Madrigal (that boffer larp I'm on staff for) is looking for NPCs for the next event, which is October 8-10. NPCs for any fraction of the event are welcome and encouraged. Rumor has it that there will be cookies. (Not from me at the event, as I am running in circles panicking, but I can offer post-event bribes of baked goods, and cointeach and wgptrey have both ( Read more... )

Sunday and Wednesday were both studio days, thanks to nudging from mathhobbit. Three of the four things I've put in for glazing recently came back. They are none of them perfect, but their flaws don't gnaw at me the way some flaws in things I've made do. The fourth thing I'd glazed was kicked back unfired because the glaze on the handle had chipped, so I ( Read more... )

First spring Madrigal event happened. Final Root Maze mod happened, despite my fears about the weather and inability to do any setup pregame (due to rain). Much of that pre-game time was burned on turning my cribsheet into PC-presentable signs, so it wasn't wasted -- would've been nice to do that beforehand, but I'd been dithering about signs vs ( Read more... )

With twenty minutes and some pliers, a small collection of things that've been filed under "and you're keeping that around why?" have turned into a fairly respectable prop. On the one hand, I'm foolishly pleased with myself; on the other hand, my packrat tendencies do not need this sort of encouragement ( Read more... )

Five Madrigal events: that makes one year for me as a staffling. I still don't know what I'm doing, but I like to pretend I'm learning ( Read more... )

Three letters (re-)drafted for Madrigal. There are a couple more things it'd be good to get on paper, and several drafted things need feedback and revision, but I think the remaining props are now more pressing (until I have feedback, anyway). There are a number of props I'd like to have, but only one that's critical and non-trivial. (Of course ( Read more... )

I re-did the neckline on Tabritha's dress again. It's not perfect, but putting the dress on no longer makes me cringe, so it'll do. I'm tempted to have a bout of exuberance and attack it with beads, but that'd suit neither the dress nor the character. (Should she ever need a court dress rather than a bumming around Shadowfane dress, I'll need at ( Read more... )

Four events down. I'm still learning the ropes ( Read more... )

I didn't engage in many productive tasks this weekend -- actually, I lost ground when I lost a nearly-done NPC writeup to an inconvenient computer shutdown, only partially offset by ordering some props I'd been flailing about -- but I got some useful practice time in, and caught up on sleep ( Read more... )

Cherry chocolate chip ice cream would be better with tart cherries rather than hot pink candied cherries, and without the ice cream colored pink. Still, it's not bad, and the cherries are a definite presence, whereas the peaches and cream ice cream was short on peaches, and what peaches it had were unpleasantly icy. Also, the ice cream tasted too ( Read more... )