A quick Update

A quick Update

I know i have not been active on here but things are happening behind the scenes and I am doing good!  I just finished a shawl for my sister's birthday and think it came out so pretty!  We are planning a photo shoot soon but ran out and took a few so I could post here.

I love how it came out.  I also have a pink one that I have not photographed yet, trying to get them all ready for a photoshoot soon!  This one came out so lovely,  While the pink one came out adorably fuzzy this one I did a tiny bit different to see what would happen.  

I did a few layers like normal but then added 2 whole texture layers and love how it came out.  The texture layers had already been dyed in shades of purple and dark blue to black and then once it was all completed it was all dyed black once more.  Like I had hoped it would, the dye did not absorb to the same dark black and the other colors showed through! 






Here is the textured side, I love how thick and elegant it looks here!

Eternal_Valentina is the model, thanks so much for agreeing to throw it on so spur of the moment for me!!  You are beautiful as ever!

 Here is the smooth side, in places it almost looks striped!

 A better view of the textures:

I loved the contrast of the dark dirty shed to the pretty girl and loved the spray painted heart on the door too  :p

My favorite of this set (well a few did not come out as my camera tried focusing on the trellis she was standing in front of instead of her...) like she is about to enter an enchanted area or start a great quest!

 The side of the shed provided a pretty sort of gradient of grey for a backdrop!

Front  yard and I loved the deep greens contrasting with the darks of the shawl!

I will be launching a kickstarter soon where you can order one 1/2 off the normal price of $200!  It takes about a day of work to lay out all the fiber in thin criss crossing layers then another day to felt and full the item!  Handmade with love and prayers!  But I will be posting more on this later.  But do save up if you want an exclusive and one of a kind handmade with love shawl / scarf / vest / wrist warmers / etc.  by Searean 

hehe, hope everyone is doing good and remembering to keep the indigenous in your prayers! 

~Sea

Ron Dadon Video

Ron Dadon Video

I dont do enough posting of my own photos lately, but try to keep up with other photographers and watched this one:

What is cool is she is willing to choose 1 person and look over their Instagram photos and critique the style and etc..  Wow, that would be so cool to hear other people's opinions and ideas on how to improve!

So this is how you enter the contest, subscribe to her Youtube channel, her Instagram and then comment on the video where to find the post...

Her name alone is enough to gain interest I think, Ron Dadon, the kind you have to dare someone to say 3 times fast sort of name!  I am not sure of her age, she looks about 15 to me, but I am bad at judging age!  But look over her Instagram work to see she is a skilled photographer and we need to encourage each other!

Time is flying by!!

Time is flying by!!

Oh man, is it just me or is time zooming by so fast?  I had planned to have so much done by now but not quite there yet!!  Dont you hate that feeling?  If only I had the money to do this and this!  Lol, ahhh well, luckily my first film is meant to be low budget so...

But found an inspiring video!!  I guess I love the way it ends most of all...  remembering who you are and they wade into the water...  Not sure what that meant to her but to me, I am Unangan, People of the Seal...  lol, fighting to get back home!  

But for now, enjoy this gorgeous song by a very gorgeous singer:

  

Sorry I am getting it all done so slowly!  But it is worth the wait, I promise!!  

hugs to all who need them,

~Sea

lol, scared myself awake!

lol, scared myself awake!  

Ohh too funny, been thinking and working out stories and such even though I am not much on social media I am busy behind the scenes...

But I was lying in bed and picturing a scary scene.  It had started out as a good dream, a lot of people were showing me support and encouraging me to "go for it" and I woke up happy and thinking of what would be so nice and creepy for the story...

I pictured a sort of creepy scene where the audience is slowly shown the area, dark and cave-like.  Nice soft creepy music to show this is not a very sweet place and do you really want to go farther in.   I pictured the infamous character introduced in "Ni Na Noh" on her throne.  she is thinking of something and you hope it is not you as you are drawn nearer and nearer like being pulled in by a beam!  You cant move or look away.  I wondered what it could be that would scare us so much and suddenly got an image of that creepy b.ind woman in that movie "Others"!  I then pictured her creeping into my room and just knew if I opened my eyes she would be there! 

Oh man, afraid to stay asleep in case my nice dream became a nightmare and afraid to wake up in case she was there beside my bed.

I have a very active imagination!  I am still working on the short intro video "the forever fear"...  I am a bit slow at editing.  I think because I look at tutorials then end up jumping video to video on Youtube...

But I realized it was just before 3am and I was scared the blind lady might appear since I think 3am is "the witching hour" in the UK...  

so put on this video to calm me racing heart:

 Such an incredibly talented lady!  

do you ever do that though?  get so caught up in your imagination that you actually scare yourself a bit?  I mean you know it is not real but also think it could be if...

So many bad things happening but do not let that blind you from all the good in this world, all this beauty!  Hugs to all who need them,

~Sea
 

Aleut corporation does not want to hear from me it seems...

Aleut corporation does not want to hear from me it seems...



Wow, got blocked by my own native corporation it seems...  Is that even legal??  


Your message to TACDirectors@aleutcorp.com couldn't be delivered.
The group TACDirectors only accepts messages from people in its organization or on its allowed senders list, and your email address isn't on the list.


Oh exulted ones, how do we communicate with you if you limit access??? 



ugh, really hard to feel anything but total disgust with westerners when this continually happens!!   

You have actively harmed us!

It is by choice that you harm us even!

As a corporation supposedly set up for the #indigenous, blocking a shareholder should never be allowed.  

#aleutcorporation #warcriminals #indigenous #Attu #Unangan 

Here is what they were afraid to hear:

 Hello,

I am curious why the age of receiving elder benefit check keeps raising.  I would like to remind you that "elder" is not short for "elderly and retired" but elder as wisdom leader.   Do not disrespect our cultural traditions just because you choose to assimilate into the Western culture where elder means old and a problem to be sent to a "home".  You can be as assimilated as you wish, but you can not force it onto the rest of us! 

I usually lump you into the "war criminal" category because of the way you just ignore me.  Please do me the courtesy of a response (or do I only get noticed when I mention how a white man may be trying to cheat us?????!!!!!!!!)

M L

If that scares them so much that they feel the need to block me then perhaps they are not made of hardy enough stuff to be "directors" of #indigneous peoples!!

The elders receive a $500 check a year and to save themselves maybe $10,000 or so they raised the age to 60, it used to be 50.   This sort of thing really burns me as they sure do not lower their salaries and benefits any to save us money!   

These are our lands forever!  

~Sea

An open letter to Chinese president Xi Jinping (and anyone else after our resources)

An open letter to Chinese president Xi Jinping (and anyone else after our resources)

I will give you the benefit of the doubt and believe you did not know that the people trying to sell you our resources are little more then war criminals!  It was with great dismay that I read this :

ANCHORAGE (KTUU) - Chinese president Xi Jinping landed in Anchorage on Friday to meet with Alaska Governor Bill Walker.

According to the governor’s office, the Chinese government requested the meeting last month.

Walker said in a press release, “I am honored to host President Xi and Madame Peng during their visit to Alaska. China is one of our largest trading partners, and I am eager to tell President Xi about the abundance of Alaska’s resource development opportunities. We have tremendous potential in our oil and gas, tourism, fish, air cargo and mineral resource industries.”

Xi arrived at Ted Steven’s Anchorage International Airport around 6:30 p.m. Friday. The meeting between Walker and Xi is expected to be joined by Lt. Governor Byron Mallott and more than a dozen Chinese ministers and directors.

This is the first meeting between the Chinese president and Walker.

Xi’s visit to Anchorage comes on the heels of his summit with president Trump in Florida. The Chinese president arrived at the president’s Mar-A-Lago resort on Thursday and wrapped up meetings with Trump Friday afternoon.

Topics between the two presidents behind doors were expected to surround trade issues, as well as North Korea’s nuclear weapons. According to the Washington Post, Trump told reporters near the end of the Chinese president’s visit, the two made “tremendous progress” in relations between China and the US.

As you can imagine, the gall of the war criminals eager to profit off of stolen resources is met with disgust by the indigenous of these lands!  They are eager to profit off of the land they pillaged, raped and murdered to obtain!  They do not have any right to these lands or the resources!  They are war criminals and nothing else.  Do not support them.

Do not support such things if you wish to have Honor!   As a Chinese I know you understand "honor" in a way the westerners never can or will.  It is not empty words but something much more meaningful.  They are lost, are you too?   There is still time to change.  I encourage you to think and decide the kind of person you are or it will be decided for you.

~Sea, Unangan from Attu, Alaska


#warCriminals #china #alaska #unangan #resources #indigenous #genocide 

Peru in Peril…



Peru flooding

If you are like me and cant send money, help by spreading it far and wide!  We need to reach those ones who have a few dollars to spare!!

hugs,

~Sea

The War Criminals never Stop trying!!!!


I could not believe it when I got this email:

Some of you in the Anchorage area might be interested in this course that I will teach at UAA in the fall 2017 semester:

Anthropology 436: Aleut Adaptations

3 credits (undergraduate)

Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00-2:15 p.m.

(First day of class is Tuesday, August 29, 2017)

Beatrice McDonald Hall, Room 119

This course covers the entire human history of the Aleut/Unangax region, from its initial occupation thousands of years ago to the present day.  Topics covered include the first peopling of the islands, the relationships of Aleuts/Unangax to other Alaska Native peoples, pre-Russian cultural adaptations, the Russian and American colonial periods, the history of the Pribilof Islands and the fur seal industry, and issues of importance in the region today.

The nerve of them!!!!    My entire history?  Really??!!   As if they could know it!  But here is my response to him:

Hello Doug,

what a claim, the entire human history of a peoples?  Please explain how you can dare to claim such a thing!

"from it's initial occupation thousands of years ago", uh huh and let me guess, Norwegians were the first real occupants or some such bs like that??  

I object to you "teaching" my history like this and as if it is the final say.  I want it amended to read "as imagined by white war criminals wanting to control all the natural resources of the area"…

What gall and nerve!!!   Whatever you say and teach does not mean it is the truth!  Please keep that in mind when you are talking of real people and their culture.  People who are alive and upset at our gall!!

thanks,

Please write him and tell him this sort of thing must stop!  Please write him and ask his sources, etc. to make such an outrageous claim as this!!  

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Douglas W. Veltre, Professor Emeritus, Department of Anthropology

University of Alaska Anchorage, 3211 Providence Dr., Anchorage, AK  99508-8334

Office: 907-786-6847 ~ Anthropology Dept: 907-786-6840 ~ Dept Fax: 907-786-6850

We are not mindless sheep to be led to slaughter like this!  The war criminals steal how many billions a year of our natural resources??!!   They want us to believe we are insignificant and "simple" peoples or some such nonsense!   The nerve of them, but it has always been like that up here, the westerners thinking they can do whatever they want and no one will care.  You may recall the chants of "drill, baby, drill" when they were trying to turn whatshername palin into a political star…

and now with Trump as their president… they dare to put this class as if it were real and validated and truth and not their wishful thinking of greedy disgusting war criminals!!  I am sure the nazis wrote many such articles too!!  The good peoples of the world do listen and care.  They want us separated and divided and are terrified one of you might actually read this and write him about it!  



The one thing about our peoples is we have been here since Time Immemorial and will be here always.  It is our Home!  War criminals see it's riches and rape the lands savagely and brutally.  

I am Unangan from Attu, Alaska.  I am not ashamed of my peoples or history or culture!  This course is a sham and they should be ashamed for trying to pass it off as historical truth!!

War criminals will never stop until we make them stop!  We do this by challenging them when they try stupid things like this!  Please pick up your phone or sent an email asking his sources and how he dares to make such a claim as 'the entire history of a peoples'!!!!

hugs,

~Sea

Fiber Processing

Fiber Processing

I wonder if I will get any takers…  I placed a classified ad for fiber processing in an Alaskan Native newspaper online.  

Fiber processing ad

Lol, I am so willing to work for fiber at this point in my fiber artist life!  Pictured is the Navaho Churro I got from a lady who had moved up here with it but found she had no time to do it so sold it to me.  It was a great haul of 5 garbage bags full of wool!  It was fleeces from many different navaho churro and a few mixed or second cuts that she got for free to play around with.  I am currently drying some tunis/east friesian (spelling??) cross second cuts and plan to work them into a batt once I get a drum carder!  Or I might not have the patience and try to hand card them!  I think the second cuts will be ok for felting, maybe as decoration instead of main material...

Navaho churro washed and drying on rack

I am trying to get the film stuff together for this summer but so love felting and playing with wool!  I am expecting my 16 pounds of unwashed merino fleeces to arrive by this weekend!  I look forward to showing it before and after the washing!  I am not sure if I will try to hand card it or wait a bit.  I guess it depends on if I get any takers who need their fiber processed for them.  I am hoping there are a lot of people who love fiber but don't have the time to process  it themselves and need someone who believes in quality and loves fiber!

It feels like time is flying by!  where are the weeks going?  I guess I get lost in trying to hand card the navaho churro and other stuff that I lose track of days!  But this month has flown by so fast I think I am in a time warp!  You ever feel like that?  

But I plan to try to get some lanolin from the merino that is coming soon!  last time I was too impatient to wait for it to separate and float to the top  :p  But this time I plan to do it and film bits and pieces of it for a BTS episode on my channel!

If only I had been born rich!!  :p   Love you all and please take care of yourself and each other!

hugs,

~Sea

Ways to support me

Ways to support me

I wanted to create a page with links to the sites where you can support me.

Youtube channel ~ it is new with just a few things on it.  I have more that is being edited and hopefully uploaded soon.  But you can subscribe to the channel and click on the little bell that is the notification when I upload a new one.  It helps to show that my audience is growing, if slowly.  

Instagram ~  I try to post on there often but lately I have not been out photographing much so not many new photos for it.  I have been busy creating fiber art!  the latest on my instagram shows it from my lucky buy of navaho Churro wool (about 6 pounds of it or more, was about 5 fleeces I think or more! lucky lucky day I read that Craiglist and decided to respond.) to my buying some wools!  Following me will help show my audience is growing!

Twitter ~  I am not often on here anymore, I was very active for a bit but then began crafting a lot and it dwindled.  But I do post there at least once a month I think!  I will make a better effort to become more active there!  You can follow me there and see when the film stuff is posted!  



The way the social media works is we need exposure to capture people's  interest.  The best way is for people who find us interesting to repost/share our stuff so others who you know get a chance to see it.  It is hard when your interests are varied like mine but you dont want a dozen different accounts to maintain.  I have all combined into these so there is buttercream, fiber arts, 80's rock, indie director / film stuff all combined.  Maybe it is being indigenous where we see it all connected as one so it seems natural to have my social media this way too…

I hope to post more on Youtube soon!  I have 2 short films almost ready, episodes of frugal living, crafting and film so it will become more interesting soon!  It is hard to grow a channel when you are new, like on Youtube since people "binge" watch where they like to watch a bunch of your stuff at once then subscribe.  If you dont have a lot to interest them they move on…  

Life here is good!  it is cold!  but also Hope for Spring on the horizon!  I hope you are following your dreams and doing it even if it is only baby steps at first!  it matters and counts!

Hugs,

~Sea

Felt Inspirations

Felt Inspirations

There are so many amazing fiber artists out there!  I hope to get something going as a co-op for the alaskan #indigenous, imagine being able to stay in your village, live as you want and make $$$$!!!  Not that it is about the money, at least not until 'America' came and took over…  So now we are forced to change our lifestyles and driven out of our villages so they can more easily steal our natural resources…  We need to stop that and turn the tide back!

I plan to do my part, I hope to get my first feature film out this summer!  It is on schedule and is a low budget one and I will soon be holding auditions for it…  but mainly the idea is to show we can do a film, start to finish!  Hopefully that gets us some recognition and some funding so we can begin working with bigger groups of indigenous.  If they are not into film and acting, there is costuming, set building, etc.  If that does not interest them there is the crafting/felting to learn and do!

I am planning to get some merino sheep this next summer!  this summer we are buying some land in Kenai Peninsula area.  If I cant interest an #indigenous corporation to let us lease their land for grazing then we will start small and buy our own plot!  

But it is easy to get inspired by it.  It is "traditional" skills updated to modern tastes!  Using the same sort of techniques but changing the design or adding labor saving tools.  

I watched this video and just think it will help explain my desire to get us our own sheep/goats/alpacas/musk oxen!!!!

Maybe once we get better established we can work with this group to learn skills!  Ladies from Peru keeping knowledge and skills alive, so inspiring!  Either send some down to learn or bring some up to teach :p  

I hope to get an outfit completed in time to enter the local spinners guild fashion show!  it will be fun to try!  I went to my first meeting and really liked it, I plan to get more involved, but been so busy trying to get all this stuff done!  I made some wrist warmers today, my "post apocalyptic" ones are almost dry and I will get pics of them.  I made some today for my daughter.  I used some left over merino from other projects and used them as the base layer then over that I did stripes of navaho churro, Cheviot, and alpaca.  They are drying but I will get pics of them up sometime.  I think they came out cute!  I remembered to do the pattern the right way so it came out even when cut in half  :p   

But I think my "Post Apocalypse" outfit will be good!  I love the dark purples and blacks of it!  I ordered some more merino that had purples and black and one with more black and greys to make the rest of it.   I plan to dye some of the merino I am getting from Australia black.  It might not get here until the end of the month though, but here's hoping the flight connections work and it comes quick!  I ordered some merino yarn (a bulk purchase from a person who is trying to help make it affordable to fiber artists:  poundOwool on Etsy   I ordered his pound of sport weight yarn since one of my daughters is getting into crochet, got a pound of her and one for me  :p   With mine I plan to make the top of it, creating a criss cross pattern and using some roving to cover it but I think it will help create the shape and keep it's form better using the yarn.

I am so excited, ever feel your life is finally on the right path?  that you finally found what you were always meant to do?  I am so glad I got the courage to go for my dreams!  It is easy to remain too timid after a lifetime of abuse, but you need to let all that go and decide to thrive not just survive!!  the courage of it seems so impossible to muster but one big push and you are free!  and then free to do what you like!  It wont be easy, fighting the bad thoughts and feelings that do not disappear overnight, though you wish they would!  but it is such a great feeling to get away from the bad and work toward the good!  

go for your dreams!  it is worth the risk and the hard work and all the sweat and tears and drive!  

hugs,

~Sea