Friday, August 27, 2004
I'm female, and 29 3/4. But it would appear that I'm also a Grumpy Old Man.
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Monsters and Angels *
After seeing the brilliant new Kia Picanto ad on the telly every night for a week, thinking, 'That really looks like Pete Fowler did it', I've got round to finding out - and he did! It's a great ad - cute little ladies, a pastel-coloured cityscape and his usual monstrous creations. I enjoy it every time. And I've never even had a driving lesson.
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After seeing the brilliant new Kia Picanto ad on the telly every night for a week, thinking, 'That really looks like Pete Fowler did it', I've got round to finding out - and he did! It's a great ad - cute little ladies, a pastel-coloured cityscape and his usual monstrous creations. I enjoy it every time. And I've never even had a driving lesson.
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Friday, August 20, 2004
And who believes in forever?
Am grinning all over my face at this email from a friend who's just celebrated her first wedding anniversary:
'I was out in the woods for a long time, thinking I liked it, but I like this better ;-) '
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Am grinning all over my face at this email from a friend who's just celebrated her first wedding anniversary:
'I was out in the woods for a long time, thinking I liked it, but I like this better ;-) '
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(channelling my mum) Right, let's have a tidy-up time! (/channelling my mum)
Costume and textile links:
Biba Collection
Make your own floppy version of a famous modern sculpture!
News:
Flamingo chick hatches at zoo (Awww....)
City couple give V&A £1.6m to make gems sparkle
Great articles from designboom about design icons:
The cross
Peace symbols
The skull or death's head
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Costume and textile links:
Biba Collection
Make your own floppy version of a famous modern sculpture!
News:
Flamingo chick hatches at zoo (Awww....)
City couple give V&A £1.6m to make gems sparkle
Great articles from designboom about design icons:
The cross
Peace symbols
The skull or death's head
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Thursday, August 19, 2004
Love letters straight from your heart...
Paperchase are opening a branch in Brighton - about bluddy time! It'll be in East Street, around the end of the month. Great stationery AND sparkly things... mmm.
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Paperchase are opening a branch in Brighton - about bluddy time! It'll be in East Street, around the end of the month. Great stationery AND sparkly things... mmm.
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Friday, August 06, 2004
You keep me running round and round
Well, that's alright with me*
I love it when one thing leads to another. I pop in to ilike.org.uk and see that Belle & Sebastian are doing Tracks of My Years on the Ken Bruce show on Radio 2. And one of the tracks they've chose is Kirsty MacColl's version of A New England. I won't go on and on about the great affection I feel for Kirsty and her music cos I'll start welling up, but it's good to know that a band I was once so into (heck, there was even a fanzine...) appreciates her too.
Last week I was up at the British Museum with my hack's hat on, and on the way back to Victoria I decided to go to Soho Square to see Kirsty's memorial bench. However, it didn't go as planned. I'd never been there before and hadn't realised there were dozens of benches there - or that on a blazingly hot lunchhour all the benches and lawns would be crammed full of people! I wandered round the Square several times, checking every bench plaque which wasn't hidden by someone sitting in front of it, but eventually gave up. I think the most likely candidate was a newish one in a prominent position on a raised section of the garden, but it was full and I wasn't brave enough to ask the gentlemen sitting in the middle to lean forward so I could take a look at the plaque. Next time I'll pick late afternoon on a rainy day...
* How great is the new ad for Clarks Shoes, with the little girl and her hula hoop?!! Almost as good is the other Clarks ad with the lad and his football, and My Perfect Cousin.
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Well, that's alright with me*
I love it when one thing leads to another. I pop in to ilike.org.uk and see that Belle & Sebastian are doing Tracks of My Years on the Ken Bruce show on Radio 2. And one of the tracks they've chose is Kirsty MacColl's version of A New England. I won't go on and on about the great affection I feel for Kirsty and her music cos I'll start welling up, but it's good to know that a band I was once so into (heck, there was even a fanzine...) appreciates her too.
Last week I was up at the British Museum with my hack's hat on, and on the way back to Victoria I decided to go to Soho Square to see Kirsty's memorial bench. However, it didn't go as planned. I'd never been there before and hadn't realised there were dozens of benches there - or that on a blazingly hot lunchhour all the benches and lawns would be crammed full of people! I wandered round the Square several times, checking every bench plaque which wasn't hidden by someone sitting in front of it, but eventually gave up. I think the most likely candidate was a newish one in a prominent position on a raised section of the garden, but it was full and I wasn't brave enough to ask the gentlemen sitting in the middle to lean forward so I could take a look at the plaque. Next time I'll pick late afternoon on a rainy day...
* How great is the new ad for Clarks Shoes, with the little girl and her hula hoop?!! Almost as good is the other Clarks ad with the lad and his football, and My Perfect Cousin.
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Tuesday, August 03, 2004
'But you know that I do love you - you're like Manchester...'
A lovely bit of reminiscence from Dad, prompted by the news that Manchester's Central Library is putting on an exhibition about the city's famous Belle Vue Zoological Gardens:
"Many happy hours spent at Belle Vue.. the fun fair, zoo and, later in life, the speedway ('Slant' Palin was the star of the track then) where you would come away covered in red dust from the shale track. Looking back, the animals were not kept as they would be now - but that's then and attitudes have changed, since. Easter was the time when you would get into your new clothes and Mum and Dad would take you to Belle Vue for the day - a great treat!"
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A lovely bit of reminiscence from Dad, prompted by the news that Manchester's Central Library is putting on an exhibition about the city's famous Belle Vue Zoological Gardens:
"Many happy hours spent at Belle Vue.. the fun fair, zoo and, later in life, the speedway ('Slant' Palin was the star of the track then) where you would come away covered in red dust from the shale track. Looking back, the animals were not kept as they would be now - but that's then and attitudes have changed, since. Easter was the time when you would get into your new clothes and Mum and Dad would take you to Belle Vue for the day - a great treat!"
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Pom tiddly pompom...
I am a bit excited because I used some of the C&H vouchers Sarah gave me to buy a pompom maker. I'd looked at it before and thought it was just a set of plastic rings - an expensive alternative to chopping up cereal packets to make your pompom templates. But it isn't! You make the pompoms in two halves - this makes it incredibly fast as you're not constantly cutting small lengths of yarn from the large ball in order to thread it through the centre of your template. This way you whizz your wool around each half, and clip them together to do the 'snip and tie' bit at the end - all in minutes. Step-by-step photos here (not by me, but an interesting French knitty site).
The Blonde was kind enough to enthuse at my creations, adding, 'Now you can make us some cheap Christmas decorations'. I'm thinking garlands of white poms hanging from silver crochet thread beaded with clear silver-lined rocailles...
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I am a bit excited because I used some of the C&H vouchers Sarah gave me to buy a pompom maker. I'd looked at it before and thought it was just a set of plastic rings - an expensive alternative to chopping up cereal packets to make your pompom templates. But it isn't! You make the pompoms in two halves - this makes it incredibly fast as you're not constantly cutting small lengths of yarn from the large ball in order to thread it through the centre of your template. This way you whizz your wool around each half, and clip them together to do the 'snip and tie' bit at the end - all in minutes. Step-by-step photos here (not by me, but an interesting French knitty site).
The Blonde was kind enough to enthuse at my creations, adding, 'Now you can make us some cheap Christmas decorations'. I'm thinking garlands of white poms hanging from silver crochet thread beaded with clear silver-lined rocailles...
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Monday, August 02, 2004
Fabulous fabrics from fashions past
Now online, from Hampshire Museums Service - a website to accompany the Passion for Patterns show, on at Havant Museum till 28th August. It's a great look at trends in patterned textiles used to make dress and accessories over the last 250 years, with themed 'pattern books' to browse.
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Now online, from Hampshire Museums Service - a website to accompany the Passion for Patterns show, on at Havant Museum till 28th August. It's a great look at trends in patterned textiles used to make dress and accessories over the last 250 years, with themed 'pattern books' to browse.
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