I love Pennsic so much. I just do. I love the people-watching, and the way there's *always* something interesting happening somewhere nearby, and wearing garb for two whole weeks, and getting to play music with both new friends and old, and listening to other people's music, and the stars, and the campfires, and the sprout going more or less feral ( Read more... )

Here comes my annual announcement ( Read more... )

As promised... :)

Neat things for me this year:
I got to see Casa Bardicci for the first time ever. Not only did I get to go to an evening party, thanks to loosecanon, I got into the Hoity-Toity party! Casa Bardicci is a replica of a 15th-century Venetian palazzo that goes up every year at Pennsic and then disappears at the end of War. It's utterly ( Read more... )

I'm not really sure how to sum this Pennsic up, possibly because I'm currently in the throes of serious post-War malaise. Anyway, the short version: I got to hear some spectacular music and see some classic Pennsic Highlights I'd never seen before. The Runnymead dinner went quite well overall. Nobody died during the Court of Love or our baronial ( Read more... )

I've said variations of this before, so feel free to skip it if it sounds familiar ( Read more... )

Stuff I wore a lot:
The green linen gown sitpadeshu made (ETA: and the red surcote scaharp made, too!)
The woven dark blue and gold pouch shalmestere made
The salamander pin nazrynn made
The País de la Canela someone (fieryredhead? hlinspjalda? pearlofvenice?) kindly gifted me at the BPAL meet-n-sniff -- it was a Pennsic miracle that it worked on my skin, and I took advantage of it while it lasted ( Read more... )

Oh, Pennsic ( Read more... )

... a.k.a. Another Random Pennsic Chunk.

Why yes, there was thematically appropriate BPAL for me at War! I wore the Unity Rose set (i.e., White Rose and Red Rose, layered) for Opening Ceremonies, and was terribly proud of myself. I also wore Aperotos Eros ("Unloving love," according to the Lab) for the Court of Love, and Berry Moon on its namesake ( Read more... )

Cranky W is cranky for a variety of reasons, so if anything here comes off too intensely negative, please just dial it down a notch or two in your mental translating device, ok? Thanks.

So, overall: Doing War with the baby was hard. I think the plan for next year is that the L.C. and I will go for land grab and have a lovely quiet week of honest- ( Read more... )

My brainpower and free time are sufficiently limited that my Pennsic wrapup is going to be random chunks of stuff again this year. Mmmmm, Pennsic chunks. :)

Music! Let's talk about music!

I didn't play any myself until just about the end of my stay, when I met cantigajoy by way of turnberryknkn's LJ. She is indeed an absolute joy, and she has awesome buzzy instruments ( Read more... )