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Trying to deal with all my technology impediments, that is.
My camera remains gone. I am down to using the video camera for shots, which, even at it’s highest setting, takes crappy stills, and it only works well with Micheal’s desk top. Micheal’s desktop, when it is on, is the only one that can be hooked [...]

Part one of this year’s Post Pennsic Planner.
So, for the past couple of years, I have been working on refashioning some linen under dresses as my primary costume project. This is a wrap up entry that discusses what I have learned from the experience and what I plan to do going forward.
First, let me talk [...]

What a weekend. Week. Month. Year. Just outrageously busy. I thought I was going to have a quiet weekend puttering around the house. Clean a little. Cook a lot. Bake a little. Fix my arrows in preparation for Michaelmas. Work in my garden. Get projects together for future completion. That kind of thing.

But [...]

So, here’s the thing. As usual, much to say and little time to say it. Let’s start with something utterly innocuous: Projectland.

At last, I have finished the green linen refashion dress from last year’s Pennsic list; it’s currently accessortized as if it’s late 15th-early 16th c. Flemish working woman, but it’s more strongly based on [...]

Mood: Indescribable.
Music: What?
Level of Crank: 52
Lipstick Color: Earth Rose, Loreal
Various projects noted
_Medieval cooking:_
*A Plum Tarte redaction with comments on a full-blown 12th night dinner.
*A Gelly of Pork redaction with comments on the full blown Boar’s Head traveling lunch.
*Gourds in Pottage as a meatless side dish and Gourds in Pottage redacted as a main [...]

I think that after Michael heads down to the prop group, I’ll set up my archery stuff and shoot things. Or maybe I’ll work on an writing project, or cook. Or do all of that.
Other places public things have been written since the last entry:
*Two entries at Cook-a-long, which contains content related to redacting pre-1601 [...]

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Syler as Spock?! Nooooooooooo!
Other developments in O NOZ! land:
My Pennsic-fu is weak!
Pennsic 2007 Lists.
6 Days Left and I Just Can’t Focus.
1. Check garb
— Finish yellow choli
— finish off some sari’s
— petticoat for saris
[...]

Really tired, but wanted to record my progress very briefly on my ongoing projects.

One more book wiped out from the One From Each; I did a meatloaf type of recipe from Seven Centuries. As the redaction she did clearly created a meatloafy thing and the period recipe created more of a patty/meatball kind of [...]

Let’s see. Again, much time elapsed. Farg. Well, let me see how much of my recollection I can cram into this evening.
Activities in passing

* Sunday: Watched Kiernan in the morning. He was teh cute, as usual, but of course, I am prejudiced. I spent the afternoon at a Baronial SCA event, visiting with people [...]

Wardrobe Refashion
So, here I go:
I pledge that I shall abstain from the purchase of “new” manufactured items of clothing, for the period of 6 months. I pledge that I shall refashion, renovate, recycle preloved items for myself with my own hands in fabric, yarn or other medium for the term of my contract. I pledge [...]