Ok, so I am rounding by 1.5 years years yet, but the photo taken of me at the event this weekend doesn't look to my eyes that I am really as old as the calendar claims I am:


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One of my cousins recently contacted me on facebook to let me know that they had a bunch of old photos of my father, and was I interested in them? I gave her my address, and this week a packet arrived in the mail. She had not only sent photos of a much younger version of my dad than I had ever seen, there were also a number of photos of me when I ( Read more... )

I think I have mentioned that I am the person running the Norrskensfest event in November. I decided early on that I wanted to run it much like Mist Bardic is run--with the feast during the day. Then, after so enjoying all of the singing at the Umamedeltids event earlier this month, I decided why not go all out and run a Bardic competition as ( Read more... )

Back in 1999 khevron and I took a trip to Ireland, during which I purchased a beautiful hand-woven shall in a soft blue and black twill. I loved (and still do!) that fabric very much, but I am not in the habit of wearing a shawl, so I have rarely used it over the years. In recent years I have thought that I should make something else out of the fabric, ( Read more... )

One of my friends posted photos from last weekend's event on her blog. The writing is in Swedish, but there are lots of photos (mom--page down to the bottom--I am in some of the middle photos, and the one on the very bottom, too).

And I have a photo of the spoon I carved on site.

Someone just posted an album of photos from the Known World Dance event, which includes a bunch of great photos of us dancing in the street during the fire drill, and there is a photo of the choir which shows a less blurry view of my new dress than the last photo I ( Read more... )

I finally saw a link to a photo of me in my new dress--a tad blurry, since we were dancing at the time, but it gives the general impression...

My photographer has posted the photos he liked best on his blog, but he tweaked them slightly for "exposure and color balance", while the ones on FB I linked to yesterday are the jpg files as the camera spit them out. I am amused that three of the four he chose were ones I had put onto FB, and the fourth was one I strongly considered, and then ( Read more... )

The following is from an email to Paul, the ex-boyfriend who provided much of the hair in my beard. Having typed it up, I thought I would repeat it here ( Read more... )

Today was reasonably productive--I managed to finish putting away everything from the event, did four loads of laundry, and spent a fair bit of time on projects ( Read more... )