Red-Handed Jill

For breakfast, fruit and croissants anyone?

Ooooh - a brass cup would look GREAT!

She got my vote!

String cheese Broken glass in the parking lot at work Sushma, a co-worker who just sneezed. John

^ Of sorts. I'll be taking another offshore sailing trip on the Aldebaran for about ten days or so in July. < I won't be as ambitious with the food on that trip. V What is the item you are most proud of making for your period garb?

Restoration?

I don't think he used a lathe - if memory serves, he found something that he was able to modify fairly inexpensively.

Have you tried doing this with a wooden base rather than a leather one? One of the TO7S pirates tried his hand (no pun intended) at making a hook. Here is his effort: And here he is wearing it (so you can see the scale):

Their dyes are top notch. I have both cotton and silk dyes from them and the results were excellent.

Oh. My. God. Ummm... some strawberries might go well with that.

Can't remember who did this one but hope it helps.

How about a wee bit of french toast, fruit, juice and coffee?

Dharma Trading Company also has linen as well as hemp linen. It's where Patt got the material for his garb - 'nuff said. :angry:

You might also want to try Dharma Trading Company. They sell all kinds of material and dyes, including silk. A men's silk handkerchief would be the right size (17" x 17" = 24" on the diagonal, which is big enough for most men's necks) and they've got them there as well.

A while back I mentioned some jeans I bought as an incentive to lose weight. They were meant to be my goal weight pants. Well, I tried them on over the weekend and they are now a bit too big. I need to wash them a couple of times in hot water - hopefully they will shrink enough so I can get some use out of them. Eighteen pounds down, thirteen to go.

And while you're at it, have some rum cake

Hey - WELCOME BACK!! Hope it was a great cruise!

Ye canna live on cocoa alone. Irish coffee...

Perhaps some soup... Butternut squash soup with toasted french bread

Just stopping by to drop off a few things...

One of the TO7S pirates is trying to get some pewter dishes shipped back thisaway (SF Bay Area) but the person selling them doesn't want to ship them - she wants them picked up. At any rate, is anyone going to be in the vicinity of Virginia Beach who can help out by picking these up and then shipping them? You will be compensated for your efforts and it would be greatly appreciated.

^ I can load a black powder pistol or a cannon fairly quickly. I'm working on loading a musket faster. And I'm getting better at throwing axes and knives. (Not sure if that falls under an actual period skill...) < More rain through the weekend. Well, at least it didn't rain last weekend when I was sailing. V Pass the question.

Didn't you just discover that your foot was broken? You are just a wreck! Lie in a chair - have lackeys feed you victuals and all that.

Relieved that I didn't peak in high school. A friend of mine recently got a scanner and has been sending me and some other high school friends some photos from the old days. One of them is, I think, from my fifteenth birthday. I look so skinny, gawky and, for lack of a better word, unformed. I think from now on whenever I start feeling down when I see my wrinkles, I'll look at this picture. Christine - just a few more hours to go. Hang in there!

Countess Jill the Capricious of Lower Hellswicke