Man, I'm still tired and a little sore in odd places, but still happy from yesterday's event, The Festival of the Rose and Olde Timers Tourney, which was in Lake Balboa (northern Los Angeles area). It was a very good day for me. ( where I get long winded but share my happy news... )

Last Saturday was our Baronial Yule, and it was an enjoyable if brief evening of good folks and great food - potluck style. There were many folks there I didn't know or knew minimally, and I'm not a social butterfly so I kinda stayed around some of the ladies and gents that I knew. Sadly, a few friends did not attend, one was sick and her husband ( Read more... )

Yesterday was Collegium in the West Kingdom. First time I've done a West Kingdom event, and it was a very enjoyable Collegium. It was held in Unitarian Church in downtown San Jose, that had a beautiful Sanctuary with lovely stained glass windows. I went with my Barony friend, Pamela. We skipped our own Kingdom's Coronation (an even farther distance ( Read more... )

Ok, I am finally not too frazzled or mopey or whatever emotions I've been going through this past week, in order to write up a bit about my trip to L.A. for Pentathalon (finally!). ( Read more... )

Home from Caid's Pentathalon arts competition, and I am exhausted. Happy to report I did far better than I had expected with four First places out of five. Got 2 in apprentice (illumination and orange marmalade) and 2 in Journeyman (Phyllis gown and blackwork partlet). The cool thing was the partlet was entered at apprentice level and bumped to ( Read more... )

Like various others, Pentathlon in 2011 is now on my mind, since I will commit to making it that year, as I have fulfilled my committment for Visalia Faire this year, and don't have a reason to commit to it in two years should they again conflict in dates ( Read more... )

I am going through more of that flickr album, and I found this ( Read more... )

Take a look at this knitted pair of German reproduction breeches!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/29570777@N03/2764440310/in/photostream

Last night I tried to work on my own web site for a change, and my system locked up many many times while I was trying to simply cut & paste info from amazon.com, into my dreamweaver program. I think the computer had been on too long and simply got overheated. So, off it went ( Read more... )

Yeah, I opened my mouth to our A&S person at tonight's BCM. It is a good thing I am doing a different style of hand sewn garb, as it looks like I will be teaching a class on hand sewing techniques, and I am sure I want to do more than just the basic stitches sampler ( Read more... )