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One of the things I had at my house was some leftover Odd Fellows regalia from back when I lived in the Odd Fellows hall. A lot of it was in rough shape, had been in rough shape when I got it. But the sashes had these cool metal stars. I got this vision of making them into little badges. But I have no crafty abilities in this direction....

So I posted a job on MeFi jobs [http://mefi.us/j/1161] and someone answered me in a few hours. I mailed her the sashes [see previous photo: http://mlkshk.com/p/HOO8] and she made these awesome I Helped Jessamyn merit badges. Fuck yeah!!
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komara 8 years ago
I feel like Eliza, but ...

tell me more about "back when I lived in the Odd Fellows hall"
jessamyn pro 8 years ago
Back in the last century I had just gotten back from a year in Romania and me and my then-husband saw a little ad in the window of the local Odd Fellows Hall in Ballard [in Seattle, NOT the fancy one in Capitol Hill]

caretaker wanted: apply within

We applied and got the job which came with a free apartment underneath the hall [free utilities and phone] and a small salary and the gig was being basically the rental agent for the hall, keeping track of the schedule, opening and closing the place and keeping it clean. Was a fun job, I had it for a few years even after me and my hubs split up.

I moved in there in September of 1996 and moved out for good sometime in 2000. Here's an ancient web page with some photos of the apartment [imagemap broken]

http://jessamyn.com/pals/dad/
komara 8 years ago
I ... wow.

I've been fascinated with the Odd Fellows (okay, minor-league fascinated) ever since the woefully unkept Odd Fellows Rest cemetery here in New Orleans had a bit of a problem with exposed remains. There was no longer a New Orleans chapter but once it made news then the nearest one (Lafayette? Baton Rouge?) came down and fixed things.
komara 8 years ago
So I'm blaming you, is what I'm trying to say.
komara 8 years ago
Example: http://www.flickr.com/photos...
jessamyn pro 8 years ago
Yeah in different places the Odd Fellows are more or less ok and in other places, less so. Fraternal orders are really interesting. When I finally moved on they actually got an Odd Fellow to take the job which I think is what they wanted in the first place. Interesting folks.
Allanpoe pro 8 years ago
erm.. maybe a weird question but.. what's Odd Fellows?
jessamyn pro 8 years ago
What I would always say is "Fraternal order but not squirrely like the Masons" although the Masons are significantly less squirrely than they used to be
jer pro 8 years ago
These are awesome.

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