Pilgrim Dresses

Wednesday night was Thanksgiving night at the FrontLine Club meeting that the girls attend. As you can see, they were Pilgrim girls.

The dresses were designed as a simple gathered skirt dress with a Peter Pan collar. The patterns were generated by Wild Ginger Child's Play v4. The aprons were my own design (I mean, who needs a pattern for an apron?) The coifs were from Margo's Patterns. Jennifer did the blackwork embroidery from patterns she searched up on Google.

The girls were very pleased, and they ended up being the only two pilgrims in a whole room full of Natives ...

Yard Ornaments for the 21st Century

In a recent Reuters article, a woman brought in something unusual to the local police; a live hand grenade, still in its packaging.

This brings up two questions:

• Exactly what is the original packaging of a hand grenade? Do they shrink wrap them? Maybe a nice paperboard box with acetate windows to allow the buyer to thoughtfully consider the aesthetic virtues of their proposed anti-personnel device purchase? Does it come in a special bulk-purchase package for warehouse club markets? Does it carry a UPC code?
• In the article, police spokeswoman Patrycia Chalupczynska commented that It is quite unusual for someone to find a grenade in their backyard, especially one that hasn't been spent (bold emphasis mine). This implies that while finding live grenades is rare, finding the fragments of a grenade explosion is rather less so.

I guess this tells me that gang warriors in Edmonton must be utilizing distinctly heavier firepower than the poseurs here in the States.