...And I am feeling slightly smug.

I have been bust Acquiring Stuff(TM) for Empire.  It is fun!

( STUFF! )

Mostly sewing.

• Put 8 eyelets into my black bodice
• Put 8 eyelets into my silver bodice
• Make J's linen petticoat
• Complete my black petticoat if possible
• Complete making the panes for the slashed doublet body

This, after a conversation with a friend.  Today is ME Day!
( MY STUFF! )

Maelstrom was...  Interesting, as ever!

As some of you may have gathered, after a couple of very dry winters and not a lot of rain last summer (by our standards), England, and particularly the southern half of England, was suffering from a drought.  Drought is relative (it was still largely a Green and Pleasant Land), but we had hosepipe bans and ( Read more... )

If I had a hammer...

Well, I do!  Himself bought me a very nice little hammer, for doing things like hammering studs and poppers into things, and hammering the odd seam flat.  But I borrowed his large claw hammer for this job.  Banging the large metal eyelets into the gazebo walls. I tried using the mallet, but it didn't have quite enough clout.  ( Read more... )

For those who may not have caught on yet, I do a little LARP now and again.  I am part of Profound Decision's Maelstrom LARP.  and in it I play the Lady Prudence Dance, one of the Fampous Dance Sisters.  ravenrigan plays another, Serenity.  We are part of Flambard within the game.

Easter weekend was the first festival of the season, Acquisition...

( In which Flambard acquires All The Cake In The World! )