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Moving house...
Hey, everyone. I'm consolidating all my geekery in one place, and am retiring this journal (not that I post much to it at all) and moving future costuming and 16th c. thoughts to:
http://www.elizabethancostume.net/blog
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Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Accounts online
Hey everyone,
I finally, after lots of work and effort and liberal amounts of procrastination, have MS Egerton 2806 online.
For those 99.5% of you who don't know what that is, it's a manuscript detailing everything Queen Elizabeth's artificers made between the years of 1568 and 1585.
Enjoy!(Untitled)
The wedding dress is coming along ( Read more... )(Untitled)
I went up to Kingdom Twelfth night this weekend ( Read more... )Masqueness
There's a 16th c. Roman Masque event coming up in Chicago this weekend. Like any self-respecting costumer, I took this as an opportunity to go, "ooh! I need to make *cough*another*cough* authentic late sixteenth century masque costume ( Read more... )The power of PDF
Earlier this week, I popped into our xerox room to copy a costume article for a friend of mine. As I was copying my pages, my eyes fell on the "Scan" button; about 10 minutes of button-pushing later, I managed to figure out how to scan in a document, save it as a pdf, and send it to myself. All in the amount of time it took to xerox the same ( Read more... )This week:
Work is sending yours truly to Denver the week after next. That friday, I'm flying up to Oregon to visit my folks, and flying back the following Monday--so I'll have two days before christmas to finish stuff up! Yay ( Read more... )Books are here!
My first box of books & stuff shipped from Germany is here!
I scored some really cool, obscure stuff in museum bookstores. Here is a list of books that others may also find of interest:
Die Gräber der Moscevaja Balka: Frühmittelarterliche Funde an der Nordkaukasischen Seidenstrasse
(The Graves of the Moscevaja Balka: Early Medieval Finds from ( Read more... )11/13: Fun in Nurnberg
I slept better last night, on my 5 mattresses, than I have in a long time. For the first time in a week I woke up on my own rather than to the electronic blare of a cell phone alarm ( Read more... )