Kate Souris

Is Indiana weather like Ohio?

Cause the other day it was 90....the next day it barely made 70....and then it rained.

I'm planning on coming down and joining the Mercury crew.

That is IF they will accept me and grant me admittance to their crew for the week.

Edit:

I may also "help" Bagley with an additional red coat impression as well (for certain actions/demonstrations), IF I get the kit together in time.

Crap.

The Canadian is creating an Army.....

You can do that too hun....I'm ok with it. Lob has no thunder....his cousin on the other hand....

Man...BL and Lob are gonna have to hang out at Paynestown....

The men folk were putting on a fencing spectacular, just for us. We really hadn't been paying much attention...

.....till they told us they were only doing fighting for us.

Ash did most of the food...I just brought some fruit, cheese, and extra bread. That whole drink cooler thing is totally just to help keep people from dehydrating.

Shop Smart. Shop S Mart.

one more thing ...How many strands of the floss are you using? What works best for whom?

I used 3 when I tried it with the DMC linen embroidery floss. Once splitting it up, I did ply it and it worked just fine.

Terrific shots Kate. Looks like a great time. But they let a woman shoot? What is our world coming to?

-- Hurricane

Yeah....they let women shoot...its alot hotter than watching other guys shoot, apparently.

Uh? I'm the Redcoats wife. Haha!

I've actually been trying to figure out a role for myself and I seem to be indecisive. (I do,however, intend on firing a canon as often as possible at pip)

Other than that...its negotiable. :)

Photos

Courtesy of Kate and Mickey Souris and fabulous guest photographer, Lady Brower. :)

Workin on it....it's not my fault that photobucket loads kinda slow....

I had to eat too....I was starvin.

I'm workin on puttin up the photos....sheesh. Had to make that 7 hour drive home first! Hehe.

So we're almost home and I couldn't wait to post about this event. So here I am, feet up on the dashboard, still in kitn toes poking through the holes in my stockings, posting on my pink Blackberry. Yeah, that's right.

Mickey and I arrived in Havre De Grace at 4:30 Friday afternoon, a stark contrast to our usual 2 am show times. Also, we didn't get lost once or have to call anyone for directions!

Black John showed up not long after and we stood around and talked a while before starting to set up camp under a lovely shade tree. Shortly, the Half Moon Maurauders showed up and pitched camp too. Lady Brower and I had been yapping on the phone and pm-ing back and forth for a few weeks, we we were quick friends. Oh. Her husband's pretty awesome too. Crew too.

Instead of cooking, we went out to dinner at a fabulous Irish Pubn ate too much, drank too much, then headed back to camp to drink more. I, however, went to bed. But before that, Black John so kindly asked me what I wanted to do on Saturday. To which I replied: "I want to blow some crap up".

And so we did. Many battles ensued much to the abject delight of the obviously entertainment starved public. I got to shoot and even be on a canon crew. Huzzah! The battles were fantastic and completely a surprise, especially when Munk decided to drop his weapon and charge the militia with an axe, only to die gloriously in battle.

Mickey Souris, being the French Canadian that he is, ran away screaming from battle (something about his gun 'wiffing')n only to sneak up behind the invading pirate cre, shoot the Captain and promptly draw the battle to a conculsion.

Fabulous event. The hospitality was wonderful, the company was more than fantasticn and this is definately an event we will go back to.

Uh...they don't want to camp near Mickey Souris because of Mickey...it's cause they know Miss Kate will bake bread and rum cakes and roll shot all while chasing them down with sunscreen and water.

And because Miss Kate smells markedly better than Mickey. Like roses, even.

Tartan Jack- would you like the use of our fly tent for the event?

MY TWINS! *tacklehug*

Oh....right...

Happy Birthday too!

He sent flowers to my office....

:)

The painters tarps are a good cheap alternative, but be advised that they are a polly/cotton mix......

Is there a better source for a large canvas (all cotton) one that won't require extensive sewing?

Jack....Michael and I were talking about it and happened upon the realization that our first tent (a Viking Geteld from when we were doing Viking schtuff...) was made entirely out of 100% cotton canvas that we purchased at WalMart. I pre-shrunk it (and dyed it a madder red color) in the washer and dried it on high heat. Michael thought that it would take about 7-8 yards before shrinking. It was $4.44 per yard (about $35 if you buy 8 yards)...And I think you would only really have to do one flat felled seam on a sewing machine. Don't make the stitches too tight though, out friend Meghan learned that the hard way as too tight stitches made leak points in one of the getelds that she made. Now that I think about it, she handsewed that out of wool....but I would imagine she would offer the same advise with cotton canvas.

Oh and also, we will be bringing the tarp tent that weekend if either you or Mr. Tignor doesn't get his respective abode finished....either of you or both are more than welcome to use it. :)

Very nice, Jack!

RIP Michael, no matter what anyone thinks of him, you have to admit Thriller kicked ass. Also, none of us knew him, we only know what the media told us and well if you choose to believe the media, then thats your choice.

Thriller kicked major ass....I agree. Earth Song was my ABSOLUTE favorite.

Allegations aren't the same as truth. There's my take on that.

Other than that....I absolutely loved him since I was a kid. Nothing's going to change that.

http://s299.photobucket.com/albums/mm317/f...ria%2005-09-09/ They are up on there now, Mission.

I checked through the posted photos, and This one and This One are the only two photos of Becky I could find... I am thinking the pink camera photos never made it online... I am having Jessica double check her computer, but the memory chip from the camera is blank except for a few pics from Blackbeards and some fireworks photos from ? (perhaps Blackbeards).. and she found the pictures just as I was typing this, so we will get them uploaded and post the link soon.

Kate is pretty well set on flying. Especially if Becky is in the front seat and Kate can't sit there....backseats are the worst for carsickness....

Kate and Lily will be VERY WELL BEHAVED....as well behaved as two pirate ladies can be in the company of BIB.......ahem. :)

Connie, the RH pattern does have a couple of little issues (that pesky shoulder thing, for one), but with minor tweaks it does come out a good mantua. I have now made 3 mantuas with that pattern, and found it relatively simple. It helps that Michael is pretty good at sewing and was able to help get me through the tricky parts that I didn't quite understand.

This is the back of my blue wool mantua from the RH pattern.

Here's a shot of the front (sitting on the Explorer....about 10 seconds before Cheeky and I got it in our heads that we needed to play "King of the World" up front....) The only thing that I don't like about the RH pattern is the fact that it kept falling off of my shoulders. Also, it is the kind of mantua that can close in the front. I solved that by simply turning back the front panels and pinning them in to make that V neck style. On the next RH mantua that I made, I simply added an inch to the shoulder area and cut the front panels (that would normally close up the front) into the V shape.

Wish I could show you the teal one....but I can't find any good front shots of it....imagine that. I'm sure someone on here has one though.

I was at Joanne's today and found the horsehair braid stuff....linen....they had some cotton (mostly blends) lace....no wire....and then I couldn't remember what color linen I was going to make it....duh.

I still have Jill's....I put it on the shelf cause I had two and just plain forgot about it....its not done, but Im going to try and get it out tomorrow anyway.