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2018 April/May/June Update:

As you know, most of the year I publish 2 to 3 articles a day.

However, every year during convention season, I take a break from that to go full swing CosPlay.

From early April 2018 to late June 2018, article posting schedule will be sporadic, while CosPlay Season and Convention events are going full swing.

During this time period, you can expect most, possible all new articles to be focused on costume making, CosPlay, and the characters I'm CosPlaying.

UPDATE: It's now divided into 7 pages. The primary page "Meet Avallach" is now over 20,000 words long. At this rate, it'll cross 60,000 long before the costume is finished, and that's not including the other 5 pages. The primary page has now crossed 60,000 89,000 words and counting, the whole set of Avallac'h pages are now more than 200,000 words long, and more then 500 pictures of Avallac'h and his friends have now been uploaded on these pages, plus there are now 400+ hour-long videos f the costume making process as we record live, every second of this insanely elaborate, over the top CosPlay project.

As of May 19, just 29 days to PortCon we are embroidering his blue coat in a countdown against the clock to finish in time for the event, while we pray that The Dazzling Razzberry will be re-weilded back together and drivable in time for PortCon, after it's recent vandalism by Old Orchard Beach's ever growing Ku Klux Klan problem.

There will still be daily updates, but the BULK of the daily updates will be limited to the pages linked here:

1. The Avallac'h CosPlay: Who is Avallac'h?
2. Obsession: Meet Avallac'h
3. [NSFW] Avallac'h & His Nude Women | Witcher 3 Game Screenshots
4. Historical Accuracy vs Avallac'h (to go live later this summer)
5. The Avallac'h CosPlay Costume Making Vlogs (will go live AFTER finishing the costume)
6. How To Make The Avallac'h CosPlay (will go live AFTER PortCon)
7. How Much Did It Cost? ($800+ will run to around $3,000) Budgeting The Avallac'h CosPlay (eing written as the costume is being made, will go live after completion of the costume)
8. Why do children CosPlay rapists & rape victims? & WHY Avallac'h is a M18+ character. 
9. PortConMaine 2018
10. On Being a Handicapped CosPlayer: A Look At Events of PortConMaine 2017 That Resulted In 3 Disabled CosPlayers Getting hurt at The Convention and How These Things Could Have Been Avoided

After PortCon Update:

PortCon 2018 is over... but the making of the Avallac'h CosPlay is not. It is not possible to make a costume as detailed as I'm making in fewer then 400 hours, and only 129 hours went into the simplified first run version you saw at PortCon'18. The complete version will not be seen until PortCon'19

If you want to see this costume in person and watch it's progression onward as I continue to expand it... I'll be wearing it at the monthly Maine Association of CosPlay Enthusiasts (M.A.C.E.) events, throughout 2018 and 2019, you are welcome to join us. The list of current events can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/293470827423558/events/ This list is updated monthly, so be sure to check back often to find all the dates, locations, and details of events.

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13 Black Cats:
About Us

 EelKat Wendy Christine Allen, owner of 13 Black Cats, with 12 year old Chihuahua, Marcy.Eelkat is the current reigning Queen of the Scottish Gypsy Clan of Old Orchard Beach (the Gypsy clan which was featured in Stephen King's The Thinner.) She is a Voodoo Priestess rank of Medsen Fey, Marji Loa to Dambala Weddo.

How long you have been running your online shop? Why did you start it? 

I started my first website (Space Dock 13) in 1997. Now in 2016 and that site have 6,000+ pages. You can see it HERE.

In 2004, I added my first online store Copper Cockeral Cards & Gifts, which is still online and now had more then 20,000 products. This shop features all art, paintings, drawings, and photography by me.

In 2005 I joined eBay and Amazon as a seller of used books. It was not a business I made money on, as I bought way more books then I sold and quickly discovered I could not bring myself to sell any of the books once I had bought them. I stopped selling books, but continued to buy them at a rate of about 200 books a week. Then I found out I could buy them bulk by the pound. Today I have two world records: the most Historical Romance novels in a private collection (8,000+)  and the most Disney Duck comic books owned by a single person (10,000+), and at 300,000 books in my current collection, I'm fast closing in on a third world record: the most books owned by a single person.

In 2006, I started The Rabbit Hole. The idea never got off due to lack of start up funds. It had a Zazzle shop to raise money for the project but, never raised enough money to see the vision brought to life. The original plan, was to start a Gothic & Pagan CosPlay shop with an Alice in Wonderland theme, to be opened in the Arts district in Downtown Portland, Maine. At the time, rent for a tiny hole in the wall store front in this area, was going to cost $30,000 a month. Inventory for this niche would require $500,000 in start up funds. Market research soon revealed that Portland was not the right location for the project, resulting in changes to the business plan.

October 18, 2006 a grease fryer bomb blew up my house and a string of race & religion-related hate crimes and vandalisms, lead to my putting The Rabbit Hole project on a back burner, as a group from a local radical church marched around town claiming "God" had told them to drive out "witches". Opposition of my starting a Pagan shop in the area lead to my looking into starting an online store instead of a brick & mortar one.

On December 16, 2006, my boyfriend drove up in my driveway to deliver my Christmas present a few days early: a black 1992 Volvo 240 GL that had belonged to the Irish Mafia and was rumoured to be haunted. (I collect haunted items and this would go on to become my trademarked item).

 My beautiful Dazzling Razzberry, as it looked in 2010. EelKat & Marcy with The Dazzling Razzberry aka The Autism Awareness Car (with 2.5million marbles glued to it.)Close-up of the marbles on the Razzberry

While I had dabbled in Voodoo off and on since 1983, in 2010, my life saw a dramatic change when I became an ordained minister. My practice of Voodoo, suddenly went from a passing fancy and side line hobby, to become the center of every aspect of my life. I would go on to become a Medsen Fey and Marji Loa to Dambala Weddo. With this new focus on my spiritual path, The Rabbit Hole saw a change in goals. No longer an Alice in Wonderland CosPlay shop, it was now planned to be a Voodoo, Hoodoo, Rootwork, and Pagan Ritual supply shop.

Plans for The Rabbit Hole continued to expand and evolve over the next few years. In 2012, the business plan saw a dramatic change, when an idea to create a private lable direct sales home party business went underway.

February 21, 2012 I bought retired monster truck race car, No Hurry, and set about designing plans to turn her into a travelling storefront. Construction of The Rosebud Reading Room started summer 2012, as the inside of No Hurry was rebuilt into a travelling pagan supply store.

After a year of work, No Hurry's Rosebud Reading Room was unveiled to the public September 2014. Sadly, local religious hysteria struck again in October 2014 when the first of a series of very violent attacks started against my family, my cars, my farm, and then in April 2015, the worst attack yet struck:

On April 10, 2015, I came home to find that vandals had broken into No Hurry, filled her with sewage and feces, three feet deep, smashed up every bit of furnishings, and kidnaped my 13 cats. 10 months and more then $10,000 of work were destroyed by small minded haters in the space of 3 hours. 

2015 was spent in a nightmare spiral of trying to locate the kidnapped cats, while simultaneously, gutting and rebuilding ALL OVER AGAIN, The Rosebud Reading Room inside of No Hurry.

In October 2015, plans to go forward with The Rabbit Hole Shop resurfaced when an online friend contacted me to share his story of how he was finally able to get his business up and running. Following the information he gave me, I set about contacting suppliers and at long last, The Rabbit Hole finally began to take shape, changing from a pipe dream to a reality.

January 15, 2016 the time had arrived to buy a web domain and after 10 years of planning finally bring The Rabbit Hole to life.

However, when I went to buy the domain, it occurred to me, that The Rabbit Hole name, no longer fitted the vision of the store. While the plan was still for the store to include CosPlay items, it had evolved into a more New Age, Wiccan, Pagan, Hoodoo, Voodoo, Ceremonial Magic theme shop, plus the search for the 10 remaining kidnapped cats goes on.

Now in 2016, 2 cats have been returned, 1 was murdered (her belly gutted and eyes cut out, and left hanging on my door), 2 were beaten and were last known to be in critical condition requiring life long medical treatment, and 10 of the 13 cats remain missing.

In a last minute change of plans, I decided to rename The Rabbit Hole, naming it in memory of my 13 kidnapped cats (most of whom were black), and thus I bought the domain 13BlackCats instead of TheRabbitHole as originally planned.

13 Black Cats officially opened to the public on February 21, 2016

 If you have any information about the whereabouts of the 10 kidnapped cats, please contact me.

You can meet EelKat and see The Razzberry and No Hurry in person @ 146 Portland Ave, Old Orchard Beach, Maine.

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