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the number of christmas themed magazine features i ve worked on it took me a whole pretty much wasted working day mid june to get even remotely in the mood for such festivities oh by gosh by golly 13 out of 13 the number of the final episode of justified season 3 i didn t want it to end but we made sure to see it out instyle with an end of season event if you don t watch justified then what follows here will make very little sense and even if you do watch justified you may still have your doubts we ate had southern style chicken and ribs and drank kentucky bourbon and coke from jars harlan county style i wore my best boyd crowder outfit and we all took turns wearing the dickie bennet moustache let me tell you something it s not easy to drink from a jar wearing a felt tache stuck to your top lip with blu tack not easy at all and yes my sister is wearing a sheriff badge here because while we may be slightly unhinged we re not lawless 13 the number of episodes in season 1 which i m now going to buy and start watching the whole thing all over again after seeing them all twice already oh amazingly well written well acted and just plain entertaining justified i really wasn t a box set girl until i met you well that s me if my month in numbers is new to you you can catch up on all of the details here and you d like to join in this month despite seeing me in a moustache here s the month in numbers etiquette if you write a post and want to leave a link for myself and others to visit and or pin please bear in mind it has a shared experience aspect to it when you swing by my blog to drop off a link to your month in numbers post please leave a comment for me while you re there not because i m needy but because it feels fair reciprocal please link to my blog in your post as much as i d like to think that everyone who reads your blog already knows what my month in numbers means the truth is they don t so unless you explain where the idea comes from and how your readers can join you in doing the same next month they are none the wiser please take time at some point in the month to visit and comment on a few of the other posts too just a note mainly so i can t be accused of breaking my own rules this is a scheduled post as i m away from the online world for a few days so if you have left me a comment and a link to your own month in numbers post then please don t be offended when i don t comment on it or pin it straight away i still like you obviously i ll be catching up with your vital statistics asap once i m back online i promise thanks for dropping by and humouring me today happy july everyone julie posted by julie kirk at 07 01 21 comments labels my month in numbers statistics summary life documenting diary journal june justifed jubilee bring up the bodies hilary mantel email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 19 june 2012 outfit my summer wardrobe hello hello i m british and therefore i m contractually obliged to blog about the weather at least once a season at least once it s only polite so here goes one day last week in the middle of june i knew i had to go out to the shops and chose my outfit accordingly now seeing as it s the middle of june ie s ummer you might imagine that this would involve a floaty dress sandals sunglasses and carefree sun kissed hair well a you d be wrong and b you re also probably not living in the uk this summer because if you did you d know that my outfit needed to be more like this let me just break this summertime ensemble down for you it involves bertie boots when i bought these last september i joked that i might live in them now many a true word spoken in jest jeans striped long sleeve t shirt spotty vest baggy cardigan and not forgetting two of the most important elements of the outfit namely a scarf a scarf have i mentioned it s june and a floral print rain mac the mac was a 5 bargain bought in a winter sale when i imagined i d look chic wearing it during spring showers and yet here i am still wearing it in summer and as if that wasn t bad enough last week i caught a glimpse of myself in it in a car window its shiny fabric meant it was slipping off my shoulders under my bag strap and my hair was all mushed about from wearing the hood and do you know what i looked like i looked exactly like my 6 year old self at home time from school that s what i looked like c est la vie but let s not get too despondent the sun s shining today and i ve almost managed to forget the weather forecast this morning which said we were in for a few days of sun followed by a few days of wind and rain right i d better go now and make hay how about you julie posted by julie kirk at 11 19 14 comments labels outfit fashion summertime england rain rain mac floral stripes spots garden bertie boots jeans email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 15 june 2012 found poetry floor gazing philosophy hi hi hi over the course of any given week i cut up lots of paper it might be for my own creative projects scrapbook pages art journaling cardmaking etc or it might when i m working on kits and paper packs for my shop but whatever it is for it s constant there s hardly a day goes by when a leaf of an old book isn t cut loose from the rest or a specific sentence isn t seized upon and snipped free but cutting out one section of a sentence means leaving another section behind and cutting out lots of images for plundered pages packs means some wording is left stranded so in a labour of love i ve been cutting up anything leftover from my wordy dissections and have compiled little packets of wild and wonderful phrases the first of which have found their way into these art journaling packs but now these by products have create by products of their own i now keep coming across little surprise messages which have wandered from the word herd and fluttered to the floor or drifted across my desk messages such as which is always good thing to be reminded of don t you think and so for a couple of weeks whenever i ve found one of these random messages i ve scooped it up and placed it on my shelf for safe keeping under the watchful eye of a few good friends btw just to balance out the sublime with the ridiculous on the day i photographed these found and profound messages i also found a bead a butterfly and a bran flake which have their own special qualities no doubt but they re not quite as poetic especially the bran flake anyway after a while i took the snippets down from the shelf and began shuffling them around until from entirely random phrases i found a poem this poem if you needed to read this message today then i m glad it found you too julie x posted by julie kirk at 07 01 11 comments labels found poetry poems collage art journaling vintage paper no regrets words email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 14 june 2012 an art journal page from start to finish no 2 hi again i shared my first art journal page from start to finish last summer and according to my blog stats it s been my most visited post which is really good to know it s also my most pinned project on pinterest too so i don t think it s too much of a leap to say that somebody out there found it worth reading useful interesting so i ve made another one i hope this one reaches those who are interested too so here goes here s the finished page in question so you don t have to scoot all the way down to the bottom to see how it turns out in the end now let s go back and start from the very beginning because it s a very good place to start like all of my posts this week today s project recycles rubbish this time the rubbish in question was a hotel booking confirmation print out which met with a watery end as soon as i saw the lovely effect the water had created i knew i had to turn it into a journal page so i did step 1 i applied ranger distress stain in picket fence very roughly and quickly across my journal pages my journal is made from handmade absorbent paper so i wanted to seal the paper a little bit but i m far too impatient to coat my pages with gesso and wait for it to dry instead the distress stain does a good enough job of making my paper nice and grainy while the sponge applicator means i don t have any brushes to clean up afterwards you can imagine how much i relish that task step 2 i used used gel medium to fix my water coloured booking form down across my pages note the plastic glue spreader again because i m too lazy to clean brushes gel medium isn t essential to this process pva watered down white glue and even a glue stick would work fine too there s just something a little bit smoother and easier to spread about the gel medium which i like also this particular one dries with a matt finish preventing all those shiny edges and smears you can get with other glues step 3 i softened the edges of the first layer by adding some snippets of vintage paper down the sides step 4 i applied various shades of spray ink through a sequin waste stencil using cut n dry foam just because they re spray inks doesn t mean they always have to be used by spraying them directly on to your page here i spritzed some on to a non stick craft mat picked it up with the foam and then pressed it through the holes in the sequin waste step 5 i lightly spritzed through my favourite sunburst stencil with a complimentary colour for the record i m a useless stencil user this is mainly because i hate getting ink on my fingers as that means i have to go clean it off and as we ve already discovered i m lazy and perhaps a bit of a control freak who doesn t like stained fingers but let s keep that to ourselves shall we all of which means i don t like to get too close to the spray meaning i don t hold the mask stencil down properly and never get a clean result fortunately i ve made peace with my messy ways and i live with the arty effects i end up with step 6 i scoured my collection of catalogues brochures and vintage images looking for body parts to use in my focal point step 7 i built up my feature character from more than one source when you re building up less than anatomically correct bodies it doesn t mean you shouldn t assemble its various parts with a little time and care when the arms legs head etc are joined to one another relatively seamlessly in roughly the right places it helps give the overall effect of creating a character rather than being just some randomly scattered elements and odd parts step 8 i returned to my vintage paper collection to find wording to fit with the theme and feel of the page step 9 i then added some handwritten journaling followed by ink droplets in various shades and that s about it for the main page elements really there were a few final touches a little doodling around the figure and the word strips along with a few stamped stars around the edges but nothing major here s the fished thing once again if you ve never tried art journaling i hope this helps persuade you that it s not as complicated as you might think when you re looking at someone s completed pages give it a try it s not a science there s no possible way to get it wrong or even to be perfect at it it s a messy jumbly hour of cutting sticking and making yourself happy go enjoy and let me know if you do julie drop by the shop for interesting vintage pages and images to use in your journal posted by julie kirk at 12 31 13 comments labels art journal start to finish step by step how to photo tutorial journaling ukscrappers art journey collage rubbish week email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday 13 june 2012 art journaling with food packaging for rubbish week hi hi it s day 3 of rubbish week and it s getting even more rubbish in a good way my final prompt for the ukscrappers art journey a kind of introduction to art journaling is available to download from today and is based around the theme of recycling rubbish into your journals if you d like to read the full prompt general discussion then visit the art journey area of the forum here and go to step 23 here s one of the two new pages i made to illustrate my prompt now without cheating without scrolling down for the answers on the next image i ll know if you have see if you can you spot the rubbish btw whoever just mumbled the whole page is rubbish can go and stand outside the room and not return until they ve thought hard about they just said moving on ok here s the answers any surprises anything familiar to you and your work in case you need proof i took a before photo of the food packaging i love everything about that packaging the patterned lettering the fonts used and the stew inside it now here are those letters once again rearranged into my page title the dream plan budget build word strip was cut from a junk mail leaflet about home building that was addressed to the previous owners of our house despite them not living here for years see i really do scour just about everything to find a useful snippet or two and here are those stickers again which actually inspired the new ideas theme of the page using the leftover surrounds from a sheet of label stickers has been one of my favourite additions to projects for a while now and i can t think of a recent scrapbook page where i haven t used some i don t know what it is i like about them but i m quite addicted i m probably just being perverse and contrary by preferring the support act rather than the main headliner it s also had a similar fondness for using sheets of alphabets like i ve done here not for their individual letters but for a mass effect finally here s a closer look at the little scrap of vintage dictionary i used to balance out the use and colour of the alphabet sheet it also felt appropriate to use definitions of words such as precognition and preconceive on a page about having ideas tomorrow i have a full step by step showing the making of another new page from start to finish i had lots of great feedback after the first one i blogged last summer and it s been my most pinned project on pinterest so i m hoping some of you will find this one useful too so i ll be back with that in 24 hours see you then julie don t forget the special discount over in my shop this week just click the image to go for a browse there s a couple of new plundered pages packs in stock there some of which are perfect for scrapbooking summer photos and there s the new plundered pages serendipity packs too lucky dip value packets of vintage papers which with the 20 discount now come to just 3 20 posted by julie kirk at 07 00 7 comments labels recycling crafts papercrafts art journaling art journal rubbish week recycling packaging etsy shop discount email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 12 june 2012 card making using the leftovers from die cutting for rubbish week hola and welcome to day 2 of my rubbish week today s post is about using leftovers to ...