Tonight, I finished the promised wardrobe for War:



One commercial linen tunic repaired
Three linen tunics constructed (two from Thing a Day, maybe one more before GW if I have time)
Two linen coifs

All handsewn with linen or silk thread with whipcorded ties. Geektastic, since it is for the Apprentice Spawn. :)

Here's a photo of my garb for Coronation. If you look closely, the outer layer has green, red, and purple froggies! Squee!



So... I realized that this outfit made me a Japano-Scot.... Even worse, I may have been JaPictanese. ;)




( And photos of Katlyn's apprenticing under the cut! )

Last weekend was wonderful. Saturday morning I spent sewing and chatting with gwyneth1362, I spent the afternoon enjoying plants and gelato with damej and spent the evening wallowing in my wooshy tub with a cider and arebekah's Pama trufles. Sunday, I spent hanging around the house, reading and cleaning and otherwise relaxing. The closest I got to leaving the house was when I opened the door to get my dinner from the pizza boy. Heavenly.

The beginning of this week, however, has been something of a failure. The weather has been cold, work has been alternating between stoopid and boring, and I have been tired and uninspired in my projects. Blah.

Random blather ensues:

I am happy that so many of my friends are politically aware and vote. Yay! I'm not the only one who cares! I also find it somewhat encouraging that, despite very similar populations at both locations it took me less than 1/3 of the time to vote as it took to post a letter.

The "letter" in question was a sort of fun project in of itself and put my OCD to good use. I have been trying to assemble a more full set of Tournaments Illuminated and Creative Anachronists and to that end posted a message to the Northshield Hall awhile ago. Yesterday, I got an email from a lady who is helping to get all the tables of contents of past TIs online and, for one reason or another, did not have access to about twenty issues. She googled TIs and found my message to the Hall. Happily, I had all the missing issues and so was able to photocopy the tables of contents and other pertinent information for her. See? I'm not a pack rat! These things are useful! Like bits of twine... ;)

Today I got my birthday present from jtdiii. He bought be a lovely set of spintriae from Antiquanova. Now I am just pondering where and how best to display them. *evil grin* Mmmm... Roman porn!

So, aaron_pike and damej, now that I have the tools in hand, we need to form a Laurel plot to break Kaydian... (Don't worry, cass_lee, we won't break him beyond repair... probably.)

I have decided that I need an all-weather cabana boy. One of the few things that would have made Saturday night more delightful would have been a cabana boy to bring me cold fruity drinks on command. But that got me thinking about the other uses one could have for a cabana boy, and I decided that one of the sexiest things a young, nubile, tanned youth could do would be to scrape the ice off my car. :P At the very least I should look into an electronic substitute... a remote starter would have been just the thing this winter.

I am looking forward to Thursday - I will have two opportunities to torture little people. The first one I will post about afterwards, provided they don't eat me. But in the evening, my little... er, younger cousin will be in town. He made State for wrestling! He's always been super excited to talk to me about wrestling because I lettered in high school and am one of the few relatives who really understands what he is talking about. So, I am planning on going and hanging out with my aunt, watching the tourney, and cheering him on. I have not seen a State tourney in better than a decade, so I am excited. :)

I am hating LJ tonight, because it ate this post halfway through the first time. Boo! Bad Frank! Don't eat my posts!


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Edit: a quote from CSI:

(Girl has just been blown off by stoopid Boy because she smells bad after doing an autopsy)
(Boy2 walks past)

Boy2: You smell like death
Girl: (scowls) So I've heard.
Boy2: You know... A real man wouldn't mind...

*snerk*

Not kid safe, not work safe, but authentic and funny...

Naughty Laurel Coins

So, damej and aaron_pike - do you think we could involve Kaydian in another uncomfortable Laurel conversation with these? ;)

Wow, what a weekend!

I spent last week sewing like a damned fool - half because I had not been able to do my Twelfth Night gifts until then and half because I took on an (at the time) last minute secret commission. Luckily, the stars aligned and I was feeling pretty good and was able to reschedule a few things to give me enough time to pull off most of my Twelfth Night plans...

The maniacal sewing was largely due to taking on a commission to do gflower's Laureling "cloak." I was so completely overjoyed to hear the news - within half an hour of her elevation being announced, I had volunteered to do sew the cloak. After evaluating my stash, however, I decided that a hood was more appropriate to her persona and the fabric I had on hand. The face fabric is a fine black lambswool and the lining a soft green linen. The embroidered leaves are done in Rainbow Linen (thanks, arebekah!) and the applique in silk floss  on a linen field. Unlike many of my recent projects, there are no in-process photos - there simply was not time! There was, however, time to make a tiny matching hood for Colleen. *grin* A girl must have priorities!

Congratulations to the lovely and most deserving gflower!

I had my own Laurel-ly happiness for the day - ilaifire became my apprentice. He is technically my second apprentice, but I share the lovely mightyjesse with an Eastern Laurel and ilaifire is mine, all MINE. Bwahahaha.... *cough* Erm. Yeah. ;) He has been a wonderful student thus far and I am looking forward to continuing to work with him. He is such a nice, energetic, and talented boy - I am very proud to have him as an apprentice.

(Photo here when the NS Gallery stops hating me!)
EDIT: It decided to love me at 2AM :P


The rest of the day was a blur of laughter and talking and munching... I got to spend some time with friends rarely seen and even got to hang out a bit with jtdiii, when he wasn't hiding outside in the subzero temperatures. :P

One of my favorite activities of Twelfth Night is the prezzies! I love to give gifts to people, especially when I know I have just the right thing for someone dear... To those of you who I told my Twelfth Night gifts would be bottle covers, my apologies - I am keeping that idea for next year. Instead, it was a hodge-podge of toys and treats - chocolate of several sorts, peppermint sticks (regular, giant, and with gummy creatures), thimbles, knitting needles, fighter bags, sewing kits, first aid kits, scissors, chess games, checker games, beeswax, books, boxes, and more... In other words, a great big toybox full of goodies for people to choose from. Then I had special gifts for a selection of folks, little treasures stowed away over the course of the year. (OK, over the course of the last three months. I'm terrible at holding onto a gift for someone - I'm just to eager to give it and see their face!)

In return, I got an amazing array of goodies - cookies that were quickly devoured, a little snowglobe that sadly did not make it home in one piece, TWO beautiful froggie ornaments, an awesome book on the Lewis Chessmen, a stick for beating apprent... er... porridge, and more. Yay, prezzies! Thanks to everyone who brought me toys! I was able to catch up with nearly everyone I needed to see and hope to catch the remaining few over the course of the next week or so. If I missed you at the event, Happy Twelfth Night!

Sunday was a trip to SR Harris (of course), dropping off jtdiii at the airport, a lovely tour of IKEA, a quick stop at valkyr8's house and a long, long drive home... I good, if exhausting weekend...