Isabella

Your boots are beautiful, Sir! But your knees, my God! What knees! *winks* See your knees were so good I double posted! *swwwooon!*

Your boots are beautiful, Sir! But your knees, my God! What knees! *winks*

Mmm Lady B. that sounded fantastic! :) I know this year we were supose to have tall ships come to tall stacks, but they never came! It is my hope maybe that this year, they will be able to have them come in, now that Cincinnati is for sure funding Tall Stacks. If anyone is interested in Riverboats, that's what Tall Stacks is. Seven days of river boats sailing the Ohio. It's definately neat, and it's a beautiful ride. I am game for anything. What are good hotels around there that don't cost a pirate king's ransom? Hubs only stayed downtown when he did IMTS setup/taketown. I also noticed something called "Wacky Pirate Cruises" in Chicago. I'm doing some digging. :) It's more kid aligned, but hey, can't pass up wacky and pirate in the same sentence. :) Edit!: It finally snowed!! WOOT!!!!! Well dusted us like a chocolate cake with powdered sugar! I LOVE It! Now it feels like the Holidays!

Cool beans then! :) Still no snow here in Ohio. Should I be worried? Yes. Keep me posted, or rather I'll keep posting to see what's shakin' with this! :) :)

Sewing machine with clear thread. The spools that look like fishing line. Works great on hats, and gives more wear and tear. I used a small locking stich. Work with stiffened felt first to get the tention right. I would also suggest a good medium or denim size needle if you try this way. Aye, and Rumba is right, not all machines will puncture heavy layers. You can try on a scrap with a heavy duity denim needle. The other cool thing to do is my machine has neat stiches on it. You could use gold or any colour top stiching silk thread and decorate it that way. I'm always game if anyone wants to try this, since I know my machine will handle heavy duity stuff. Also pressure foot setting is important also, I tend to set mine heavy when sewing in layers to help combat the thickness. It helps sandwich them better. Glue is also great. And Fabrictack is God. Great for keeping handy if your seams come loose at events. Sounds silly, but it's better than sewing up huge seams by hand at night. :) Just keep an eye on it as years wear on, it'll start to get brittle with all the wear in the sun. :) Some hotglue can yellow too. But if it's on a black hat, you wont' really see it.

Understood, Munky, I'm only back, cause am a dunderhead and didn't cancel the subscription. I only play twice a week, and when I need sanity from the holidays, which has been a whole heck of a lot lately. :) Sorry I wasn't on last night, but the Governer's Pilliage is every Tuesday, and we do drinking/swordfighting tourney on Jorvik for the Haaatttt. Anyone is welcome to join. Most of the Loots are 25 and older which makes it a refreshing play, to not have to deal with the kids. :)

Dang, looks like I need an upgrade before I get this one. Why can't they just X Box some of these! I know not the same, but more friendly! If yer shopping for a new comp their selling an HP 2.93 Gig processor, with 533 front bus and 356 ram at Walmart for 468.00. 17 inch monitor included. I put mine on lay away and it'll get out just in time for me berfday. My 900 mhz is a great little comp, but it's needing to take a backseat for a new one.

Mmm! All good points Munk! It'll make me question putting it on my list! I am missing Tropico 2, since it did some weird things to my comp (like didn't fully uninstall, because of a giltch with the software, so hence now I can't install it! Yarrrg!) Gosh the dang box made it look mucho better than your discription, definately rethinking now! Hey I never see ya on Pirate Puzzle! How come? I'm with the British Sea Power with the Looterati, bump into us sometime. :) I'm Izzybella there, if you look for me. :) We do a Governor's Pillage on Tuesday nights with the US side of the Loots, we'd love to have ya if you aren't busy. :) Isabella :)

Didn't see another post about this game, so I figured I start one. It came out in August of this year. I saw this game over at Best buy and it looks fantastic. As where in Tropico your pirates for and do the dirty deeds for you, this game you actually can fire in your vessels upon other ships! Woot! Check it out, I put it on my Chirstmas list! :) Port Royal 2

Well, hey, doesn't mean I had to be laughed at or made the butt of someone's joke. I thought it was an interesting piece of "Hey this is cool". I don't live and breath POTC fact from ficton on a daily basis browsing every jot and tiddle I can find on the web. So give me a break if I heard Johnny Depp say something that I found interesting and I thought I'd offer it to you guys as a "This is cool" thing... For all our sake, I think it's better this thread die now, than later. Sometimes it's the most anal that make the most loved things unloved.

Before I get jumped on, I know his answer sounds vague, but it's an answer. :) You can watch the interview of him that I saw on Extra's website. http://extratv.warnerbros.com/v2/news/1104.../10/1/text.html At Home With Johnny Depp November 10, 2004 When Johnny Depp sat down with our Jon Kelley, the master actor opened up like never before about his two children with longtime girlfriend, french actress Vanessa Paradis, and revealed why he took the dramatic leap to family films, playing the author of Peter Pan in "Finding Neverland." Jon Kelley: How much of Peter Pan do you have living inside yourself? Johnny Depp: Just playing Barbies and pirates and all of that stuff with my kids keeps me young, so I guess that keeps Peter Pan alive. JK: I've got to ask, when hanging out with the kids, how many times have you watched "Pirates of the Caribbean?" JD: I run every time they put one of my films on. I run away because it's just weird, you know. It's very strange, and equally strange to see your kids watching you play a character on screen. It's the entrance of Captain Jack Sparrow and suddenly I won't even be watching and I just hear my kids screaming, "It's Daddy!" JK: How much truth is there to the idea that Keith Richards may step in to play pops in the sequel of "Pirates?" (Depp has said he modeled his "Pirates" performance on the behavior of the Rolling Stones guitarist.) JD: I think it will work out; I certainly hope so. JK: Do you have a career highlight? JD: I never expected for it to go on for as long as it has. I figured when I started doing films that I probably would have a two or three-year run. JK: And look at you now! The unstoppable Johnny Depp is definitely leaving his mark in Hollywood, and you can check him out in "Finding Neverland," in theatres on Friday.

Agreed. That was honestly uncalled for.

Another quick chemise is: Depending on size 45 inch wide fabric for smaller gals and 60 inch for larger gals. Measure from clavical to whereever you want it to hit, plus two inches on top and bottom. So if your measurement is 40 inches, your complete measurement would be 44 inches. Take fabric, and measure 44 inches from the raw edge to the 44 mark, then fold in half. Cut off extra fabric. Measure your sleeves from your shoulder to your wrist, adding 2 inches to that measurement on the length. Now I like fuller sleeves, but if you aren't sure, you fold the fabric in half, and put your arm in it, pinching the bottom of it around your wrist. I figure my sleeves are probably 26 inches folded IN HALF so 13 inches folded, plus seam allowance. If you like them fuller make the measurement wider. To make the arm holes you first cut the two layers of the chemise body measuring from the side to the neck 6 to 9 inches. Usually I base it off on who I'm making it for. Then I take the scrap I cut, and use it as a template to cut the others, along with the sleeves with. My best friend curved hers, but I left mine angled, because you don't really see it, it's under your arm! :) Now sew the sleeves seams, and sew the body seams, but not the hems. Now turn the sleeves inside out and attach to the body of the chemise by pinning the sleeve with the seams facing OPPOSITE each other. Then sew. You will have to give yourself a small pleat very small no bigger than 1/4 of an inch on each side to make them measure up. It actually I think makes the leave look more intersting. Now you sew the bottom hem, and then with the neck hem you turn it all inside out (usually it is by now) and pin a channel. The Chemise at this point looks idenical front and back, but it won't because you are going to cut a 1 to 1 1/2 inch slit. You want to enforce this with with a back yoke or just curl the fabric in on itself. Then curl the neckline over and pin so it's a channel to insert the draw string into. Without making the slit for the strings you do the same on the sleeves, but incert elastic and sew over with a button stitch to hold it in place. Then as soon as it's done, you incert the neck draw string and boom you off. I know sounds complicated, but I've made them this way for about 10 years now, and I love them. Their easy and I can make them in about 45 minutes.

If noone has mentioned it Alteryears.com is good for patterns. I use theirs for my custom stuff for myself. It taught me a lot about constructing and making bodices. The instructions are easy and I enjoyed making the bodice. :) The only difference between the alteryears patterns and simplicity like Captain Grey showed are the princess seams that run along the bustline. Elizabethian bodices are designed to make the body long like a cylander and the breast high. So Flat with a shelf. It elongates the waist. So the non-princess seamed bodices offer more flattening of the waist, and boost of the bust. But princess seamed bodices seem to be easier to make for a beginning seamstress. www.deliciouscorsets.com is the place for bonning and grommets. Do not use the ones from the hardware store if you make your own bodice, they'll corrode and turn green and ruin all your work, but the grommet setter from the hardware store is a dream. :) ROFL I love that little boy comment. Pendragon bodices are leather, and HOT. HOT HOT HOT. They may give good "butt" cleavage, but I'd rather be in cotton any day in 95 degree weather. :)

*nods* I would honestly like one in silver myself, but only because I prefer the colouring. Yeah I know I know...Aztec Gold. I'm aware. Good Point Harbor! I just have to becareful with my skin in particular, I'm allergetic to lot of stuff.

I agree with Hawkyns. Why wear something that blocks the view?

Hey don't blame me, Johnny Depp is the who said it was a definate.

Merry, great idea. My only worry is how much it still snow in Chicago in March/April. Just a suggestion, but what about something closer to the spring thaw? Or toward Bristol opening? Just an idea. Hubs and I were really hoping someone would suggest this. :) He's the one who talked about the snow issues, since he's been there before on business in March/April.

This is beautiful, and if you've wanted one but worry about the cost, this is an interesting way to go. Beautiful Parrot

When it comes out, you could always have it cast in sterling then plated by a jeweler. It only itchy thing is that the piece WILL be copyrighted that your making the mold of to make your piece, so some jewelers won't touch it. Option two is, I'm learning to cast now so I might be able to make copies, but not sell them. Basically to keep it all on a good scale, you'd buy supplies to make it, then mail it to me. I'd make it, and send it back. What ever scraps are left over, I'd keep for other castings, and that would be my "payment". Beyond that, I have no idea. Maybe if we bug Disney enough they'll come out with a good copy of it. But usually when it comes to something this heavy and detailed, it's usually done in cheap base metal for cheap cost. I want one of the copies so that I can put it in a frame with some other art pieces I've done for POTC. :) I'm looking online right now to see if I can see if there are any possiblities of good pieces coming out. Keep your eyes on www.noblecollection.com who did all the copies for Lord of the Rings, they might be a possiblity to do something like that.

Extra News Show reported it's possible Keith Richards may play Captain Jack Sparrow's father in the next POTC. How nifty would that be? The interview with Johnny Depp said it's probably a definate. Sorry if this is a double post. Isabella

If I were a man..and because honestly I'm more like a man than a woman I think I can be honest. If she is witty, not catty, honest, smart and sassy. If she had a flirty side, and plays fun. Does she laugh freely? Is she easy on my eyes. Long Hair is a must. Not only is it lovely, but it's lovely to pet, brush and braid. I like long hair, if it suits the women, which it always doesn't. Her eyes. I love eyes. :) I love the ankles comment! That's so dear, Vega! :) I remember a man I knew at RPFS that used to tell his wife weekend after weekend "My fyne wife, nothing excites me more than you in all your underfyner. There is nothing more erotic than bloomers and a chemise!" I thought how wonderful that was. When I met my husband, he said that there was nothing more erotic than a woman in so many layers he had to imagine what lay beneith. "Breast are wonderous, ample and grand, but the imagination is much more firtle land." (Huge TRACTS OF LAND)

Ah yeah! PIP! no problem always glad to lend me hook to another in need. :)

Merry Have you tried Air Tran? I found tickets from Jersey to Ohio for as cheap as 78 bucks on it. Heck Tickets from CA to Ohio and vise versa round trip for 204 R/T. If not fer now, maybe fer later! Air Tran Would be fun if we could make it out to see ya, Scrupper, but there be too much O/T this time of year for Hubs. That's possible one of his Seven Day weeks. Happy Birthday early tho! Izzy

Aye, the world is full of strange things. Actually this year we had crop circles show up in Peebles, Ohio across the road from Serpents Mound. If you haven't been there, it's worth investing. Not only do I love the place, the energy is amazing. It's about an hour from where I live in the middle of no where. I used to work as an alternative healer for a while, with the possibly of going back to it. I've gotta wait to her about the new job. I believe in Star People, ghosts, UFOs and unusual things. Heck, one of the best jobs I had was working as a phone pychic, that brought in unusual folks, but the calls were always really rewarding. Yeah the money was good, but it was honestly the people that interested me more. :) Even if my stummock could handle it, I couldn't watch them blowing up a whale. I'm too animal sensative. I used to cry over road kill.