Stained Glass Window Sheetwalls

Lavena got me into this.  "I can get cheap king-sized sheets…we should make murals for Daggers & Hemlock to decorate the hall!  I’ll buy twelve!" I was thinking: murals require skilled labor and planning.  Our shire has maybe two people who could do this, and I’m one of them.  I don’t have enough artistic energy left at the end of the day to do TWELVE murals.  But maybe stained glass windows…because someone else has already planned them, and coloring within black lines, anyone can do that… At that point the filter between my brain and my mouth gave in, and … Continue reading Stained Glass Window Sheetwalls

July 4th Painting Party

I have this crazy idea of how to decorate sheetwalls for our upcoming event, and Lavena decided the best way to get them done was to have a painting party.  We started at 10 am.  (I brought the sheets with the designs traced on already.) Old friends came. There was lots of food. Lovely new people visited from far away (Knoxville!), and their local relatives might like us well enough to come play again. There was a lot of painting, which people seemed to like.  (This is a good shot of this summer’s hairstyle on me, which was also popular … Continue reading July 4th Painting Party

Meridies Regalia

For anyone else who is frustrated by the lack of Geocities bandwidth assigned to the Meridies Bagatelle Pursuivant page (I find I can only click on a few links before the whole section rolls over and plays dead), here are the various regalia, organized by construction type. (I did this for my own sanity; do double-check any instructions with the official site linked above to maintain authenticity.) Fiber construction (I favor applique/embroidery over painting, but…): Download ArgentLancePennons.pdf – Black trigger fabric Download ArgentLily.pdf – Embroidered lily on black token sash Download CompanionateoftheBard.pdf – Painted design on black token sash Download … Continue reading Meridies Regalia