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Finally managed to edit the photos of a new finestimaginary necklace design. The laser etched antique book design necklace is now available on the FinestImaginary website & etsy. I have another desing that I’ll hopefully be able to get up this evening, too!

Finally, after a few years of being without, I’m now producing t-shirts again. Unfortunately they’re not yet printed in-house (the eventual aim), but I found a good local firm to work with. Here’s the first one… More will be coming in the next couple of months! You can buy him here, on finestimaginary.com.

I’ve run one of these Bust product showcase ads before but this time I got a magazine through the post so I could actually check it out myself! Here it is, my wooden fox necklace!

On Saturday we held a FinestImaginary stall at ‘Viva La Bash’, a roller derby bout between the Leeds Roller Dolls and the Birmingham Blitz Dames. I’ve never seen a roller derby before, heard about them of course (what with Whip It and that), but didn’t exactly know what the hell went on.

After trying to figure out the rules by reading wikipedia I felt even more confused o.O so I figured it’d just make sense on the day. The derby was held at the Leeds university sports centre, and alongside my stall was another fellow crafter (who has had stalls at other events we’ve done, too), a skate stall and a merchandise stall.. AND there was a tuck shop, so me and Adam drank cherryade and ate sweeties all afternoon. Wired.

(That’s my friend ‘Magic 8 Brawl’ in the sparkly pants, I tend to know her as Jude though)

Roller derby is mad fun, with a bunch of girls wearing hot pants, skates and helmets who just kinda bash each other over… neat ;) Honestly, though, it looks like a brutal game, and pretty knackering, I would try and explain the rules but I’ll probably get them wrong… suffice to say the aim of the game is for one ‘jammer’ from each team to try get through a pack of blockers as they all skate around the track. There’s a bunch of other stuff to do with hip tapping, pivots, lead jammers etc etc which you kinda pick up as you watch.

If I had any spare time right now I’d be half tempted to go to the Fresh Meat session for the LRD’s in May, alas with training for this here run, things hotting up for FinestImaginary and generally trying to not kill myself, I can’t fit it in. Maybe you can though?

There’s also a good article about here on Culture Vulture
(Images above from John Ford)

Let’s get to it, then!

• New Tim Walker shoot in this month’s UK Vogue.

• Adorable interior design on Design*Sponge. I want to live in that house so badly!

• Traditional Japanese style pokémon… Via geekologie
• Selleck Waterfall Sandwich ♥
• Did you hear about Twinkie Chan’s announcement? I’m super excited to see what’s going to be in store!

• I added some new necklaces and brooches to the store this week, you should go and check them out, they’re proving popular already! Squeee!

This was a short one, let me know if you have any pretty things for me to look at for next week’s edition!