Shopping and other things
Epic shopping trip of epic today - I wandered up and down Sydney Road for a goodly while today, outfitting my pavillion (eee!) in time for Surveying next weekend.
I'm very much looking forward to having a home away from home, instead of just an itty bitty nylon contraption with *just* enough room to sleep in.
Today I garnered carpets, throw rugs, a small blue and gold tapestry, a mosquito net, scatter cushions and a wool mattress underlay for the bed.
I'm still on the look out for a chest, and possibly a small table. Worst case scenario this year I may be taking up a collapsible an Ikea drawer system with a cotton cover over it.
Anyway, the win of the day was this marvelous small wooden chest from Savers - it has twin lion heads on the outside, and contains two corked glass liquor bottles and four shot glasses. It's amaaaazing!
The infusions that I've been threatening to do for a while are on their way - pear and vanilla vodka, cinnamon vodka, raspberry vodka, cherry brandy and brandied cherries. The hardest bit is the waiting *pouts*
Since Christmas a very large portion of my time, energy and money has been poured into SCA things. It really is getting to the point that I know I can't do everything within the society that I want to right now. I just don't have the time or the patience to learn all the things I want to be good at. Outsourcing in exchange for goods, money and services is a good strategy at the moment, as it means I can concentrate on getting my garb and other projects together. It sort of means that I'm leveling up in sewing and equestrian gaming, but not much else.
Since last week's Axeman training day I've acquired a bow for archery - Chaos. It's going to be a pain learning to shoot for a while (especially with the associated bruises), but it is something that I've always wanted to get good at. I can do it with my wrist! It's great!
*wibbles* It may be three months until Festival, but the not knowing how long I'm going to be home and able to work on things means that it really is only two weeks away.
I'm very much looking forward to having a home away from home, instead of just an itty bitty nylon contraption with *just* enough room to sleep in.
Today I garnered carpets, throw rugs, a small blue and gold tapestry, a mosquito net, scatter cushions and a wool mattress underlay for the bed.
I'm still on the look out for a chest, and possibly a small table. Worst case scenario this year I may be taking up a collapsible an Ikea drawer system with a cotton cover over it.
Anyway, the win of the day was this marvelous small wooden chest from Savers - it has twin lion heads on the outside, and contains two corked glass liquor bottles and four shot glasses. It's amaaaazing!
The infusions that I've been threatening to do for a while are on their way - pear and vanilla vodka, cinnamon vodka, raspberry vodka, cherry brandy and brandied cherries. The hardest bit is the waiting *pouts*
Since Christmas a very large portion of my time, energy and money has been poured into SCA things. It really is getting to the point that I know I can't do everything within the society that I want to right now. I just don't have the time or the patience to learn all the things I want to be good at. Outsourcing in exchange for goods, money and services is a good strategy at the moment, as it means I can concentrate on getting my garb and other projects together. It sort of means that I'm leveling up in sewing and equestrian gaming, but not much else.
Since last week's Axeman training day I've acquired a bow for archery - Chaos. It's going to be a pain learning to shoot for a while (especially with the associated bruises), but it is something that I've always wanted to get good at. I can do it with my wrist! It's great!
*wibbles* It may be three months until Festival, but the not knowing how long I'm going to be home and able to work on things means that it really is only two weeks away.