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t i made i simply took a pack of blank index cards 50p for 50 from wilkinsons and wrapped fabric around them using one of the cards as a template i marked the positions and punched a hole in my fabric i then eyeletted the hole to strengthen it and used a small bookring to attach the cover to the cards i then hand stitched a length of ribbon around the cover to act as a wrap closure as the note above mentions the fabric and trimmings used are from the hot date quirky kit from craftytemplates so there you have it a handy pretty book to keep in my bag i could use it to make notes about crafting projects to keep shopping lists or just record my day if i d had it with me this morning the first entry in it would read bank appt 10 00am not 10 30 like they tried to say tried on most perfect high grey ankle strap shoes didn t fit v bad even shop assistant said it was a shame posted by julie kirk at 14 49 10 comments labels crafty templates quirky kit hot date index cards notebook fabric cover book rings buttons email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 24 august 2009 new quirky kit hot date i ll keep this nice and simple crafty templates have just released the latest quirky kit called hot date which can be used to make a 2010 calendar or diary i ve just received mine and it s beautiful you ll probably want one i know what you re like p s it comes packed in a pink box and includes sticky backed woodgrain vinyl need i say more posted by julie kirk at 11 10 0 comments labels crafty templates quirky kit hot date calendar email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 20 august 2009 the one with the chimp us scrappers we re not hard to please you know no not at all in fact the simple combination of a yellow flower black and red teapots cerise table mat pretty much made hannah and i light up with scrapping joy on a recent girlie day out to the art cafe which is exhibiting some of hannah s work before any food or drink could be consumed we each drew our cameras for a shoot out note how the flower considerately faced the camera in both shots weird eh it s almost like two mad women obsessively moved the crockery etc around whilst seeking the most perfectly scrapworthy shot everything i ve used on these pages is from gauche alchemy the card trimmings and ephemera are from the ball and chain mixed media kit and the pink bits and bobs are from the coloured themed embellishment kit all of which is available from their artfire shop the alphabets model s own yes the colour kit is called pink parts the gauche girls are in the process of allowing you yes you to choose new names for their kits if you think you can think of something appropriately unique to name an orange kit then head over to their blog now where for your trouble you ll be entered into a prize draw in fact they re hosting several giveaways at the moment so it s all yours for the taking now seeing as how you all stuck with me through my brief flirtation with misery in my previous post allow me to offer you some light relief at my expense in an attempt to pull myself up by my bootstraps on wednesday i embarked upon my banana frog stamping school project for september thinking that getting it completed a month early would lift my spirits until until i crouched to adjust my near complete project which i d laid out on the floor just beneath an open dresser drawer and then i stood up long story short lower backs the corners of solid oak drawers pain watering eyes slight breathlessness a pathetic phone call to sympathetic but unsurprised james a lovely bruise and a swelling that gave me the appearance of having 3 buttocks which i haven t fast forward to thursday night where i d showered applied arnica to the unfortunate area and arranged the waistband of my jogging bottoms in a sort of low slung extreme hipster style and i think you know where this story is going don t you i then attempted to unplug my laptop which involves leaning over a mini filing cabinet directly in front of a window which has a house directly opposite it whilst mid lean balancing on one leg and at full stretch with my arms i could feel the waistband slipping and could do nothing to stop it if it was not for my t shirt being so long well let s just say my neighbours would have had a front row view of those 3 buttocks so there i am all aching back and joggies around my ankles when i manage to unplug the plug and straighten myself up luckily with the majority of my dignity still in tact until until i spot a pencil from the pot i d been leaning over sticking out of the bottom of my t shirt sleeve which is when i realised that to add insult to injury a chimpanzee had lodged itself into my armpit dignity dignity who needs it personally i think it s over rated posted by julie kirk at 20 45 6 comments labels gauche alchemy design team kit colour kit whitby injuries bruised chimps email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 19 august 2009 blogging it out i m not strictly in the best of moods in fact i could be accused of being not myself today evidence for the prosecution includes 1 i went grocery shopping and bought a hair dye on the spur of the moment 2 i had my car window open with the stereo absolutely blasting something i never do ok so i was blaring out coldplay but still and 3 i attempted to burn off a subara impreza wrx at the traffic lights clearly it s a case of identity theft and my victim is some flash boy racer i plead guilty as charged but before you pass sentence please take the following into account 1 i ve got lots of stuff things projects and plans on my mind 2 i m not sleeping too well although last night i did dream about kissing the mentalist so life s not treating me that cruelly and more significantly 3 my friend hannahbanana is moving away which means for a while there ll be no more of our fabulous crafty gossipy days in which we make very little art drink very much tea share all there possibly is to share and cry laughing at everything even the difficult stuff especially at the difficult stuff so go easy on me something which should lift me a little from this malaise is that i managed to complete three of those ufos i was telling you about here last week two of them need some more journaling in them to be entirely done but i don t want to rush that just for the sake of it i finally gave my book of motivational quotes a title it s a quotation from the roman poet virgil they can who think they can i m finding it particularly apt at the moment and am currently working on the think i can bit the following are another few quotes which should help me achieve what it is i d like to achieve without feeling overwhelmed anyway i ll brighten up soon i always do plus i ve got good things to look forward to in a month s time i get to see both hannah and dave gorman again in a week s time i ll be playing with the crop a dile big bite i ve ordered and in five minute s time i ll be drinking my third cuppa of the day life s not too shabby really not at all not at all xx posted by julie kirk at 11 48 6 comments labels mini book quotations motivational positive thinking email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 16 august 2009 measuring creativity hello sometimes my body and my mind have differing agendas sometimes my body wants more than anything to sleep while my mind prefers to strike up into full blown idea sprouting and planning mode sometimes this comes in useful when i was younger the solutions to homework problems which had hitherto eluded me quite often dropped into my drowsy inbox just as i was drifting off to sleep i soon learned that to prevent me either a forgetting the ideas or b having to get up out of bed to scrabble around in the dark or worse still have to turn the light on to write it all down i needed to start keeping a notebook by my bed which i still do i ve even been known to write in it in the dark james has often pondered on how i manage to do this while maintaining not merely legible but relatively neat handwriting i don t know i guess it s literally one of my hidden talents this week the little team of creatives who hang out in my sleepy brain took advantage of an odd bird call which has started waking me at dawn each day and they started shouting ideas at me there s been all sorts going on in there from ideas for future design team projects and blog topics to thoughts of belts yes belts so i ve paid several visits to my buckle tin in the last few days which as the name tends to suggest is a tin of buckles i ve picked them up from various antique fairs junk shops and crafty places mainly with the intention to use them on papercraft projects but when my belt related inspiration struck i was happy to have a selection of belt related accessories on hand before going out yesterday morning i managed to see one of my sleep defeating ideas through to fruition with the aid of an old measuring tape a brushed metal buckle two eyelets and a silent setter i love it even though i m aware that it s a tiny bit eccentric and am i m almost certain it drew a few looks from people when i wore it yesterday james however says that the looks i received might have been because i was and i quote the hottest thing there yesterday but considering that there was actually an exhibition of scale models railways and meccano and was thus filled with scale model railway and meccano enthusiasts in all honesty and without a single hint of false modesty i can t really say that i was faced with a lot of competition in the hot stakes it s the thought that counts though isn t it posted by julie kirk at 20 23 7 comments labels belt measuring tape buckles email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 10 august 2009 parkinson s law for crafters the generally accepted definition of parkinson s law reads as follows 1 parkinson s law noun work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion alternatively pakinson s law as it can be applied to crafty folk could read something like this 2 parkinson s law for crafters noun projects ie minibooks albums los expand so as to fill the time available for their completion therefore unless you have a set date by which they must be completed ie birthday anniversary magazine deadline then quite frankly you ll fritter away your time add something to it every once in a while talk about how you really ought to make a go of completing it but basically you ll be lucky to actually finish it within this lifetime or words to that effect sound familiar but in our defense it s not just the paper addicts amongst us who find themselves surrounded by ufos u n f inished o bjects thanks to tinkertaylor one of the ladies i crop with for reminding me of that perfect phrase no i m guessing that every hobbyist at some point has more ideas than there are hours in the day which leads to more started projects then there ever seem to be finished ones or so i believe based upon my experiences of sharing my home with one man and a squadron of his non battle ready model aeroplanes on sunday afternoon with our respective projects spread far and wide across the dining room table one or the other of us expressed some regret frustration at the backlog of ufos preying upon our conscience so i decided to set us both a deadline by which we must finish some of our lingering projects work set 3 completed projects ti me available 7 days consequence if challenge not successfully met erm well i didn t really get that far i did however get as far as completing two out of my three projects by monday afternoon i think that puts me in the lead i managed to finally complete scrapping each of the items on the 25 things about me list which i began and blogged about here way back in march here s proof that i made it to no 25 you can see several more of the 25 in this flickr set it s been so long since i wrote my 25 things list 8 months n fact that some of the sentiments involved feel quite distant now particularly the one above it seems that my shell has grown a bit tougher in the intervening months so if my maths is correct that made ufos 2 fos 1 that is until i forced myself to stay seated at my desk until i finished decorating a mini book from a love themed kit which my sister put together for me last christmas my sister made the blank book and some of the embellishments the rest of the materials came from my stash or were swaps gifts from my friends anna favouriteworkofart and amanda i used the banana frog backgrounds stamps to add a touch of polka dot detail the black and white journalling blocks are from shabby chic crafts all that s left to do is for me to handwrite my journaling and you ll just have to take my word for it that it ll get finished the book is about love and well you read fact no 25 above didn t you i m prone to divulging too much as it is i think i ll attempt to keep a few personal things to myself so now the ratio of complete to incomplete is 2 1 and i have 5 full days left the odds are in my favour the final project i d like to complete by sunday is this mini book of motivational quotes which i first blogged about here last november task no 1 will be to give it a title and finish decorating the cover and then i ll move on to completing the insides and and there s no time like the present to make a start so i ll be off now to shoot down another ufo posted by julie kirk at 17 02 8 comments labels time unfinished projects minibooks email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 7 august 2009 john hughes one of my favourite film makers john hughes died yesterday and for lots of reasons most of which involve teenage angst and a difficult time at school his death has really moved me if you want a general idea of why his films meant mean a lot to me then you could read this article from the guardian last year i made these two pages featuring two of my favourite hughes films and i just thought today would be a good time to share them with you life moves pretty fast if you don t stop and look around once in a while you could miss it ferris bueller ferris bueller s day off john hughes 1950 2009 posted by julie kirk at 11 24 6 comments labels films john hughes pretty in pink the breakfast club ferris bueller s day off email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 2 august 2009 if you want me i ll be in the kitchen if you ve just dropped by from www shimelle com a k a where the party s at then greetings party people it s good to see you if you didn t get here via shimelle s blog party then greetings to you too all are welcome even gatecrashers if i m honest i m not the biggest party girl that ever lived being expected to be scintilating company in a room full of strangers family whilst being forced to listen to someone else s misguided idea of good music isn t particularly my idea of a high old tim...