It's amazing sometimes, when I really stop and think about just how much i've done in the past few months, well, since February.
1) Wedding outfits. These were a combined effort, the lovely Anna did a lot of th
e sewing with me, and Sandra made my bodice/corset. Still, a lot of work
2) Garb to make it through festival. Note that festival was 2 weeks after my wedding, so I was trying to do these things at the same time. Then my sewing machine broke. So I spent a very long night (the first of may nights actually) at Miss D's using her machine. Hence, a friendship started to really happen :)
3) Running the gate at festival. What the heck was I thinking when I volunteered for this? Did I mention the two weeks after the wedding bit? Still, it was great. I met heaps of people, and got much more involved then I ever was before. Honestly, if I hadn't done that, I wouldn't have spent so much time with the Atticans, gotten to be friends with Kazzia, and I wouldn't now be Mr B's protegee. So again, a good thing.
4) The re-starting of pewter casting. A slow process to be sure, but an ongoing one. Doing something other then costuming was also v.good.
5) Even more costuming. Early Italian I'm not entirely happy with (you'll begin to see this being a common theme. I need to teach myself to slow down and take my time, and do things properly, something i'm learning, again, slowly), almost 2 sets of Roman, another cotehardie (again, not entirely happy with it), Norse, the beginnings of a German dress, and more stuff in the planned stages. I'm learning things though, and that's much with the good.
6) Open House party where I cooked for two days for far too many people. But it was great fun. Honest. It really was, I love that sort of thing.
7) My first experience with leatherworking, a pair of Roman Calcei. Which are now done. And which I must get photos of.
8) Pewter casti
ng class at cold war. I love teaching, I just wish I had a bit more confidence in things, but the teaching helps develop that. Oh, and part 1 of a cotehardie making class for the Ursulans, the second part which will be went through at Bunch o' Classes. PLUS more experiments in casting, which worked much better this time
9) A development of a like of handsewing (see above and the costuming). Plus, now I know how to make buttons! And I have made lots and lots of buttons. Not nearly as many button holes, Miss D has done those after my disasterous experience with lacing holes on the front of the cote.
10) Beadwork! Something i've never done, actually, correct, I've only done abysmally before this. Firstly for Miss D on her headpiece for step down, and now for a couple things for the Roman, a headpiece, and little bead and metal clips for the shoulders, of um, I think it's called a stola...
11) Organising bunch o'classes, and trying to get as much of it as possible set down in stone before I head off to Pennsic and Canada in two weeks. This is an ongoing thing.
Still, I'm always happiest when busy. I love being creative and doing and making things as well. So it's been a busy busy while recently, but a good busy past while. Also, all of this couldn't have been done without a lot of help from a lot of people. I have such lovely friends.
