Pewter hat badges

[watervole]

Anonymous Morris now have our top hats.

The aim is to decorate them with small objects, in team colours of red, black and silver/white.

Here's my first item:




Little pewter pin badges are ideal as the pin goes right through the thickness of that hat - broach pins would be no use at all.

If anyone has any  unwanted pewter animal pin badges collecting dust in a drawer, I'd be very happy to have them...


(I'm still learning with my new camera.  I've started a photobucket account, but I don't know how to make the picture on LJ a sensible size.  It looks bigger here than it does on Photobucket)

Comments

[jon-a-five.livejournal.com]

Do you not have one of the old pewter beeblebear badges?

[watervole.livejournal.com]

No, I don't.

[gipsy-dreamer.livejournal.com]

Great picture, but could you please put it behind a cut - both here and on DW? Thanks :)

[watervole.livejournal.com]

It's okay, Reapermum has told me how to shrink the image. It shouldn't be a problem now.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to ask you this, so I seize this Morris-related opportunity: have you seen the film Morris: A Life With Bells On, and if so what did you think of it?

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Yes. It was okay. I enjoyed it, but I'll probably only watch it once. Some of it was filmed around where we live.

[the-gardener.livejournal.com]

I know. The beach opposite Sandbanks recast as LA!

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

To get your image more manageable, either reduce the size to ~500 pixels for the longest dimension. You can do that through Photobucket's own image editing. Or you can use a clickable thumbnail. To do that, when you're looking at the album select the pic you want and then click the button at the foot of the page "Generate HTML" and copy the thumbnail link.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

Thanks! That's what I needed to know.

[vjezkova.livejournal.com]

Oh, what a gorgeous hat! Of course I will try to find something - if I can find anything.

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

Where did you get the hat?

[watervole.livejournal.com]

£34 from Jaxom hats. http://www.hatsandcaps.co.uk/Jaxon-Hats-Mid-Crown-Top-Hat-P193700/

Good quality wool felt. Looks as though it will wear well.

If I was seeing you in the near future I'd sell you one at a discount as I bought a bulk batch.

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

7 1/4 or 59; what discount?

Probably not really as I'd like to try it on first.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

You're a size L by their measuring.

I can only offer 10% off (unless you're XL, in which case you get 20%), so it's not worth waiting around for.

They sell sweat bands which are handy for people between sizes.

[davidwake.livejournal.com]

I'll leave it be, but thanks for the offer. At some point I want to replace my grey one that doesn't fit with a black one that does, but there's no rush. It's a frivolous thought.