Idea of a friend, but they’ve said I can do it. Not entirely sure what it is, but things like pyjama parties with cake, delivering cake to people in bed, that sort of thing.
Decadence in serious times ;)
“I think high tea in jimjams served in a large bed is the new social gathering! Quick, register cakeinbed.com!”
And thus, cakeinbed.com was born… Thanks Si!
“I could lie in my pit and order some cake and a person to bring it round”
Yes, AJ, exactly that sort of thing.
I was thinking of it being for a group of close friends and then we’d just all take it in turns.
If it was going to be a bigger thing, then yeah, would be paid but I think I like the idea of it just being close friends, or just friends at least.
“So why do you need a website for friends? You just go ahead and do it?” AJ
Hmm… You make a good point… Could be lots of groups of lots of friends…? I dunno
I’ll have to talk to my friends again; they’re good at ideas
Comments welcome
What do you think? Email me!
It’s on Twitter; do retweet…
Sunday, 15 Mar 2009
A site/blog/resource - I guess somewhat like
Threadless, except:-
- More community-driven
- Less commercial
- Less focused on design skills - so, witty people who can’t draw can submit plain text slogans; win! (No more discovering a tee you’d love except for how it’s been implemented)
Furthermore:-
- UK-based, with .co.uk instead of/in addition to .com (and/or .org.uk instead of/in addition to .org)
- Repository of ideas for people to make their own cool tees with - users must state slogans/designs belong to them in order to submit
- High emphasis on not stealing other people’s stuff
- Creative Commons licensed; so you can use any of the designs/slogans as long as you credit the designer/writer (on the tee???)
- Commercial - not sure about this one. Would it be possible to buy tees that include (some of?) the designs/slogans? If so, would they be non-profit?
- I think if there’s a commercial aspect, it needs to be completely voluntary & opt-in
- Plus, the designer/write should be fairly compensated (not like on CafePress where if you want a decent profit on your stuff you need to price it to be even more ridiculously expensive than it starts out as)
- If the site is selling tees, these should be ethically-produced & fairly priced
Hmm, I think that’s all I can think of for now!
Update: TypeTees is much more similar to this idea than Threadless is: “An artistic take on the “slogan tee”. Community submitted and scored slogans set in beautiful typefaces or custom type. Each week two new TypeTees are available!” (It doesn’t say this anywhere I can see this on the site, so I didn’t find it until I did more digging! It’s on the parent company, skinnyCorp’s website).
My idea for a UK-based, less commercial, more focused on people physically making their own tees from a public sharing of users’ ideas still stands! :)
Update: My friend Edi has a great idea for putting the design on a piece of fabric that you can then attach to a tee, enabling lots of designs for one tee. Fab!
Sunday, 25 Jan 2009
- Bisexual pub
- Polyvegans social group, or bipolyvegans
- Ooh, maybe a group where you list all the stuff you’re really interest in (e.g. bi, poly, vegan) & where there are at least X number of crossovers within an area, a group is formed automagically. So, sort of like Meetup.com, but a) free & b) automated
Saturday, 24 Jan 2009
Blogging/writing/scrapbooking?!/???: Personal Finance - one article per month
Updates on where I am & where I’m going with regards to:-
- budgeting
- planning
- rewards/treats
- motivation
- stuff that helps
- stuff that hinders
I could call it Incompetent Accountant, as a sort of play on / reference to Incompetent Chef! :)
Tuesday, 20 Jan 2009
- themes - recommendations & customisations
- seo
- accessibility (not really problogging is it, just blogging! :))
I wonder if this market is already busy… How long has Tumblr been around?
*ponders*
Saturday, 17 Jan 2009
Books, bookshop, cakes, library, tea… Regional cuisines. A place to be… International cuisine (spin-off) Vegan!
- Mexican… tacos
- Pancakes & crepes
- Alternative - a bit like Kali
- Rents space out to other organisations/events with interesting/sympathetic ideas/causes/etc
- Co-operative & hippy - a bit like Pogo
I’d love to hear what you think about this; so do email me
from Vegan London Space, Tea & Cakes (shared Ta-Da List of mine)
Saturday, 17 Jan 2009
