What talent would you like to be famous for?
The team at The Stencil Library were given a gift of Green and Blacks organic chocolate Conversations. The individual squares chocolate are wrapped inside printed questions. The questions are engineered to spark conversation as you and your loved ones munch their way through the chocolate contents.... They have to be loved ones before I would even contemplate sharing chocolate.
What a brilliant idea I thought. I am rubbish at starting conversations so I can learn from this.
I unwrapped a square then read the question aloud to myself, answered it and ate the chocolate. Ask me another? It was such a delicious chat that I had to hear more from me ...which meant unwrapping more questions, asking and answering the questions myself then eating more chocolate. What an excellent game, much more fun than sharing the goodies and I got to talk about me with no interruptions. Hurrah!
I have put the Conversations wrappers in my purse. Instead of lurking around the buffet at the next party I shall retrieve the questions, sashay up to an intriguing looking person and start a conversation using them.
"If you could live anywhere in the world where would that be?
What is your earliest memory?
If you could have something named after you what would it be?
What was the last film that you saw in a cinema and did you enjoy it?
If you could swap places with one person for a day who would it be?"
Actually, I will probably just pass them the questions on the paper wrappers. In case I can't chat, my mouth is bound to be full of chocolate. Anyone got any (printable) answers to those questions? We could start a conversation.
Helen.
Whats your favourite baked potato topping?
Posted by: jeanne | January 22, 2012 at 09:37 AM
Well, in answer to the last question, it might be quite fun to swap with YOU, Helen! It would be a day of whirlwind creative activity, that's for certain. Meanwhile you could be clearing the leaves from my garden...
This is fun; hope someone keeps it going!
love, S.
Posted by: Sabina Rose | January 22, 2012 at 06:03 PM
Jeanne, it's cottage cheese with raw, hot chilli peppers and should be accompanied with a green salad that has harissa or balsamic dressing. After that, Chilli peppers followed by dark chocolate make a delicious combination. I tried chocolate with harissa paste though and it did not work.
Posted by: stencil helen | January 22, 2012 at 07:11 PM
Ooooh oooh Sabina please come and help me on Thursday I would love your help and input on some creative projects that are lurking here.
I will have to think about who I'd swap with. Someone give me ideas??
There are so many people whose heads I would like to spend a day in, they include Marie Antoinette but not on the day that she lost hers.
Posted by: stencil helen | January 22, 2012 at 07:28 PM
I thought I smelled chocolate!
If I could live anywhere, it would be Italy, they seem to "Get it" when it comes to celebrating life on a daily basis instead of the American mindset of cramming all the celebration into a two week vacation....what was it John Lennon said?....Life is what happens while we are busy making other plans.
If I could have something named after me, it would definitely be a dry pigment! I love them so....looking at all of them in their glass jars on my shelves with names like "caput mortuum" (google THAT one for a translation!) or ercolano blue....
If I could swap places with someone for a day, it would be Michelangelo when he was having to scrape the black mold from the beginning of the SIstine Chapel ceiling....He was summoned by the Pope to Rome a full year before the project began...of course, the Pope would not let him take another job while he waited...Once the Pope agreed to the job, January scirocco winds caused black mold to form on the wet plaster and the early fresco work had to be scraped off to begin again...sigh...nothing changes with clients! I would love to know his thought process and how he dealt with the adversity.
Posted by: Theresa Cheek | January 22, 2012 at 10:51 PM
A dry pigment...how totally fabulous! I agree with the Italians and John Lennon. Changing places with Michael Angelo at that time is a brave choice...I hope that you are up to speed with yoga and pilates before taking on that job. Both body and mind would need it. Thanks Theresa.
Posted by: stencil helen | January 23, 2012 at 12:14 PM
Hey, you said swap places for just ONE day! I think I could do that...just don't want a larger dose.
If I had a dry pigment named after me, it would be stored in an antique apothecary jar with a glass lid and maybe an antique ribbon tied around it for identification.
Posted by: Theresa Cheek | January 23, 2012 at 01:34 PM
Mmm I love g&b chocolate. So lovely to hear from you, happy new year to you & your family! I'm sorry I don't get too much time for blog reading anymore but thank you so much for your wonderful comment. The church door is in Shildon, Co Durham (where I was born). It's beautiful isn't it, had my eye on it for a while for a little shoot :-)
Posted by: PinkBow | January 23, 2012 at 07:10 PM
Thanks PB, the church door was lovely. I thought that I recognised it but I don't think I've been to Shildon.
Theresa, your pigment idea just gets more handsome. I can see the jar and ribbon in my head.
Posted by: stencil helen | January 24, 2012 at 12:22 AM