I have... a BROWN COAT!
POSTED BY: PhoenixRose
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:23
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Originally posted by Grizwald:
I still wanna see a picture!
Well, it could be a couple weeks before I get my patches. I suppose I could take one patch-free, assuming I can find the camera. I'll see what I can do, but it might be a short wait.What about you? Do we get pictures of your mothbally coat?
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One summer.
One mission.
One legion of Browncoats.
Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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It's actually a handmade vintage East West Musical Instruments jacket custom made for a rather small man, but it fits me like a dream. The original owner's son sold it to me on eBay. He said his dad had it made as a Confederate cavalryman's riding coat (he was a reenactor). Nothing was said in the auction about it being from EWMI so that was an absolute surprise when I found the tag inside! If I take good care of it, it'll last forever. It's unlined and has that high riding slit at the back. I love it.
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Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!
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Ooooooooh shiny! That is a very pretty coat!
*checks label of her coat*
Mine is Global Identity Leather. Heh, that's funny. Different shade of brown than yours; there's less red in mine. Can't judge the length, but they're probably about the same; maybe a little longer for mine. It comes down midcalf on me. Has a slit in back too, which is part of why I thought it was so perfect.
Now I've really gotta get a picture to share up here!
Anyone else? This can be a place to share coat pictures! (God we are the only people in the 'verse who would find that exciting...)
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Okay, okay so I found the camera and asked my mom to take some pics and I posted it under my blue sun items...
http://www.fireflyfans.net/sunroomitem.asp?i=10161
Anyone know how I can get pictures to just show up here? I am showing my technical ignorance...
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One summer.
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One legion of Browncoats.
Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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I've kept this advice column for a while for just such a thing - mothballs and cedar chests...
I’d like to wring the neck of the guy who invented mothballs in the first place. Who told him mothballs smelled good? As for your problem, it’s a tough one for sure. But here’s what I want you to try first (even though you’ll be sure it won’t work). Get a small bowl and pour in a good amount (at least 1/8 cup) of pure vanilla extract. Don’t mess with imitation flavoring—you want the real thing. Set the bowl in the chest and close the lid. Check after a week or so. You may be pleasantly surprised. A reader suggested this tip and I tried it in an antique I own that had reeked of that horrible old musty antique smell for at least a hundred years. It was miraculous, really. If this doesn’t take care of the mothball odor, your only recourse is to sand down all of the cedar lining with fine grit sandpaper. Vacuum away all of the dust. This will renew the cedar fragrance and should get rid of the mothball odor. If not, repeat the vanilla trick. Hang in there. I know you’ll find the solution. Just don’t give up!
It actually works - I wound up resanding 1 drawer that just wouldn't clear up but the other drawer and the rest of the chest wree wonderfully moth ball free after 2 weeks.!
Maybe it would work for Browncoats too!
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Flechette - Destiny's Cook
We got Crab and pig tell :Squid ink and fish scale
Okra and dasheen leaves
Chitchat and chatter :Fill up the platter
With a garnish of pure make believe
- Jimmy Buffett's Calaloo
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Flechette, thanks for that. I'll also suggest it to my mother for her cedar chest.
PhoenixRose, very nice 'coat you got there!
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They could not take the sky from them -
Our Big Damn Heroes made a film!
I'm gonna see Serenity then
go back the next morning and see it again.
Cuz no one at Fox knew this show had no equal
C'mon Universal, and greenlight the sequel!
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Congrats on the coat PhoenixRose! It's quite shiny!
I hate mothballs as well. Once, in school, we had some experiment with mothballs and we had to put them in a tube in a beaker of boiling water and my friend accidently broke the tube. So we had the smell of liquid, hot mothball in the room and a few of the class (me included) had to leave the classroom and sit in the hall, it was so bad. And that's the beginning of my long standing hatred of the things.
Neat trick with the newspapers, though. I'll have to try that on an antique apron that I bought on a whim a bit ago. It doesn't smell like smoke but there's definitely a trace of "stuck in a box for 80+ years" sort of smell.
Mine is an evil sugar high laugh! Bwahahahaha!
Morwen
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Originally posted by Morwen112:
Congrats on the coat PhoenixRose! It's quite shiny!
Thanks!
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I hate mothballs as well. Once, in school, we had some experiment with mothballs and we had to put them in a tube in a beaker of boiling water and my friend accidently broke the tube. So we had the smell of liquid, hot mothball in the room and a few of the class (me included) had to leave the classroom and sit in the hall, it was so bad. And that's the beginning of my long standing hatred of the things.
That sounds like about the nastinest thing possible. I'm almost amazed such an experiment was allowed considering how very, very nasty mothball chemicals are. Yeeks!
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..there's definitely a trace of "stuck in a box for 80+ years" sort of smell.
I know that smell. My grandma's whole house smelled like that. Except her big cedar chest. And the basement, which smelled like mildew. Hope newspaper gets rid of it!
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One legion of Browncoats.
Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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So I'm wonderin'... Anyone know of some kinda really great leather glue I could use to put patches on this beauty? Trying to get a needle through it is just not working well. Owie. Just thought I'd try before the patches got here, so I could plan accordingly. I thought it might come to gluing them, but I don't want them to come off!! Anybody have suggestions?
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One summer.
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One legion of Browncoats.
Starting June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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I know this reply is late but I only have one word for you - SHINY! 
Oh' and bout the ciggy smell just hang it on a line outside for a day or so and and let the fresh air get to it. Other than that cuddle away and I'm so proud of you.
Being CRACKERS provides sanity in an insane world!
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