Oh dear yes I do believe your memory issues may be related to your errant shadow, @Azura Kynold. Without it you're really not a whole person and your mind will slowly begin to disintegrate. I believe you're already experiencing some symptoms of this with your macro/micro going all wacky (smaller in the morning, bigger at nite, etc).

I've got some experience with a needle and thread (and my goodness was I lucky to stay out of that Alteration Society trouble), and would be happy to help get your shadow reattached. But it is a matter of catching it first, isn't it? Flyers sound like a wonderful place to start. Does your shadow have any distinguishing features?

I went ahead and made some flyers and put them up in the commons and outside the library and at the Spoonbender coffee shop and they did really well. Who knew there were so many orphaned shadows around campus?

Do you think you could pick your shadow out from a line up, @Azura Kynold? I have them all in mason jars, but if I let them out in a dark room and use a flashlight I think you could get a good look at them. But we should probably keep them isolated from stubborn ones like @Rubellite's.

Despite her assurances, @Azura Kynold was not able to decide which of the shadows we caught were hers. She narrowed it down to five, so I sewed them all on. Hopefully the right one will stick! But they might end up giving her a bunch more confusing memories - ones that aren't even hers. Each shadow has its own map of the mind it comes from, and I suppose each one will try and overlay its layer on the other and it could be a bit messy for awhile, till the right one matches up. Then the other shadows should fall off like husks, or scabs, or tail transplants that don't take. But that's a sewing lesson I already learned.

Shadow Sewing Circle!!!

Got a shadow? Need a shadow? Join the Shadow Sewing Circle! We're meeting outside the library at noon this Tuesday. @Rubellite and I will demonstrate techniques.

All it takes is faith and trust - and a needle and some sturdy thread from Michaels. Bring your own if you have it - we'll provide some too. We'll also have a number of extra shadows on hand to practice on, and a report from @Azura Kynold on what it's like to have multiple shadows attached to you at once - something I personally think is going to be a big fashion hit this summer. Bigger than The Alteration Society - even bigger than @Matching by Mattie!

See you tomorrow!!!

Shadow Sewing Circle!!!

Our first meeting was SUCH a success we're having another Shadow Sewing Circle -- tomorrow, same time, same place.

Everyone was soooo stoked about getting shadows sewed on, we used up all the extras I had in the mason jars but DON'T WORRY there will be enough for all because I found a cheap place to order them online and a big envelope of them is supposed to arrive today.

All of you with multiple shadows are looking totally cool, and if you want more we can sew more! Can you have TOO MANY SHADOWS? Let's find out!

And if it's your first time for shadow modification, that's fine too. ALL R WELCOME!!! See u tomorrow!!

I'm really sorry to everyone who got one of the new cheap shadows sewn onto them last week, and I promise to do better research before buying more shadows in bulk. They were really super cheap - which should have been a red flag - but I didn't know they were coming from China.

I didn't know anything about the shadow sweat shop industry in China, and now that I do, frankly I think it's sick. They take young kids - sometimes as young as 8 or 9 - and remove their shadows by slamming them in doors or windows. Then they ship them off to buyers across the world. It takes the kids months to grow their shadows back and I hear it's really painful, like when you clip your fingernails too short.

So now I'm trying to find locally sourced, all organic shadows. In the meantime, though, those of you who got the Chinese sweatshop shadows, I really don't know what to do. We could remove them and send them back, but they'd just be sold off to somebody else, or worse, left orphaned on the streets, likely to be kidnapped by shadow traffickers. I think the best thing, really, would be to just keep them, though I know some of them have been causing trouble, as 9 year old Chinese kids are likely prone to do.

These free range, local, organic shadows we've been using are really working out well. Since they were harvested right around the solstice they're especially long and feathery. They are in fact just about as long as they can be, technically speaking. I think they're going to look really nice sewn on in groups of threes and fives.

Just yesterday I sewed three on each heel for @Ninny Hendrix and it looks really nice. When she stands still, it's like black peacock tails, and when she runs it's like a cartoony black cloud is being scribbled out behind her.

The Shadow Sewing Circle is hanging out in the shady glen near the library pretty much every afternoon these days, so come by and check us out! If you're nervous about having extra shadows sewn on for the first time, we can always just use safety pins for you to try it out.

Actually, ah... ah... ah.... CHOOO!!!

Oh no @Azura Kynold I think I have developed a seasonal allergy to shadows!! Sitting in piles of them and handling them all day I ah... ah... Choo! I guess it was just too much. The school nurse said I need to take a break. And Zertec. Ah choo!

But in answer to your question, @Azura Kynold, no, I found it's better if you don't talk to the shadows. It just complicates things.

Ah CHOOO!!!

The best way to cure to my shadow allergy is to limit my exposure. Which is why I'm so glad to have enlisted a bunch of summer students to gather them for me: the Shadow City Force Five! Congrats if you made the squad. I'll expect regular reports about filling your shadow quota, and how you're keeping up with the orders. But in no way can I come in contact with any shadows! The school nurse said I could go totally anaphylactic if I do.

Let's keep the Shadow Sewing Circle flying high at Psyhigh!!!!

I'd like to apologize to everyone who got their shadows sewed on upside down last night. I wasn't at sewing circle of course, because of my allergies, but I heard that our new Shadow City Force Five recruit @Louis C. got things a little backwards. Come back this afternoon and we'll flip that around and make it right, PLUS we'll throw in an additional accent shadow at NO EXTRA COST TO YOU!

@Louis C.'s got a lot of enthusiasm, but hasn't had that much sewing experience. All it takes is practice! I have a good feeling that he's going to work out just fine. He's also the only member of the Shadow City Force Five so far. So really it's just Shadow City Force One. Wouldn't you like to join @Louis C. and be a part of our street team? Sign up today for Shadow City Force Five and be a part of this exciting new movement!