Yesterday was Ealdormere's Kingdom Arts & Sciences Fair and Competition. We attended en famille, driving cautiously through intense fog in Guelph and Burlington. Arrived safely, only forgetting one minor thing from our caravanserai ( Read more... )

Lately I have been working on some clothes for Albrecht and I, hopefully to be complete for Coronation ( Read more... )

Self-doubt is a hungry monster, and artisans and performers are particularly vulnerable to its avid embrace. At some point (and sometimes semi-perpetually) we will pathetically seek validation from anyone who will listen for five minutes ( Read more... )

Back from Ohio. Put over one thousand kilometres on the new car in 3 days. Border crossings were fine both ways. Roads were clear and the car performed ( Read more... )

I turn 40 this month ( Read more... )

I volunteered to take a scroll for Crown. I was surprised and pleased when it turned out to be a Scarlet Banner for Baroness Nicolaa, my Laurel . Her Excellency has a fairly strong persona and so I wanted to design a scroll that respected it with a 13th centry Anglo-Norman feel, a style I haven't really done before ( Read more... )