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I'm trying hard to not read any spoilers for HP & DH. Normally I don't care, I indulge in spoilers all over the place, but this time I want to try to go into the book blank, I guess just because it's the last one. Only problem is, I didn't pre-order it or make any plan for getting it soon. I'm sort of flailing, now.
I learned to tie a mooring hitch last night, because Eor set me down with instructions and said, "This would be a good one to know for next time we're camping." :) I feel much more piratical already! Well, hey, there IS more to being a pirate than just knowing the difference between walking the plank and keelhauling, right? I should know how to do a few decent knots.
I lay awake for a while last night thinking about garb for King Richard's Faire - specifically, what goes well with the chainmail skirt Eor made for me, ages ago? I do have almost all the parts for a basic peasant outfit, now, aside from shoes. This morning I've wandered around some sites looking up gypsy garb, because I thought that was the best idea for the mail skirt, but I can't find any support for my vision. These women's outfits remind me too much of my mother. This site tells you exactly how to make a Gypsy outfit, and it looks so easy I almost want to whip one up this morning just because one could, but I can't see any way to fit a chainmail skirt into it. Really for the skirt to fit in I should do a bellydancer outfit.
The thing that probably kept me awake the most - I seem to like designing shoes in my head. I should make some, then I'd get over that. Actual work always makes me back off. ;) So, I've also been looking around at sites to find instructions for shoes. Not good. When I start looking at sites about garb, I really want to just drop it all and not bother. Seriously, people are so very picky. I attend one, or at best two, faires a year, I'm not in SCA, and I don't have any more space in my apartment for more garb. I can't worry if I've matched a fourteenth century chemise and a sixteenth century bodice! Okay, this little excercise has about convinced me to stop thinking about making shoes. I worry about shoemaking being a dying art form, but there are a few books and courses offered on it. I only want to do it so I can have shoes to fit my own feet, which are ... ugly. Hard to fit.
I learned to tie a mooring hitch last night, because Eor set me down with instructions and said, "This would be a good one to know for next time we're camping." :) I feel much more piratical already! Well, hey, there IS more to being a pirate than just knowing the difference between walking the plank and keelhauling, right? I should know how to do a few decent knots.
I lay awake for a while last night thinking about garb for King Richard's Faire - specifically, what goes well with the chainmail skirt Eor made for me, ages ago? I do have almost all the parts for a basic peasant outfit, now, aside from shoes. This morning I've wandered around some sites looking up gypsy garb, because I thought that was the best idea for the mail skirt, but I can't find any support for my vision. These women's outfits remind me too much of my mother. This site tells you exactly how to make a Gypsy outfit, and it looks so easy I almost want to whip one up this morning just because one could, but I can't see any way to fit a chainmail skirt into it. Really for the skirt to fit in I should do a bellydancer outfit.
The thing that probably kept me awake the most - I seem to like designing shoes in my head. I should make some, then I'd get over that. Actual work always makes me back off. ;) So, I've also been looking around at sites to find instructions for shoes. Not good. When I start looking at sites about garb, I really want to just drop it all and not bother. Seriously, people are so very picky. I attend one, or at best two, faires a year, I'm not in SCA, and I don't have any more space in my apartment for more garb. I can't worry if I've matched a fourteenth century chemise and a sixteenth century bodice! Okay, this little excercise has about convinced me to stop thinking about making shoes. I worry about shoemaking being a dying art form, but there are a few books and courses offered on it. I only want to do it so I can have shoes to fit my own feet, which are ... ugly. Hard to fit.
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