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notes on paper february 2010 skip to main skip to sidebar pages home website shop filed away 19 3 february 1 january 2 18 7 october 1 september 1 july 2 june 1 february 1 january 1 17 31 december 1 october 2 september 3 august 1 july 3 june 4 may 3 april 5 march 2 february 4 january 3 16 45 december 3 november 3 october 5 september 3 august 4 july 3 june 3 may 4 april 3 march 4 february 6 january 4 15 79 december 6 november 4 october 7 september 8 august 8 july 8 june 9 may 7 april 3 march 8 february 5 january 6 14 103 december 6 november 9 october 5 september 8 august 14 july 11 june 11 may 10 april 11 march 6 february 5 january 7 13 151 december 8 november 8 october 21 september 12 august 16 july 19 june 9 may 11 april 16 march 11 february 9 january 11 12 153 december 7 november 7 october 8 september 14 august 16 july 13 june 8 may 20 april 15 march 15 february 23 january 7 11 173 december 8 november 14 october 15 september 17 august 18 july 18 june 18 may 13 april 11 march 12 february 15 january 14 10 165 december 14 november 9 october 13 september 10 august 16 july 10 june 18 may 15 april 19 march 20 february 12 notes on february a month in numbers overheard nursing students or not quote populating solitude everything s coming up roses overheard wombling free quote a series of coats overheard talking to god laminated accessories quote everything i learned stripey stripier stripiest quote the birds of sorrow quote no bird soars too high january 9 09 72 december 8 november 3 october 7 september 5 august 9 july 4 june 4 may 6 april 5 march 7 february 6 january 8 08 8 december 3 november 5 i m here to write make crack the funnies and share ideas and experiences you can make yourself at home there s tea in the pot life isn t about finding yourself life is about creating yourself george bernard shaw sunday 28 february 2010 notes on february a month in numbers my february in numbers 1 the number of live performances watched last night we went to see comedian writer alex horne s wordwatching show which was so much fun it involved lots of talk of words my idea of bliss along with mention of sans serif fonts and a pun about someone being beaten to death maybe you had to be there which actually you can be here s a list of his remaining tour dates 1 the number of books he signed and singed long story for me 3 the number of times i ve redesigned my blog header removing my original loud one for something quieter and more birdy and i m probably not quite done altering things just yet 5 the amount i paid for these beauties after stating two days prior that i would like a pair of blue leather shoes how could i resist when i spotted these on the sale shelves ok so they re not leather and the wood is fake but they are shoes and they are blue and for 5 i can forgive them anything else 7 the number of months i d let pass in between haircuts check out the date of my last cut as i made note of on this page july 09 unbelievable i d decided to grow my hair long so had been putting off visiting the salon which then closed down and i lost touch with my hairdresser who s the best i ve ever been to luckily i found her through facebook and she and my follicles have been reunited at last as of last week i m back to my usual wavy wispy self 8 the number of pence it costs me to check my emails on my mobile phone a feature i have only just set up after having the phone over a year lots the number of times i ve thought i ll just check my emails on my phone because you know there might be something quite important that i neeeeeed to see right now since setting up the email feature on my phone after a year of surviving without it 64 the number of the bus i was waiting for when a strange man started talking to me i could just tell by the way he was pacing around and kept looking in my direction that it was going to be me he spoke to despite the fact there was already another woman at the bus stop when he did inveitably speak he asked if there was a bus due we were at a bus stop there s always a bus due not that i was that facetious with him i was perfectly convivial after all you just never know when a strange man at a bus stop might turn a bit what hostile bizarre over familiar it s possible maybe but not in this case it turned out that he d recently bought a digital box for his tv but it didn t work so he d had to come back into town to get a replacement which he now had in a carrier bag which he d twisted around his hand i furrowed my brow sympathetically when he stated but it s the cost of the bus fares isn t it as he didn t look like a man who could afford too many unexpected deviations from his budget when are we going to have some summer he said tentatively smiling at me as i shuffled about rubbing my cold hands together not yet i replied smiling back when the bus came he gestured for me to board first and once i d sat down a part of me just knew he would sit in front of me which he did i thought that i knew he was bound to take advantage of having me as a captive audience and proceed to turn around and talk for the whole trip and i d feel embarrassed if other passengers saw and heard and stared at me thinking things about me while he talked on and on but that s where i was wrong he didn t he didn t say a word didn t turn around once allowed me my own space to travel and think in peace once he d got off the bus a long way before my stop he had to double back on himself and walk back past where i was sitting him on the pavement me still in my seat yet again i knew how things were about to play out we would look at one another through the bus window registering the fact that we were both decent friendly humans and we d politely nod smile and acknowledge that we both existed that we were both visible and that s exactly what we did you see he wasn t a madman a druggy a nutter a fruitcake stalker rapist murderer or psychopath he was simply a middle aged man who d saved up and treated himself to a digital box from a catalogue shop which didn t work causing him to make a trip into the town centre a trip which he probably didn t make very often and he just wanted to tell someone about it so he told me and i m disproportionately happy that he did 1 the number of times i almost burst into tears on a bus after nodding at a stranger so farewell february salutations march my what a freakishly busy month you are going to be julie posted by julie kirk at 17 46 7 comments labels february month numbers alex horne wordwatching shoes mobile phone email bus email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 25 february 2010 overheard nursing students or not male student 1 my brother can t burp male student 2 is that a physical thing overheard in campus library 14 05 09 photo danny 10 07 09 posted by julie kirk at 07 22 2 comments labels overheard library danny photo email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 22 february 2010 quote populating solitude he who does not know how to populate his solitude will not know how to be alone in the bustling crowd charles baudelaire les foules photo details it was a beautiful late afternoon and i spotted an elderly man with walking sticks looking out across the sand i wasn t confident enough to stand there and brazenly take his photo so i held the camera down at arm s length pressed the button and hoped for the best whitby harbour 14 09 08 posted by julie kirk at 08 09 5 comments labels quote baudelaire solitude elderly man walking sticks whitby email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 19 february 2010 everything s coming up roses gertrude that s my dad s nickname for me he gave me the name because like the 19th 20th century garden designer gertrude jekyll i ve been known to while away the odd hour pottering around the garden funnily enough her speciality was experimenting with colour schemes in her planting an idea which suits me down to the ground pardon the pun but i think that his decision to give me the name had little to do with that and rather more to do with thinking that calling me gertrude sounded funny which it does and that s ok several years ago now dad discovered that there was an old english rose named gertrude jekyll image david austin roses ever since then i ve been planted in the garden of the house i grew up in tucked in alongside the greenhouse pretty much where i spent my time helping dad pot up seedlings and re arrange plant pots in size order ok i admit that this last activity was just something i liked to do still do actually apparently gertrude is a very hardy reliable short climber and so is the rose so here s the next batch of prints added to my 365 pattern collecting flickr project appropriately themed if you d like to see any of the above images greater detail you can click here finally i got to add something a little roseate to a scrapbook page last week too the full page will be in the reader s gallery of the next issue of scrapbook trends uk magazine overall this week when i take into consideration the combination of acquiring a pair of rose printed tights such joy booking myself into a workshop taught by dina wakley too exciting and receiving lots of positive feedback on my new regular quotes and overheard posts much appreciated xx life really is quite rosy right now what a pun too far too cheesy yeah ok ok just accept my apologies and we can both move on oh and just in case the title of this post has planted a tune in your head here s your chance to have a nice loud and uplifting sing a long a ethel merman j x posted by julie kirk at 14 11 9 comments labels patterns fabrics prints 365 project flickr roses floral vintage scrapbooking layout scrapbook trends gertrude jekyll gardening email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 18 february 2010 overheard wombling free overheard in campus library 11 05 09 male student to friend i always think that librarians are like wombles they re always picking up rubbish and sitting there reading photo mini book page about the library at work posted by julie kirk at 09 10 6 comments labels overheard library wombles email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 15 february 2010 quote a series of coats a woman s chastity consists like an onion of a series of coats nathaniel hawthorne photo me sweeping snow 03 01 10 posted by julie kirk at 08 15 2 comments labels quotations hawthorne me snow email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 11 february 2010 overheard talking to god overheard in an art gallery in richmond n yorks 19 04 08 elderly woman talking to shop owner well next time he s in tell him i was impressed by jesus photo sky over seaton carew beach 2 08 08 posted by julie kirk at 08 27 2 comments labels overheard gallery jesus email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 9 february 2010 laminated accessories last september i posted a laminated paper belt tutorial on the banana frog blog in which i mentioned that the prototype for the belt had been a smaller more wrist sized project and here it is made entirely from paper scraps scavenged from hannah s bit box the graphic circular designs of my focal points came from a vintage decorative dust jacket i also made sure the insides looked attractive too perhaps this was because i liked the idea of things being beautiful from all angles perhaps because i thought i might like to have it on display rather than wear it all the time perhaps because i ve got skinny wrists and i knew you d be able to see the inside even when i was wearing it perhaps i never entirely feel that a project is complete until i ve added some text a few border stamps a laminating pouch a snippet of ribbon and a press stud later i had a finished piece if you d like a pdf of the banana frog belt tutorial which covers all the key techniques i used to make the bracelet i ve made one available for you to download here combining items of stationary with patterned paper to make jewellery what s not to try j posted by julie kirk at 13 50 3 comments labels jewelery laminated stamped paper email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 8 february 2010 quote everything i learned everything i learned about human nature i learned from me anton chekov photo me writing in the sea coal seaton carew beach 02 08 08 posted by julie kirk at 08 11 4 comments labels quotation chekov beach photo human nature email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 5 february 2010 stripey stripier stripiest stripe stripes stripey striped stripier when you ve written those words as many times as i have today you begin to doubt your grasp of the english language they are the right words aren t they even if they just look like nonsense to me now so i m having a stripey week this week and have been seeking out photographing and uploading lots of striped items to my chasing patterns flickr set after spending a day surrounded by it all i think we can add eye ball dazzling optical illusion inducing to the list of stripy side effects two things i ve learned from the exercise i have a lot of stripes in my wardrobe a lot the designers at gap must like stripes almost as much as i do or they may just see me coming and add another striped t shirt to their ranges furthermore this stripe census is incomplete but i simply couldn t face digging out every striped scarf and pair of socks and pants i have another time maybe early in the week i posted this stripey recycled carrier bag brooch project to my copy paste blog as part of the latest challenge drop by copy paste for more photos and details ok then i ll leave you to it while i grab a cuppa and put my stripey vans up stripey stripey str i p ey is that even a word julie posted by julie kirk at 15 03 5 comments labels patterns fabrics prints 365 project flickr stripes email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 4 february 2010 quote the birds of sorrow you cannot prevent the birds of sorrow from flying over your head but you can prevent them from building nests in your hair chinese proverb photo me whitby harbour 14 09 08 posted by julie kirk at 20 38 2 comments labels quotations birds nest chinese proverb hair email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 2 february 2010 quote no bird soars too high no bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings william blake photo me at the foot of the ever awe inspiring angel of the north 14 06 08 posted by julie kirk at 14 05 3 comments labels quotations william blake angel of the north email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest newer posts older posts home subscribe to posts atom subscribe posts atom posts all comments atom all comments