Owls have been my favourite animal since I knew they existed. I should have had one in my SCA heraldry from the beginning, but better late than never.

The hardest part was finding the right design. The early period celtic feel of this one doesn't exactly fit the late period Western European look of the quarterly red and pean background, but it ( Read more... )

Long ago we ended up with a bunch of grey canvas which made a dandy floor cloth for the main House Bayard pavilion. I based it off the walls in one of the rooms in the Palazzo Davanzati in Florence, but with the colours and stylized ermine spot from my soon-to-be re-worked SCA heraldry. I used MS Paint to test different colour configurations, ( Read more... )

Because this country is awash in Stupid, it doesn't look like things will be going back to normal anytime soon. For the sake of my sanity, I'm committing to cultivating stong, creative connections. Many of us have been starving ourselves of contact long before the Pandemic came along. The more I withdrew, the easier it became to stay home. The ( Read more... )

Audra finally made it over Wednesday night for her first hooping lesson. She'd caught a ride with Gunther, so she was stuck here for the whole gaming night, which gave me time to cram quite a bit into it. Being the principal dancer at her high school, she was a quick study. It was gratifying to hear her shriek of triumph when she nailed the ( Read more... )

A few weeks ago a steampunk aquaintance pinged me on Facebook. He was looking for local writers to submit short pieces for a fundraising calendar with shoes as the theme. The working title was "Stand Up, Durham! - Walking Through Fairy Tales" Their models chose themes, shoes and props, and a photo shoot happened ( Read more... )

We finally finished replacing all of the nasty dusty rose carpeting in the house with Pergo everywhere but the bathrooms ... which for obvious reasons will be either linoleum or tile....and the stairs. Gary had originally intended to Pergo those too, with nosemolding to cover the joints, but when he pulled the carpet up, he discovered that the step ( Read more... )

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