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el kitsch christmas vintage retro email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 23 october 2010 shopping at home so what s the last crafty thing you bought and by crafty i mean related to crafting not what s the last sneaky thing you bought although they might well be one and the same for me it was a splurge on some new my minds eye and lily bee design 12x12 papers that i really had to have but i m not sure i should be admitting to that especially not right now you see the thing is throughout the projects kirsty and i created for our upcoming 12 days online workshops which we re about to begin delivering and you can click the photo in my sidebar for more details our philosophy has been to use what you have and rather than invest in any more supplies for this class just go shopping at home as the majority of supplies needed are ones you probably already own i created this map to demonstrate the general idea you might want to visit the full post i did over at copy paste for the full explanation but obviously you needn t be signed up for our classes to gain from shopping at home you might choose to do it for economic reasons to save your money for other things this christmas environmental reasons to re use and re cycle in a creative way as a personal challenge to not buy anything new until you ve used up some existing stash to relieve your conscience there s nothing quite like putting some of the accumulated stuff to good use is there or for practical reasons simply relieving your cupboards boxes and your life of some of its load whatever the reason i ve created a shopping at home related fill in the blanks quiz for you to play along with if you re that way inclined i ve already posted on the 12 days secure class blog but i thought you might like to join in too here s my responses 1 it would be amazing if my house really was a shop like northern lights interiors all saints desigual tk maxx and ikea with a deli counter thrown in 2 but at the moment it s probably more like a very very modest wannabe version of the above 3 the best stocked area of my house has got to be the craft room which is groaning at the seams with all kinds of things i m trying my hardest not to let myself expand into the spare bedrom because that would be a slippery slope to step out on to one which would lead invitably to even further mission creep which i wrote about last year i had to laugh this week when i spotted this 7gypsies sticker stuck to the floor beneath my desk yes it s official i actually have stash stuck to my floor 4 but i m not sure i would dare do a stock take of my paper or dresses if i thought about it i could work out how much many i have i d just rather not think about it 5 i could actually open my doors right now and sell off most of my errrm paper dresses and bird ornaments and i d still have plenty left 6 if i could go shopping in someone else s house i d choose effie s house a because i know where it is b because it s somewhere i dare actually drive to 2 factors which must be taken into account when going shopping and c because she has a world of stuff in her craft room fact 7 with the money i ll save by shopping at home for my supplies i could buy some more jema holland ceramic birds like the one james found in a charity shop for me just don t speak to me about the toucan i missed out on on ebay in the last few seconds not one word i was not happy not at all james will vouch for my mood that night right after he tells you about how i should have put in a larger bid from the start i think you can imagine how well i took his late advice 8 during this class i hope i will get to buy revisit finally get to use my stock of free digital printable files i created for the 12 days class last year but was too busy running the main class projects to actually use i have plans to turn them into christmas cards and tags this time around 9 the best thing about shopping at home will be getting to remind myself of all those things i ve put into boxes for organised tidy storage purposes but which out of sight out of mind i ve entirely forgotten i had and finally 10 shopping at home will mean i can get away with wearing no make up and my hoodie with the holes in and i ll also be able to carry my breakfast around with me while i mooch around for new supplies i d love to know what going shopping at home would look like in your house so do let me know if you play along with the quiz too here s the questions again for you to copy paste pardon the pun 1 it would be amazing if my house really was a shop like 2 but at the moment it s probably more like 3 the best stocked area of my house has got to be 4 but i m not sure i would dare do a stock take of my 5 i could actually open my doors right now and sell off most of my and i d still have plenty left 6 if i could go shopping in someone else s house i d choose 7 with the money i ll save by shopping at home for my supplies i could buy 8 during this class i hope i will get to buy revisit finally get to use my stock of 9 the best thing about shopping at home will be 10 shopping at home will mean i can get away with wearing see you soon julie posted by julie kirk at 18 00 2 comments labels copy paste online workshops crafts christmas shopping recycling reuse downloads email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 21 october 2010 overheard you ve made your bed hi hi so here s one from a couple of years ago which really makes me aware of just how long i ve been in my current job i m not sure why while browsing through my entire overheard collection i decided to share this one with you right now i think it might be because after being back working my day job for 3 weeks now my own bed is calling to me more than ever to quote sophia from the golden girls picture the scene it s march 2008 and i m blithely drinking my cup of tea and eating a sausage bun in the student union cafe when what should drift across the room but this delightful one sided telephone call glimpse into debauched student life male student on mobile phone what you threw up on your bed awww that s the worst that you know what s funny though did you still sleep in it even though you ve threw up yeah i ve done that are you still coming out though just get a bacon sandwich and lucozade down you and you ll be alright there you go don t say reading my blog never taught you anything next time you vomit on your bedding you know the remedy you can thank me later j photo details my bed which i can honestly say i ve never thrown up on posted by julie kirk at 22 35 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 19 october 2010 paper roses hello hello this might be heresy to admit within the papercrafting world that is not in the wider world but i ll take a chance paper flowers don t usually do much for me i m not saying i never use them or that i dislike them just that they re not really my thing but before i m stricken off the papercrafting register i would like to say that these beauties are definitely changing my mind 3djean co uk has just started stocking these mulberry paper roses and others see here for the current range and i snapped them up the moment i saw them at the crop a few weeks ago and used one on a tag which i turned into a card for my mam s birthday i also made a little video type thing to show you step by step how i built up the layers on the tag next week when it s my turn to post on scattered scarlet the 3djean design team blog i ll share a few more of the tags i made featuring the roses and some vintage cigarette cards until then drop by my rose themed guest post over at the amelie s house blog party where i ve been sharing some of my rosy ornaments and jewellery my photographs in the post have been inspired by the amazing iced cakes with hand painted flowers which natasha of nevie pie cakes creates you will want to see her cakes i promise you they re so very pretty right then i ll let you go and ogle roses and cakes i ve got posts about a plastic angel and going shopping at home to write and a meal with friends to get get ready for so i ll see you very soon julie posted by julie kirk at 14 24 6 comments labels roses 3djean scattered scarlet papercrafts tags card making nevie pie cakes email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 14 october 2010 ordinary everyday treasures hello hello over the last few years mainly since we installed wifi at home where i can be curled up in bed and online too i ve been lucky enough to have met lots of wonderful web people i mean there s you for a start obviously but today i wanted to give a quick mention to the members of ordinary treasures the social group i belong to on the ukscrappers forum when helen and i initiated the group we chose the name as it fit with our mutual love of using everyday bits pieces such as office supplies haberdashery finds and home made embellishments on our scrapbooking pages but over time we ve realised that it s the people in the group who are the real treasures so today i thought i d share something with them and you which i spotted a few weeks ago and which lifted me right out of my ordinary day i was in the bedroom on my laptop when i just happened to look up and catch sight of this a perfectly pastel palace rising up from between the roofs of the suburban bungalows after my first glance i actually did a full blown cartoon style double take and if i d had cartoon eyes they d have bulged out at the same time too it s really not the sort of thing that crops up on my horizon every day i even called james in to check if he could see it too just in case i was hallucinating which i wasn t as the photos prove and this brigadoon of a bouncy castle rising out of the mists of our estate truly made me smile and literally brightened up my day it was almost as good as the time my mam and i crested the top of a hill to find an elephant on the other side but that s a tale for another day so these photos today are especially for alexa a most wonderful and gracious supporter of all my online ad ventures and who might just appreciate being lifted out of the ordinary she s in the midst of building her own castle ok so it s actually a house extension but still and right now the view across her garden is not quite as colourful as the one above alexa i m certain that when those shiny new windows are finally delivered you ll find something as magical outside to look at in no time even if the only things visible are seemingly ordinary i know you ll be able to catch a glimpse of the treasures because that s what you do and if you re feeling a bit ordinary today yes i mean you then please allow my castle from nowhere give you a little lift too now how does that song go just the two of us building castles in the sky just the two of us you and i julie posted by julie kirk at 07 21 3 comments labels photograph treasures everday ordinary mystery bouncy castle email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 11 october 2010 overheard it s like the fort knox of the sandwich world afternoon i went to my local crop on satuday and met someone new who d not been before during one conversation some of the regulars ie my friends decided to warn the newcomer to be careful what she said near me as anything she said could possibly appear in print on my blog sometime soon now wherever did they get idea from it would appear from this that i ve got something of a reputation but really i m not that bad i mean it s not like i run to the nearest computer to blog about what i ve just heard i mean sometimes it takes me a few hours and well actually it s just that i ve been dying to tell you this lovely fresh one i heard just this morning so here i am it came from what is so often a rich seam of enlightening conversational topics amongst students food this time it was a group of students near to me were discussing the subway chain of sandwich shops female student who i m guessing was not a natural cook i spent 15 in subway they even have bouncers on the door there incredulous male student f k off what for in case you like get a bit fresh with a jalepeno made me smile at least right before i nonchalantly reached into my bag for a notebook and pen reputation what reputation j posted by julie kirk at 13 34 6 comments labels overheard conversations university campus students food sandwiches email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 8 october 2010 bird week belated day 5 either that or it s a pterodactyl hi you while i ve been going on and on about the buzzard we spotted while in scotland last month i ve neglected to tell you about how we met the heron we were visiting coldstream on a special nostalgia trip for james who had spent many happy holidays there as a child with his nan and grandpa yet he d not visited there since many of our short breaks away are pretty much spur of the moment with hardly any research into where we re going apart from a cursory google around and the same went for this trip and as james is a natural navigator and knew that after a quick glance at a map finding the actual town wouldn t be a problem he also assumed that finding the exact spot beside the river tweed which we were looking for the green on which his grandparents caravan used to berth would be just as straightforward but it wasn t parking in the first carpark we could find we set off on foot down a road which he thought felt vaguely familiar after all how hard can it be to find a caravan park full of caravans they re not the easiest thing to hide are they if they re still open after 30 years that is we rounded a corner which felt promising and discovered a small stream which was clearly not the river tweed and i watched as james cast his eye around for a glimpse of any wide open space a field a caravan park sized area beyond the trees but there wasn t one seemingly there was only a road to one side and a footpath and houses to the other then ahead of us spanning the stream stood a small wooden footbridge towards which we walked and stood and looked down into the clear trickling water because because that s what you do with bridges isn t it especially when you don t know what else to do or where to go and you re wondering if you ve travelled over 100 miles and 30 years to relive a memory that might not be there anymore as james faced downstream i turned to face the opposite direction just as several pigeons took off from the bankside and flew over us and that s when i saw it the heron it was on the bank where the pigeons had been and was just about to take flight itself and in that split second in which i noticed it and noticed that it was about to fly away i managed to spit out a rather baffled what s that and as james turned to see what i was talking about and just as he was muttering it s a pigeon it came flying 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