This is only the second year since I started in the SCA 5 or 6 years ago, that I'm not going to Gulf Wars. Granted, I have no intention on going again, either, but I have to admit, it's been odd to read the status of friends that are going as they have been getting ready. Now, the next week will likely be a lot of radio silence as they are actually ( Read more... )

Who knew?! Rant that was (unknowingly) public turned into a very good thing. Huh ( Read more... )

So let's do a quick recap of the last 6 months. There have been some incredible highs and some of the lowest lows I have ever experienced ( Read more... )

I went up to Denton today to pick up a drafting table a friend of mine's dad made for them roughly 15 years ago. It's solid wood, and has a flush light box in it. He built it for his son who was as the time going to school for drafting/architecture. The friend ended up going into a whole other field (medical) and the table has apparently just ( Read more... )

One of the higher end fabric stores is going out of business, and I decided to hit them up on Tuesday. Glad I did! Their stuff is generally so grossly priced that I have literally only ever been in there one time before with C. Let's just put it this way...one of the 100% wools I got was listed at $110 a YARD! No kidding. Yeah, take 90% off of that ( Read more... )

I find that i change a lot every few years, and then a lot of things about me never seem to change. I prefer pants over dresses, I like mushrooms on everything, I HATE folding laundry....yeah, some things stay the same. And I'm comfortable with that. It's part of who I am ( Read more... )

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HAVE YOU SEEN ME??


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I've been so damn busy ( Read more... )

Gunthar won crown!!! So now lady_eliz and count_gunthar are the Heirs to the crown of the Kingdom of Ansteorra ( Read more... )