#claire wallice

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august 2023

1. annie dirusso - hybrid 2. olivia barton - i don't do anything 3. shy martin - late night thoughts 4. tiny habits - hemenway 5. savana santos - messy 6. wallice - prepaid wireless 7. alix page - automatic 8. livia o - please don't hope for somebody better 9. leanna firestone - special 10. abby holliday - better by now 11. annika bennett - scared of getting what i want 12. lauren spencer smith - hey 13. grace gardner - acrobatics 14. julie byrne - portrait of a clear day 15. matilda mann - in plain sight 16. holly humberstone - room service 17. leith ross - too much time in my house alone 18. tessa violet - kitchen song 19. tommy lefroy - worst case kid 20. illuminati hotties - truck 21. emily vaughn - god complex 22. oston - hot 23. chloe george - runaway blue 24. tiffi - hoodie 25. madisenxoxo - mothership 26. sody - frozen lake 27. lyn lapid - poster boy 28. flowerovlove - coffee shop 29. forrest nolan - miss misery 30. sara kays - fireflies 31. ggwendolyn - my year of rest & relaxation 32. fizz - close one 33. deb never - say 34. palehound - eye on the bat 35. pynkie - plz 36. girlhouse - you don't think about me 37. dee holt - sober 38. king mala - sunny side up 39. syd b - focus 40. lauren sanderson - amen 41. hailey knox - charismatic 42. marian carmel - fabric of reality 43. moon tang - water comes out of my eyes 44. cassie marin - cup! 45. flo - 3 of us 46. alayna - who am i now 47. niko rubio - un millón de besos 48. cloudy june - you problem 49. maude latour - no rush 50. claud - a good thing 51. salem ilese - strongly worded letter 52. sorry - screaming in the rain again 53. jades goudreault - you're a star kid 54. maisie peters - you’re just a boy (and i’m kinda the man) 55. lølø - hot girls in hell 56. peach prc - favourite person 57. superfan - for you 58. tilly louise - baggy t-shirt 59. hannah cole - big bite 60. claire rosinkranz - screw time 61. spill tab - fetišh 62. suzie true - dumb 63. sundial - liar 64. meet me @ the altar - give it up 65. carr - dirty shoes 66. liza anne - rainbow sweater 67. sophia bel - 2am (and i did it again) 68. mimi webb - house on fire 69. helvetia - sideways 70. sedona - domino 71. jeromes dream - reminders to parallel 72. glass bones - pine overcoat 73. tsosis - snake eat tail 74. ivri - infinitesimal 75. 大原ゆい子 - ムスビメ 76. oohyo - teddy bear returns (summer edition) 77. minsu - buddy 78. youra - (throat) 79. hanbee - cushion 80. 김수영 kim suyoung - stumble 81. choi jungyoon - instant lover! 82. yebit - avec 83. hathaw9y - eclipse 84. shinee - gravity 85. layzi - idk 86. qveen herby - marie antoinette 87. almondmilkhunni - anxiety 88. jamila woods - tiny garden 89. madge - buttonss 90. poppy - knockoff 91. lizzo - pink 92. khalid - silver platter 93. tiffany day - should i be ok? 94. gabby's world - just for you to hear 95. patchymate - care 96. juliet ivy - lug 97. carol ades - free 98. tinashe - talk to me nice 99. reddish blu - humble me 100. vagabon - do your worst 101. kito - sticky 102. pinkpantheress - turn your phone off 103. charli xcx - speed drive 104. billie eilish - what was i made for? https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1f3MH87NHIo6qJU4zdztU4?si=77919b43299a4a62

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Tolerance Project extra Another piece in the puzzle Jigsaw Enterprise Training the first 10 years

Part 1 Cinderella you shall go to the Ball

Introduction

In this special 2 part blog I celebrate my friendship with Gemma Blagbourgh who I have known for some 36 years this month marks the 10th birthday of her business Jigsaw Enterprise training its a story of determination hard work and the loss of a few tears along the way but Gemma will tell its been well worth it those of you who are regular readers of this blog will know some of the back story behind Jigsaw.

As its been mentioned quite a few times in this blog Gemma recently let me publish the first 2 Chapters of her book How to build up your business piece by piece which told you how Jigsaw came about and how you could build up you own business by Self Employment

This Blog is not about that its more of a personal story of how I and another close friend of Gemma’s Claire Wallice become involved with Jigsaw

Claire’s Words come from a blog that me and Claire wrote about a fundraising ball that we put together for Jigsaw in 2014 that blog never saw print until now Thank you Claire for letting me use it and the use of the ball photos from her Facebook page

I can’t remember how I became involved in jigsaw but I think it must have been sometime in 2012 it might have been sooner I was asked by Gemma like Claire to come on the Jigsaw Enterprise training board to help her run it with some other friends being a board member meant we would go to meetings every other Saturday to discuss future projects help out with events and paperwork It could be hard work but most of the time it was a lot of fun

Gemma always seemed to be full of beans and have lots of ideas another thing I liked about her was that she would always have a different way to approach a problem if we hit a brick wall and I liked that I would call it Keilder Challenge* thinking I also met some new freinds the two Tracie's who I liked a lot and Ruth Sharpe who I took to Immediately we shared the same sense of humour too the cherry on the cake was that she was fellow Doctor who fan I would work allot with these three people over the next few years .

How did Claire get involved with Jigsaw Enterprise Training? I was lucky enough to see the impact jigsaw has on its participants as I was fortunate enough to be part of the very first skill builder course** as moral support for Gemma because it was all new and she was very nervous.

Well This was the start of something that would change even me

I spoke to a room full of strange people and helped to lead some of the sessions, Gemma wanted to give up after the first day but, it was me who said “no chance”

As a result of me being what Gemma and I call “Jigsawed” when times were tough I couldn’t see jigsaw go, when I knew people really needed us.

And so…. The conversation came between me and Gemma, we need to raise funds and company profile what can we do ?

So in 2014 Claire Wallice had the bright idea why don’t we have a ball, a white tie and tiara ball What was Gemma’s reaction ? Gemma – “If you are willing to take the project on, then “lets do it”

And so with Gemma’s go ahead Claire was raring to go so buzzing with ideas I start to plan our first ever fundraiser, with the longest to do list and internet searches for everything from venues to music and beyond after lots of time in the office, on the phone in conversation with many people, my plan was beginning to take shape.

I needed to somehow find a team of people to help one of which needed to design our posters and tickets, and so I had a lightbulb moment, and asked the very talented self taught graphic designer Dawn Roberts, who also did an awesome job of turning my vision into reality, helping to decorate the venue and be our photographer for the evening.

She was amazing, and did an awesome job.

Also along with Dawn and her many talents Tracy Jane was a big help in turning my vision in to a reality and I could have done any of this without my right hand man Ben Brown, between the three of them they were my rock.

So I put myself forward to host the whole thing silly me, I had done presentations for various projects before I thought this would be easy but even I found this stressful.

The programme kept changing I seem to remember that I had to change what I needed to say about 3 times and this wasn’t enough as things kept changing on the night itself it was a good job I had the whole thing written down on cue cards I even took a pen and pencil with me on the night in case I needed to change anything.  We did have to change things round when Claire decided at the last minute she didn’t want to do the speech she had written also one of our big auction prizes was withdrawn at the last second.

Talking about speeches Claire decided it would be a good idea to do one praising Gemma and the work she does with Jigsaw which I agreed I quickly wrote this as I knew exactly what I was going to say on the night of the ball, reading the speech I found myself with a lump in my throat and close to tears one of Gemma’s friends Lisa Morley took some mobile phone footage of my efforts and Gemma later said that when she feels down about Jigsaw she look at this short 57 second clip of my speech and it gives her the extra energy she needs to get going again which is nice of her to say. And here it is in all its glory https://www.facebook.com/100000097600947/videos/867016569978255/

What did I think about the ball and its end results I am pretty proud of what we did although I only played a small part in it.

Out of Respect for Gemma I am not going to put on the usual details on how to donate to the Tolerance Project because its not about me if you want to give a donation to Jigsaw Enterprise Training that would be great to do that please get in touch with Gemma she will tell you what to do

Pictures

1) The Jigsaw Enterprise Training Team Gemma me Claire Wallice Tracy Newsome Spink

2) Dawn Roberts our talented graphic designer and photographer

3) Gemma who this event was for

4) Ruth helping me with my Speech as the host with the most

5) Me doing my Brian May Impression when my hosting job was done

6) A Jigsaw Ball ticket

7) A 10th Birthday cake Happy Birthday Jigsaw

8) The Jigsaw Enterprise training logo

Video

Me doing my speech with thanks to Lisa Morley

Notes

*kielder challenge was an event that me and Gemma and others did when we were at Newsome high school where a group of disabled and non disabled people would make up a team to take on Crystal Maze type challanges the final would take place yearly at kielder Water in Northumberland for the record Newsome high never got to the final when I was there the best we could manage was three semi finals so near yet so far

**Skillbuilder is a foundation level course, that builds on peoples unique strengths, whilst providing them with the Skills to be work or volunteer ready, increase their independence, whilst playing a meaningful part in their local community. It is run for two days a week, and lasts for 12 weeks

 Coming soon  Part 2 of this blog Another piece in the Jigsaw puzzle The Tolerance connection

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short playlist for you based on your favorite stranger things character!!

i based all of these on both the vibes of the characters and the songs i think they might like (some more mainstream, some not). some songs could definitely work for multiple characters so i honestly recommend that you listen to more than one playlist. i spent a lot of time on this so pls boost if you enjoy the recs!!

mike wheeler:

calico kid by humorus

freakin’ out on the interstate by briston maroney

the adults are talking by the strokes

televised by hunny

scared of the dark by boywithuke

will byers:

kids by current joys

backseat rider by sara kays

teenage dirtbag by cavetown ft. chloe moriondo

leah by seeing double

untitled by max leone

dustin henderson:

scalawag by humorus

i listen to your radio show at night by grady strange

kokomo by the beach boys

give up baby go by peach pit

not into you by brooksie

lucas sinclair: (he’s a romantic, fight me on this)

late night talking by harry styles

nobody gets me (like you) by wallows

romeo & juliet by peter mcpoland

lady by the sea by stephen sanchez

december, 1963 (oh what a night!) by frankie valli & the four seasons

el hopper:

sports by beach bunny

vienna by billy joel

bubblegum bitch by marina

campus by vampire weekend

grace kelly by mika

max mayfield:

brooklyn baby by lana del ray

ghost town by benson boone

deal with the devil by rory webley

like2like by gabriela bee

1950 by king princess

nancy wheeler:

frankenstein by claire rosinkranz

23 by wallice

wet dream by wet leg

i shot cupid by stela cole

new by ben platt

jonathan byers:

out 4 a breather by dad sports

mr. forgettable by david kushner

sedona by houndmouth

the green and the town by ajr

summer depression by girl in red

steve harrington:

out of my league by fitz and the tantrums

mind over matter by young the giant

prom dress by mxmtoon

before i knew it by mason ramsey (steve would love this song and i stand by that.)

the f-word by humorus

robin buckley:

overwhelmed by ryan mack

devil town by cavetown

1980s horror film ii by wallows

despair by leo

anxiety by jvke

eddie munson:

daddy issues by the neighbourhood

killer queen by mad tsai

black confetti by dreamers

employment cost by roe kapara

engravings by ethan bortnick