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No one size fits all rules, here, unfortunately. I suppose that’s a reason to cook more…
This is in my yard, just beginning to bloom (maybe a third ofthe flowers are open). First I thought rose of some sort, before it bloomed, then I thought blackberries, now I’m wondering if it’s a rosa multiflora like Jenny’s. Help?
My hosting provider, Dreamhost, is giving away free hosting if you are. It’s a *really* nice deal… they’re only giving away 1,000 free spots though, so…
DreamHost Blog » They’re Internet History.
Nope, no kickback to me off this. 
Though I still think after yesterday’s post the Met should give me a commission.
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Book Sale – The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Met Museum Store.
This has been passed around several LJs and mailing lists, but just in case people *haven’t* seen it, there are some lovely in-period books scattered amongst the rest, for *amazing* prices. I just picked up four *fat* museum catalogs with lots of pictures for $25… and if you use the promo code P908, you *should* get free shipping. It worked for me anyway.
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ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online.
This site is *fabulous*. I got sent to this from a random article, and just as a test, typed in a book I had been looking for for *years* (Margaret Scott’s The History of Dress: Late Gothic Europe, 1400-1500) and never found for a price I was willing to pay. It found it… in Canada… for something resembling half the price I had found it elsewhere. (And yes, I should get it next week.)
::happy dance::
Enjoy!
Little coral necklace.
1. Coral beads found at Pennsic while looking for paternoster beads.
2. Random red silk thread.
3. Leftover dress hook and eye.
4. Lots of knots. (Yes, between every bead.)
5. As seen, sort of, in certain Tacuinum Sanitatis images – at least that’s what I was thinking about when I bought the beads, though they’re a little small.
Isn’t it cute?
So according to the calendar, we need to get certain bits of the garden ready to plant soon. At least that’s what the seed packet says.
Anyway, the rain interfered with getting the garden started today. We began flattening out the area where it’s going to be, but moving wet clay sucks hairy… Err, yeah.
I’m still dithering between raised beds with “new” dirt, which I’m afraid is going to be pricy, and trying to amend the dirt I’ve got. Did I mention that dirt is heavy clay, some of which is nothing more than fill dirt that wasn’t even growing grass? But then that describes large portions of my yard.
Meanwhile it’s still raining, so it’s not like I can work on it more anyway.
So, a week has passed since the marathon sprint that was Ymir garb. Maestra Maddalena says I should promise never to do anything quite that rushed again, and I almost do, but since I have rather strong feelings about promises and whether I can keep them, I’m not quite willing to do so. Still, I can’t think of anything else I’ll be that time crunched on.
There are a fair number of things I want to make / organize the making of for the barony. Still working on plans for that – the problem with regalia is that it ought to be spiffy but persona (and gender, and size) neutral, which is somewhat difficult. While I’d like to make some Court livery for the Champions and Officers, I can’t think of anything other than baldrics, or perhaps hoods or cloaks, that would work. Though fancy embroidered or appliqued baldrics WOULD have some spiff factor.
Now that I have some space, with the house and all, I’d like to do some more silk painting. I still owe a few banners, and I’d like to do yet another one for WM as well – we have some gorgeous emnoidered ones, but one can never have too many banners…
I plan on fighting at war this year, so my armor needs help. So does Girard’s – I think his gambeson is held together by hope.
This, other random stuff, and… Oh! I am going to try to have a garden this year. We bought seeds, and I started the ones that needed starting, and I even identified the one eligible sunny spot in my yard. Next step – raised beds.
I still don’t have a post on Ymir in general written up… nor a dress diary on the Investiture Houppelandes… but before I misplace all the notes, I did want to write a little about the Oath of Fealty given by Girard and I during our Investiture, as a couple people commented on it (one of whom I know was in the back of the hall, so apparently I spoke loudly enough). Our oath was:
Your Majesties, we, Girard and Guenievre, do homage unto you with respect to the fief of Windmasters Hill, and will bear you fealty in life and limb and earthly honor. We shall be loyal and true unto you, our liege lord, as the rightful Crown of Atlantia. We swear we shall govern the barony well and truly, with all our might, ability and diligence, during our term as baron and baroness. We will maintain all the franchises of the barony, and every parcel thereof, with all power, wisdom and acumen, and perform all other duties that pertain to our station. Thus we swear and affirm.
It was not a precise copy of a period oath, rather it was … a cut-and-paste job from various sources – as shown below the cut. Read the rest of this entry »
Well, really it wasn’t that long. In fact, I wish it had been longer, as I didn’t get as much done as I planned, but enough thinking about that.
As I was blockaded in my sewing room for much of the weekend, I listened to a lot more music than usual. And as a confession? My music taste hasn’t really changed that much since, well, high school. This is kind of sad. Not to mention it was getting a bit repetitive…
So, people with better music taste than I, what should I be listening to that’s come out in the last 5-10 years, since I quit listening to the radio? My taste in music runs slightly angsty, leaning heavily on Tori Amos and Better than Ezra, but ranging as far as Disturbed/Korn/etc into the “harder” rock side of things… not so much into folksy, definitely not into country at ALL.
(And yes, I know about Pandora, but I’m hoping for more personal suggestions…)
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