A place to talk about people I’ve met and places I’ve gone
This would be the motley crew I served with at Barnes and Noble the past two weekends. Yours truly in pigtails. From the left: Edwin (herald), Greet, Geoffrey (Hospitaller), Elspeth (Arts & Sciences), Edwin, and Greet. I’m happy with this version of my garb, as it’s ‘earliable’. But there’s more in the works – I just got tired of sewing, and there’s holiday traveling to do. More in the new year! Continue reading Gift wrapping, forsoothly!
(Again I forgot my camera!) We drove the Sunbeam to Fighter Practice. I had become well-nigh annoying on this topic – ‘there’s FP on Sunday, remember?’ ‘You know you can wear anything along with your tunic that you want?’ ‘What will we bring to share at Grub and Garb?’ We got there very early, since the time had changed, and Geoffrey and PEG helped Daan get suited up. He says it reminded him of gearing up for a jump. (He used to jump out of perfectly good airplanes for the Air Force and loved it. However, apparently the gearing up … Continue reading Daan comes to Fighter Practice!
I spent several lovely hours pestering shoppers at our local B&N this past Saturday. Dressed in 1300’s Magyar attire, near as I know it to be. Sorry, I forgot my camera. (Again!) But I wore my newly finished drab cotton tunic with FIVE spools-worth of red embroidery at neck-hem-cuffs, my adorable plaid braid-covers, my very fashionable crocheted cap – which four people tried to buy off me. When they start offering money, I’ll be in trouble. (It’s from Romantic Knits, folks. Six hours to finish it, stomach flu optional.) I’m very sorry I have no picture. I pestered shoppers with … Continue reading Fundraising at Barnes and Noble
Visor down… Visor up! And his predecessor, Sir Salt Shaker (say that five times fast!)… Visor down… Visor up! Unfortunately, Sir Salt Shaker’s service was required at the table, so I had to seek a substitute. (Today’s GMA post was brought to you by Tape and the Letter S.) Continue reading Introducing Sir Lightbulb!
With this second example, I’ve started a "There’s a Culture" category, in appreciation of successes in past history, which we would do well to simply copy, if not take as inspirational benchmarks. This one is from An Intimate History of Humanity, by Theodore Zeldin. Again, highly recommended. "History is full of people who talked as though they were alive today, and yet it is assumed that the experience of the Celestial Empire was so exotic that it has no relevance to the West, which sees China simply as a developing country waiting to follow the Western path to prosperity. But … Continue reading China isn’t quite the Third World, is it?
UPDATED 11/13/06 The Assassin’s Meeting: As explained by Geoffrey (our Hospitaller), the idea is to provide everyone with someone else’s Victim Identity card at check-in. During the day (but not on the field, so as to Keep It Holy – sanctuary! sanctuary!) everyone is trying to ‘assassinate’ his or her designated victim. If I was assassinated, I would receive my own VI card from the evildoer, exchanging it for the VI card I’d previously been assigned, and would trot back over to Troll and report myself dead, by whose hand, and by what means. Then, at Feast, awards would be … Continue reading Assassin’s Meeting Ideas
I was particularly excited about this week’s FP, because there were no major conflicts with other events, and everyone assured me that turnout would be better. And I was curious about how the organizational structure of PG would work. So there were fighters, and selling of armor. (As usual, click on the pics to make them bigger.) David and PEG look over Alicia’s armor for sale and some fighting… Look at all those fighters! Raven, PEG, Thomas, and Kail …some archery… Juliana practicing archery Check out the manic glee on that face! Free fabric! (Thanks Juliana!) Is that a ‘glave’ … Continue reading November Biz Meeting
Yup, I’m feeling the pain. Picked up Guitar For Dummies at the library over the weekend, and have started learning chords. The authors recommend practicing 30 minutes daily – I can’t bear more than about 15 minutes, at present! No point pestering anybody for any lessons yet, I fear. I am picking the guitar up twice a day, trying to make some progress. Just when I’m sure the chord won’t stick in my head, it does. I suppose this sort of frustration is very good for me. My new quickie crocheted guitar strap works great, though. Continue reading Guitar callouses
Not many people turned out today, because of Gatalop running concurrently.But there was David, and Juliana with her youngest child, and Nick with his chain mail project. I should have gotten a pic of him working on the links. He has a jig that fits in a small backpack, whose purpose is to wind wire (what sort of wire?) into a coil – looks like a spring. Then he slips the coil off its dowel, and snips each ring away from the coil. Continue reading Second Fighter Practice
At my very first fighter practice, I met a clearly wonderful SCAdian called Alicia. Clearly wonderful, because she also dresses like a gypsy (ahem!) and because she has lovely skills, like playing recorder and guitar, and belly dancing – which she is willing to teach! I wish I’d taken her picture. Next time. [She also loaned me her lovely copy of The Known World Handboke (sic), which I am doing my best to keep out of the rain, and not drool on. The sort of quality that SCAdians produce for fun just puts to shame so many for-profit products that … Continue reading Dance!