Photo Database
In better news, I had a REALLY good idea. I realized that it’s actually tremendously easy to save photos from the web to iphoto… and once they’re there they can be tagged. SO… can we say “the contents of mandragore.bnf.fr tagged by garment type?” Or… the ability to make a smart album showing, say, images [...]
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 [...]
I haz a 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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