My last court dress was made in 1998.  After  Amaryllis, Aleea and I completed the greatest Coronation clothes I ever worked on, I promised friends and family I would make my own dress before working on anyone else's.

This has been one of the most fun and silly experiences.  First, I needed to remake my corset.  This has been in the works for ages.  ( Read more... )

Today was Rebecca's first ever holiday concert.  Hats off to the W PA School for Blind Children - they go all out.  This was the concern for the pre-schoolers, age 3-6.  The theme was "December around the world"

The hall was decorated in hand-made flags of different countries, with the backdrop for the performance area draped in blue and silver ( Read more... )

Man, this has been a busy week, but I haven't posted since summer, so it is time ( Read more... )

For non-fans of kids, please note the subject.  It will not offend me if this sort of rambling is not for you.

On Saturday, Amaryllis and I were sitting on a blanket at an event, and I noticed that Rebecca was sitting without any support from me.  Amaryllis and I started watching, waiting for her to tip over.   She sat unsupported for what we ( Read more... )

Friday night a guest artist, Sheldon Low, performed at the Shabbat service.  He was pretty good, especially when accompanied by our cantor, another cantorial soloist, and an additional musician.  It was great and Rebecca loved it.  So when I heard that he was performing a free concert at the Jewish day school on Sunday, I decided to take Rebecca.

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I was lured back onto livejournal by dona_violante, who sucked me in by being darned interesting in email correspondence.  It says I haven't posted in 181 weeks.  wow ( Read more... )

Two @!?#@?!! more weeks. I am getting so sick of being told "Stay in bed for two weeks and we'll see." My director at work has finally run out of patience, too, and is talking to HR about short-term disability for me. Grump. I *feel* fine, the kid is doing fine, and here I am stuck in bed, soon not even to have work to keep me occupied. I ( Read more... )

This has been a long week. Non-work obligations include revising the the current list of Pelican candidates for an upcoming survey, having the annual meeting with my protege, and working on a contract for a potential new apprentice. Lots of SCA peer business.

( Associate annual meeting )

Thursday night 11/13 I had the privilege of seeing the Globe Theater Company from England put on a performance of "Twelfth Night" in what they called 'original practices.' Original practices seems to mean that in addition to an all-male cast, efforts are made to present a venue that is as close as possible to how it would have been performed in ( Read more... )

Twenty-two years ago today I autocratted my first SCA event. I had been in the SCA for 4 months ( Read more... )