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numbers 2014 march hello hello unlike last time where i bemoaned the lack of days in february this month gifted me one extra the calendar i d been referring to all month had the 31 st all the way back up to the top of the grid next to the 1 st and so i entirely forgot that today existed and seeing as it does in fact exist it means i get to round up my month on its final day as usual and here it is or should that be here is was 7 the number of friends i spent 3 5 days with in a converted barn during a crafting eating laughing weekend in the countryside it really was very countryside y too so much so in fact that we backed on to a farm and when the direction of the wind changed the smell proved as much apart from the country smells over the weekend i experienced my 1st piñata its 6 pointed star was soooooo hard to break open that none of us could even dent it until until someone suggest we imagined it was someone we really didn t like and funnily enough it didn t last long after that despite being in the heart of an area where many people go on walking holidays beating the life out of that piñata wandering to the end of the drive to pick up a phone signal and climbing the step up into the land cruiser to visit the craft shop was the nearest thing we got to exercise all weekend crafty wise for me it wasn t an especially productive weekend but i d made up for that before the month ended i spent 6 hours with 12 other people picking up mono printing gelli plate tips from kate crane last saturday photo courtesy of kate crane as i don t have a gelli plate i just wanted to try it out play with techniques maybe make some fun backgrounds for other projects and just spend some time listening to someone who knows what they re doing after spending the day playing i m a little bit tempted to get a plate of my own but you know what i m like if i can t do it without making a mother of a mess on my knee while sitting on the sofa watching tv i probably won t get round to doing it unless of course i book myself on to another full day workshop 3 the number of little boys about 6 or 7 yr old who waited with impeccable patience and good manners in order not to photo bomb that group shot above they were about to whizz past us on their scooters when they realised that we were lining up to take the photo and they just stopped in their tracks and waited they were a credit to themselves not moving commenting or giggling until someone told them that is was ok to move on past us which they did slowly cautiously i think they were perhaps a little bemused as to why on earth 12 grown up women were standing outside proudly holding up their paintings 7 the number of new embossing folders i accrued in march i say accrued rather than bought as i only actually paid for 6 of them no i didn t steal the 7th what do you take me for is it the piñata bashing or the territory battle we had with the quilters earlier in the month are you worried i ve got myself in with the wrong crowd no the source of the 7th was heather one of my loyal shop customers who very very kindly sent me an embossing folder which wasn t her kind of thing but which she thought i might use for the record i had no idea she was sending me it i honestly don t solicit embossing folders from all my customers anyway heather had posted her gift out to me on the 18th of march which was 1 day before i wrote the following on my facebook page i m browsing for embossing folders a task which i thought would be straightforward quick relatively cheap until i saw all the really nice designs i ve somehow overlooked before hexagons birds dandelions oh dear this may turn out more expensive than i thought weird isn t it that at the time i was writing that there was a surprise embossing folder already wending its way through the postal system for me well the whole scenario left us both changed women while heather confessed to being slightly freaked out at the coincidence i on the other hand began to wonder about what else embossing folders aside i could draw into my life just by thinking about buying some for myself let me try i m browsing for an amazing new dress pair of cowboy boots era of world peace i ll let you know if any of that drops on my doormat tomorrow speaking of gifts 57 days after my birthday a friend who i only see in person a few times a year gave me not only this handsome chap she d needle felted for me but this rather appropriate book too perfect no it s full of useful useless number based facts such as and speaking of shakespeare almost as if i d planned it like this this leads me to my final statistics for march bbc radio 4 s afternoon drama spot really spoilt me as i had 0 hours of work on campus in march hey what can you expect from a zero hours contract i ve purely been working from home on magazine features and shop products while spending my day listening to the radio and while radio 4 is my favourite place to rest my ears week in week out this month it excelled itself giving me 2 new episodes of rumpole one of my all time favourite radio dramas court room intrigue humour benedict cumberbatch need i say more btw 5 minutes into the 1 st episode some misguided fool who clearly hadn t read the radio schedule for the day cold called me trying to tempt me into buy a nonsense warranty while i was listening to rumpole what kind of a person does that and finally during each of the 5 week day drama slots last week shakespeare s hamlet graced the airways and as that totalled around 225 minutes or 3 hours 45 minutes it meant that it was a pretty faithful adaptation of the full gloriously wonderful script a rare treat which as so often happens proved yet again that when you hear shakespeare done well you can see through the hype and unfamiliar language to actually understand not only what he was saying but how he was saying it right then i m going to leave it there before all i do with this extra day i d forgotten all about is sit and write about the previous 30 i must get something else done i mean as there s at least no wait i daren t count how many things on the ironing pile if you d like to join me by sharing your vital statistics for the first time then do check out the full how to guide here and if you re one of the regular number crunching crowd then it s over to you link me up i ll stop by for a visit soon julie x posted by julie kirk at 17 20 20 comments labels my month in numbers memory keeping by numbers march statistics hamlet rumpole kate crane barn crafting frineds zebra mitchell symons numberland the world in numbers embossing folders email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday 22 march 2014 simply a moment march 2014 a matter of territory hello hello it s that time again well actually it s a little later than that time but alexa s been away when alexa at trimming the sails extends an invitation for us to join her in marking a mid month moment to learn more alexa has a few tips on how to record your own moments and read her very touching march moment here but for now here s my own march moment a matter of territory date 15 march 2014 time 10 15am location community centre on crop day three of us have just finished setting up five collapsible tables and twice as many chairs in the glass sided upstairs room of the community centre this is after already having hauled all our crafting gear up there too an action which for me at least took two trips one to carry my oh so heavy what on earth have i got in here fossils are probably forming at the bottom by now bag and tool tote meanwhile the second trip was to drag bounce yank my equally weight trolley up the steps and just to make sure i get a full cardiovascular work out here around a particularly tight and awkward bend in the small curved staircase it had dawned on me as i was walking in from an unusually full car park that this wasn t our usual cropping weekend normally we meet on the second saturday of the month for our crafty get together and today s the third we were away on a crafting break in an old barn last weekend which explains all the cars a different group have booked one of the centre s other rooms and there s me thinking we d suddenly got very popular that maybe they d all heard about how we re always genuinely happy to share our supplies with anyone who needs it or how we re not cliquey and don t have strict set places to sit in but maybe don t sit there just in case or maybe someone mentioned that jean brings homemade cakes but no it s none of that it s just that the quilters are in and so us papercrafters have been shifted from our usual large ground floor read no fiddly staircase to manoeuvre room and there s a distinct whiff of dissatisfaction in the air apparently the part time caretaker surprised at seeing us here on a different day has already consulted the diary in the office just to check which hasn t gone down well with our key holder crop organiser nor has the fact we ve been moved up here when there s another perfectly serviceable ground floor room available which the quilters are only using as a place to iron their works in progress but no matter we ve set up now and we re just going to get on with it or at least we were until until the second crop organiser arrives declares that we did in actual fact book the downstairs room there s no need for us to have been sent up here and as longstanding customers we re going to have what we booked then all genteel perfectly civil but still crafty hell breaks loose and she calls us out on what s basically a protest march or a very british occupation and we collapse and put back those five tables we set out and we re stack those twice as many chairs and i pick up my heavy bag and my tote i ll come back for my trolley and we march back downstairs to claim the second best room as ours it was like a women s institute version of west side story s rumble between the sharks and the jets well i mean ok maybe it wasn t exactly a fatal knife fight in the street but hey the quilters did have to move their ironing board thanks for pausing for a moment to read mine and while you re in the blog reading mood why not go treat yourself to some of alexa s beautiful moment capturing you ll be glad you did julie x posted by julie kirk at 08 00 14 comments labels simply a moment alexa trimming the sails blog meme memory keeping life documenting crop crafters territory email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 20 march 2014 international day of happiness hi you when i sat down at my laptop this morning i hadn t intended to share something happy with you not that i planned to share something miserable either what do you take me for in fact i hadn t intended to blog at all but then i saw people talking about how today march 20 is the un international day of happiness and my pollyanna gene took over calling me to join in and so with the aid of a scrappy bit bag card i made while away on a very happy crafting weekend with friends earlier this month allow me to wish you some happy happiness today see i told you i was a pollyanna i actually made this card before i needed something to illustrate international day of happiness anyway your presence here reading me makes me a happy blogger thank you for your time and your company and so for today may the sun shine on you the toast fall butter side up and that you manage to peel the backing off that double sided tape on the first try well there s nothing like a bit of optimism is there julie x posted by julie kirk at 10 25 10 comments labels international day of happiness cardmaking happy pollyanna beamish journals ledgers email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday 10 march 2014 we have something in common paper love blog hop hello you how s things today i m joining in with the paperphilia paper love blog hop and taking it as a chance to debut the style of papery thing i ve been working on quietly for over a year now i would say i d been working on them secretly but that sounds far more clandestine than it really is and it makes me seem paranoid which i m not why who said i was paranoid i haven t blogged any of these before so the only way you might have seen one would be if you ve been curled up on the sofa next to me of an evening when i ve been snipping out and sticking have you been no oh i thought i recognised you they re a little different from my other creative papery potterings art journaling collage scrapbooking card making etc gone are the colours the layers the textures and yet what remains monochrome plain and pared down still feels right to me it s a style of work i ve fallen utterly in love with as it combines two of the things which inspire me the most paper specifically pages from my vintage book collection and words which together result in a 3rd thing i hold dear communicating through the written word this back to basics approach appears to also have had an influence on what it is i end up saying in these found story collages it seems that it s not just their form that s a little bit stripped down and naked but the content tends to be too the snippets themselves influence what it is i end up saying being formed from such simple black and white ingredients all the life and colour these pieces need has to come from the found words themselves they each bring with them their own set of emotions and meanings and then when i combine them with words from other sources the finished pieces are suddenly something new something even i didn t see coming and what they ve become is an on going series of snipped tales as i like to call them for the record yes i do know that that name could be taken the wrong way but you should know by now that you re never more than a juvenile grin away from an underlying double entendre when you re in my company so let me share one of these snipped tales with you now one i sent to a friend at christmas other than wanting it to feature friendship in general i didn t set out with anything in particular in mind instead i just pored over lots of pages until i found what it was i wanted to say or more likely until it found me and here it is and while yes what i m doing could be considered as up cycling old books there s just something slightly more romantic about the whole process for me something rather mysterious alchemical somehow in re purposing all those old words phrases and snippets that have found themselves loosed from the pages of timeworn books i find myself freed to find something new to say thanks for listening to my paper love story today i hope to follow up this snipped tales debut with more in the future like i say they re something i ve been working on in private for quite a while so it s surely time i opened up the pages to share a few more julie x the paperlove blog hop is a celebration of all things paper follow the links to discover more bloggers who love paper and use it 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