This petite silver cabinet is handmade of claro walnut with ebony door and drawer pulls. Legs are ebonized ash. The cabinet interior, as well as drawers can be modified to suit your requirements. Other wood species are available. Contact us with your special request. Oil based varnish hand applied protects this piece. "Sterling" is featured on Page 348 of 500 Cabinets: A Showcase of Design and Craftsmanship (Lark Books, 2010).
This functional sculptural clock is handmade from ribbon strip sapele wood which is wrapped around...
An original design constructed of orchard salvaged claro walnut from groves in Northern California which...
This massive yet graceful original design is handmade of orchard-salvaged claro walnut from groves in...
This handmade cabinet is constructed with orchard salvaged claro walnut, curly maple panels and carved...
Lyn the Caricaturist is an experienced illustrator - drawing glamorous, cute and very funny contemporary digital on the spot caricatures on an ipad pro at a wide variety of events from weddings to corporate functions. Fun for all age groups and style of function. Interactive, modern and fun. Guaranteed to bring a smile to your guests faces.
Lyn brings a memorable twist to the traditional live caricature entertainment. Lyn sketches live caricatures of your guests on an Ipad tablet that transmits the cartoon being created on a monitor attached to her easel creating an intimate and inclusive show that all age groups will enjoy.
Suitable for all age groups and size of function including corporate trade shows, birthday parties and weddings.
Every guest receives a 4x6 inch print presented in a protective sleeve with a free personalised message from the host inside
You will benefit from a free web page dedicated to your event including photos and caricatures created on the day and where guests can request a free digital copy of their cartoon.
Newlyweds or guest of honour receive their caricature after the event along with a link to their webpage containing all the caricatures.
Lyn provides a professional and friendly service. Flattering and glamourous caricature sketches for all your guests to enjoy.
Thank you for organising Lyn to come to our big day. We found Lyn was excellent with our guests, she came on time and everyone was thrilled with her pictures. Many thanks, Les Lawrenson.
Lovely lady and all the children were delighted with the pics she gave them. Will definitely recommend her.
Lyn was an excellent and fun addition to our office Christmas party! Very talented and quick to produce an array of drawings on the night. The extra bonus was people were able to see her screen on the other side with a preview of her work. Fantastic! Highly recommended.
Thank you so much for all the hard work you did yesterday to make kim's hennie such a great day - everyone was delighted with their caricatures and I am so glad you were able to join us. We will certainly be recommending you to all our family and friends. Thanks!
Customers who have enquired for Lyn The Caricaturist have also been interested in the following Caricaturists who are also based in Aberdeen and Scotland. For more information or further options, please call 0845 643 9384.	
Neil is Scotland's top live Caricaturist, entertaining and delighting guests, clients and colleagues throughout the country at most of the leading Hotels, corporate and private venues. Neil is Based in Edinburgh but happy to travel to make your event a success. With experience in all forms of event from Weddings to Parties, Neil - Scotlan...
Paul Matthews is a Retro solo performer based in Manchester, Lancashire but available to hire UK Wide.
Paul Matthews is a solo guitarist and singer who performs a wide variety of songs from the 50s right up to the modern day. His set is a mixture of Folk, Country, Pop, Indie, Rock N Roll and Soul.
Paul Matthews is a versatile singer and music who chooses songs from across genres and decades. Paul has an authentically vintage and retro style in both his song choices and sound.
Paul plays guitar and sings and can add different elements to his performance with the addition of a bass drum and percussion, or a loop pedal to create large soundscapes. He can add musicians to become a duo or trio (with the addition of a female vocals/pianist and double bass player) which opens up his repertoire and allows the music to become a lot more lively.
Great set. Perfect music for our tastes. Guests loved him. Communication was clear. Was able to perform outside at our special request. Can't recommend him enough. Just wish we had booked him for the evening entertainment as the evening band didn't really do what we requested. (Please note - the evening band was NOT booked via Warble Entertainment)
Paul Matthews was absolutely fantastic! The music was amazing and he is so talented, everyone at our wedding commented on how brilliant they thought he was! Paul provided entertainment for our guests all afternoon and we would recommend him to anyone that wants a good musician to entertain the crowd!
Paul was extremely flexible in the run up to the wedding & took time to learn songs particularly for our wedding. The performance itself was outstanding and fitted in perfectly with the ambience we wanted to create during our evening.
Hi Paul, sorry I didn't get the chance to say bye on Saturday, hope you got to your next call on time. Just wanted to say a big thank you for getting the music just right for the occasion. Abby and Owen had a great day and loved every minute of it. Personally I was bowled over by your rendition of their first dance song (can't remember what it was called) as I actually wasn't that keen on the original version. You lightened up the song and made it a great first dance. Can't thank you enough for that! If we have any other occasions and you are not too famous by then we would definitely book you again. Very best wishes and lots of love, Kerry and Mark (Abby's Mum and Dad)
A nice lad with a unique sound and product. Always difficult to perform ahead of the main act on a Saturday evening but he nailed it.
Fantastic at our wedding! Everyone commented on how talented and friendly Paul was! Would definitely recommend and would consider using his band in the future as well as a solo performance. Thanks Paul!
Ideal act for daytimes at weddings, e.g. during the ceremony, meal or afternoon drinks. Also suitable to warm up the crowd ready for a full band or DJ.
Gloucestershire £390.00 Herefordshire £390.00 Shropshire £390.00 Staffordshire £390.00 Warwickshire £390.00 Worcestershire £390.00 Birmingham £390.00
Customers who have enquired for Paul Matthews have also been interested in the following Acoustic Performers for Events and Weddings available in Manchester, Lancashire, the North West and UK Wide. For more information or further options, please call 0845 643 9384.
What do you do when hacking real world computers gets boring? You enter the virtual world. One bored hacker just hooked up his Minecraft game to a real-life smart bulb. He can now flip a switch in the game to turn on the lights in his room. Yep.
The hacker, known as Giannoug, used the OpenComputers mod, which allows you to add real-life computers into Minecraft - bear with us. Using it in conjunction with a few other mod programs, he spawned a computer inside his game and opened a TCP connection, which allows the game to communicate with his "unknown, eBay sourced" smart bulb.
All the instructions have been published if you want to have a go yourself. Inside Minecraft, gamers use "redstone" to create in-game electricity. Giannoug used it to build a lever that, when connected through OpenComputers to his Wi-Fi enabled smart bulb, turns his real-world lights on and off.
This isn't the first time that Minecraft has been used to control lighting in the real world. In 2013, a developer synced Philips Hue to his son's Minecraft game so that the lights would dim and brighten according to the game's day and night cycle.
Two years ago, another tinkerer created the same redstone-controlled lighting switch using Arduino and a remote-controlled outlet. And a far back as 2011, one coder created his own scripts in Minecraft to turn Arduino-connected LED lights on and off.
Who knows, with enough time and Internet-connected gadgets, someone might actually develop a full smart hub for the home right inside Minecraft.
From shape to materials to band to clasp, we talk a lot about the design of smartwatches, but I wonder if watch faces are sometimes still a bit of an afterthought.
I love a good watch face, and it's always a shame when someone has a nice smartwatch let down by an ugly face. The watch's ugly face, not the person's, I mean.
As smartwatches become better looking, we're getting more watch faces to choose from and more ways to customise them once they're on our wrists, which is more important as we try to move away from techy-looking smartwatches.
Some of the new smartwatches we've seen at IFA this week have left us particularly impressed - the new Samsung Gear S3 and the Asus Zenwatch 3 chief among them.
And more and more, companies are realising how important both design and choice are when it comes to devices we're going to strap onto our wrists and let the world see. I think that's particularly important when it comes to faces, as often there's a lack of choice when it comes to the watch itself.
Google's got the right idea, doing its typical thing of opening up the box and seeing what we do in it. You can already install third-party faces on Android Wear, and this week Google announced a new social media competition for people to submit their own design ideas.
"No need to be a computer whiz: snap a picture, sketch on a napkin, play with fabric, paint on canvas," said Google. The faces will be judged by a panel of fashion industry icons with the winning five turned into downloadable Android Wear faces later in this year. And let's not forget that Google partnered with the likes of Ted Baker, Nicole Miller and Mango last year to create a range of designer faces.
We're also giving a shout-out to Pebble here, with it announcing that its latest update, Pebble OS 4.0, will be rolling out to watches in September. A lot of the new functionality revolves around the face, including the ability for faces to react and resize to Timeline Quick View.
Sony has announced a crowdfunding campaign to get its new e-paper watch, the FES Watch U, off the ground. You may recall the company's original FES watch didn't make it out of Japan, but we're hoping we'll see this one make its way around the world.
The watch is less heavy on features than many other smartwatches, but it's big on looks. Yeah it's monochrome, but you can change the design of both the watch face and strap, which is neat, and the watch can store 24 designs at once. What's more, the e-paper design means those faces look less like a screen and more like a traditional watch - always a good thing. Just think how brilliant a coloured version would look.
Before you call me crazy, hear me out: I do like some of the Apple Watch faces, I just wish there were more of them, and more to customise. I'm also writing this on the eve of watchOS 3, which will bring more faces and customisations with it. But I feel like Apple should have been hotter on this out of the gate.
For example, I love the 'Simple' and 'Colour' Watch faces, but why can't I have my calendar updates along the bottom like I can on the Utility face? The simple answer is "Because Jony Ive said so", but I think it's about time Apple changed that. Come on Jony, it's time to stop hogging it and let third parties contribute their own designs.