Travelling Time and Space

Ever since I joined the SCA I have never had a lack of outlet for my creativity and desire to craft. Far from it. The opportunities and reasons to have fun and make stuff are plenty, and in the course of it I have discovered not only how much I enjoy and need it but also how much talent and skill slumbers in every one of us.

Today I finally sat down and started assembling my own medieval sewing kit. I have always wanted one because I think they fall into the "Neat!" category of things to have and after creating 4 and giving them away as presents and giftbasket/prize donations I decided it is about time I make my own. So far it holds:

- small bentwood box, currently stained and about to be painted

- 3 wooden threadwinders

- 1 wool needlebook lined with linen 

- bone awl

- linen pouch with beeswax

Somewhere in the house is a pair of tiny sheep shears aka snips and I have leather to make a sheath for thesnips as well as a thimble if need be. Maybe I'll fire up the torch tonight and make a few glasshead pins to go into the box as well ...

There are some days when all you can do is grit your teeth and hit the delete button on your emails even when you're a liberal ...

It's been a rather productive weekend even if the mini-pavilino was put on hold and is still waiting for its hub.

Finndragon always seems to go through growth spurts as soon as I'm done updating his SCA wardrobe. Thus, I appear to be always one season behind and constantly playing catch-up. Right now were good on winter items: cozy lined wool doublets, lined pants, toasty stockings - you get the idea.

While it's still fairly fresh for the time of the year here in Florida, a light-weight summer wardrobe with a couple of warmer things thrown in for cooler nights is absolutely essential and since Finndragon will be accompanying me to St George's this coming weekend, I had to buckle down and whip up some fitting clothes for the poor kid.

Saturday morning I tore into the fabric chest, a nice cedar trunk I bought from Baroness Kenet 2 or 3 years ago, pulling out various lengths of mostly linen. Making medieval clothes for Finn is refreshingly easy and fast since the seams are so pleasantly short and there aren't half a dozen yards that go into a skirt :o)

Some patterning and a few fittings later Finn has now several items that only need a few finishing touches ie buttons, button-holes, lacing holesand laces that need to be done by hand

- brown linen chaussee

- off-white cotton braies

- off-white cotton shirt

- orange linen Housebook kirtle

- cream wool hood with purple linen lining because it was "itchy", Finndragon declared

Of course -I- won't have anything new to wear ... meh *L*

Tblog just ate my entry!

Grrrr ....

Anyhow, if you're looking for a good vampire series for teenagers (or yourself and you enjoy young adult fiction),

then I can definitely recommend

"Vampire Academy" by Richelle Mead

She's now up to book 3 in her series and these books qualify as 24h reads: the story grabs you and dares you to lay it aside to run errands which you are as able to do as a Junky pass a free shot)

For the adult reader Richelle Mead also has a fun Urban Fantasy series about the love woes of a succubus working at a bookstore which is hilariously funny.

For more information and some book excerpts go here www.richellemead.com

Now, if you are into -real- evil vampires, the kind that leaves you locking doors and keeping the lights on at night, then you need to read David Wellington. His book "13 bullets" - the first in his vampire series - can be found online here

www.brokentype.com/thirteenbullets

Warning: Don't start to read it if it's already late and you have to get up early the next morning. Don't start to read it if you have important things to take care of - it won't let you go so easily :o)

Enjoy!

I did it.

Last night I watched "Twilight" on VideoOnDemand.

Hubby came home to his wife holding her sides and giggling breathlessly.

Oh, the drama! Oh the pain!

*sporfle*

It was ridiculously funny :o)

It's April.

I shouldn't have to run on the -heat- in the morning this time of the year in Florida.

Yet, this morning I had to.

Brrrr ....

... and we have been busy with life in general, school, work, our home and some activities with the German family group.

This past Saturday we me for our Easter Bunny workshop and crafted a bunch of really neat things with our munchkins :o) The most enjoyable thing is that -everybody- is excited and enthusiastic about doing things together and finding reasons to plan new and more meetings.

After all those pulling-teeth experiences in the SCA this is incredibly refreshing. No feeling of trudging through thick viscous mud with heavy over-sized bootstrying to get the cart to move. Yay for German playdates :o)