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jenjen

Life's not all biscuits and sandwiches

About Me

MyGen Profile GeneratorStill doing my freakin PhD. It seems like it never ends.I wish I could spend my days baking and making things on my sewing machine.

My Interests

My interests change from one hour to the next. My current obsession is modernist urban planning.

I'd like to meet:


People who like geography

People who like making things

People who can write my PhD for me

People who have signed up to the Organ Donor Register.
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Music:

Mostly pop in all its forms-- synth pop, indie-pop, electro-pop, general pop etc. But I also like listening to Nick Cave, The Knife, Queen, Nina Simone, Herman Dune, The Smittens, Kruder&Dorfmeister, Karl Blau, Billie Holiday, CSS and Cliff Richard.

Movies:

Anything set in an American high school. Any film set in Eastern Europe or Japan. Any musical except for Seven Brides for Seven Brothers. Bollywood.

Television:

80s and 90s British sitcoms Gameshows

Books:

Anything with pictures of buildings

Heroes:

People who have signed the organ donor register

People who like geography

People who can write my PhD for me

My Blog

New tattoo, it bloody hurt

Apologies for the lack of craft-related stuff over the last few weeks. Things have been a bit hectic with PhD writing, job hunting, organising this organ donation night thingy and lots of other excite...
Posted by jenjen on Mon, 26 Feb 2007 04:00:00 PST

Publicity for the night!

Publicity rocks! Story in the Yorkshire Evening Post thanks so much to Paula, Emmie's friend, for writing the bestest press release ever ...
Posted by jenjen on Wed, 17 Jan 2007 08:05:00 PST

Organ donation related fun on the horizon!

Ok, its not craft related but I wanted to post this anyways in appreciation of all my friends who are totally amazing by helping me out with organizing stuff for my night of organ-donation related fun...
Posted by jenjen on Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:25:00 PST

New Year costume fun

Heres some pics of the costumes I contributed my sewing machine skills to for the totally awesome New Year party at the Brudenell. The theme was "B" me as a Ballerina-- I used 11metres of netting to ...
Posted by jenjen on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 04:42:00 PST

C'mon, get yourself crafting!

Heres a list of craft sites I visit a lot. Actually, this blog is really for my own reference so i can find stuff again. Tutorial sites: craftster   I could (and do!) spend hours on here ...
Posted by jenjen on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 06:22:00 PST

Finally, a pic of Shummers birthday present

This is my friend Shumsky He loves brown, so I made him this for his birthday ...
Posted by jenjen on Fri, 08 Dec 2006 02:58:00 PST

more recycled craft stuff

An owl, made from some old curtainsA quilt made from material scraps, and some buttons to cover up the mistakes And a pincushion also made from some scrap material

Vegetable shaped kitchen equipment

 some nice finds in the charideee shop        
Posted by jenjen on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 07:27:00 PST

Bored of badges....

So I turned them into fridge magnets! Just hot-glued 'em onto some regular magnetsC'mon, who wears all their badges at once anyway? I also made some button magnets, for the hell of itHere's what my fr...
Posted by jenjen on Wed, 09 Aug 2006 07:08:00 PST

Sticking things in the oven

I like sticking unusual objects in the oven and melting them to see what happensHere are the results of this experiment. Oven plus plastic beads= melted goodnessSome bead bowls:My first attempt using...
Posted by jenjen on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 05:09:00 PST