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the many videos of him on youtube however i do get this chance to tell you that he has a new series on radio 4 starting this friday i m giving you this link to it as my part of the bargain your part of the bargain is to do your best to listen to it on friday or listen again via the radio 4 iplayer or the website etc if you don t i may have to reconsider our relationship he s possibly my favourite living writer and humorist and thus he was on the list of people i would literally go the extra mile to see if they ever toured in the uk which he did so the effort had to be made his show consisted of him reading from his upcoming book from his previous essays and from his personal diaries i could seriously sit here and try to recount the whole eveing for you but let s just say it was funny 250 miles worth of funny in fact oh and as if march 13 2010 wasn t already on track for the award for best day ever he did a book signing after the show and we got to meet him we got to meet him i keep telling myself that one day soon it ll sink in and i ll realise that i met david sedaris and he signed my book and also doodled an abraham lincoln trapped in a turtle s body on it and he asked what our hotel was like and talked to james about carpets and he guessed from our accents that we were from the far north and he gave me some hair conditioner 125ml the amount of bliss lemon sage conditioning rinse taken from a new york hotel that world renowned humorist david sedaris handed me at the book signing he had a tesco bag beneath the table from which he produced toiletries and complimentary items purloined from the world s hotels and gave them to his readers appreciators struck dumb fan girls that was me it was great fun watching everyone s face as they walked away with a signed book and soem face wash when i get around to it i ll make sure to let you know what washing your hair in a gift from your hero feels like and i will use it because i m worth it 5 5 the number of hours spent in the victoria albert museum on the same day we saw david sedaris even having spent that amount of time there we still didn t get to see everything the place is a warren of amazingness and both its scale and its content is was somewhat overwhelming and caused us to take any opportunity to rest 5 the number ofcrafting friends i stayed with in a north yorkshire cottage for a weekend full of crafts and laughs i know there s only 5 of us here but i haven t got a photo of all 6 of us give me a break i m doing my best 73 the number of days late we ate a full christmas lunch while in the cottage or perhaps 294 was actually the number of days we ate christmas lunch early marchmas was so much fun we ve already planned our next weekend which the last time we discussed things is going to have a trick or treat theme despite being almost 2 weeks after halloween 44 the number of haunting yet sweet little faces staring out at me from a shelf on the art from the heart stand at the harrogate papercrafts extravaganza while i did wonder how much use i d get from this oddly wonderful stampotique stamp i decided that i really couldn t bear to go home without taking all those imploring faces with me ok then one last one 17 the number of months i ve been a part of the very special gauche alchemy design team and i ve now made the decision to move on i m still going to be a part of the ga family only in the role of an errant child who s forging her own path and dropping in on the folks every once in a while i made my final dt blog post yesterday in which i attempted to explain this layout as i hope this page proves i might have taken the girl out of gauche but there s no taking the gauche out of the girl if you get a chance drop in on the ga blog this week where there s all manner of festivities planned to welcome in the new dt that s it then enough with the numbers cheerio march i m heading into the new month fortified by a new sense of creative direction the knowledge that i have fabulous friends who ll go to extreme festive lengths to have a great weekend away and also the delightful thought that i have someone who ll travel the length of the country just so i get to see another man who makes me laugh but perhaps most importantly i ll be heading into april with silky soft manageable hair how about you jx posted by julie kirk at 07 54 6 comments labels march month numbers lists david sedaris victoria albert v a christmas stampotique email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 30 march 2010 blog hop heat embossed flower card hello you if you ve dropped by from debbie s blog as part of the the first banana frog blog hop then greetings to you pause here a while why don t you rest those legs if you re here by fluke serendipity downright nosiness or the wonders of mr google then hola to you too everyone s welcome and if you dropped by on the off chance that today would be the day that i d be sharing a project based on something i found inside a pair of men s trousers then wow is today your day or what if you re faint of heart fret not it s all quite above board because a they re lovely brand spanking new trousers b they re from desigual an amazingly creative brand and c they belong to my partner of 18 years see nothing untoward going on here it was all in your head now we ve got that cleared up feast your eyes on these delights fabulous or what from the outside they re a fairly conservative pair of neutral summery trousers while on the inside there hides the treasures to a crafty pattern obsessed girl of a flowery waistband lining and contrasting pockets add in a yummy twill ribbon a tiny amount of lilac grey trimming and the brand slogan of desigual is not the same embroidered on the pocket and my goodness has a man s trousers ever given a girl such pleasure be careful how you answer that my mr bought them while we were in one of london s desigual stores recently have you ever been to one of their shops it s one of the few places on earth where he s failed to find me in a crowd while i ve been wearing my yellow coat the place is a living kaleidoscope it s awesome in every sense of the word needless to say it was me who d spotted them and thrust them at him for his perusal he s colour blind and i alway feel a responsibility to draw his attention to any anomalies he won t have noticed so i pointed out that the flowers were actually orange lime green and purple my thoughts were that while he may accept their floweriness the colours may be a bridge too far to my surprise he willingly tried them on and bought them despite also being made aware that the turn ups were lined in the very same fabric it s enough to make a crafty girl proud ok then now i ve shared the trousers with those of you interested in trousers i ll move onto the reason the rest of you are here the banana frog stamped project this month s theme was flowers no prizes for guessing where i got the idea for a loud summery daisy print design from i decorated some textured white card and a chipboard flower using crafty notions spray inks two of the flower stamps from the new super dreamy set you can get 15 off super dreamy and build a daisy this week using the code m30news at the checkout and a lot of embossing powder a lot i used a combination of stamping on the bare chipboard in ink stamping then embossing and simply pressing a versamark pad onto areas of the chipboard and dousing it in embossing powder i love how it turned out and all i can say is that if you re a piece of die cut chipboard within my reach the next time i get crafty you re going to find yourself wearing a heavy duty embossing powder coat my friend beware if you like the idea of taking inspiration for a craft project from something else entirely like a pair of trousers then you ll like my other blog the copy paste project there kirsty neale and i share lots of things from outside papercrafting which inspires our artistic work right then i ll let you go now to the next stop on the hop which is to see anthea s blog here if you want to share any of your banana frog work then don t forget that there s a banana frog flickr group set up especially for that there s also and a copy paste one too into which you can drop your photos of projects inspired by any of our posts failing that tweet me leave me a comment or send out a carrier pigeon go forth and be inspired crafty types but please if you re going to go looking inside a man s trousers for inspiration be careful won t you jx posted by julie kirk at 08 58 38 comments labels banana frog blog hop flower stamps build a daisy desigual trousers floral fabric patterns email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 29 march 2010 quote a green bough if i keep a green bough in my heart the singing bird will come chinese proverb photos a mini canvas made in a masterclass given by gail on our recent crafting break you can see her original designs here and here posted by julie kirk at 08 00 3 comments labels quote chinese proverb birds happiness canvas efemera ink email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 28 march 2010 you can t take my liberty the new liberty of london homeware designs for target in the us have been the talk of blogland and twitter for several weeks now at least it has in the blogging and twittering circles i frequent then this week anyone in the uk who d been pining for the chance to get their hands on some of its flowery wonderfulness had some good news as it s now available via liberty co uk seems like the gods of all things print pattern are smiling on us so having thoroughly browsed what s on offer and not for the first time wished i had a birthday soon so i could start a wish list i added a few liberty esque patterns to my 365 pattern collecting set in my flickr gallery just a few flowery items from my wardrobe including what i consider to be my first real party dress since i was 12 the first time i wore the dress was when i attended a wedding reception which had live music greeting the guests as they arrived as i walked through the doors the banjo player exclaimed i like your dress which all sounds rather flattering doesn t it yet considering that this is what he thought would be a good idea to wear when he got up that morning i m not entirely sure if i could take his words as an unfettered compliment anyway here s a few old projects featuring floral prints for good measure before i go as i mentioned in my previous post about patterns where i unleashed my inner leopard i seem to have got into a habit of accompanying my pattern posts with a suitable show tune today i ve wracked my brain for a flower themed musical tune and the best i can do is the following from the flower drum song i suppose that anyone who can put their hand in their wardrobe and pull out 9 flowery items without even trying must in some quite obvious ways enjoy being a girl thanks for reading jx posted by julie kirk at 21 31 4 comments labels patterns fabrics prints 365 project flickr designs liberty target email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 25 march 2010 overheard horsing around the following bizarre context dependent statement was made by a games department lecturer during a lecture feb 09 i love how in the course of my job i get to hear s entences such as this games lecturer you have to read the text book to the horse so it falls asleep then you can get its teeth of course you do apparently she was describing how you achieved something in a computer game but you knew that already didn t you photo layout from summer 09 made using a combination of whitby donkeys and banana frog stamps posted by julie kirk at 08 43 8 comments labels overheard lecture computer games horses donkey banana frog layout scrapbooking email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 22 march 2010 quote the readiness if it be now tis not to come if it be not to come it will be now if it be not now yet it will come the readiness is all william shakespeare hamlet act5 sc2 photo a sculpture in the newby hall contemporary sculpture park 09 season posted by julie kirk at 07 33 1 comments labels quotation shakespeare hamlet destiny providence email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 21 march 2010 temenos temenos from the greek verb to cut a piece of land cut off and assigned as an official domain especially to kings and chiefs or a piece of land marked off from common uses and dedicated to a god a sanctuary holy grove or holy precinct source today we took a little post sunday lunch drive stroll to visit the makings of anish kapoor s huge 110m x 50m temenous sculpture in middlesbrough it s a work in progress but it s still impressively imposing eventually these wires once fully strung will form a twisted tube shape suspended between two giant hoops you can read more about it here and catch up on its latest developments here i make no secret of my adoration of antony gormley s angel of the north see the layout and the blog post and i hope that temenos comes to gain something of the respect and fondness that the angel acquired over time personally i m really excited about the whole tees valley giants project and can t wait to see them completed you might want to start taking bets on when a fully completed temenos in all its glory makes its debut on a layout so should you find yourself visiting me you now know what i ll be dragging you to see what s the one thing you d want to show off if i dropped by your home town j posted by julie kirk at 17 54 6 comments labels temenos sculpture anish kapoor email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 19 march 2010 and i quote greetings all if you ve dropped by to see me from rebekah s then hello there how s the birthday girl doing did she send you here to see if there were any quotes you could use in your crafting or did she tell you all i d be supplying the alcohol i certainly have some quotes and i even have alcohol but i ve not found a reliable way to attach that to a blog post just yet so the words will have to sustain you for now if you ve not dropped in on me from rebekah s then hello to you too please play nice with my new guests rebekah thought that some of her readers might find inspiration from some of the quotes i ve been adding to my blog over the last few weeks as i ll be adding a new one each week i ve created a page to keep track of them all see that tab called appropriately enough quotes up there yep that one under the header well that s the list i ll keep updating so do drop in on me again sometime to check out my latest quotables for now though here s a link to the quotes i ve blogged to date complete with their accompanying illustrative photos by words books v life a template populating solitude a series of coats everything i learned the birds of sorrow no bird soars too high i hope 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