A tale of a scarf
 

So, when I originally found all about Doctor Who years ago, I inevitably ended up searching over the internet for fan websites, forums, repositories of information and media about it.

During my travels I found: www.doctorwhoscarf.com - Really nice website, with all the detailed information you could ever want about all of Tom's scarves.

From that website, I found out about this one: http://www.timelord-knitwear.piczo.com/?cr=5&rfm=y - Julie Hart's website. She's been making all the different versions of the scarves and selling them for years now.

Of course, being the rabid who fan I am, I had to have one. But being as I'm a broke student as well, I couldn't afford the price tag. So I sadly tucked away the link for some point when I had the funds.

A long while later, a idea struck me!

Her website sucked. Yes, it sucks. 1995 called, it wants it's website back. Even she rants about how bad it is. ;)

I've built many websites in my days and tend to do decent work that is at least up to modern coding standards. So there formed my idea. I'll design her a full fledged website from the ground up, everything custom.. in trade for a scarf!

I spent two weeks building it, making custom graphics, layouts, etc. After the final draft was nearly done, I sent a proposal e-mail to her with a demo of the website she could view and told her about my offer. (Being much, much nicer about the state of her website, but she more than agreed it was horribly out of date, laughing about it.)

She was estactic, apparently she had many quotes done to build her a website and they were always too expensive.. then my offer comes out of the blue, she instantly agreed! Promising me any version of the scarf once it was all finished up.

Elated, I finished the website in two days! ..then as I was going to send her the final compliation, I got another e-mail from her, telling me (albit nicely) that all her friends and family advised her I was most likely a scammer out to steal her money/paypal account/credit card/etc.. and she'd have to decline my offer.

... :( You have no idea how much it sucked to read that.

I of course tried to reason with her, offering my resume' with all the contacts she could speak with to confirm my ID, mentioned I would NEVER need ANY personal information from her.. I tried it all, but she didn't even respond.

After two well thought out e-mails, I stopped, not wanting to seem too pushy. But it really sucked, after all that work and her reacting so happily and agreeing to it.

Thankfully and rather unexpectedly, one of my friends from another forum took it upon himself to contact her, vouching for me. He gave her his password and login for the forum we were both on and told her to go read my posts, check my history, stuff like that.

I had an ongoing thread about my efforts to do her website and the scarf of course.

And that apparently got to her somehow, after looking at the forum she then sent me an e-mail apologizing, saying she still couldn't use the website due to security reasons and it being her main source of income.. but that she would send me a scarf anyway, for free, due to all the work I put into it.

Almost two months later, I finally got the package. I'm now the proud owner of a season 12, 15 foot long, fourth doctor scarf! The thing is a monster, looks like the real deal and is just downright awesome in my eyes.




Hope I didn't bore you all with the story, but I really am excited after all the work I put into this and thought it's a good story to share. ;)

Now, to try and figure out the best way to wear it..

Haha, what a great story! Congratulations, that's absolutely brilliant! Wonderful looking scarf too!

Aye, agreed. Quite an interesting story too, now I want to watch the movie adaption, the stuff true legendary story's are made of. Glad you got you scarf :D.

http://img261.imageshack.us/img261/2...enscarfrr8.jpg

You really shouldn't be wearing socks out in the snow...

...but I suppose the scarf will do. Lucky you have that.

What a nice gift as well, the quality of the scarf looks excellent. Given it's length that could be used for a few other things, like an emergency pillow :) Well done Larren.

Now, I've seen some of your photoshopped stuff before, RV, but that was epic win.

RV.. I lack words to express how awesome that is. You, Sir, win.
Not that I needed to tell you that, but yeah.

And yeah, I should have had my converse style shoes on, damn. ;)

RV, that Photoshop job is magnificent. Well done.

The shadows r broek and the pieces are blurry but otherwise it didn't turn out too badly. Glad you guys like it.

btw, Danny, do you have any good (ie. big) pictures of the TARDIS? I can only find small ones at good angles.

Nothing from the new series, probably... but I'll go through my data drive for you and see if I can find some good shots of the old series TARDISes.

Lol, you think I can try that for an AbbyShot coat? ;)

My friend Steven owns a coat from them.

I wish! Those coats are awesome.

So, the guys at the Whocast want me to record a short .mp3 bit telling what happened with the Scarf, for them to feature on an upcoming podcast.. talk about a random occurrence.

I'll try to get a shout out in to you guys if I can. ;)

http://www.who3d.co.uk/tardis/index.php

Just found out about it from that post Minty made. Tons of very high quality tardis shots.

Awesome! Thanks! :D

Actually it was through the Whocast that I originally got in touch with Murray Gold. He mentioned me on there, so I emailed his manager, and the rest is history.

And now we hate each other, haha. :dalek:

rofl@the Dalek on the end of that post, Danny.

I think I should release the Daleks again, on Murray. Because I've not released them in years, and I think it would be funny if they exterminated him while some of his music was playing.

http://www.thewhocast.com/ - Ended up airing my story on the latest episode (69), go ahead and listen if you want. ;) Got a shout out to the forums at least!

I swear they mentioned Danny as well, with the current theme tune.. was that you indeed Danny?

Indeed it was. Danny, Ian and Marinedalek were mentioned. As was EverybodyelsE!

Awesome! :D