This weekend I was in the Museum of Kiekeberg where we had a living history- event set in 1804. It was great fun :) My dear husband and I did portray showmen, we had a paper-theater with us and told some dances to the peasants ( Read more... )

I don't like to use lj for personal complainments, but in this case I just have to write this ( Read more... )

Happy belated birthday, lisotchka :o)

(Sorry, I'm infamous for forgetting birthdays....)

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I have neglected LG too much the last time, I know.
So here is a summery of my recent projects.
I have begun to knit again - my husband says it's wool-madness.... but he benefits from it, I made a pair of 18th century stockings for christmas for him.
I also knitted a pair for my self. I'm not quite contend with them, as the clock turned out very ( Read more... )

I wasn't online the last days, so this posting is a bit late. Fiofiorina already mentioned our 18th century weekend in Zeilitzheim ( www.barockschloss.de )
I have uploaded some pics and videos:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/8666432@N04/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6gNx9392tk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YbGEgtV-yrY

This morning I finished the waistcoat for which I made the deathheadbuttons some time ago:

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3174/2826658785_e7ee2b12b2.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3063/2827495890_1eaa9a6e4b.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3033/2827495984_8c6d41643e.jpg?v=0

A fellow-reenactor made a little video of your event in Kommern this spring:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8W9qm3PMTo " A prussian village in 1814" (you won't see me, but you will hear me singing ;)

Yesterday I finished the new Robe à la francaise for   de_montsoreau. She had given me a francaise which she had begun to sew herself but didn't had the time to finish it and had some difficulties with the fitting.

Here is the result:
[IMG]http://farm4. ( Read more... )

A film about the milliners shop in colonial Williamsbourgh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_ILQunru60&feature=related