On October 8th 2011, four Swap-Bot members — AndrewLips, Kessie, kittenred, and paperbutterflywings — met up in Newcastle, England.

AndrewLips (seen to the right playing guitar) hosted the event and sent this report:

_“We all met at my house around midday. Everyone who came got 3 goodie bags each from each member, including Swap-Bot postcards, buttons and stickers kindly provided by racheljohnson.</p>

Then we did 3 workshops:

I did a screen printing workshop, where we screen printed Ernie onto t-shirts and tote bags. They came out really nice. Paperbutterflywings did a workshop showing us how to make sock monsters which was incredibly cute and easy to do. After that Kessie did a workshop on bottle-cap pendants and bottle-cap magnets. Again, this was so simple, and came out looking so lovely. We all had a lot of fun doing those workshops. Then we had dinner together. Later in the evening we had a houseshow at my house, which was 5 acoustic singers playing by candle light, followed by an 80’s disco! The swap-bot members stayed at my house for the night.

If you would like to attend or organise a UK meet up, please join this swap-bot group: UK meet ups!“</i>

I love the screen printed Ernie items they made!! It sounds like a fun and very creative day. Remember, I’d love to share photos and reports from any and all Swap-bot user meetups. Email me anytime at rachel -at- swap-bot.com.