Sylvester McCoy Question Mark Umbrella--7th Day of Doctor Who!

 On the 7th Day of Doctor Who, my true love gave to me... Sylvester McCoy! (Hope you've been following for the last week!...I'm doing a DIY countdown to Doctor Who's Christmas Episode!  You can follow along too and surprise a geeky someone in your life!) And his AMAZING SWEATER VEST and umbrella! I must learn to knit so I can make that vest!!! Anyone want to make that for me for a trade from my Etsy shop ??? Alas, I'll teach you how to make the umbrella! First you will need a black umbrella with a hard plastic hook handle. I found this at a dollar store variety...where everything was $2. So this umbrella was 2 bucks.  It's got a hard plastic handle...it's brittle and could break easily... so proceed with caution!  We went out to the garage and set up the torch on the workbench. Next we slowly ran the umbrella hook in the flame until the plastic became pliable. Use caution...and possibly call in some reinforcements!  Carefully, my h...