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? […]
Video: Manuscript Challenge: Pearled London Hood Read Post »
In which our intrepid recreatrix decides that pockets are vastly superior to drawstring pouches, and decides to make one.
Video: “Blackwork” Italian Renaissance Pocket Read Post »
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
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In which I use accessories and small articles of clothing to transform my English Tudor working class kirtle into a Florentine Italian Renaissance gown!
Video: Magic Kirtle Read Post »
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
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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
Vlog: War of the Rams Read Post »
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
It’s been a bit quiet around here, hasn’t it? It’s because I went to war! The week of March 15-22 was Gulf Wars, one of the big inter-kingdom wars that takes place in the US every year. It’s been about 14 years since I went to a war (my very first SCA event was Pennsic
Not too long ago, at our local Larurel’s Prize Tourney (I have picture of that coming soon), I was approached and asked to design a charter for a new children’s A&S award. For those of you unfamiliar, a charter is a scroll that has spaces left blank for the recipient’s name, the date, royal signatures,
Lilium Aureum (part one): Creating a new charter Read Post »
