EK 12th Night
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helwenEDIT:
fitzw received a lovely 12th Night gift from ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
loosecanon - Rug Weaving by Peter Collingwood! And msmemory brought the Babees book for me to borrow to help me in putting my feast ware class together. Many Thanks!
Also, Saturday wasfitzw and my 12th wedding anniversary :)
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Busy day, long day. Got home very late (or early, as in around 1 a.m.).
Picked up Eli in Amherst, then back to the house, whereellid and Barbara got in. Then we picked up Una on the way, and off to the event. Managed to avoid traffic congestion from an accident on I-91 S. Checked in - ick - not a good system, everyone had to get into line twice. As everyone seeks to find ways to track things more completely, different systems are being tried. This was not one of the better ones. It was similar to Pennsic, only slow. On the plus side I got to chat with some folks while in line, which I didn't have much chance to do later on.
Delivered the court doc, and some medallions for Ygraine of K. Schedules were fluid at the event. Delivered the vigil bookfitzw made to ladypeyton. Made it to part of the Laurel meeting, then went up to see what was up with judging. A number of us had done so, so we just started reading documentation and stuff until our team all came together and started judging. If there was a general meeting for the judges we skipped it, as time was passing and we had to get done by 3pm. Most of it went pretty well, although there were a couple of rough spots, and we had to split up our team and really fly to complete our list. A number of entrants were by their tables, which was helpful in the end when we ran out of time to write comments. We'd just verbally give them some feedback and suggestions while hiding the scores we were writing down. Oy. Worked out pretty well, esp. as Roxane was able to do a visual demo of how to do a leatherworking technique for one entrant, to help her with making her next pair of shoes. Overall I would say the teams worked pretty well, as we pooled our artistic and cultural knowledge and learned things from each other about the various items. Made me glad I'm into so many different things though. Whew!
Next time, I think I'll keep my shoes with their nice orthotics on. Someone suggested bringing a chair around to the tables, but sometimes there wasn't room for a chair and then we were running too fast for there to be much point in it. It was like being in the town battle this past summer, only with sorer feet. There was a lot of good work out there yesterday, and I hope we encouraged a lot of people to keep making things.
I didn't have time for shopping really, altho' I looked quickly for a particular type of knife (sold out), and wanted to spend more time atfreya46's. fitzw had been eyeing some lightweight wool there, I think it might have been the cashmeres.
Somewhere in the afternoon I managed to get back to the vigil room and sign the book, but didn't have time to actually go in and see Gavan :(fitzw did, as did ellid and Pagan, so that was good. I did see the vigil spread and nibbled on a few things because I knew I was supposed to eat (we judged food, so I got something there as well). Very tasty and visually it was very appealing and beautiful to behold. The 'bee skep' that zaduzbina made was amazing. Mistress Eleanore MacCarthaigh wondered if we could give her a second Laurel :D
Did get to chat for a little bit withherveus and see his amazing tabletweaving masterwork-in-progress. Also got to chat very briefly with freya46, but only got to say 'hey' to nazrynn. Concentus sang for the kitchen while ellid and I were judging. We got to sing all together after court, and for HRM and sundry folks in the royalty room, also after court.
Court was very good, lots of good people getting recognized. Gavan MacBane was made a Master of the Laurel - yay! Master Padraig was made a Pelican. It was pretty funny, watching Lucan fetch him from the back of the hall (chatting with others), and then chasing Balfar around through the multiple sets of doors, again at the back of the hall, to fetch him and a number of other fellow 'miscreants' up to the front.
And local boy Odbald Leofa was made a Companion of the Manche. People liked the scroll I did for him -- a "plate" in 16th century styles of Italian ceramics, primary influence from Deruta, Italy. I'll try to put up pics later, but it was too large to scan so they're only photos. I'm glad it was well received, and especially by Odbald himself. He's a real sweetheart and a very funny fellow indeed. We'll be getting together this month, as we both need to paint some plates for Birka. It'll be my first time having ceramic stuff out for sale, but his second year at Birka, so we want to make sure we have enough things to keep people happy.
We had dinner with a bunch of other folks at a Thai restaurant in East Haven, then back up to Holyoke to drop off Una and so the ladies could get their cars and then we took Eli back to Amherst, and then home again, jiggity jig. Our new person, Barbara, had a wonderful day, and Una and others were good about keeping track of her, answering questions, etc.
This a.m. we managed to get up and meet up with folks in Sunderland and go for a walk on the farm. Good walk, good company. Had calzones back in Sunderland and then back home, where we did a few things online (I needed to order packaging supplies), and then crashed for several hours.
So, up for a few hours and then back to bed, I think!
fitzw received a lovely 12th Night gift from loosecanon - Rug Weaving by Peter Collingwood! And msmemory brought the Babees book for me to borrow to help me in putting my feast ware class together. Many Thanks!Also, Saturday was
fitzw and my 12th wedding anniversary :)***
Busy day, long day. Got home very late (or early, as in around 1 a.m.).
Picked up Eli in Amherst, then back to the house, where
ellid and Barbara got in. Then we picked up Una on the way, and off to the event. Managed to avoid traffic congestion from an accident on I-91 S. Checked in - ick - not a good system, everyone had to get into line twice. As everyone seeks to find ways to track things more completely, different systems are being tried. This was not one of the better ones. It was similar to Pennsic, only slow. On the plus side I got to chat with some folks while in line, which I didn't have much chance to do later on.Delivered the court doc, and some medallions for Ygraine of K. Schedules were fluid at the event. Delivered the vigil book
fitzw made to ladypeyton. Made it to part of the Laurel meeting, then went up to see what was up with judging. A number of us had done so, so we just started reading documentation and stuff until our team all came together and started judging. If there was a general meeting for the judges we skipped it, as time was passing and we had to get done by 3pm. Most of it went pretty well, although there were a couple of rough spots, and we had to split up our team and really fly to complete our list. A number of entrants were by their tables, which was helpful in the end when we ran out of time to write comments. We'd just verbally give them some feedback and suggestions while hiding the scores we were writing down. Oy. Worked out pretty well, esp. as Roxane was able to do a visual demo of how to do a leatherworking technique for one entrant, to help her with making her next pair of shoes. Overall I would say the teams worked pretty well, as we pooled our artistic and cultural knowledge and learned things from each other about the various items. Made me glad I'm into so many different things though. Whew!Next time, I think I'll keep my shoes with their nice orthotics on. Someone suggested bringing a chair around to the tables, but sometimes there wasn't room for a chair and then we were running too fast for there to be much point in it. It was like being in the town battle this past summer, only with sorer feet. There was a lot of good work out there yesterday, and I hope we encouraged a lot of people to keep making things.
I didn't have time for shopping really, altho' I looked quickly for a particular type of knife (sold out), and wanted to spend more time at
freya46's. fitzw had been eyeing some lightweight wool there, I think it might have been the cashmeres.Somewhere in the afternoon I managed to get back to the vigil room and sign the book, but didn't have time to actually go in and see Gavan :(
fitzw did, as did ellid and Pagan, so that was good. I did see the vigil spread and nibbled on a few things because I knew I was supposed to eat (we judged food, so I got something there as well). Very tasty and visually it was very appealing and beautiful to behold. The 'bee skep' that zaduzbina made was amazing. Mistress Eleanore MacCarthaigh wondered if we could give her a second Laurel :DDid get to chat for a little bit with
herveus and see his amazing tabletweaving masterwork-in-progress. Also got to chat very briefly with freya46, but only got to say 'hey' to nazrynn. Concentus sang for the kitchen while ellid and I were judging. We got to sing all together after court, and for HRM and sundry folks in the royalty room, also after court. Court was very good, lots of good people getting recognized. Gavan MacBane was made a Master of the Laurel - yay! Master Padraig was made a Pelican. It was pretty funny, watching Lucan fetch him from the back of the hall (chatting with others), and then chasing Balfar around through the multiple sets of doors, again at the back of the hall, to fetch him and a number of other fellow 'miscreants' up to the front.
And local boy Odbald Leofa was made a Companion of the Manche. People liked the scroll I did for him -- a "plate" in 16th century styles of Italian ceramics, primary influence from Deruta, Italy. I'll try to put up pics later, but it was too large to scan so they're only photos. I'm glad it was well received, and especially by Odbald himself. He's a real sweetheart and a very funny fellow indeed. We'll be getting together this month, as we both need to paint some plates for Birka. It'll be my first time having ceramic stuff out for sale, but his second year at Birka, so we want to make sure we have enough things to keep people happy.
We had dinner with a bunch of other folks at a Thai restaurant in East Haven, then back up to Holyoke to drop off Una and so the ladies could get their cars and then we took Eli back to Amherst, and then home again, jiggity jig. Our new person, Barbara, had a wonderful day, and Una and others were good about keeping track of her, answering questions, etc.
This a.m. we managed to get up and meet up with folks in Sunderland and go for a walk on the farm. Good walk, good company. Had calzones back in Sunderland and then back home, where we did a few things online (I needed to order packaging supplies), and then crashed for several hours.
So, up for a few hours and then back to bed, I think!
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Date: 2007-01-08 05:07 am (UTC)Was funny.
Talking with D just as he was called up muttering "I knew it. They were up to something" said the Osbald had been telling him he suspected somthing was up. I'm guessing because Christoph was there and there was no fighting. *shrug* Doesn't matter, he was pleased as punch from what I could see.
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