Author name: Courtney

IN WHICH our intrepid recreatrix helps her very own small Tornado to make a portable Gluckhaus game (and tries very hard not to take over too much).

A brief interlude, wherein our intrepid recreatrix dresses up (because any excuse is a good excuse) and answers SewLoud’s 20 Questions for Costubers. Thank you all so much for helping me reach my first milestone of 100 subscribers, I love and appreciate you all!

IN WHICH our intrepid recreatrix decides at the last minute to make a London Hood, in a house not her own (don’t worry, we’re just self isolating across two households in order to maintain upkeep with both of them), with half of her normal supplies two and a half hours away. CAN SHE DO IT?

In which our intrepid recreatrix decides that pockets are vastly superior to drawstring pouches, and decides to make one.

In which I paint some bobbin holders (not shuttles; that’ll teach me to read the fine print before uploading) for my friend Delphina (who was very graciously patient with my while this project dragged on WAY too long), and learn a valuable lesson about filming at night even when I think I have enough light

In which I use accessories and small articles of clothing to transform my English Tudor working class kirtle into a Florentine Italian Renaissance gown!

New video live today! I made a Viking-style outfit for the kiddo (I’m going to have to start calling her Tornado now, since she’s big enough to roll her eyes when I call her Poppet) and filmed… almost enough of it to make a coherent video. I hope this is a decent debut video (I’m

I made another vlog! This one is properly SCA-related, about The War of The Rams, a relatively local war event between my kingdom and the neighboring one. For everyone who was more interested in tutorial videos, project diaries, and period look-books, don’t worry; those are still coming. I started with vlogs because they’ve been relatively

I know it’s been SO LONG since I posted anything here. First, there was so much life that happened: elevation, and then a divorce, and then movingout, making a different relationship work, finding a job and figuring out how to be a single parent and still have enough time left to create enough to not

I haven’t been posting a lot here lately. Things have been very busy, what with the elevation and all. And not just mine, Master Alden had his not too long ago too, which involved a little bit of effort on my part to make his scroll. /silly  I have a post I want to make