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fair purple phase purple with pink red denim journal lsned 25 30 it s a sign quite some free gift with a layout too purple phase purple with plum fuchsia and cream my month in numbers 2011 september 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 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 30 october 2011 my month in numbers 2011 october hi hi hi you might not believe this but tomorrow signals the end of yet another month it s a bit scary really and i don t just mean because of halloween and the very minute i find out how to stop these days flying by in a blur i ll let you know until then here s my october 2011 in numbers 2 45 metres the length of the sheet of acrylic i currently have on my dining room floor the reason being you know how people have tried to define what love is such as love is never having to say you re sorry well allow me to add my own definition love is rescuing a sheet of acrylic discarded in a skip and bringing it home in your van because you know that your good lady is suffering from this because love is having enough acrylic in the house to make 11 brand new flat not curved and cracked sets of cutting plates for a big shot die cutter 4 months the number of months in advance my brain has been tricked into believing it is after sending in my valentine s day projects to creativity magazine valentine s day my brain sees halloween christmas and responds with please they re so last year 1 the number of day s notice i had that we were to have a small house guest which i wouldn t normally mind about but it coincided with the time i had to work on 16 things for my commission fortunately our niece is artistically minded too and was happy to sit and craft along with me while i worked tip to all children aspiring to get on a crafter s good side you can t go wrong with the conversation opener she used on me auntie julie do you do your art every day there was no room there for the usual silly modesty art who me is this art this isn t art it s just pushing paper around a simple yes most days seemed the best reply especially if she wants to grow up and do it every day too which she very well might while she sat with me she produced 14 cards 2 gift boxes and 1 halloween bunting banner with very little help from me and a lot of help from my docrafts supplies maybe she s a creativity contributor of the future 2 the number of submissions of interest i err submitted 1 the number of rejections i took on the chin still waiting to hear about the 2nd 1 the number of layouts made following that rejection the get ahead one from this post last week 2 the number of lovely surprising and unconnected offers i had in the days immediately following blogging that layout as that post had been about not waiting for others to offer you something it was very interesting to see the offers coming in after i d let the idea go i am quite partial to a bit karmic balancing speaking of which 2 the number of special guest bloggers i invited to add to my purple phase series both sian fair and lara watson joined the ranks in the mission to prove purple is usable in scrapbooking and 2 also the number of times i got to be someone else s special guest shimelle laine invited me to her pretty paper party and then erika senneff of oops i craft my pants asked me to share my tips for the twitter curious with her blog readers not for nothing is what goes around comes around one of my and the carousel zebra s favourite ideas all lots almost as much as my body weight the amount of paper and ephemera i decided to sort through one afternoon on a whim a whim which hours later led to me and our dining room looking a little worse for wear like this 26 the number of packets of plundered pages my new mixed vintage paper kits i ve made up so far from all that paper i sorted through edited to add i ve begun gradually adding them to my etsy shop now 1 the number of items i included in one of the themed packs which i already went to look for to add to a layout of my own an old collectors card with a bat on it until i realised it was now sealed up inside a themed pack hopefully this is a good sign that if i want to use the kits then maybe someone else will too no doubt i ll update you in next month s numbers 5 the number of people who blogged their own month in numbers posts for september who i added links to at the bottom of my september post 3 of which were very welcome 1st timers i ll be doing the same again with this post so just let me know if you blogged yours and i ll edit this post to add you in louise from boys bugs beautiful buttons blogged a great twist on the idea by listing the numbers of photographs she took of various occasions during october it s a great idea which you can read here melissa from remember to breathe joined in with her numbers for the first time here after hearing about the idea from sian cate of life behind the purpe door was another first timer who joined in catch up with her statistics here a warm welcome back to clair of the crafty alchemist my month in numbers stalwart who after playing along all year has caught up on 2 month s worth of numbers in this post as illness stopped her totalling up her september statistics nathalie from an ounce of creativity has joined in with some halloween pinterest inspired numbers in this post kate from nanna kate joined in once again with some foodie statistics here cate from world elsewhere returned to blogging her month in numbers here after a few months break which she counted obviously and october had a special significance for her which needed cake party sian of from high in the sky joined in once again with a great layout to document her numbers this time round here fiona of staring at the sea found me through sian and blogged her numbers for the first time here then after seeing fiona s post julia from scraps of life pieces of paper joined in for the first time too here ginger of ginger s life of spice joined in with hers here which features the best sighting of an acrobat you ll see all week melissa of remember to breathe joined in once agan here so those are my october statistics and as it s almost lunchtime i won t mention the smells which came from 1 bottle of milk being spilled in james s van nor the 1 noxious chicken he unpackaged and swiftly returned to the supermarket this morning here s to a sweetly scented november for all of us julie posted by julie kirk at 11 43 15 comments labels my month in numbers october statistics summary plundered pages esty purple phase pretty paper party oops i craft my pants sian fair lara watson crafting docrafts creativity email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 29 october 2011 still twitter curious after all these years hi so my title is a slight exaggeration but the paul simon song lyrics i was paraphrasing didn t say still crazy after all these months and i can t imagine he d have got where he is today if he d written still crazy since earlier this year or still crazy since january february time but i digress i really wanted to tell you that i wrote a guest post for erika on oops i craft my pants which went live yesterday and the subject i wrote about was tips for the twitter curious after all these months if you re new here tips for the twitter curious is a free instructional series i wrote earlier this year which you can still access here what s amazed and delighted me is how even after all this time it s still reaching new eyes out there in webland after the initial set of twitter curious signed up to play along with the class in real time there s been a steady stream of people tweeting me out of the blue to tell me they ve read the series and are now using twitter the latest was the inspiration behind this journal page it took me hours and hours to put the class together some nights after work i was on my knees tired but i persisted in completing each post on time and ever since as i didn t charge for it i ve made sure to promote it to the best of my ability ever since i ve sent links to bloggers who ve passed the link on to others and most recently i passed it onto erika from oops i craft my pants which is how that guest post came to be i think of it like this if i were a supermarket then tips for the twitter curious would be my loss leader like cheap crates of beer it s one of the key things that tempts customers through my door then once they re here hopefully they find something else they like the look of such as my scrapbook pages my etsy shop or my crisps and salted peanuts and i m not embarrassed to tell you any of that because i m proud of that series in fact i m crazy about it still after all these years months if you get do chance to swing by my post on oops i craft my pants then you ll see it s an overview of the series has to offer if you re twitter curious twitter ignorant or even twitter disdainful so it s definitely worth a peek if it s new to you if not it s still worth paying erika a visit as her site is filled with craft projects and tutorials her latest idea for boot socks made me want to rush headlong into my jumper drawer with scissors so there s plenty to feast your eyes on if you re new to oops and finally if you are someone who s followed some of the tips for twitter curious then i m wondering hoping you ll consider leaving a comment either here or on my guest post at oops letting new readers know how the class was for you or you could jot down any noteworthy twitter experiences you ve had yourself since taking the plunge or even just share any twitter tales stories or offer suggestions for any new readers and new tweeters would you because that would be amazing and make sure to leave your twitter username in your comment too so we can all swing by and see you over there too see you there or here or both thank you julie x posted by julie kirk at 06 00 7 comments labels tips for the twitter curious oops i craft my pant erika senneff online blog series email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 27 october 2011 purple phase guest blogger lara watson hello hello today s purple phase colour palette has been interpreted by my special guest blogger today the new creative editor of mollie makes magazine lara watson and here s the palette i gave to lara as her starting point the colours are a fairly unusual combination which i m not sure i d have come up alone but i didn t have to they re the colours of the beads on a favourite necklace of mine i ve had it for years and that pale pink still makes me swoon now let me get out of the way and make room for lara and her take on this colour scheme i m something of a purple fiend it has to be said i love the colour so much and have berry tones of tops dresses tights and scarves galore so i was shocked nay horrified when i looked through my vast paper stash in preparation for this challenge and found not a single sheet of purple have scrapbook companies been rationing it maybe just saving it for their halloween collections i m not sure but it s something i need to address so instead i found a photo with purple in it my brother s hoody in what turned out to be a rather adorable photo of him and his baby boy my first nephew ripe for scrapbooking sticking to the colour scheme i used lots of blue maya road mist yellow sassafras chipboard butterflies brown bazzill and woodgrain lots of pink accents i added a few extra purple highlights here and there with some cute buttons too for good measure lara i love what lara did with these colours and i m now wondering why i ve never taken colour inspiration from that necklace before now it works so well again like many of the purple palettes we ve looked at so far it s another one which nicely balances natural neutral shades with some interesting unexpected splashes of colour along with demostrating how purple can be a subtle addtion to a scheme lara s page also gives a nice twist on using pink on a masculine page too and afterall it did say baby pink on the palette didn t it thank you lara and thank you for dropping by on us both today i ll be back very soon with news of where it s my turn to guest blog for someone else have a great day julie posted by julie kirk at 10 38 5 comments labels baby masculine blue yellow brown purple phase blog series guest blogger lara watson mollie makes autumn purple colour palette combinations colours beads necklace pink email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 25 october 2011 layout if you want to get ahead hi hi there seems to have been something of a flurry of purple activity going on in the last few days with people directing me to their purple posts thanks so much as we head rapidly toward november i still have plenty of purple posts and palettes to share try saying that fast three times to share along with two special guests so there s plenty to come but until then here s something with only the smallest hints of aubergine visible this was one of those pages which developed as i went along no grand overarching plan and set of supplies from the start nothing was set in stone nothing except that photo because let s face it a photograph of me wearing a hard hat was always going to find itself at the top of the to scrap list always but i didn t know how to scrap it or what story to tell stories i considered telling included i was wearing a hard hat because i was waiting to go down a drift mine at beamish it was approximately 30 years after i did the exact same thing as a child family lore tells that when i was there the first time i got the giggles when a man in front of me banged his hard hat on the low ceiling of the mine this is highly likely to be a true story as i did the same thing as an adult on a tour of a cave once when the man in front kept bashing his head like some sort of cartoon character clearly i find hard hats humorous i also remember being smug when i went down t mine as a child because i didn t have to stoop like everyone else as i was so small but instead of telling those tales a phrase my grandma used to say came to mind and seemed to fit perfectly i won t swear that i know exactly what it means but it fits and it tells a story of its own which is quite different to that of me laughing down a mine at the time i made this page i d just hit a bit of a dead end with something workwise but you can t win them all i know this and it gave me the perfect opportunity to use this sentiment stamp i bought months ago but...