Stolen Car: Religion Crazed Fanatics, Steal Car, Claiming it is Demon Possessed!
On May 5th, 2010 between 1PM and 4PM Maine's famous "Haunted Car" The Goldeneagle, a 1964 Dodge 330 was stolen from my home at 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine.
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my computer is dead :(... it survived a flood, it survived a fire... it was killed by cat hair

hardrives are still okay, but the motor is dead, over heated due to cat hair being sucked into the fan

I am now typing this from a brand new computer... Vista (ick), I want my old XP back :(

new computer set up, everything is different... all my 30,000 pictures are on my old computer... I'm pissed

on a better note, this new wide screen monitor, doubles up the background pic of Sessh on my Twitter page... cool! (more Sesshomaru is always good)

the pictures on on a backup drive, so, I'll have them on this computer soon

well, while I'm setting up everything else, I figured I might as well try out Google Chrome... I actually like Chrome better than FireFox

I am so glad it did this NOW and not 5 weeks from now during NaNoWriMo!

I've been embroidering Sesshy's kimono for 4 months now! This is taking FOREVER! Oh well, I knew what I was getting myself into when I decided to embroider it instead of dye it. Than again, I embroider everything I see, so yeah, I'm not complaining, I just wish it would go faster. I love embroidery! I also chatter about embroidery on Squidoo. So, while I should be working on my embroidery right now, instead I am on Squidoo writing about embroidery! http://www.squidoo.com/EmbroideryHandVsMachine I need to start doing more embroidery and less internet or I'll never get this finished!

I walked home, through down town Biddeford last night at 2:30AM because our car broke down :( No car for a week at least, walking everywhere; walking and taking my sewing with me... interesting, considering what I am sewing; my first look at public reaction! LOL!

A guy started following me and talking about me..uhm..."choice of cloths", he wanted to know if I was going to a party...nope, just my normal cloths... yeah... You dress like this everywhere? Yes thank you..

I can't wait till this new one is finished... oh, they think I dress funny now! LOL!

so who dresses weirder: Naraku (what I'm wearing now) or Sessho Maru (what I'll be wearing next year)? I think it's easier to pass off Naraku as "normal" cloths than Sessho Maru will be.

Well, I finally got around to joining Twitter. Spent the past week figuring it out. Here's my profile if anyone wants to follow me. http://twitter.com/EelKat

You can leave a link to yours here too.

LOL! LOL! LOL!

I just love it when people leave mean comments without first reading the article they commented on! (See article in question here: http://www.squidoo.com/LordSesshomaruHistory)

LOL! LOL! LOL!

My opposing Sessho followers have found me on Squidoo, niiice.

http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko


I need at least 15 pounds more wool to make the Mokomoko... that means it's going to weigh 15 pounds + 10 pounds for the inner skeleton, that means it's gonna weight a minimum of 25 pounds.. . and the weird shape of it, it's not gonna be easy to wear either.

hhhmmm, and the battle armor isn't going to be too light either.... 30 pounds at least... this is going to be a heavy costume.

And hot, wool is hot, it traps and holds in heat, wonderful for wearing in the winter, and I plan to wear this to a convention during the summer... I must be crazy.

Good thing I'm very strong and can lift that kind of weight! most girls my size can't lift the things I can... :) comes from being a farmer, the heat however, that may bother me.


Read more info here: http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko

http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko


Okay, so now I know what type of wool to buy, next step is to figure out how much to buy.

My wool came last night...took 2 hours to separate the locks and 6 hours to wash it! I am now waiting for it to dry so I can start sewing it. I am writing this while I wait.

I have to figure out how much wool I will need to cover a 14 foot long tail for a demon lord. To do that I must determine how much tail area the wool I bought will cover. Keeping in mind here that wool shrinks, which it did, when I washed it.

Me and Buddy (my 13 years old blond Cocker Spaniel... see picture at right ) spent 2 hours sorting the wool. Buddy loves the smell of it. I think he thinks I've brought home a new pet for him. He loves it when a new animal joins our farm. Buddy plays "mother hen" to all of them.



For this project sorting the wool involved separating it by locks. Each individual lock equals one 6" to 8" long tight curl and a pound of wool has maybe 400 of them. A rough guess because I didn't bother to count them as I separated them. In order to make the fur fabric for Sesshy's tail, I will be sewing each lock one at a time to a backing fabric, thus the need to separate each lock from the fleece. And that is how I spent my afternoon: carefully separating locks.

I started at 2PM and ended at 5:30PM. The next hour was spent laying the locks out in a row side by side for 3 feet, than over lapping each row after that. When all the locks were laid out (deeply overlapping, as they will be sewed down to mimic the fullness of a real fur line), I had 7 rows covering an area 1 foot deep and 3 feet wide.

My final conclusion? I will need a minimum of 12 pounds more to complete the Mokomoko. I will buy 15 pounds "just in case". Happily Cotswold is about half the price of alpaca, meaning my Mokomoko is only going to cost $200 - $300 and not the $500+ I had previously estimated.


http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko

http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko

My wool arrived yesterday an it has caused me to revise my plans. If you have read everything on this lens, than you know that for the past couple of months I was considering alpaca wool for this project. However, as you will also have read, I was inspired by the fur lining of my coat and I was looking for a wool that matched it.

A sad fact of the fashion industry is that contents are never clearly marked on the label. A blouse marked as "cotton" could be calico, gauze, batiste, canvas, velvet, or denim! That is how my coat is labeled "Mongolian Sheepskin". Well for starters the coat is not actually made from a skin, so we know that's wrong. The wool lining, is made of sheared wool. It does not even tell us that it is made of wool!

Well, my problem with making the Mokomoko has been from day one, that I wanted the same wool as the lining on my coat, which btw is a super soft, super fluffy 6" cream colored pile, with a "twisted" kinky "dreadlock" texture to it, with each lock curling into natural sausage curls. This is what I was looking for. This is what I searched high and low for. I even took the coat with me to show it to people so they knew what I was talking about.

Everyone I asked told me that my best bet was to get a fake fur, because they had never seen a real sheepskin with fur that long. Everyone pointed out that sheepskin had a short pile of 3" - 4", not this 6" - 12" shag that was lining my coat. No one was able to identify the breed of sheep which grows these long curly locks. That was what I wanted to know: What breed of sheep has wool like this, so I can find a farmer willing to sell some? I suppose a sheep farmer would have known the answer, but around here everyone raises cows and chickens. Maine has lots of milk and eggs, not much wool. Maine does has lots of alpacas, however... there are over a dozen alpaca farms right in the local area! So, I gave up my search for this super long wool and set out to looking at alpaca wool instead. Until today...

As you may or may not know, depending on which of my blogs you read, this past month, I started buying wool samples, so that I could get a close up look at different wools and see how they would work for this project. I've been buying this stuff off eBay, in small batches, because I don't trust my monitor to show me the colors and textures properly, and also, because I want to feel the softness and hand of the wool, before I buy large batches of it.

Another thing is... I'm allergic to most wools, my wool lined coat is the only article of wool clothen I own, because it's the only article of wool clothen I have not had an allergic reaction too! The Mokomoko is 14 feet long and will be wrapped around me and in contact with 65% of my body... I can't afford to have an allergic reaction to something I'll have wrapped all around me from head to toe like this...my NOT being allergic to the wool I use to make the Mokomoko, is a really SERIOUS consideration for me, and another factor in why I was looking high and low for a match to the one type of wool I've never been allergic to.

Well, as I said, my wool arrived, and I can't believe what I have found: an exact duplicate of the wool which lines my coat... those very same super soft, super fluffy 6" - 12" "twisted" kinky "dreadlock" curls, so soft to touch and oooh, I'm not allergic to it! YAY!

I now know that what I was looking for was the wool of a White Cotswold Ram. It is so unbelievably perfect! So the wool that the fashion industry sells under the name of "Mongolian Sheepskin" is actually Costwold Fleece.

My Mongolian Lord can real have Mongolian Sheepskin now!

You can read more about it here: http://www.squidoo.com/Mokomoko

I couldn't resist



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All about Lord Sesshomaru's garb & Making a Lord Sesshomaru Costume. Plus, Sesshomaru & Rin and making Rin's Costume; and this is for anyone who needs help Creating Character Profiles for their stories or for their SCA persona.