A friend of mine Alison has signed up for a stall at a Swop n Shop even in Derby (at the Silk Mill june 9th) and has asked me to help her out and make a bunch of my geeky badges to sell on her Vintage and Upcycled clothing and supplies stall. It should be good fun, I have only ever done a few stalls as I'm a huge coward when it comes to my crafts being anything more than a few dolls and badges sold in my etsy shop. Anyway if anyone feels the need to visit Derby that saturday I shall be there... possibly with the Boy in tow.

http://www.redcross.org.uk/Get-involved/Events/Challenge-and-social-events/Social-events/Swop-n-Shop

We saw Avengers for my birthday it was awesome. Recently been watching all the X-Men movies with the Boy... such a hardship watching men in tight costumes/shirtless fight.

I made this a few days ago with some suede leather I was sent in a craft swap ages ago, a vintage key and some vintage pearl buttons. The Boy modelled it for me though it was hard to keep him still. Very simple design and I'm not sure how hard wearing it will be as it's soft but it looks good and the Boy was happy to bounce around wearing it for a little while. He said it was ace. I was asked by a friend if I could make her fella a steampunk cuff which I think I should be able to with the rest of the suede.

thank you everyone! I got some chocolates and a geeky crafting book and think I may be taken out to dinner later and tomorrow I get taken to see the Avengers! 

Quote from: meridian on 23 Apr 2012 10:45

I've made pillows out of my husband's shirts and tshirts (though tshirts are a pain in the bum to sew).

Going off topic here, but have you tried a ballpoint needle for these? A walking foot might help too but I still haven't figured out how to use mine yet lol

Kerry- to be honest I haven't tried sewing any tshirt material for awhile.. but I have heaps of M's and the Boy's favourite tshirts to turn into a tshirt memory quilt.... we shall see if that happens... I've not got the mindset for quilting but with the tshirts being large pieces of fabric I think I might just be able to do that... or make scarves out of the logo pieces... I've seen a good tutorial for that somewhere. I haven't bought any fancy bits for my sewing... all the dolls, pincushions and cuffs I make are all down and dirty simple sewing. *lazy seamstress*

I commented. I like the first Seagull design. Very simple and clean design. <3 

I'm reading Little House in the Big Woods with the Boy. I dug the books out of the attic at my parents house and brought Little House in the Big Woods and Little House On the Prairie Home with a assortment of other books I found while we were stateside. I was obsessed with the Little House books when I was a kid and read and reread them over and over again when not watching the tv show. My other even found me some bonnets at a yardsale when I was small so I could pretend I was Laura Ingalls living in the Old West. I couldn't find my copy of Farmer Boy though which was the main book I wanted to find for the Boy to read as its about Almanzo's childhood, but he does seem to be intrested in Little House, especially as it's a TRUE story of what life was like before tv, ipods, Nintendo and everything else he has.

I'm also reading a Fairy Tale anthology and a humourous fantasy novel by A. Lee Martinez called In the Company of Ogres. I still need to read A Game of Thrones as I started it but my brain switched off and got occupied with other things.

So what is everyone else reading?

We watched a bunch of random movies (Jonah Hex, a bunch of kids movies, HellBoy, the Wizard of Oz, X-Men, X-Men 2 with the Boy,while at my parents... no satallite or cable there, only a half dozen channels or so. I also watched a few films on the plane, Sherlock Homes, Crazy Stupid Love, Drive, and some forgettable comedy flicks that I zoned out watching.

We did manage to go see John Carter (of Mars) which was fun. M is going to take me to see the Avengers when its out though.

oh and I watched half of X-Men first class with the Boy yesterday.