Someone needs to tattoo Poor Impulse Control and/or Insane on my helium hand. Just saying ( Read more... )

I'm very tired, so will keep this relatively brief ( Read more... )

Great stuff at this year's Cloth of Gold. Six entrants, lots of yummy wool, no waiting ( Read more... )

For the Kingdom Arts and Sciences event a couple of weeks ago I was asked to create early period Award of Orion scrolls for a husband and wife. I didn't know them well but some Googling helped flesh out the wording. The husband was interested in forging, leatherwork, armouring etc. while the wife especially enjoys weaving, helping with feasts, the ( Read more... )

I was surprised and pleased to be assigned the Court Baronetcy stepping-down scrolls for the Rising Waters investiture. Their Excellencies have early period Norse-Anglo Saxon personas as I understand it, and I have a soft spot for Aibhilin ( 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... )

So once a month we hold an A&S Sunday at our apartment. Today's was pretty good. House cleaned up fairly easily, I made chocolate cupcakes and lasagne, took some new people fabric shopping at Len's Mills, pulled out a mass of pretty portrait/fabric/costuming books, looked at fabric from our stash and finished off by critiquing Bram Stoker's Dracula ( Read more... )