New challenge...

When talking to Lauren last night, she mentioned a long term project she wanted to work on, and today I thought of a way of encouraging her that also gained me something.

For a while Isolde has lacked clothing from her time period.  I have also been desiring a new late period outfit.  My persona being Roman means pretty much anything is late period for me, and the last thing I made that I would qualify as a "nice" late period dress was my Housebook and that was a year ago.  Right now I'm working on new sleeves for a dress I made three years ago, but I still have very few really nice dresses, and as the kingdom I'm in right now seems to either have camping events or high court events, I've been wearing my three year old dress more frequently than I ever planned.

So, the new challenge is to have Isolde do research into her period, and we'll both make dresses based off her research.  I know, it looks like I'm making her do most of the work, but she'll get both an outfit and documentation out of this challenge.  I get to be sounding board and motivation, and I can do hair research on a specific period, which works for me, as I don't quite have the vested interest in the period, but do like having a focused period for hairstyle work.  I might explore the cosmetics of the time, though I'm still just starting out with cosmetics, we'll see how that works out for me.

The goal is to have inspiration and research mostly decided by the end of January, and start shopping for fabrics in February and March when we get tax moneys back.  The hope is to have the garments done around July for An Tir/West war if I'm still on the west coast, or for Pennsic if I've moved to the east coast.  My husband's job is up in the air right now, so life's a bit uncertain.

We'll get a name for this challenge figured out in the next month or so....
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A little late... but at least it's here?

Isolde came to visit me at the end of June, through the beginning of July, which meant that along with the requisite around town shenanigans, we got plenty of West-An Tir War Shenanigans.  It's been a long while since there were Petra and Isolde War Shenanigans.

We took a trip to the Pendleton wool outlet in Washougal Washington.  Cheap mill ends and Sir Wooliam cuteness.  We did various things the weekend before war, and packed up prepared for war.  Isolde brought her camping garb with her, cause we think ahead like that.

There was also much matchy-matchy in garb choices, because I figured it wouldn't hurt too much.  So, the pictures.  Norse by night and we had a Roman Day.

Isolde's favorite part of the event, aside from seeing folks on this coast, was the cook's playdate.  Or the whole cooks encampment I suppose.  The cooks were set up right across the "street" from our camp, (that's The Boy's tent on the right side of this pic) and they have a huge clearing set up with cooking fires and cool open fire cooking tools.  Saturday at war they have a huge dinner party made up of the foods they've cooked during the day, and they share the food with all those that cooked or helped.



Also, on the ride home, we stopped and got the obligatory DINASAR! picture.

My Housebook Documentation is up...

Over at my personal blog: petracasta.blogspot.com

And because we haven't mentioned it, Both of us are now A&S champions for our respective Baronies!