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ISBN.nu: Find the best price for books online

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 [...]

I haz a necklace!

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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 [...]

The New windmastershill.org

Hello All,
I’m very proud of my web staff today, as over that rainy weekend they were able to push out a brand new website for the Barony.  Go take a look: windmastershill.org.
You’ll spot the brand new Baronage Blog, which Guenievre and I will use to communicate with the rest of the populace, as well as [...]

Apparently Saturday was for Paternosters…

Apparently Saturday was for Paternosters…

In between going to the baronial meeting and playing guitar hero and some other random activities, I decided yesterday to use up all the random beads I had been acquiring, as they had been sitting in a box longer than I’d like.
So… first of all was the restring of the mother-of-pearl paternoster.  I put this [...]

Persona Pentathlon – 2007

Persona Pentathlon – 2007

Because I enjoy trying new things, my favorite yearly competition is Atlantia’s Persona Pentathlon. The rules are simple – 5 items in at least 3 categories, all related to a specific persona – but the scope of putting together that many items for a single event makes it a challenge.

In 2007, my entry was inspired [...]