Duchess

Thanks Stynky!

My sewing machine is a hand-me-down Kenmore, around 30 years old. The only time it has ever balked on me was eight layers of suiting.

But for hat trim, I use a large upholstery needle and do it by hand. I should hope that none of you have heads that are large enough to make that a truly onerous job!

The Duchess

Is that another way to say.....

"When ya got em by th' balls...thier hearts an minds will follow......"

That struck me as unreasonable funny!

The Duchess

Single too. Though I cannot remember posting here before.

The Duchess

Ha Just scrolled up the page a few posts and there I am. I guess I meant in reference to myself...

The Duchess

Single too. Though I cannot remember posting here before.

The Duchess

I wouldn't wonder too much about it.

It is generally better to buy these things in person where you can inspect the quality of the crafting and of the leather itself. You might pay more that way, but you know that what you're getting is good.

The Duchess

Personally, I'm against glueing anything on a costume. I know that it is quick and easy, but it really is just so 'tacky'. :)

I'm a proponent of the "if it's worth doing, it's worth doing right" costuming technique.

The Duchess

I enjoyed it. Though on the scale of things, I probably won't see it again for a while, and don't feel a desire to own it.

It was a well developed plot line and Cage did a good job doing 'his' in trouble but still humourous character.

In defense of the black powder thing, it is a whole lot more dry, being frozen under the ice than yours is on the open water.

While watching the movie I kept trying to figure out what they took out to make it a PG movie. The only thing I could come up with is there is a reference to the girl swearing, but I don't recall that she did.

The Duchess

Yeah... I downloaded and edited it to cut out the anti-american propaganda... the first section of it is funny as hell though!

Uhh... seems to me that once the propaganda be removed there isn't anything left...

The Duchess

What's so hard about trying to find a friend with benefits?  Remember that it's only a temporary thing and they usually do turn out badly.  The friendship is usually lost too.

Aye, here's to defining the relationship. I've never yet seen a "friend with benefits" or "open relationship" that ended well. By that I mean that people were still friends, or even on speaking terms more than a year after the falling out.

The Duchess

Um, Pixar didn't do "Ants". That was Dreamworks. "A Bug's Life" was the Pixar one.

Well I have kids and I enjoy going to the movies with them. I'm looking forward to Sponge Bob. Glad to hear it lives up to the hype.

Thanks for the correction. It was the pixar movie I saw, just had the wrong name in me head.

The Duchess

Blah, I watch the show without any kids around, so I'll be doing the same with the movie. :)

And thinking of doing what Duchess said, going to a late showing of it when there isn't many kids. It worked when I saw Shrek 2 in the theater. No screaming kids, it was nice.

It was hard lesson learned. When the Pixar Ants movie came out, I foolishly went to a matinee. I've never felt so much like a crotchty old behemoth in my life.

The Duchess

damn, i wanted to goto that, instead i saw seed of chucky. (hilarious be the way!) and i personally like that invader zim thing.....

Invader Zim.... ooo yeah. I like that. But then I've liked everything Jhonen Vasquez has done so far. Johnny the Homicidal Maniac being the pinacle of misanthropic joy. mmm. Good Stuff...

I think I will try a late showing of Sponge Bob hopefully that will do away with the kiddies.

The Duchess

Well, for starters, I'd prefer a woman who has not her entire photo album in poster size for a signature! 

Dude, that's pretty harsh.

I am in total agreement with El Pirata. That was a bit inconsiderate. I would say an apology is in order, to say the least.

Hey, it wasn't really harsh or uncalled for.

The pictures are great, but I don't enjoy scrolling through all of them, just to read the post.

The Duchess

An Irishman's Take on Sex and Women:

"If 'n she's not much fun with her clothes on, then there be good chance she's not much fun with um off either!"

I like that line....

Now if that line and "can't judge a book by it's cover" were mashed together........

If she ain't much fun with her clothes on top of the cover, chances are she won't be much fun with the clothes off and the sheets will be blank?

The Duchess

Kendra-

You look great in your costume. Though I think you need a flag for your ship!

and in defense of the tall ones; the only men who've ever specifically said (to me) they appreciate a tall woman, are the ones who are short!

The Duchess

Of course it would be hard to understand the appeal, when you have to be something of a contorsionist to admire one's own behind!

Actually that probably applies to all of your body. Whatever your vantage point, it isn't the same as an external viewer...

There has got to be some cliched feel good advice here somewhere...

The Duchess

well, if we really wanted to discuss period, the shirt would be the least of my worries! I'd probably be killed for a heretic/witch or "bad woman". And lets not forget that at 25 I'm an old maid.

My very first fest clothes was a long dress with sleeves and all. But the place I worked at involved lots of running up and down ladders, leaning over railings, climbing onto balconies, and throwing large buckets of water onto people. So within a week my first dress, evolved into a completely different range of attire for safety reasons.

The Duchess

And on a model here:

https://pyracy.com/gallery/details.php?...527&mode=search

I think the shirt I have is bit more robust than the one you sketched. The body portion is more fitted, though of course you can't see that. :) Mine is made using elastic rather than a draw string. But note that there is lots and lots of leather that does the supporting and essential covering, so I don't need to rely on the shirt for anything.

The Duchess

Creepy!

I'll add to the spirit of this post. Jesse Ventura was at the WSU campus last weekend giving a talk. Because after all he is noted scholar and influential political figure....HA!

Anyway he came in a Jack Sparrowesque look. Bandanna, jewelry, eye liner, and a nasty little twin goatee... Also very creepy...

The Duchess

Unfortunately it ain't a tip if it be compulsory. I've tipped for all me tats, and also been cut good deals for it being something of my own. But a few years back, my trusted artist became born again, and last time I went to talk to him, I recieved a lecture on my religious morals. A bit of a shock since I wanted to consult about some new work...

The Duchess

I split this off, so it will get all the attention it is due...

The Duchess

shirtless under a bodice is the absolute height of trashy renfair reject. Wear a shirt. There are shirts that are low cut enough to give the cleavage you desire, with out entering on bondage/trashy/sex wear. I've never in all my years at renaissance festivals had trouble with cleavage and wearing a shirt under my bodice.

The Duchess

Me too. I missed them in Spokane last week. Terrible responsibilities...

I'm feeling a bit cheated of my punk/folk since I moved to washington.

The Duchess

I've listened to it a few more times since I made that post. Then I put in Drunken Lullabies and some other downloads.

The new disk is good, I'm not disputing that, but it isn't great. It just feels like they sat down to fill a quota, the formula of punk/folk irish music. "must have one sad type ballad, one ballad that ends well, one comedic song, one raging pissed adventure,...." And then played them over and over again in a studio until something of life was just sucked out of the songs and a little extra special polish was put on them.

yeah, I think that's about it...

The Duchess

Hmm, I have to disagree about the upper arm location. I have a fairly small shoulder tattoo and it doesn't really look out of place.

Though now that I think about it, this tat is about twice as long as it is wide, which sort of makes it "match" it's location. So that might have something to do with wether or not it "fits."

The Duchess