Chess meme

King's Rook. It was all very Myers Briggs. What did other ENTPs get?

( Good description, reads pretty well like ENTP )

Then and Now - Cauls

I was digging up my old artifact for the "Then and Now" display at Storvik Novice this weekend, and I decided to look for some pics and class notes that I'd written as well. Yes, I wrote class notes on this plasic monstrosity. :-D

I was so very proud of what I'd accomplished. I wore them to my first Twelfth Night, which was, I believe, my third event. I'd been in the SCA less than 6 months.

Oh, and the dress! I thought it was so dreamy. It was my first "cotehardie" and I cut it from this cranberry colored cotton broadcloth. The color was beautiful, but I don't think that's why I kept getting complimented on it... I was quite clever with it - I used elastic looped trim that I found at JoAnns, and little wooden beads for buttons. I knew how to make fabric buttons, and eventually did for the sleeves, but it seemed like so much work to do all the way from my neck to the hem. But the hem - the hem was 5 inches longer than it needed to be - I understood it as conspicuous consumption (but was always annoyed at it). It was my second dress - the first I'd made pre-SCA, from various t-tunic instructions, to wear to the ren fest.

I don't have any of my old dresses anymore, alas. This one picked up close to $40 at a silent auction. Come to think of it, I suspect the winner may have been somebody on my f-list...

The cauls? I will *always* keep those.

( 24 year old me, sporting a LOVELY set of plastic cauls. Wasn't I cute? Incidentally, these are the first pics that Jeff ever saw of me, as they used to come up with googling my name. )

I'll have this on display this weekend. Who else is going to bring their funny old things to show? I may or may not have something more recent to sit beside it. I only have one foam head, after all. :-D

Don't Blink, you'll poke your finger

I watched the Doctor Who episode Blink last night on the laptop while I worked on sleeves. It's such a visual episode that I feared I might lose a little while sewing, but no such problem. I *knew* what was coming, and yet I still jumped every time those angels were on the brink of attack. Silence in the Library gave me chills and made me jump, as well. Eeeee!

Last night, I ( Accomplished stuff. )

( And what would a good gown sewing post be without more discussions and images of seams? )

Very briefly...

OMGSQUEEEE!

Why have I never cartridge pleated before? It's GORgeous!

And,
the DVD with Blink, Family of Blood and Human Nature (Doctor Who, for those not following along at home) has an Easter Egg on it, of course. I'm probably the last person in the world to discover this.