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ut creating yourself george bernard shaw friday 30 april 2010 blog hop moustache mania greetings have you hopped in as part of the banana frog blog drop or rather have you dropped in from the blog hop either way hello make yourself at home the theme for this month s hop around the design team s blogs is spring and to be honest i ve taken a rather convoluted approach to it who said they weren t surprised let me begin by introducing you to the guys handsome don t you think i ve had so much fun making these i can t even tell you and one of the best thingsabout them is that they re all made from scraps and leftovers which is where the theme of spring comes in i was spring cleaning my scrap box some of the scraps were leftover from the layout i made for this month s colour focus feature on the banana frog blog which was also the reason i had a pack of stamps out on my desk while i was sitting there drinking tea and frittering away my time on twitter working hard my eye lighted upon my set of superlicious stamps suddenly one of the stamps just yelled out eyeball to me and an idea was born i m already a well established googly eye user you know the kind you buy in the kids craft section so when i saw that stamp i knew they had to go on some sort of face then lo and behold i spotted that scrolled flourish stamp next to it or should that be the handlebar moustache stamp inspired by this vision i opened up my scraps box picked out lots of clashing patterns to stamp on and layered them up into a set of retro notecards the style of the finished item reminds me of various things from the costumes on life on mars to my dad in the 70s to well as i phrased it o n twitter i made some cards which turned out a cross between sgt pepper the magic roundabout a pile of vintage fabrics and i m not even on drugs now despite me not being on drugs i did however stamp the neat little tache above using a petal leaf design from super dreamy then finally i stamped this rather grand pair from the circus stories set and by no means am i finished finding facial features in my banana frog stamps try saying that fast 3 times no for a start i ve got my eye on a nice big bracket from the big punctuation set which when turned on its side is going to make someone s top lip proud then i m going to move on to creating some female company for my fab four up there check out my project of the day on the banana frog blog on may 14th to see whether or not i give the ladies facial hair too now hop on to fellow dt member jo firth young s blog to see what she has for you on this fine day jx posted by julie kirk at 08 57 33 comments labels banana frog blog hop spring scraps paper cards circus stories super dreamy superlicious man moustache email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 29 april 2010 my month in numbers april hello hello how s your month been better than march not as good as you plan on may being are you just desparate to turn that calendar over and watch april fade away into history i realise today is not the end of the month but one day early here s how my april numbers added up 3 2 the number of miles we cycled on our first fair weather biking escapade of the year we now have a device which tells us just how far and how fast or not we ve travelled what it can t confirm is whether or not i ll end up walking like someone on the moon when i m finished 4 approximately how much of hilary mantel s booker prize winning wolf hall i have read saying i ve read at least 4 is slightly less daunting than saying i have 96 left to read at 650 pages long it certainly a fitting addition to my big book collection call me a literature snob if you will i am so it s fine but i think my subconscious tells my purse that buying a huge book will be a great investment after all if it s that big it must be good no 10 the number of minutes one of my students swore he needed me for just 10 minutes personally i was doubtful how could he only need support for the first 10 minutes of an exam but he re iterated it several times turns out the tutor had other plans and i ended up staying 2 hours that s 120 minutes not that i minded especially seeing as how for the whole evening had the makings of a corny old joke picture the scene an english woman me a german student and a spanish tutor walk into a room insert your own punchlines here 10 5 the temperature in degrees c on 17 04 10 ok so maybe i wasn t in any danger of getting sun stroke but it was just about warm enough to finally enjoy being outside fro the first time this year photographing things like thermometers the neighbours dog and laundry 19 the number of days later than last year on which i first pegged my washing out on the line to dry springtime last year was so much warmer than this and seemingly by march 12th 2009 i could face wrangling all that wet fabric on to the line but i waited until april this year in case you re wondering how on earth i know exactly which day i first hung out the laundry well i am a scrapbooker remember one who without children or pets to photograph takes lots of shots of domestic life and digital photos have a date stamp so i can see when i took it and hey enough explanations don t ecologists keep track of developments in climate change by documenting the first blossoms buds and frog spawn sightings perhaps they might like to add the first time julie pegs out her washing to that list just a thought 26 inches the ideal height according to the artist of two stacks of paper in the centre of this exhibition room in the gallery we visited each sheet of paper within the stack had a phrase printed across it and visitors are invited to select a stack from which to remove a sheet to take home with them in doing so the audience has a role in altering and contributing to the work even though this means effecting the ideal height you can read the full explanation here the sheets of one stack read nowhere better than this place and the other somewhere better than this place which do you think i decided to take home with me well after i made my mind up which i wanted i asked james what he d decided he replied well it has to be nowhere better than this place doesn t it and so it did which would you have chosen so it s adios april with your re introductions to the outdoor life and your teasing turn toward double figured temperatures and it s hola may with your promise of lots of crafting assignments slotted in between one birthday and anniversary celebration after another and no i m not complaining fiesta fiesta thanks for reading jx posted by julie kirk at 08 26 4 comments labels april month lists numbers statistics email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 28 april 2010 overheard fun on the farm last spring we went to an open day at a local farm scattered around the farmyard were some adorable signs hand made by the farmer s children directing us around the various points of interest ranging from the pig sheds to the place where the family dogs were kept we saw several extremely newborn calves and then ate home reared beef burgers talk about the circle of life whilst sat outside on hay bales in short it was a grand day out not that everyone there might have come to the same conclusion as we hovered around the cowsheds i heard the following rather tense exchange between two parents man to woman wh until then had been peacefully observing the newborn calves didn t you hear your son do you reckon he s always only her son when he s being naughty woman no why what was he doing man he was shouting very loudly woman mildly exasperated so he s outside on a farm he s alright man clearly annoyed began looking around him for further evidence that she was in dereliction of motherly duties until he smugly declared well he s near some chemicals now turns out there weren t any chemicals just some containers of water but you ve got to wonder if the husband would ve been happier if the child had fallen into a vat of fertiliser just so he could have taught his wife a lesson photo details lamb on the farm open day 29 03 09 posted by julie kirk at 15 12 1 comments labels overheard conversations parents child farm open day calves cows email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 26 april 2010 quote swings and roundabouts life is made up of marble and mud nathaniel hawthorne photo j s hand some sea coal posted by julie kirk at 02 35 0 comments labels quotations hawthorne email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday 25 april 2010 365 patterns nothing but a houndstooth hello hello i m squeezing in a pattern collecting post now as i ve got lots of other blogging coming up in the next few weeks on monday i ll be delivering the lilypad lesson over at banana frog where i ve prepared a free to download tutorial and a giveaway clearly i m spoiling you tuesday sees me taking on my 2nd post as a scarlet woman in my newest design team role at scattered scarlet wednesday i m hoping to get a touch copy and paste y and friday is banana frog dt blog hop day and if you want to see what all this is about made some cards which turned out a cross between sgt pepper the magic roundabout a pile of vintage fabrics and i m not even on drugs which i tweeted after making my blog hop project then drop by and see me on friday add into that my regular quotes and overheards posts here and you ll see how it s a busy blogging week for me not to mention the guest post at scrap whispers on saturday oh and planning the copy paste 3 day weekend blog party the following week i m going to stop there as it s making me palpatate just thinkng about it i m beginning to see why james said i was like davros from dr who except i was part human and then laptop from the waist down i didn t know who davros was but i could tell it wasn t a strictly complimentary comparison i ve got seriously sidetracked now as i was really only dropping by here to show you how the new crafty templates quirky kit inspired my pattern choices for this week for more details on the what s the story kit click here when i opened the box to find a roll of pink paislee houndstooth check artisan tape and a pack of matching chipboard alphas i could have squealed with delight in fact i probably did because i adore houndstooth check designs truly look here s the proof i ve added 10 hound stooth checked items to my 365 patterns flickr gallery collection and the only surprise has been that i haven t got more i wonder if there s any lurking in the back of a drawer somewhere right i ll leave it there i need to preserve my energies for the marathon ahead not that i d leave you without the now traditional musical accompaniment to my pattern posts so here you go what else could i have chosen but until tomorrow then and the day after and the day after that jx posted by julie kirk at 20 48 1 comments labels 365 project flickr patterns prints designs houndstooth dogtooth check email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 22 april 2010 overheard don t blame me again this is something i heard whilst in a games department lecture the lecturer in question had a really good rapport with his students in lectures but you never quite knew when he d land a question or challenge upon someone in there at times despite me not being a student that included me remind me to tell you sometime about the moment during an exchange i had with him i got a dangerous taste for making an auditorium full of people laugh an event which for quite a few weeks caused me to entertain the idea that i could give stand up comedy a go luckily that urge has now passed i think anyway back to the overheard lecturer half jokingly well maybe if you took your headphones out you d have known what i said student oh i can hear i just wasn t paying any attention heard on 24 02 09 illustration headphones sketched in pencil outlined in black fineliner and coloured with letraset promarkers posted by julie kirk at 00 22 4 comments labels overheard conversations university students lecturer illustration letraset promarkers headphones email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 21 april 2010 just 7 more things one of my twittering friends the very lovely green gal tagged me in one of those blog award type things and now i have to carry it on by telling you 7 facts you might not know about me so here goes 1 i say a variation of the phrase have i ever mentioned how much i love twitter on an almost daily basis in fact i m probably overdue one today so have i ever mentioned how much i love twitter 2 i recently spotted this crate in the garden of the elderly couple next door is it wrong and or odd that a i ve got a crush on an old crate and b i didn t stop james taking a photo of it for me 3 when i was a learning mentor i once played a double cowbell in a very short samba recital long story now i can never hear this song which i utterly adore without remembering that performance 4 when we replaced our garden gate i kept bits of the old broken fixings because they reminded me of birds feet 5 once when i was going through a rough time i woke in the night and couldn t get back to sleep i put in my headphones and turned on the radio just as this was playing not this exact version but a live recording of it just the same i already loved the song but stumbling upon it at that particular moment in time was really quite special for me don t think i ll ever forget it 6 i m dog phobic but have rather fallen for our other next door neighbour s new puppy she whines when i go into the garden and tries to scrabble through the fence to reach me and while obviously i d die if she managed it i do quite like how she pines for me i know what you re thinking what s with all the photos of my neighbours gardens i don t know it s not a deliberate collection let s just agree not to tell them eh 7 i ve been living out one of my philosophies during the last fortnight the one which says leap and the net will appear with a touch of if you don t ask you don t get i asked please insert the word the amazing before each of these writer jack thorne art journaler dina wakley comedian writer alex horne textile artist cathy cullis artist illustrator corrina rothwell photographer carl mole the ladies at sumptuosity and miss cay the food blogger for domestic sluttery to all contribute something to the blog party we re having over on copy paste next month and they all accepted my offer thank you thank you thank you so all other things being equal it s shaping up to be a fantastic party weekend do drop by and see us do now you know 7 more factual things about me but i bet i ve given away a few more indirect ones too jx posted by julie kirk at 17 54 5 comments labels 7 things facts about me blogging award green gal shout out louds damien rice email this blogthis share to x share to facebook 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