Kirstie's Homemade Hogwash

Do you think she did any more harm to the design industry than Changing Rooms specki4eyes ? I think we all grew out of that one fairly quickly.Although speaking as the woman who got her measurements for Harrods record department wrong (when the wall paper was being imported from America at astronomical expense) I'm not best placed to be judgemental

I meant boost not books ipad moment. But specki what has she got that you haven't ? Unless you are a renowned interior designer under a pseudonym? I dislike "interior design" but like what KA produces and obviously plenty of people do.

Kirstie (or 'curse' as I call her) is quite simply the most obnoxious airhead who ever benefitted from our licence fees. I was listening to her spouting claptrap on a radio show over Christmas, suggesting that those people who complained about being without electricity for five days should just jolly well get a life and sit around a candle singing merry tunes and revelling in the warmth generated by having a Dickensian Christmas.

In another life, I was in the interior decorating industry - I mean seriously making an honest living out of advising people and creating attractive spaces, having studied for my recognised diploma for three years and running a successful business for seventeen. Fellow designers would all groan with horror at the prospect of another 'decor' show hosted by this idiotic woman. She did our industry a lot of harm. Its not just that - its that silly little girl voice and delivery that gets to me. Where oh where did they find her?

So Bees you're pushing at an open door with me but thank you for giving me such a laugh!

GA, I think we should revive 'chortle', a good onomatopoeic word (a rich chuckle?). From now on, I will chortle over humorous posts on GN!

Not too good to sneer at the well upholstered on this site. I'm glad you apologised. Of course Kirstie chose her own school didn't she ?was that at the age of 5,15,? And there are so many people who have her talent or even more but at least she has got off her ample a* and made it a career. I still remember her making a cushion on TV and she was using someone else's Bernina and the panic in the owners eyes as Kirstie machined through pins not at right angles to the edge. That our generation accepted CDT instead of Domestic Science without rebelling could well be why we have the throw away take away society which gives Jamie Oliver with his save food book and Kirstie how to books their careers.

A warm welcome to you Bees, I've only just read this thread and am chortling away.
Actually, I've just read what I wrote and can hear my children's voices in my head saying, 'Mother' (in that condescending tone that only your children use), 'nobody says chortling any more!'

Glad to hear I made a few of you laugh.

Nonu - yes I am a newbie - a friend who enjoys my musings/rants suggested that I join up. Apologies for references to Kirstie's appearance though - that was a bit below the belt - although I am not ashamed to admit to being fairly well-upholstered myself, but (i) I do know better and (ii) it wasn't in the spirit of Christmas and I can only say sorry and put my lapse of judgment down to a mixture of too much mulled wine and the pre-Christmas stress of frantically pulling old wrapping paper out of the bottom of drawers in order to quickly get something in the post which, in the end, took 10 days to travel 30 miles.

Happy new year to you all and I hope you had a smashing Christmas.

*bees"
Just seen this. Hilarious, brilliant! My thoughts exactly.

Thank you for the award, JessM. I shall treasure it (and then recycle it). Actually there are a host of duck tape crafts - google it and see!

aren't they a bit sticky rockgran ?
You get the scavenger of the year award: "Recycle and Reuse 2013 Champion" grannyknot and reckon you should have that TV contract.

rockgran [impressed emoticon]

My newest hobby. I've just made some duck (duct?) tape toilet bags in red, blue and yellow. Hours of fun!

High five, Grannyknot

This thread is making me

However. Move over, Kirsty! Because:

I've knitted a 'snood' for son and it is drying now ready to be wrapped.

I made 'bath bombs' with lavender oil and seeds (they bombed a bit in the making*, so the chunks are prettily in a glass jar with ribbon). Thoze fizzy bath things that cost an arm and a leg in shops like Lush.

Snuck car freshener in the shape of a little sheep (made out of sheepskin) out of the bin - it had been filled with Hebridean machair stuff for the "fresh" bit but it had run its course, and re-stuffed it with fresh rosemary and wrapped it for husband because he was sorry it had come to an end because it was a holiday memento from the summer.

Am gathering the ingredients now to make "Stained glass biscuits" - star shaped biscuits with a jelly sweet melted in the centre, very pretty. To hang with ribbons.

Will settle down later and crochet a fancy edge on to the plain pin thingamajigs for holding scarves into place that I bought for daughter and DIL.

*because I was too mean to buy the recommended mould.

[showing off emoticon]

I wondered where you had met a tiger that was too "gushy" for you, Soop. Most of them seem very down-to-earth - even grumpy.

Mind you, I would love to be able to create a centre of table extravaganza from inners of loo rolls and lashings of gungy stuff and glitter. I could then stand back, throw my arms wide and gasp...and here's one I made earlier!

Not you, Elegran I mean Kirstie.

Its strange isn't it the thirst for fame that drives someone on from being a posh estate agent to being a minor TV celebrity doing Blue Peter -esq crafts for grown ups.

Elegran All a bit "gushy" for my liking.

Oh...well perhaps not a good look after all then, Tegan

I believe zebras find them attractive (and bongos and tigers, and ringtailed lemurs)

It might be guite attractive, Tegan!

Oh the awful thought of a striped bottom .

I would just like to find an Aquamarine ring like Kirsties in my Christmas Stocking

What happens if the colour seeps out of those tie-dyed knickers?