Here are some easy to sew Christmas presents (written by ai-writer.com)

(This post has been generated wholly by http://ai-writer.com. I've done this as an experiment.)

Just afternoon and a few basic sewing skills are enough to turn a couple of homeless socks into a cozy psine-and what's better than a puppy for Christmas? [0]

DIY Gifts To Sew For Friends - quick and easy sewing designs and free designs for the best ideas and gifts - Creative step-by-step guides for beginners - nice home decoration, accessories, kitchen appliances and do-it-yourself do-it-yourselfers. [1]

Made from recycled fabric strips and padded buttons, the floral clips are an easy workmanship and a fashionable Christmas present. [2]

Do-it-yourself clothes, DIY clothes, sewing patterns, fast crafts, tutorials, DIY tutorials. [3]

Ideal sewing tutorials for beginners with easy patterns to make great Christmas presents for friends and the whole family. [4]

Ideal sewing tutorials for beginners with free patterns to make great Christmas presents for friends and the whole family. [5]

Let yourself be inspired by your PDF and prepare a great Christmas gift in the form of small handmade gifts (materials for Christmas! [6]

Christmas projects include gingerbreads, cones and a modern Christmas wreath, as well as simple projects that can be gifts, such as felt frames for buttons and picture frames that are ideal for children to give to their grandparents. [7]

Do it yourself Kitchen sewing projects - Folding pot holder - Easy sewn Tutorial and models for towels, napkins, napkins, aprons and fresh Christmas gifts for friends and family - Rustic, modern and creative home furnishing ideas! [8]

DIY Gifts To Sew For Friends - quick and easy sewing designs and free designs for the best ideas and gifts - Creative step-by-step guides for beginners - nice home decoration, accessories, kitchen. [9]

List of handmade tailoring projects, including Christmas stockings, decorations, cushions, gifts and table-top races. [10]

Ideal for the child to be able to renovate a Christmas tree once and for all (today you probably won't even want to give it as a gift, right? [11]

Made of fabric remnants, this is close to zero cost, but this makes it will be an incredibly sweet and funny DIY gift for a child or adult, depending on the material chosen. [12]

Package your sweet fragrant vintage glass jar bombs with a custom plate to make the presentation even more unique. [13]

For the bookmark, you'll need to cut out two slightly smaller pieces of paper, as you can see from the video and stick them together. [14]

Instead, reuse it as a personalized stocking for someone special on your gift list, and then fill your stockings with some little wrapped surprises. [15]

DIY Sewing Projects for the Kitchen - Guide and design for towels, napkins, aprons and cold Christmas presents for friends and family - Rustic, Modern and Creative (Sewing by instant gifts). [16]

Christmas sock stitched lean sewn: A fourth fat of the main fabric (format) A fourth fat of fabric lining (work white smooth fabric is fine) A small amount of contrast fabric for Bracelet Calza A small amount of button ribbon A. [17]

For an aromatic, beautiful and easy to use gingerbread, apply the orange and grapefruit cloves and place them on cake racks or decorative platters with the addition of greenery. [18]

Customise the fabrics to match the style of the recipient and give the bag as a gift on its own or fill it with a few little surprises to make your holiday real. [19]

Create a thematic gift basket for newlyweds, students or new homeowners, you can create a basket with a few inexpensive discounted items. [20]

The computer and scanner are all you need to turn your favourite collector stamps (such as stamps) into printable designs that you can use to turn cheap shoppers' boards into useful decorative accessories. [21]

It is not only a sweet and well thought-out gift, but it can be a special gift depending on what you decorate the frame. [22]

Sources

[0] https://www.marthastewart.com/276324/christmas-sewing-projects
[1] https://www.pinterest.com.au/explore/gifts-to-sew/
[2] http://www.bhg.com/christmas/gifts/easy-sew-christmas-gifts/
[3] https://www.pinterest.com/explore/christmas-sewing-gifts/
[4] http://www.applegreencottage.com/2016/10/DIY-Christmas-gifts-easy-free-sewing-patterns.html
[5] http://www.applegreencottage.com/2016/10/DIY-Christmas-gifts-easy-free-sewing-patterns.html
[6] http://www.applegreencottage.com/2017/09/DIY-Christmas-presents-sewing-patterns.html
[7] https://www.interweave.com/store/quick-easy-last-minute-christmas-gifts-to-sew
[8] https://www.pinterest.com.au/explore/christmas-sewing-gifts/
[9] https://www.pinterest.com/explore/christmas-sewing-gifts/
[10] https://www.pinterest.com.au/explore/christmas-sewing-gifts/
[11] http://www.applegreencottage.com/2016/10/DIY-Christmas-gifts-easy-free-sewing-patterns.html
[12] http://www.applegreencottage.com/2017/09/DIY-Christmas-presents-sewing-patterns.html
[13] http://www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/handmade/55-crafty-handmade-gift-ideas-pictures
[14] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyMJgpgmQ0o
[15] http://www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/handmade/55-crafty-handmade-gift-ideas-pictures
[16] https://au.pinterest.com/pin/512988213796483743/
[17] https://au.pinterest.com/pin/512988213796483743/
[18] http://www.marthastewart.com/856465/easy-christmas-crafts
[19] http://www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/handmade/55-crafty-handmade-gift-ideas-pictures
[20] https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Christmas-Gifts
[21] http://www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/handmade/55-crafty-handmade-gift-ideas-pictures
[22] https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Your-Own-Christmas-Gifts

(It's not great is it.... See next blogpost for some more thoughts on this).

 Day 4/30 NaBloPoMo 2017

Recent event round-ups from my collaboration with Lloyd Davis/Tuttle Club & Truphone.

I recently held a series of five events with my friend and collaborator, Lloyd Davis, at Truphone's rather splendid offices in Canary Wharf. I did a round-up of all the events over on my Heroes of Mobile website so please follow the links below to see the videos of the talks and to find out more about what we covered and links to further coverage and reading.

Future of Mobile:Artificial Intelligence with James Tagg

Future of Work: Artificial Intelligence with Benjamin Ellis

Future of Work: Blockchain with Imogen Heap (yes, that Imogen Heap)

Future of Work: Drones, Robots and Internet of Things with Priya Prakash

Future of Work: Augmented and Virtual Reality with Eva Pascoe

Lloyd and I are working up some new event themes for the New Year. If you're interested in hosting and sponsoring the next series in the UK in the Spring (it doesn't have to be London), please get in touch.

What will work look like in the 2020?

A tricky question, but one that I was asked recently. My answer…

It's hard to predict the future of work, and seven years is not that far away. Seven years ago was 2006. I had moved to a Symbian Smartphone - probably the N70 at the time. I was using the odd app and game and had limited use of mobile web. I had started to use Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook. Fast forward to 2013 and I'm using an Android smartphone with email, web, games, music, alarm clock, messaging, social networking and more. I'm still using my laptop for 'work' stuff but my media consumption is primarily mobile. By 2020, we'll have devices that are lighter and smarter, with better battery life. We may have broadband connectivity across the whole of the UK. All sectors will be affected in some way by mobile technology - whether it's remote monitoring of our health or checking that our washing machines are working properly. People will need to adapt and learn and not be afraid of technology. It should be seamless and invisible to take the fear away and proper respect should be given to privacy and data. Whether we've worked that all out by 2020, time will tell.

I think others had better answers, so go and read the full article here. You may also find Russell Buckley’s thoughts on the topic interesting from last April.

There is no future of mobile

Or at least that was the title to my 6-minute talk at yesterday's Future of Mobile conference at Kensington Town Hall. I was one of the 6 x 6 bloggers (alongside peers Vero, Andrew, Ewan, Whatleydude and Jemima) and I had 6 minutes to wax lyrical about any topic I liked.

There was a sharp intake of breath as I announced there was no future to mobile. As you might imagine, as an advocate of all aspects of mobile technology, and especially mobile marketing, advertising and media, it was not a sentence the audience expected to hear coming from my lips.

[Photo courtesy of Justin Davies of NinetyTen]

But let me explain...

There are 6 reasons why, if we carry on the way we are going, there will be no future to mobile.

1. We carry on focusing on technology rather than people

The technology is a hygiene factor and not the raison d'etre. The technology needs to be reliable, affordable, usable, fast and context relevant. There are very few folks out there who care which gizmo or platform you're building on. They just want it to work. The technology needs to be invisible and seamless. And of course that's a challenge to developers and service providers, but the fact still remains that this is all about the people and not the technology.

2. We continue to have silly mobile tariffs

Why are mobile tariffs, let alone data tariffs so complicated? Why are the tariffs, in particular data tariffs, focused on contract customers who are prepared to commit to an 18 month contract when 60% or more of the UK's mobile customers are on prepay phones and either won't (it's too scary, don't know what to expect, or are transient) or can't (poor credit rating) change to a contract. But more than that, why are they going to switch to a contract to use mobile data if they have no idea what the experience is going to be like?

Back in the early days of the internet, internet service providers, like Freeserve (now Orange), revolutionised internet access by introducing the penny a minute tariff up to a maximum of £12.99 a month. You knew that if you were online for 10 minutes, it would cost you 10p. You knew it would never cost you more than £12.99 a month. You didn't have to have a contract and therefore it removed the risk. Admittedly dial-up could be a bit flaky, websites could be a bit slow to load (sound familiar huh), but still folks could try it risk and commitment-free. And it meant a huge increase in internet usage.

3. We create applications and services for people like us

There was an excellent turnout at the Future of Mobile and I'm guessing that 99% of the people in the room were Promobs - as in professional or "super" mobile users. You know the type - have a N95 in one hand whilst checking their email on their blackberry in their other hand and live streaming qik at the same time.

The trouble is, the market is full of people who are *not* like us. Our customers are normal people. The ones who use their phones for talking and texting. The ones who have no idea that they may need new firmware or may need to change their handset settings. My family is a case in point.. bearing in mind I've been working in the mobile industry for more than 8 years, you wouldn't be able to tell that by my own family's usage of mobile technology...

My sister, well she's just about changed her ringtone and clings on to her Nokia 3310.

My brother has a Motorola Razr and when he got it, thought it was a seriously cool phone (and more to the point, thought I would think the same).

My parents are just too elderly now to get their heads round mobile technology. It's too complicated to learn, their fingers aren't as nimble as they used to be and they just don't have a need. They've lived their long lives without mobile technology. In fact a lot of their lives was lived without telephony in the home at all.

My nieces - well it's all about SMS and to a lesser extent listening to music (and sharing music files via bluetooth). The perception of mobile data to them is still that it's scarily expensive and a £5 a month commitment just so they can check facebook is just a step to far to the average teenager or twenty-something.

And my Auntie, well she just loves to chat. Whether it's a landline or a mobile, she doesn't care. She just wants to talk.

So my question to you is how do we create useful, relevant, entertaining, interesting services for Normobs so that we can bring them into our mobile world without dragging them there kicking and screaming in pain at the experience? How do we create that demand?

4. We continue to nurture the culture gap

Yes, there is. There's a culture gap between web people and mobile people. I've met a lot of people in both camps on the development and the commercial side and in the main, they really don't talk each other's language. Web centric folks can't understand why mobile folks put up with the complexity of the development task let alone trying to access the internet via a 2 inch screen. And then add in the disconnect with the handset folks and the web and the mobile development folks. And then add in the network operators. And then add in brands and agencies and we have a melting pot of folks who just don't understand each other. And in many cases don't even want to play nicely together in the playground due to perceptions about each other that are largely unfounded.

So I have a request that we are more open with each other. That we try to understand each other's points of view so that we can all move forward together in this brave new world.

5. We remain Western-Centric

The next billion customers are not going to come from the USA, the UK or the rest of Europe. The next billion customers are not in the West. This means that the "rest of the world" is not bogged down with the feeling that the internet on mobile experience is second best to the full fat internet on a laptop or desktop screen. It means that they can leapfrog technology rather than go through the evolution that we are still experiencing. And it means that there will be innovation based on needs today and solving problems today rather than working on 'the next big thing'. The speed of growth of mobile penetration in India, China, Africa, South America is phenomenal. This is where we'll see innovation. This is where we'll see real people come up with new ways to use mobile technology to solve their day to day problems or enhance their day to day lives.

6. We forget that the mobile phone is a communication device

It was designed for us to talk to each other. It was designed for us to be able to communicate with our friends, family, colleagues and lovers by voice, text, instant message, email, facebook, twitter, whatever. But it's about communication. In every region of the world, mobile data traffic is largely driven by social networking - whether that's Peperonity, Cyworld, Facebook, MySpace, Twitter - it doesn't really matter. It does mean that it's the human communication that's important to us and drives the desire to explore mobile devices further in order to find other ways to communicate with loved ones.

The mobile phone is personal, it's precious, it's an object of desire and it's our access to the outside world. It's also a necessity and a basic tool to participate in UK society (according to the latest Joseph Rowntree report).

So please, don't abuse my mobile life by clogging it up with stuff that doesn't work, stuff that is memory hungry, stuff I don't need or want. Think about the real people who are using real phones in real life and make their mobile life better. And maybe then, just then, there'll be a future of mobile.

Update: After my session, I did a short audio interview with the lovely Jemima Kiss discussing my talk a little more and it's now live on The Guardian.

Update 2: My talk was video-recorded by Mauricio Reyes. He also caught my fellow 6 x 6 bloggers.

Future of Mobile 08 6x6 Bloggers perspective #3 from Mauricio Reyes on Vimeo.

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Key facts about youth and mobile - May 2008

The slide set is viewable on slideshare courtesy of our friends at Mobile Youth who happen to do a terrific report on mobile youth. There are some juicy facts and figures in there so it's well worth a look. And in the meantime, I have chosen a few here to share with you along with some of my thinking on their relevance.

• If you think that mobile youth isn't significant, then think again. 2.6 billion people in the world are under 30 and that is greater than the population of India and China combined.


• 1.1 billion under 30s own a mobile phone and this is growing at a furious rate of just under 100,000 a year. I'm guessing this is faster than the rate of growth of broadband in this age-group. With the added benefit that mobile is very personal, whereas, typically, broadband usage on PC may be in a shared environment at college or on a family PC.


• 10% of a young person's disposable income is spent on mobile products and services. This includes calls, texts, the phone itself and other data and entertainment products. Bear in mind, this market didn't exist 10 years ago in the youth sector. Pay as you go phones only really took off in the mainstream in the UK and Europe in 1999 and 2000. Which, incidentally, is when ringtones started hitting the mainstream.


• By 2010 (only 2 years away), it's predicted that young people will spend $300 billion on mobile products and services, of which a third will be on mobile data. So voice is still the major revenue centre for mobile network operators and will be for the foreseeable future.


• By 2012 (only 4 years away), 500 million Indian youth will own a mobile phone. That kinda dwarves the growth potential in Europe and the US in terms of volume at least. It will also be interesting to see how lucrative this market is as the Indian economy grows. Traditionally Indian mobile companies have been focussed on the rest of the world to drive revenues, but maybe it's time to focus on customers a bit closer to home?


• The average Japanese 25 year old spends $100 a month on mobile. That's a lot of money that previously might have been spent on music, going out, smoking, drinking or fashion.


• The lifetime value of a young mobile consumer is $28,000. But they're highly brand promiscuous and have little loyalty to their network operator. And by age 35, the lifetime value of data spend of a young consumer has already halved. So the advice is to get them young and retain those customers.

As Tony Robbins might say 'hmm, something to think about'.