New Record Clocks now available!

Titles Include:

THE BEATLES Record Clocks

A Hard Days Night
All You Need Is Love
Twist And Shout
Help!
Strawberry Field Forever
She Love You
Yesterday
I Wanna Hold Your Hand

1980’s HEAVY METAL Record Clocks

AC/DC
Def Leppard
Alice Cooper
Poison
Heart
Ugly Kid Joe
Motley Crue
and more!

Even a bunch of coloured and clear vinyl record clocks, like this Queen one:

Way too many record clocks to list here.  But as a taster, there’s also Madonna, Rolling Stones, Bee Gee’s, The Who, Michael Jackson, Modern Rock, Elvis, even some country records for the Alberta crowd :) . Oh, and soundtracks from your favourite movies too.

Check ‘em out! Only one of each, so once they are gone, they’re gone…..

http://www.geekware.ca/clocks-c-20.html

Did you know that the Vancouver Olympic medals contain recycled electronic waste?

The 2010 medals are making Olympic and Paralympic medal history because they are the first to contain metals recovered from processing the circuit boards from end-of-life electronics (ewaste) .

“Historically, metal for the medals has been sourced only from mineral deposits that are mined from the earth and refined for commercial use. Teck has created a recycling process to recover metal from end-of-life electronics (e-waste) such as TVs, computers and keyboards. This process provides a practical solution to the challenge of reducing the amount of e-waste material destined for landfills and is part of the company’s pursuit of sustainability—a core value that drives its approach to business.

Metal can be sourced from many manufactured metal products, including household appliances, electronics or cables. Teck’s process involves recovering metals contained in cathode ray tube glass, computer parts and circuit boards through smelting. The process involves shredding, separating, and heating of the various electronic components to recover a variety of metals.

The gold, silver and copper used in the medals was recovered from end-of-life electronics circuit boards collected and processed at Trail and the Umicore facilities in Belgium which was then combined with the metal from other sources for the medal production. ”

How cool is that?!

Read more here on the Teck Website

www.geekware.ca is open again and to celebrate I’m giving everyone $5 off their next order!

Simply enter coupon code ‘hey thanks’ in the coupon box at checkout to automatically get $5 off when you spend $20.  

I have just got back from a 5 week adventure in Europe and have come back with oodles and oodles of records to turn into clocks.  I will go through the request list I have from your e-mail requests 1st and e-mail you all, and then I’ll gradually post the clocks up on the website.

If there is a record you’d like, for example the song you danced to at your wedding, or your 1st ever concert etc, you can drop me an e-mail at   nicola @ geekware . ca   to see if I have it.  

It’s good to be back :)

www.geekware.ca will be closed from today until February 28th while I’m off on vacation!  I’ll keep you posted on my adventures on the GEEKWARE fan page on Facebook :)

Thanks for keeping GEEKWARE so busy during Christmas!  It was great to meet so many of you at the shows and thanks for ordering from the online store too.  I always like to take a break at this time of year to give me time to dream up new designs and plan for the year ahead.

I have a lot of thinking to do over the next few months.  Whilst I did enjoy trying out the big Christmas shows in Calgary and Red Deer and Fort Mac, it is exhausting to do all the load in and load out and travelling too.  I’d like to focus more on the website this year, and instead of offering all the one-of-a-kind creations at the shows, I’ll photograph them and post them on the site instead.  I’d like that.  It’s also a way to repay you guys for your loyalty.  

I’d like to offer more custom options on the site too.  With the cufflinks you can pick the letters you’d like, and I’ve often had requests for custom letters on the necklaces and keychains, so I will add those options.

Let me know what other changes or products you would like to see in 2010.  It would be great to hear your ideas.

Yay!  Suddenly everything is finished!  Completed my last craft show on Sunday and packed up the car in crazy cold temperatures ( -46C apparently without windchill… ) and now I’m done!

If you are in Edmonton and need a last minute GEEK GIFT from www.geekware.ca  please drop me an e-mail at nicola @ geekware . ca with your shopping list and you can come pick up from our home in Bonniedoon on Sunday 20th Dec between 4pm and 5pm.  

I’ll e-mail you the address once I receive your order.  We can arrange an alternate pick-up time too.

Save BIG at www.GEEKWARE.ca for 24 hours only! It’s the SALE where you get to pick the savings: 

• Spend $25+ and get  free worldwide shipping with code: Holiday09 

or

• Spend $50+ and receive 25% off your entire order with code: 25Holiday

 or

• Spend $100+ and receive 37.5% off your entire order with code: 37Holiday

or

• Spend $150+ and receive 50% off your entire order with code: 50Holiday

What a funny t-shirt design.  Made me smile.  Available on Etsy 

Beautiful packaging for Apple’s new Magic Mouse is shown over on the Dieline packagine site.  I love looking at all the novel and clever packaging designs they showcase.  

I think I’d reuse the Mighty Mouse packaging as a little storage containers for nails or thumb tacks.

All you have to do is comment on our Facebook wall and you’re entered!

Here’s the link to the GEEKWARE Fan Page

Get your skates on though, contest ends midnight MST 5th December!

Love it!

image via Flickr user Moparx

This print by RosieMusic is simply perfect.

I love the green, and how she’s sneaking a look at him…

Hitting the road on Wednesday for the biggest show I’ve ever done and I’m nervous. Do I have enough stock?  What if I run out of bags?  What if the rodeo crowd thinks GEEKWARE is too weird?

I guess it’s too late now, I’ve picked up the rental van and am about to start packing everything in!  Mr GEEKWARE is taking 3 days off work, and we’re hitting the road early Wednesday so that we have most of the day to load into the show and set up the booth. 

Other than Fringe, which is outdoors in the middle of Summer, I’ve never done a 4 day show before.  I like that the show runs till 9.30pm every day, so that the evening shoppers can come by after work.

I best get packing, eh?!  If you’re in Calgary, it would be lovely to see you at the show.  Here’s the details:

Official show website

pdf of the show floor plan - I’m booth #624 in the middle of the venue, which I think is a good spot. Next to the picnic area and ATM :)

Wish me luck, and hope to see you there! 

When I do shows, particularly looong summer shows, I love chatting to shoppers and hearing their comments.  It’s such a great way to get feedback on my designs, and plan what to make more of.  It’s a wonderful feeling to overhead shoppers exclaiming: 

“OMG these are the geekiest earrings EVER, I have to buy them!”

or

“This would be perfect for my husband, he’s such a geek and impossible to buy for!”

But when I sell through the website, I don’t get so much feedback and it gets me wondering.  Why was the 1st record clock I sold online the Milli Vanilli ‘Girl You Know It’s True’?  Why not Elvis or The Beatles - you’d think they are more classic?  Did that customer have an amusing memory of that song from the 80’s?  And today the Rick Astley clock sold.  Hmm, was that their wedding song?  I’ll never know.

But sometimes I do get feedback and here’s a great one I received this week:

I love your stuff. :)

At the Fringe Fest in Edmonton I bought a pair of the “You Spin Me ‘Round”
Earrings. They are such a hit, everywhere I go I get comments about people
who recognize them and think I’m pretty much the sweetest teenager ever. I
love them because they look really cool. And the pair I bought were yellow
and fun. :)

I want to say thank you! I hope that I can hopefully purchase more of your
stuff, I just think it’s near the neatest thing I’ve ever seen.

That made me smile the rest of the day!  It makes me want to e-mail some of the artists who I have bought treasures from in the past.

But this one really made me laugh, I just had to share.  The customer had bought a pair of MAC laptop key cufflinks, which I shipped Expedited to reach her in time for a vacation to Germany.  I’d included a couple of Worthers Original candy’s in with the order….here’s what she wrote:

The Geekware shipment reached us just in time to accompany us to
Germany where it will delight our very own beloved geek. Thanks also
for your personal note and the recycled business card holder
(brilliant!) with two pieces of candy. You will be amused to know
that my husband initially thought _they_ (the two shiny items) were the
cuff links, but then he’s _not_ the geek . . . ;-)

Better get your skates on if you’ve got geeks on your Christmas list that you’re planning on giving GEEKWARE to!!

Remember that we’re in Canada and packages can take up to 10 days to arrive to the US, especially around Christmas time.

To help you out with your Christmas shopping, we’re offering

FREE SHIPPING on all orders over $25 to anywhere in the world! Enter ‘Holiday09′ at checkout and we’ve got you covered!

Yep, that means you can buy that awesome geek necklace you’ve had your eye on for your math nerd friend.

Or those fun Home Key keychains for everyone at your office!

Or that green diskette notebook for your earth loving recycler buddy.

Or that pair of apple cufflinks your MAC-obsessed friend would just die for!

No matter where in the world you live, or what you order, you get FREE shipping.  :-)