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res in there somewhere happy new year j x posted by julie kirk at 18 18 6 comments labels new year goals lists smart targets email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 24 december 2009 merry christmas merry christmas originally uploaded by nabview hi you just squeezing in a last minute festive hello and and even more festive merry christmas in between escorting a 12lb goose to my parent s house this afternoon and visiting my sister later on tonight i made this little video with some candles i d been keeping for something special and wishing you a merry christmas is surely that whether we last met this morning last month last year or if we ve never met at all i d like to thank you for dropping in on my corner of blog land and for making it such a cosy place to be thank you best wishes for the christmas season take care and may 2010 bring you more than you knew you could hold julie x posted by julie kirk at 16 55 5 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 22 december 2009 making a list it was around this time last year that i like many other people on facebook completed a list of 25 things about me when i wrote the list in december 08 i decided that it would be fun to scrap each of the 25 items i came up with and i did i really did but do you know when i actually finally got all 25 completed august yes eight months later i know prior to this bout of extreme tardiness i had thought it would be good to repeat the process each year for obvious reasons i wouldn t necessarily repeat the scrapping side of things but keeping a record of things about myself each year is certainly my kind of thing i ve been keeping diaries notebooks about me books journals and scrapbooks ever since i could write and the 25 things with its entirely random nature can capture whatever is at the forefront of your mind on the day you respond that said i was really pleased to get a message from tinkertailor at the inked edge saying that she d passed on a blog tagging thingy in which i have to list 5 things i like doing i was happy about this for a few reasons partly because tinkertailor is one of the rare rare breed of online crafters who i ve actually met in the flesh and she s great and partly because listing a mere five things sounds feasible five s so much easier to handle than 25 in fact that s four fifths easier or 80 if i m being precise on that scale if i did choose to scrap them at the rate i managed the task this year it d only take me until february to complete errrm sorry didn t mean to drag you back into gcse maths here s those 5 things i like doing 1 i like wearing high heels when i m doing housework this was me last week breaking in the shoes i bought to wear on christmas day after a trip to the bottom of the garden to sort out the recycling maybe it s because when i m in heels i feel prepared grown up and ready for battle maybe it s because i m small and they give me the edge over the mountains of ironing or maybe it s because they re just darned pretty things which make a fantastic noise when i storm through the kitchen please note despite the rumours spread by shimelle and clair regarding my favoured heels chores combo i am almost certainly not a stepford wife 2 i like to read metafiction fiction in which books feature as parts of the plot story in the past i ve worked my way through titles such as house of leaves the alchemist s apprentice if on a winter s night a traveller the name of the rose all of the thursday next novels and many more i find they gravitate toward me currently i m reading this a novel about illuminated manuscripts i m only on chapt2 but it s going ok so far several times i ve attempted to read the classics of the genre tristram shandy and don quixote and while i may have given up on tristram i m persevering with don 3 i like sitting in front of the fire with my laptop not only is that what i m doing in the photo it s what i m doing as i type this warmth internet perfect contentment 4 i like not taking myself too seriously it s why i got james to take a photo of this street sign in york this month after it struck a chord with me call it one of the pleasures of getting older not only can i admit to not being perfect i really don t care that i m not in fact i ve recently realised that i enjoy sleeping too much to strive for perfection any more little yes shambolic sometimes and that s fine by me well that s how i feel this week 5 i like to watch stand up comedy in 2008 i made this layout to record the comedians i d seen then during 2009 i saw more in one year than i d seen before then for the second time around i saw dave gorman dylan moran and count arthur strong then then there was steve coogan ross noble dara o briain jimmy carr and and jon richardson all whom i saw for the first time this year now we have plans afoot to get tickets for chris addison and john bishop in 2010 and that s just for starters there you go then there s my five you if you share any of these proclivities i d be interested to hear about them within reason let s not allow things to end up as a fully blown confessional expecially if it involves the inappropriate wearing of heels posted by julie kirk at 20 40 7 comments labels 5 things about me lists books shoes comedy email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 15 december 2009 angels we have heard that i might just have stumbled across something else to add to the list of things which i rather love to make please welcome my newest crafting crush fabric dolls the first one i made last week i ll be sharing on the gauche alchemy blog on friday then caught up in the oh my making dolls is sooo much fun i need to do it every single day type of hype i went on to make an angel as a christmas gift for a friend both of the dolls i ve made emerged as a result of finding fabrics in two of my recent design team packages while i could have used them by layering them on layouts or for making mini book covers i really wanted to exploit the potential for creating something tactile and 3d the one piece body of the angel is made from a section of the heavy cotton canvas which is part of the current resolutions kit from craftytemplates as is the yellow netting i ve used to make the wings and halo eta i ve posted a full tutorial on how i made it here on the crafty templates blog here s a close up of so you can see the glitter cabochons also from the resolutions kit buttons and beads which i used to form the halo the irregular shape of the head section it s over large size and it s tilt came about entirely as a result of me following what was only a very quick sketch directly onto my fabric in a pencil whose lines i couldn t really see when i was feeding it through the sewing machine a machine whose presser foot didn t let me follow the pencil line because of well you don t really need to be on intimate terms with my sewing machine anatomy let s just say it was tricky so not wanting to unpick it and start again i m really not a patient person when it comes to things like that i decided to work with the shape instead of fighting it and it began to feel similar in some ways to the depictions of saints in russian icon paintings when i positioned the face and began adding the glitter cabochons that i recognised a similarity between the shape and style of what i d made and these kinds of images perhaps my wonky stitching was actually a subliminal result of watching the bbc4 s the art of russia series i don t think there s anything in that series about crochet embroidered trimmings and velvet ribbons so m pretty sure the details i added to the angel s gown were all my own idea the yellow italian cotton lace is again from the resolutions kit and the rest is from my own stash i m so tempted to make dolls for each and every possible occasion next year and just wish i d thought of the idea sooner so i could have a heavenly host all ready to hand out as gifts next week but come next christmas everyone i know will be getting a fabric doll unless unless and as unlikely as this may sound unless i get distracted by yet another shiny pretty new craft in the meantime but really though how often does that happen j p s there s a smidgen more decoratively festive festively decorative inspiration from kirsty and i in the new copy paste challenge we posted today posted by julie kirk at 20 21 6 comments labels christmas angel fabric doll gift ribbon crochet trimmings hand made email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 14 december 2009 season s greetings hi there how re you today did it ever get light outside where you are it didn t here not really however somewhere during the several nano seconds between the dark dingy light of this morning and the mists and setting sun of the afternoon i did manage to snap a few photos of the christmas cards i made at the weekend they re quite minimal as i didn t want to over shadow the leaf design stamp which i bought from make your mark in york last week i added lettering using various colours of tiny adornit and making memories alphas then on the cards which are plainer still i simply stamped diractly onto the card base and stamped my wording with studio g alpha stamps the majority of the inks i ve used come from one of my favourite ranges at the moment dew drops memento dye inks of which i m gradually building up a collection they pander right to the core of my colour obsessed side not only do they some in a really interesting spectrum of colurs the ve got such evocative names such as paris dusk summer sky rose bud pear tart and rhubarb stalk i mean really how am i expected to resist oh and those inks also smell lovely too don t look at me like that i know for certain that i m not the only craft supplies sniffer on the block in fact they smell exactly like a pack of scented felt tip pens i had when i was young i swear ok i think i ll leave it there before i let any other secrets out i mean before i know it i ll be letting it slip that there ll be a new copy paste challenge up before the end of the week and also that papercraft inspirations magazine have featured our 12 days class in their latest issue errrr oops try to forget what i ve just said posted by julie kirk at 15 49 6 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 13 december 2009 festive paper foliage greetings and season s greetings at that how s things going braved the town centre yet we did and we mostly survived too granted buying mysef some really lovely grey studded leather shoes helped me on my merry way but we did manage to squeeze a few christmas gifts for others into our bags too now they need to be wrapped following a blog post i did around this time last year i know i m not alone in selecting a theme for my gift wrapping this year i m continuing with last year s purple and kraft paper style and have splashed out on two rolls from aldi so seeing as how i ve got my paper so cheap and mass produced i ve spent more time hand crafting my gift tags including these if you d like to see the video tutorial which shows how i made the leaves on my tags then have a look here where i ve blogged the process step by step for the gauche alchemy blog as i promise over there i ll show you a few more examples over here if you re anticipating recieving a gift form me this year and don t wish to see the hand crafted tag that ll be dangling from it then look away now here s one made from items from my pink mixed media kit from gauche alchemy now also available as a mixed pink green kit called funky fa la la and another there s something about these wired leaves made from the old dress making patterns which gauche alchemy wrap their orders in which reminds me of the flowers which surrounded on a wind up musical statue my nana had of a saint bernadette when i was little so i m feeling rather nostalgic right now and simultaneously can t seem to get the immaculate mary hymn out of my head anyway enough rambling here s another tag and a few more with green berries this time finally here s a still from my video tutorial if you like the idea of wired tissue paper leaves then do give it a look it s only 2mins long and has a rather festive soundtrack to boot i m definitely feeling in the spirit of the festive season we ve had our decorations up earlier than ever this year and am planning lots of festive blogging i mentioned yesterday that i was going to begin making my christmas cards today and believe it or not i got ahead of myslef and made them last night in between watching the x factor final and nursing such an annoying pain in my arm which is still hanging around from my falling from bike injury in summer 08 i managed to make the most important cards at least you know the ones for various parents and siblings once they were complete i realised how nice they are i think i ve impressed myself it s nice when then happens isn t it i ll do my best to remember to photograph and share them with you here soon i appear to be finished work now until the new year although if someone can remind me to go in on wednesday morning i d be pretty grateful thanks i ve got a student to see in the morning and then a christmas lunch with my colleagues and an end of term meeting to attend so it s not all over just yet i ll see you soon with some christmas cards or a stuffed santa or a festive copy paste challenge whichever i get around to first ok people s oonly j x posted by julie kirk at 12 00 3 comments labels gauche alchemy design team kit colour kit holly wired paper leaves tutorial email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 12 december 2009 words fail me sometimes i ve had the following two layouts languishing partially complete on my floor for over a week now and thought it was about time i finished them and shared them but i haven t quite got there yet for one reason or another i simply couldn t think of appropriate journaling for them which would be fine if i hadn t already stuck lots of journaling blocks down on them first i used the resolutions kit the latest quirky kit from crafty templates to make this layout of my mr from the resolutions kit i used the ki memories heart lace cardstock the vintage book page the shabby chic journaling block and the seven tag i combined it with a sheet of the amazingly cute onirie projet toto 12x12 paper which i won in last month s crop raffle thank you 3djean i m never usually great at adding numbers to my pages one of the reasons i delayed finishing the page but when presented with the seven tag i thought it would be appropriate to use it to mark how many years we ve been together like the photo above the photo below was taken by a photographer friend of our ours who was experimenting with a new camera in the summer you can see more of carl mole s work on his photoblog and here on flickr again i ve used proje...