Ars Gratia Artis

Rather like this.
And so, one of the major projects this year has been working on bringing my gardens back into line. It’s part of an overall arc of making my life more suitable for me, but this is a part that has borne some literal fruit. Hereafter are notes and pictures on projects, and I [...]

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 [...]

Happy birthday to me. A Certain Age gets nearer with each anniversaire, but, fortunately, as the Baby Boom advances before me, A Certain Age, if it is an actual number, gets a smidge older with passing time. I’m not going to get there quite as fast as I might if this was, say, 1969. I’m [...]

February was a rough work month. There is a certain amount of work that we are each obliged to complete according to the government contract we work under, and February is always a month of long days and cursing one’s salaried status, because there is lots of work, but not a lot of month. It [...]

I have Pandora.com playing (Current: Severina by The Mission UK) and have amused myself briefly by: looking for a Pandora app on Facebook (subsequently found and added to my profile, high honor indeed, because I don’t put many apps on my profile); looking for submission guidelines for some of my favorite imprints so I can [...]

I admit. I have been “cheating,” using the quick interludes with my camera to substitute for writing out my thoughts. The problem with this, of course, is that they slip out so randomly when I do that.
So, first, a little project reportage:

How doth thy garden grow?

The last few moments of working on the November installment [...]

I’d like to say it’s been a hell of a week, but it’s actually been a hell of a fortnight. Fortnight is way better. There is not much opportunity to use such a fabulous word these days. So, actually, I suppose that I would not be happy to say it’s been a hell of a [...]

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 [...]

The Middle Kingdom’s viewing stand, with observers watching one of the battles.
Yeah, not a lot of time and energy for this. But we are back and safe; the weather was far better than last year. This bubba will be choppy. Not unusual there, eh?
In persona write up is up at Dame Merouda Pendray.
Poopie the Pirate [...]

I wanted to ride my bike to work today; I’ve been able to a couple of times so far since getting the bike, and I really enjoy it. It’s a little under 4 miles one way; the challenge of the ride is not the distance but staying alive in traffic and that last, exceedingly steep [...]

Knitted bag # 4. There are a couple of other pictures on Flickr, if you want to see them. So that’s the 4th bag I’ve finished (I didn’t write about the 3rd, sparing you one bag report ).This one is knit in the round for the pitcher I commissioned from Hroar ever so [...]

for Price
All is dross without thy gold
And deep in silent grave
Rest you now in darkened cold
No longer sorrow’s slave.
Once you wore proud armor
Now you wear plain shroud
And, we, behind, in lost dolor
Keen mournful and cry foul.
For we are lost without thy voice
To call us forward fair
And what are we without thy love
But creatures of [...]

How I love my Projectland.

Finished another knit bag for the feast gear. This was knitted in the round, one skien of an acrylic yarn. I didn’t knit this very well, but, it’s better than the first thing I knitted, and after being washed, some of the issues were resolved. I found knitting in the round [...]

Miguel-san, Baby K and Baby Ry watching the end of the tourney.Still sick as a dog. Worse today than Friday.
We did go to Crown Tourney, but only briefly; we had both boys in tow and only stayed for a little while, given that I was sick and we wanted to leave well before Baby [...]

Sick. Tomorrow’s Crown, a 15 minute drive from here, and I’m feeling so unwell that I don’t know if I will go. I did work from home today, but it wasn’t much; maybe an hour’s worth. It was all I had in me. Perhaps all this burning the candles at both ends is catching up [...]