| Book Notification |
[Nov. 24th, 2009|03:13 pm] |
Anne Berdanier of Furder Strandi noted that the Brtish Museum is publishing a book on the Staffordshire Hoard. It is 48 pages lnng and is reasonably priced. And well worth the trouble of negotiarting the British Museum shoppi ng page. My copy is ordered! http://www.britishmuseumshoponline.org/invt/cmc23288
There are some other neat items available as well. |
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| What do we wanna do this weekend, Brain? |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|09:17 pm] |
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Miss Julie is selling her jewelry at the Yule show of the local Craft League. If you're in the area, see her--and all the others, selling excellent pottery, fabric, wood and other artsy-cfraftsy goodness--at the civic center in Urbana, Illinois. |
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| Recent Projects |
[Nov. 20th, 2009|11:04 am] |
Been busy lately with some inter-connected projects. These are all items made for the folc of Micel Folcfland and/or to display on line.
I decided to emphasize agricultural pursuits next year in camp. It seems like a good way to attract attention in a farming community :) I've refurbished a sickle, and I was able to find a rustic skep for display. My net big project will be a plough! I'll be looking at getting more instruments when I catch up.
The skep is illegal to use for beekeeping nowadays; they have to be destroyed and the bees mostly killed at the end of the season. At least I won't be bringing a jar of bees to events :) Mike Kotcher of Forest Glen told me where to order one; thanks! Take a look at http://www.flickr.com/photos/folo/4119427925/in/photostream/ to see what it looks like.
I've been making toys as Christmas gifts for a few kids in the group; I'll be keeping at least one to display on the line. Horsies, ducks, dolls and play swords; if you want to take a look at them, go to http://www.flickr.com/photos/folo/4120203692/ and at some of the images around it.
And now, it's getting warm enough that I can get back to work! |
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| You've got to take a look |
[Nov. 13th, 2009|08:16 am] |
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If you haven't discovered the Swedish National Heritage Board over at Flickr, you ought to take a look. Most of their shots are copies of stuff from a century or century and a half ago of runestones, buildings and such. I haven't found any shots of 19C Viking reenactors yet, but they must be around or coming up: http://www.flickr.com/photos/swedish_heritage_board/ |
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| ReenactorFest Guest of Honor |
[Nov. 8th, 2009|09:58 am] |
Just received word that Jason Salkey from the SHARPE tv series is going to be at ReenactorFest 6 as guest of honor.
www.reenactorfest.com |
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| A Sainted Discovery |
[Nov. 7th, 2009|02:49 pm] |
In my research on ecclesiastical impressions, I discovered a wonderful and unusual site. It is by the Orthodox Church and lists the saints of Great the British Isles and Ireland from before the Schism of Latin and Greek churches: http://www.oodegr.com/english/istorika/britain/British_saints.htm
The illustrations--or icons if you prefer--are not provenanced, but some look as i they came from period British manuscripts (others look as late as Victorian). Certainly the list of saints is a valuable one for anyone doing reenacting of culture about the turn of the Millennium. |
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| Stages of Writing an Article |
[Nov. 5th, 2009|03:33 pm] |
Stage 1--Get an Idea for an article
Stage 2--Start researching and writing an article
Stage 3--Research more
Stage 4--Keep on researching
Stage 5--Realize that there's so much more to re3search
Stage 6--Despair when you realize that you'll never research enough to write a good article
Stage 7--Continue to despair but continue researching as well
Stage 8--Suddenly everything falls into place
Stage 9--Finish your article and decide that it doesn't suck
Well, there's still one section to do, but I already had so much documentation for it that I never even despaired. I just have to go through the articles and books and pluck out the information!
Unless I find out there's so much stuff in there that asks new questions that I'll have to research to find answsers and so start to despair again... |
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| (no subject) |
[Oct. 25th, 2009|09:29 am] |
While trying to do some research, I became frustrated by the number of disconnected links put forward by pages. I was getting angrier and angrier with the CAN'T FIND PAGE error mesages. It was really doing a job on my rhythm! Then I realized...hey, I hadn't checked *our* links for a while. So I sat down and checked all the links of our own web page.
I'm happy to discover that all but two of the links led to an actual web page. I removed one link but did nothing with the other. It is the link for Regia group, so hopefully they were just down! A couple more links had to be fine tuned, since the addies had changed a bit. But www.micelfolcland.org is now pretty well vetted!
The web page serves two purposes. First, it is a service for our members. But more importantly, it serves as publicity for our group, helping interested people learn more about what we are trying to do. If you're a non-member who looks at the page, let me know what you think is missing or should be added! |
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| PSA to all Comic Fans & Gamers in Urbana-Champaign, Ill. area |
[Oct. 21st, 2009|04:21 pm] |
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Mark of The Other Realm (506 East Green in Champaign; 217-344-5514)is having a "Keep me in business sale" until the end of the month. All non-comic book items--trade paperbacks, games, models, &c.--will be on sale for half off. Stop by and see what he has! |
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| YAT E-Books |
[Oct. 21st, 2009|07:25 am] |
If you'e a fan of the York Archaeological Trust books and frustrated that they're sometimes hard to find or even oop:
A day ago, I wrote YAT at archaeology@yorkat.co.uk to ask if they were planning on releasing their oop (and other) books as e-books. Today, they wrote back, saying: "Thanks for your email.We've considered this in the past, but did not have the resources. I've emailed your comments to the powers-that-be here, and will try again to get some of our material available in this way."
Seems to me as if that's a cue to email them to let them know that it's a feasible idea. Let others who might be interested know about this as well. Dunno if it'll work, but... |
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| ReenactorFest Fun! |
[Oct. 16th, 2009|01:19 pm] |
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We have reserved room and vendor tables for ReenactorFest VI next 5-7 February in Wheeling, Illinois. Dan Speer of Argent Fox Music is tentatively planning on being there as well! We hope to see a bunch of you there again this year! And if you have never been to one, well, it's not like taking a chance for having a good time--it's a sure thing! For further information, see http://reenactorfest.com/ |
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| RIP Jubilee State Park |
[Oct. 7th, 2009|08:13 pm] |
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Well, the bad news that Jubilee College Illinois State Park closed on Friday means the Faire is dead as well. So sad, since it was so profitable for the State and fun to attend. I'm pleased to note that I was at all but the first and third (no SCA participation at these) and worked at all except 1995, when I had just suffered a stroke; but there's nothing else to be pleased about :\ |
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