bedroom but there are times when he s still called upon to carry out his protective duties like last friday james had to go into hospital for the day for a minor operation he s fine no need to worry and so after packing his bag with all the things he might need pyjamas dressing gown book to read i also zipped zebra into a small inside pocket because if you re going into hospital you need a zebra too then as a belt and braces approach i also made james wear his zebra socks too you ll never guess who bought him those in the first place ahem now then i m aware that this could begin to look like i m rather superstitious and honestly i m not really but there are times when you re feeling helpless and you know you can t be there every minute and you know someone is going to cut into someone you love when i think it s ok to put your focus into a few black and white stripes which is what i did and thanks to the stripes and the good old nhs 11 hours later james was back home safe and sound and sitting on the sofa with tea biscuits and me which is when he rolled up his sleeve to reveal the identity bracelet he was still wearing from the hospital and he said have you seen what s written on this i noticed it when i was getting changed to go down to theatre and i looked and i saw and the smile spread across my face and i couldn t quite believe my eyes just a coincidence most certainly but as coincidences go it s a good one thanks for reading my story today catch up with the latest selection of tales from bloggers across the world over on sian s latest storytelling sunday post here and i ll see you back here soon julie posted by julie kirk at 12 28 7 comments labels sian fair from high in the sky storytelling sunday stories zebra totem talisman keepsake hospital email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 1 november 2013 my month in numbers 2013 communal count 5 november hi hi as it s the 1st of the month it s time to dust off the abacus and wipe the calculator clean because we re about to start totalling up some fresh numbers for november if you already do join me by keeping track of one or both of the communal count prompts or if you d like to start right now then here s what to look out for during november i m just waiting now for someone to tell me they ve already received a christmas card julie as always you re welcome to respond to both either or neither prompts it really is entirely up to you you re welcome to interpret them however you like you can combine this with your usual full month in numbers post or just join in with your responses to these shorter prompts anything goes you can respond in a blog post an instagram a tweet or simply in a comment on my month in numbers post a link back to my blog somewhere would be lovely if you do blog it 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