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Åh Gud! Jeg har en økse i hovedet!
Oct. 18th, 2004 11:14 amWow. Just, wow.
Friday after work, I shopped for snacky things and packed, then I sat down to wait. Then, I decided to watch Fruits Basket, but couldn't find it. (grrrrr). Then I decided that pins with garnet heads were less coordinated with gold-and-black than, say, pins with black onyx heads would be, so I made four of them. Then I decided that since I was sitting there with the pin-making stuff out, and it was highly unlikely that I was going to get another use out of the superglue, I'd just do all the pin blanks that I had. So now I have a box full of pin blanks that have heads on them, and four onyx-headed pins. Some are going to need some attention with acetone and a Q-tip, but in general they're pretty nifty. I probably need more wire at some point, after I sit down with the deburring wheel to sharpen all the pins, or I suppose I could find something else to do with the remaining beads. Finally, E showed up, we loaded the car (correction: *I* loaded the car), got food, got on the road. It was raining. And dark. And under construction. Ick. But, we got to the hotel before 11, unloaded, parked, registered and got our nifty site tokens, said hi to lots of people, then in theory went upstairs to bed. Somehow we managed to acquire a bardic Laurel for a while, which meant that we turned out the light at ~1, which was several hours later than originally intended.
Saturday. Long, tiring day. Decided to eat snacky things for breakfast, thus saving time and $$$. Dressed, wandered off to site. Somehow in all the various flurries of plottin'-n-plannin', I managed to not ever try on more than one thing at a time so I never got even a hint of what the whole ensemble was going to look like. The full effect was, well, very black and gold. Neat, really. I am told that I did not look all that much like a bumblebee as there weren't enough stripes. E thinks I looked better than he did. I disagree, but then we usually do in matters of opinion like that.
My first time actually wearing a wimple. Guh. Somehow, the one I hemmed on the way back from Lincoln has disappeared, so I used one that wasn't. I think I have to do some tweaking so I get less fabric under my chin, and I think I might have to wash the linen a couple of times because after a day of wearing it, it made me itch. I'm guessing it was the sweat, myself, but one never knows. The barbette also itched after a while, but I'd thought it was the stitching on the inside. Now I know it probably wasn't. OTOH, I think I've finally figured out how to keep my circlet from sliding backwards--I have to position the pins just right, then I use the ginormous pinheads to keep the circlet down. Heh.
Kay's sleeves were made of the same fabric as our shoes. Baron Giles was wearing a doublet made from the same fabric that I made the antimacattars from--I told him he was wearing my couch. There was a guy in a dagged cotehardie made of the fabric that will eventually replace the griffin trim on the gold cotte--I couldn't come up with a tactful way to go stand next to him to see what the final product might look like.
Lots of niftyness. Not enough time to say hi to everybody, of course, and when we went back to the room I hopped into the shower briefly and then decided that bed was a good idea. Slept until 9.
Did not buy anything at merchants, though I did contemplate woodware (treen) I had nowhere to put it if I bought it. We will go through extant examples and see what it is that we should have, then commission. Cool A&S. Attached scribal token to Orlando's other ear right away so I wouldn't lose it.
Friday after work, I shopped for snacky things and packed, then I sat down to wait. Then, I decided to watch Fruits Basket, but couldn't find it. (grrrrr). Then I decided that pins with garnet heads were less coordinated with gold-and-black than, say, pins with black onyx heads would be, so I made four of them. Then I decided that since I was sitting there with the pin-making stuff out, and it was highly unlikely that I was going to get another use out of the superglue, I'd just do all the pin blanks that I had. So now I have a box full of pin blanks that have heads on them, and four onyx-headed pins. Some are going to need some attention with acetone and a Q-tip, but in general they're pretty nifty. I probably need more wire at some point, after I sit down with the deburring wheel to sharpen all the pins, or I suppose I could find something else to do with the remaining beads. Finally, E showed up, we loaded the car (correction: *I* loaded the car), got food, got on the road. It was raining. And dark. And under construction. Ick. But, we got to the hotel before 11, unloaded, parked, registered and got our nifty site tokens, said hi to lots of people, then in theory went upstairs to bed. Somehow we managed to acquire a bardic Laurel for a while, which meant that we turned out the light at ~1, which was several hours later than originally intended.
Saturday. Long, tiring day. Decided to eat snacky things for breakfast, thus saving time and $$$. Dressed, wandered off to site. Somehow in all the various flurries of plottin'-n-plannin', I managed to not ever try on more than one thing at a time so I never got even a hint of what the whole ensemble was going to look like. The full effect was, well, very black and gold. Neat, really. I am told that I did not look all that much like a bumblebee as there weren't enough stripes. E thinks I looked better than he did. I disagree, but then we usually do in matters of opinion like that.
My first time actually wearing a wimple. Guh. Somehow, the one I hemmed on the way back from Lincoln has disappeared, so I used one that wasn't. I think I have to do some tweaking so I get less fabric under my chin, and I think I might have to wash the linen a couple of times because after a day of wearing it, it made me itch. I'm guessing it was the sweat, myself, but one never knows. The barbette also itched after a while, but I'd thought it was the stitching on the inside. Now I know it probably wasn't. OTOH, I think I've finally figured out how to keep my circlet from sliding backwards--I have to position the pins just right, then I use the ginormous pinheads to keep the circlet down. Heh.
Kay's sleeves were made of the same fabric as our shoes. Baron Giles was wearing a doublet made from the same fabric that I made the antimacattars from--I told him he was wearing my couch. There was a guy in a dagged cotehardie made of the fabric that will eventually replace the griffin trim on the gold cotte--I couldn't come up with a tactful way to go stand next to him to see what the final product might look like.
Lots of niftyness. Not enough time to say hi to everybody, of course, and when we went back to the room I hopped into the shower briefly and then decided that bed was a good idea. Slept until 9.
Did not buy anything at merchants, though I did contemplate woodware (treen) I had nowhere to put it if I bought it. We will go through extant examples and see what it is that we should have, then commission. Cool A&S. Attached scribal token to Orlando's other ear right away so I wouldn't lose it.
