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bout old buildings i have a serious love of buildings on bridges i don t know why and while minstergate isn t exactly a bridge you can walk under it since taking this photo i ve learned that you can actually rent it out oh goodness 4 we squeezed ourselves into a five storey second hand book shop james engrossed in the history section at minstergate books that is what other people do for office christmas parties right 5 some of us tried on hats in the interests of completeness the viewing of this next photo should absolutely be accompanied by this music because the game is on 6 we had lunch and toasted team no 1 just fyi we weren t being particularly boastful there that s actually our house number weare always numberone here s james and his big sea bream i had tagliatelle for good reason there are no photos of me eating it scrolling to the end of this post will clarify that for you and finally 7 we exchanged secret santa gifts kind of we should have done a secret santa i said ha he replied acting out a scene mmmm let me guess who this came from and then he paused leaned back in his chair and reached into the pocket of his coat which was hanging on a hook behind him and after some riffling he turned and planted down on the table in front of me a caramel chew he d bought earlier that day what did you think it was going to be diamonds or something and i laughed and laughed at the timing of it of the serendipity of it of the brilliant punchline of it all then i had an idea and i turned to my own inside coat pocket rummaged to the bottom found what i was looking for and then placed my contribution to the secret santa moment on the table in front of james and that s how we ended up exchanging the gifts of a 20p caramel chew and a glasses cleaning cloth that had been lurking in my pocket for weeks without me once being able to remember where it came from and as i don t wear glasses why on earth i was keeping it in there but i guess i had my answer to that i was keeping it there so we could share with one another two perfect spur of the moment serendipitously pocket sourced gifts we couldn t have chosen better if we d had weeks to plan and shop so that s how you do a staff christmas lunch when you don t really like other people you go with someone you do like you do the things you both like to do you eat well and pretend you re sherlock you rummage in your pockets and find the perfect gifts used tissues not included then you return to the car and eat pork scratchings on the way home while one of you reads aloud from a novel using a head torch because it s dark while the other one drives true story this way no one gets drunk no one is forced to dance with strangers while wearing tinsel no one gets trapped sitting next to that colleague who finds a party the perfect time to discuss the worst most anxiety making work related issues we ve all been there right even my limited experience of staff parties involves this one no one photocopies their bottom not sure if that s a pro or con and no one carries out any form of infidelity in a cupboard result and i for one am hoping team no 1 gets to replicate this little festive outing in december 2016 i guess have to check with the boss first he s not my boss i don t even call him boss not even for christmas i m making a note right now to have something interesting in my pocket on standby feel free to take inspiration from our party any which way you fancy fyi james recommends the sea bream and the deer stalker julie posted by julie kirk at 14 28 20 comments labels christmas story telling christmas party secret santa email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday 10 december 2015 do you remember that article you inspired me to write no then take a look inside the pretty nostalgic yearbook 2016 hi you if you re a looking for something lovely to read over the christmas break and beyond or b looking for a beautiful gift for a vintage lover by which i mean someone who loves vintage and not someone who s old but who s still got it going on or c at all likely to feel happy for me when i reach one of my life goals then have i got the book for you this also gives me the chance to say thank you to those of you who helped me reach that goal even though you probably don t yet know that you did the pretty nostalgic yearbook 2016 is the first book from pretty nostalgic with their new publisher the history press they previously published big beautiful magazines with a focus on vintage inspired living and are now continuing that theme in book format and this is how they describe this latest publication an old fashioned annual for grownups who love traditional things gloriously illustrated with original vintage images and filled with fascinating facts pearls of wisdom and heartfelt glimpses into british social and domestic history a passion for the past making things last putting people first this is the perfect read for anyone who yearns for times gone by and respects the past enough to see that not all modern things are good for us here s the contents page and if we just zoom in a little to the winter section you ll see why this book means something in particular to me see that julie kirk there that s this julie kirk here that s me that is my article addressing life is not only the first time i ve had any non crafting related work published it s also the first time i ve had work published in a book and if we re talking life long dreams then this is one that became reality for me on page 138 and while i was the one who wrote the article which is all about the importance of the humble address book there are many of you reading this right here right now who helped me do it so thank you to jog your memory quite a while ago now i struck up a conversation about address books on my facebook page where i talked about how i d stopped writing in a real address book around about the time i started to rely on email social media as my main forms of communication and many of you joined in the conversation and shared your own address book histories in that thread and i was completely enthralled by how similar many of your reflections were and quite frankly i found that your responses many of which were touching and profound for example how you can t throw away the address of relatives who are no longer here were too interesting to allow them to end up floating off into facebook obscurity forgotten about languishing down the bottom of the internet somewhere so i decided to take pull out the main themes reflect on what we can all draw from them and then turn the whole thing into an article which will hopefully inspire more people to hang on to or to even begin keeping a real paper address book rather than rely on their less tangible email contacts files and i sent it to pretty nostalgic because as they describe themselves as promoting creative and sustainable living inspired by the past it felt like the perfect fit for them and they accepted it and now it s in print i m not saying you should buy the book purely for our article but i am really proud of it i mean i even managed to mention shakespeare and game of thrones in the introduction but look i only take up 4 of its pages the remaining 160 plus are equally worth a glance here are a few to give you the idea of the mix of vintage images and retro fabulous topics on offer history of the sandwich anyone how about fossil hunting and there are plenty of shorter features too if the yearbook looks like something you or someone on your christmas list might enjoy then you can find it here via the pretty nostalgic website or from other retailers such as here on wordery one of my best go to book stores this year and here on amazon where you can look inside for the record this isn t a sponsored post i bought my own copy likewise none of the above are affiliate links however the gorgeous vintage christmas wrapping paper in the background of the photos peeking out from under the book is available from my etsy shop here so there it is the perfectly splendid pretty nostalgic yearbook 2016 home to my article on the importance of the address book and if there s ever a time of year when we re all reaching for our address book it s the time of year when we ve all got christmas cards to send julie posted by julie kirk at 07 00 12 comments labels pretty nostalgic publishing writing email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday 8 december 2015 be careful not to tear it it s too nice to throw away indulge in some vintage christmas wrapping paper nostalgia hello hello our eyes met across a rammle filled room well actually no because a pile of breathtakingly glorious vintage gift wrapping doesn t really have eyes yet what it lacks in the eye department it more than makes up for in every other way imaginable i could tell all that the minute i clapped eyes on it where it was tucked away sitting on an old dining chair in the back of a junk shop in a narrow residential street in a seaside town in england s north east an unlikely first meeting an unlikely place to meet an unlikely amount of oh so rare unused vintage wrapping paper of course i bought it of course i did you want some want to share the thrill want to fall in love with it too then don t let me stop you i ll happily step aside so you can start a new life together head over to my etsy shop to browse the various options available to you young lovers here s how i ve described this papery treasure trove there be careful not to tear it give me it here i ll keep that for next year it s too nice to throw away such is the refrain of the wrapping paper lover maybe that s you your mother or maybe it was your grandmother and with this original vintage wrapping in exquisitely retro and festive designs it easily could be her carefully opening each gift and saving the papery treasure for another year how much would you pay for a single sheet of mass produced gift wrap in a local store now how much would you pay for a technicolour glimpse into christmas past these beautiful sheets can take you right back there to sitting beneath a tree decorated with all kinds of trinkets and baubles not the colour themed minimal ones of the 21st century right back to watching the pleasure on the faces of the gift givers and receivers right back to saving the paper because it s too nice to throw away some designs are available to purchase as single sheets while others come as a pack of 12 with the original retailer boots label and it s from the pre decimal price on that label that we can at least be sure that these designs are pre 1970s although the designs alone scream that they weren t made yesterday the larger packs are a considered purchase but you do get 12 assorted designs and if you think what that would cost in a high street stationers right now then it s not so different and these are unique and nostalgia filled and wonderful when are you ever going to find more like it similarly if you plan to use them in crafting buying festive scrapbook papers would cost you something similar for a pack of 12x12 sheets and they wouldn t have the history and authenticity that these provide of course i m biased but i just know there s someone who will see them fall for them and throw caution to the wind to own them and i know it s possible because that s exactly what i did seasons greetings to you julie hop to the shop for vintage gift wrap vintage christmas cards christmas junk journal kits festive washi tape festive craft packs plus gift ideas many under 5 for the crafter or vintage book ephemera lover in your life posted by julie kirk at 06 30 2 comments labels vintage gift wrap wrapping paper christmas email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday 4 december 2015 30 things i learned from leaving 300 blog comments in 30 days hello hello when i set myself the challenge to leave 300 genuine blog comments over 30 days across sept oct 2015 my motivations included to stop pitying myself for receiving relatively few comments i e single figures per post to maintain the relationships i had within my regular blogging network and primarily to reach out from the safety of that network to make new connections in the blogging world when those 30 days and 300 comments were over ok i ll be honest i actually only managed 270 i realised that alongside achieving the things i d set out to i d picked up all kinds of random insights into blogging in general along the way what had begun as an impromptu challenge had subsequently grown into a month s worth of solid focused yet entirely accidental market research into blogging like so much in life this research was actually just a bi product something that really only came along for the ride while i d set myself a task to do something else carving out dedicated research time 5 days a week for four weeks is just not something i would ever have deliberately scheduled in but tempt me with a silly project that i can create a hashtag for and get other people involved in well hey hey good looking count me in perhaps there is already a lesson for me to learn in that fact alone if you re new here then my introductory post to the 300in30days challenge will explain more as will this glimpse at the statistics i racked up during the challenge many of the things i learned won t really be of use to anyone but me so i won t share those here although i might save them up for a very solipsistic post of their own some time but many of my lessons learned will be useful to you if you re nosey are you yeah me too read on for more peeks inside blogland if you are planning to take part in the 300 in 30 days challeng e i know it s a big task but it s still worth attempting as there s no way you can avoid learning something from the experience even if that something is i can t do it for 30 days or i can t make it to 300 and many of those lessons will come in useful for your own blogging or if you re a blogger who over the years has become comfortable in their niche with their regular network and has started to wonder what else is out there after you ve completed the challenge you ll know what s out there for good or bad or if you re someone who enjoys reading blogs and would like ideas on how to find new places to visit so here are the 30 lessons i learned while leaving 300 blog comments in 30 days part one the practical technical lessons lesson 1 300 is a lot in fact if you re honest with yourself it s approximately 200 more than you expected it to be when i broke it down as did many people who supported me over the course of the challenge did to boost my morale 300 comments over 30 days sounded doable because that s just 10 a day just 10 10 s a relatively manageable number isn t it isn t it and yet lesson 2 just 10 a day is relative 10 comments a day about the british weather easy just show me the stranger i need to make awkward non personal conversation with and i 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