So. Greenfield Village. Last year, this same event was my first-ever Civil War event and could probably be called the event that launched me full-force into reenacting. I also got horribly ill and only remember portions of the weekend...so as I told my mother, the bar for "rockin'" was set pretty low for this year! "As long as I remember ( Read more... )

No epistle-like event summary; I'm too tired and apparently have the swine flu, so I'm just putting up pictures. lachwen put a little bit up about it, plus a couple pictures of both herself and Mike. These are all her photos--my camera fails at low-light situations. I just used peer pressure and common thievery to get her to put them online so fast, ( Read more... )

Okay, folks. I'm exhausted and quickly approaching incoherency, but I had a great weekend of doing all sorts of fun stuff in costumes. I'm going to bed now, but I leave you a photo as evidence:


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So, I know I said I was trying to use up fabric I already had, but I got back from training in Spring Arbor this afternoon and didn't want to just go home, so I went swatch shopping instead. I'm thinking in terms of that I'm not going to be able to get away with not going to any more Civil War events and then nuranar was talking about her wrapper and reine_de_coudre ( Read more... )

I've said to a number of people that I ought to compile all the information that was kindly given to me by nuranar and others over the (crash)course of my education in Civil War costuming. I still think it would be a good idea, and I'm too sick to want to get up and do anything around the house, so it seems like an ideal time. Really, I ought to make a ( Read more... )

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