ornerie wrote:

I wanna see photos of the dress!!! :D

In fact, there were several layers of dress.

( dresses )

I told gwacie:

We could play the reasie game. What do you want to hear about first? Ceremony? Food? Clothes? People? Wise advice?

She replied:

Start with the vigil :) Did you do a formal vigil? With a tent and things?

The question itself makes for an interesting bit of inter-kingdom anthropology: if I hadn't talked to sue_n_julia, I might not know what you mean ( Read more... )

My Laurel elevation will be Saturday afternoon at June Faire. Right now, royal court is scheduled for 4:30 PM. Following aelfgyfu's example (twice is a tradition, right?) the 'vigil' will be in the early afternoon. It will involve fifteenth-century snacks, some hemming, and the wisdom of peers. Carousal will follow court ( Read more... )

It's now confirmed: my Laurel ceremony will be at June Faire, which runs May 30-June 1 in Port Gamble, WA, a ferry ride from Seattle. If you've never been to an SCA event and are at all curious, you should come to this one: it's a demo in the daytime, so there's lots of stuff geared toward new people and the general public, and in the evening ( Read more... )

( Illuminations of the hat and mantle of the Order )

As of final court at Kingdom Arts & Sciences, I'm on vigil for membership in the Order of the Laurel (the SCA's highest arts and sciences honour, if you're not familiar with this stuff). glasseye and I had already checked out of the hotel, so aelfgyfu had to lure us to court ("It's just in fifteen minutes! We're only waiting for Her Majesty to make a phone call ( Read more... )

In a conversation about SCA recognition, ayeshadream wrote:

I had a deep discussion with a friend about this the other weekend who was visibly upset about how a competition turned out. I said so long as they do what they're passionate about then nothing else matters.

"Follow your passion" is fairly common advice in the SCA, in any small-liberal-artsy context ( Read more... )