Back to the recipes!  We're actually having a fun week; on Monday, Bob and Harv picked up half a load of something like 2.5 tons of bricks we'll use for building our Elizabethan kitchen building, and we're going out tomorrow to pick up the other half, with help from theblueleader.   We've cleared this gorgeous space in the 12 acre property we added on to our ( Read more... )

I thought I'd stick with the whole "pudding" theme this week.  No post yesterday, because yesterday was my birthday, and I was busy shopping and watching Mockingjay with Bob ( Read more... )

Sorry, I haven't gotten to FB yet; I'm still recovering from the busiest two weeks I've had in a long time.  I went to bed at 7pm yesterday ( Read more... )

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Probably not doing much more than that for the next two weeks - tomorrow we go to Holiday Faire, then we're off to Jamestown for Foods & Feasts, and I have a goose to roast this year.  A goose!

I'm so excited.

Except we got bathroom breaks, and lots of fun people to hang out with.  Once upon a time, I did a Foods and Feasts Thursday and Friday with Bob, and it was us and five or six staff only.  I talked for two days straight in the four-bay house, and it was awesome, because it was the first time I was allowed to interpret entirely unsupervised.  Also, ( Read more... )

I'm on my way soon to Jamestown for the weekend.  Bob is staying home to work on stuff, but pinkleader will be with me ( Read more... )

The suits, the shirts, and the ruffs are done and delivered, and looked awesome. Still to be done (by me) are the embroidered falling band and cuffs, embroidered leather gloves, and a nightcap. I'll be starting on those after Pennsic - I've got mending and sewing to do for us both ( Read more... )

It has been a ridiculously intense month; I'm finished on the shirt (post on that soon), and on to the ruffs that are due June 15th or so.

Here's the link to our Gardiner's weblog that has pictures of the suits being made by Eleanor and Olivia, pictures of the embroidered shirt being made by Esther, and rather boring pictures of me doing endless ( Read more... )

Man, oh man, oh man.  Okay.  Aside from my body being utterly impossible (I'm used to it), my life is just endless, endless awesome.  I'm not kidding, it really is ( Read more... )

It has been a busy, busy day.

Scratch that - it's been a busy three weeks, and will be until Saturday, when I can finally wind down from immediate obligations.  We had a work weekend for Gardiner's Company at our place - digging in the fort and sewing things for sale - which was awesome, because everyone there was a friend, and people really took ( Read more... )