Bonnie Red Weasel

which trials?

i'm drinkin' coffee. Plain ol' coffee. Not even spiked...

Sounds lovely. And actually, the more i think about it, the more i'm liking the clean nails idea... *slips into her cheerleading attire*

Dirty, not bad - i demand excellence.

a deliciously sweaty specimen...oh wait - what you're doing right now...oh, never mind...

gonna have to get dirtier than that, boys

Scummy pirates...yes, it's one of my lovelier addictions. Well, technically, it's dirty pirates, but who's splitting hairs?

Coffee please.

I just wanted to post an update. Taking your advice (and knocking the side of my head V-8 style for not thinking of it before), I used actual blood from the meat shop, and set the stains with heat. The resulting stains were good, but not quite dark enough for my tastes (perhaps it was the type of muslin, but the remaining stains were very faint, even without any detergent). I just happened to have a handful of chokecherries from the little bush/tree I'm nurturing in my back yard, by the way, but on my test cloth, the resulting stain was more wine-colored than I liked. So I played around with some Rit dyes, and ended up using a combination of liquid "dark brown", a touch of liquid "crimson" and some powdered "golden yellow" dyes, mixed roughly one part dye to twenty parts salted water, and again, let the dye dry naturally, then set the stain with the iron. The result was just what I was looking for - very close to the color of the actual blood, but a little more pronounced, and from the wash test, relatively colorfast. Anyhow, thank you all for your advice!

Yes, i suppose it has. i've been a very busy pyrate...

What do i like in my pirate? Rum. A little marinating can be nice.

I'll be there with my little pirate princesses from land grab Saturday through first Wedneesday (that's Opening Day, i think), then will return Friday night the 3rd, and will stay just past the weekend, coming back home Tuesday night. We'll be camping with Tortuga, in B09 but downhill from the Outlanders, frighteningly enough...

It seems there's an awful lot of information online on how to remove blood stains, both genuine and theatrical (i almost said "man made" to a bunch of pirates...). However, i'm trying to do precisely the opposite. I'm trying to create realistic-looking "blood" stains on a few items of clothing. Because they're for reinactment purposes, and will be worn and washed over and over again, i'm looking for a method that will create stains that will look freshly old after laundering. Does that make any sense whatsoever? Thanks in advance for any and all advice.

I'm afraid not. The lyrics to that one seem to be pretty well published...

By the way, please keep Wendy in your prayers. As you might imagine, she's having a rough time right now. Thank you!