We had our first revel of the year last Saturday and it was quite fun. Our group is pretty fired up since our name was passed by Laurel in December - so we are now officially the College of Saint John Of Rila (incipient). We're waiting for word on our device, which we also hope will go through smoothly. Anyway, the news was inspiration for a lot of personal heraldry, which we worked on at the revel. Robert, Sorcha, Guido, Sofia, Theodora, and Gunther all have good designs made and are in the "living with it for a month" phase before submitting.
"Live with it for a month" was the best advice I ever received when working on my own heraldic device and I hope it will be useful to my friends. My own first version was far too detailed and would have been a nightmare to paint or embroider. What I chose in the end was a clean, clear design that is easy to use in almost any form and one that I really like, even a few years later (Argent, five linden leaves vert in saltire within a bordure gules).
We followed up the heraldry research with a feast, which was very tasty, if non-period. We had determined earlier that this would be an ethnic potluck, rather than a medieval one, so we had Pad Thai, Enchiladas, stuffed eggs, cherry cheesecake, cream horns, and black bun. Yum!
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
New Year's gift
I just received a gift of Churchkhela from a Georgian student. I've never seen it before and now I want to know two things: how can I make it at home and is it SCA period??
Monday, January 16, 2012
Actual sewing content!
After a long hiatus, I actually did some embroidery this weekend. A long while back, I made Lord Guy an embroidered Tablero board, with the proviso that if he got his arms registered, I would add them to the board. Well, he did, so I started adding them (Per fess embattled Or and gules, three fountains and a legless bee proper) on Saturday. I think I may do the actual board as his arms, rather than simply putting them in the margins. We'll see!
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Christmas gifts
I have received two new books that should certainly make my clothing design step up a notch for upcoming spring and summer SCA events.
First is The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII. It makes me want to try all sorts of clothing that doesn't really suit my persona at all, but would be fun to make and wear.
The second is Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Cosimo I de' Medici's Style. I think I may have to make some things for both Guy and Logan from this one.
We'll have to see how it all goes. I'm hoping to get to both the Winchester Pilgrimage and Rhaglan Ffaire, and maybe to Double Wars as well, so it would be nice to have a new court outfit. I have my camp/work clothes well in hand! It would also be nice to get Lord Guy a little better dressed, especially for fencing!
First is The Queen's Servants: Gentlewomen's Dress at the Accession of Henry VIII. It makes me want to try all sorts of clothing that doesn't really suit my persona at all, but would be fun to make and wear.
The second is Moda a Firenze 1540-1580: Cosimo I de' Medici's Style. I think I may have to make some things for both Guy and Logan from this one.
We'll have to see how it all goes. I'm hoping to get to both the Winchester Pilgrimage and Rhaglan Ffaire, and maybe to Double Wars as well, so it would be nice to have a new court outfit. I have my camp/work clothes well in hand! It would also be nice to get Lord Guy a little better dressed, especially for fencing!
Monday, January 9, 2012
I'm still here!
It's been ages (well, three months) since I posted, so I need to get things a bit updated. Here's a brief list of what's gotten done since mid-October...
- The second floor of the house is done, furnished, and inhabited. It's three big bedrooms and a full bath. One of the bedrooms is also going to serve as my sewing rooms when I don't have guests. Yay!
- All of our stuff is here, under one roof, including the things that had stayed in storage near the old house. I'm not saying it's unpacked, mind you!
- We have a working kitchen, even if it is ugly. And we have the BEST refrigerator ever.
- The College of Saint John of Rila has an approved name and the device is pending.
- We had our first official College event, the Feast of Saint Nicholas (or Nikulden), in December and their Majesties attended!! Huzzah! Sofia and Sorcha both received Awards of Arms and we couldn't be happier. We actually had four other non-College attendees and that was just amazing as well, given that they all had to travel from Germany to get here. This is just the best kingdom!
- We survived the big storm on Friday, even if all of the brand new roof tiles didn't.
Well, that's it for today. I'm getting back into sewing and embroidery as I unpack boxes, so there will be more posts to come. Whew!
- The second floor of the house is done, furnished, and inhabited. It's three big bedrooms and a full bath. One of the bedrooms is also going to serve as my sewing rooms when I don't have guests. Yay!
- All of our stuff is here, under one roof, including the things that had stayed in storage near the old house. I'm not saying it's unpacked, mind you!
- We have a working kitchen, even if it is ugly. And we have the BEST refrigerator ever.
- The College of Saint John of Rila has an approved name and the device is pending.
- We had our first official College event, the Feast of Saint Nicholas (or Nikulden), in December and their Majesties attended!! Huzzah! Sofia and Sorcha both received Awards of Arms and we couldn't be happier. We actually had four other non-College attendees and that was just amazing as well, given that they all had to travel from Germany to get here. This is just the best kingdom!
- We survived the big storm on Friday, even if all of the brand new roof tiles didn't.
Well, that's it for today. I'm getting back into sewing and embroidery as I unpack boxes, so there will be more posts to come. Whew!
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