Printed and padded chair - comfy.

No fair! Sculpture students get pretty chairs that are 

nice and soft and not a trace of plastic in sight on em.
Oh, hang on, I managed to snag myself one of those new comfy chairs
from that pile of em next to the lifts...so really why am I complaining again?

Oh yes, because mine isn't patterned like this one is.

I wonder if this pattern was the original part
of the fabric on the chair, or added by a genius art student...

Furniture - to be dumped

I know what your thinking...

no, I didn't put it outside university to be skipped,

that was someone else and no doubt for good reasons.

First obvious one was that the cupboard was lacking a door.  

That little doodled motif looks pretty,

commonplace and medieval like,
but it looks good where it is.

Shiny and purple. Could it get better?

Well yes probably, it's a lovely shade of plum like purple.
Yum. Plum, coincidence that it rhymes?

Purple has been a colour I've been drawn to like,
well I suppose a rusty stubborn magnet.

Silvery coloured bits, which I'd keep away from the iron in case they melt.

Silver goes with everything and anything....

just be careful you don't end up looking like something from a Christmas nativity story.

QR codes - so much more than a URL.

I've only just begun to use the wifi on my phone
despite having it for a year,
and began to get attached to using these QR codes,
with a few questions on my mind,
so I've researched and answered the main ones.
I did the research on my mobile, at night...thank you wifi
(you monstrous thing that now I'm addicted to using).

Above an example of a QR code I found in September's
issue of novel, a local Newcastle based magazine that has just started up. 

They make interesting blocks of pattern. 

As there is only one photo today, have a look at a Bing images search.

What does QR stand for?
 QR stands for quick response,
and is a type of code that has been around since 1994,

well before the Internet became so widely used and recognised.

QR started life as a way of tracking parts made by Denso Wave,
an arm of Toyota
and is a type of 2D bar code that is designed to be read at high speeds.

So far I have seen it used on business cards,

flyer's, posters and mostly in magazines or newspapers.
It has further possibilities in marketing which have yet to be discovered and researched.

Barcodes have a maximum of 20 characters in them whilst QR codes have 7089
Barcdoes can only be read horizontally where as QR codes can be read horizontally and vertically.

 Research links:
Who Cares About QR codes? (Author: Betty Adamou)
QRcode.com (Site owned by Denso Wave)

New Diary from Paperchase

It would be a dream to sell work to Paperchase for them to
give money in return and then in turn,
turn that work into something adorning something as handy as a diary.

Admittedly I have a few months empty, from July to most of September,

but I can use that for extra notes space.

Not a bad price, and made in the UK,
felt pretty good about that last point.

Since my A levels I have grown a good attachment to spiral bound books.
Sketchbooks that are spiral bound are especially handy. 

The plastic cover is translucent, great fun with colour and shapes.

The beautiful swirls are reminiscent of Art Decor and the Arts and Crafts movement

Great times.

Red cardi put behind the back cover.

A slight tremor of my arm,

purposefull tremor of course.

Putting the small Paperchase bag under the cover is
quite an interesting blend of line and shape, more vertical darker shapes.