My past week ...

     Playing with a new nail stamp kit.

     My newly made fall wreath; that will go up on Nov.1st. 

      Snowball doing famously at Lex's house. He is so in love with her and her him. And better for her, no evil grey kitty trying to do her in.

     Spent this past Saturday at an event, playing with yarn and chatting with the other Diva Ladies.

     The edging on the shawl for my grandniece.

     The finished shawl! It is so lovely! 

     Another shot of the shawl. I am so stinking tickled with this! Beads!! I crocheted with beads!!

     Last night out with the Knitiots Savants, showing off said shawl, and working on a new project.

     I love this blanket. It came from my husbands Grannies house. 

     Persephone loves it too. She is also much happier being the only cat again. Little terror. 

Well, I have been busy, just not been as busy as I would like. I've been looking for work, and it is such a pain. However, if I want to keep getting yarn, and clothes, and, well, food, a job is needed. Le sigh.

So, what have you been up to?

Ttfn

   Jenn

And one more year makes Sixteen...good grief, I'm getting old!!!

     So, it seems that I'm great at blogging Wed-Fri, and pants at blogging the other days of the week. I'll see if I can't get into more of a more daily routine. :-)

     This past Saturday, two of my Diva friends, my younger son and I went out to Penzeys spice store, lunch, and then to Buford's Farmers Market.  I love, love, love this store! 

    Food. I love food! And any store that has food from around the world, is a star store for me!!

     Strange colored bell peppers! According to Sheri, these have been grown too close to eggplants and that's what causes the neat color. I have no idea if it affects the taste. 

     So many different kinds and flavored of olive oils and other cooking oils!!

     These are different types of eggplants!! They looked so colorful and tiny! 

     Tuesday was Shae's birthday. (My younger son.)  He has turned sixteen. 

   16!! 

   Sixteen. 

     Cripes. I feel old when I think of that. He is studying the drivers ed book so that he can take his learners test and get a learners drivers license. And that makes me feel even older! I think I need some coffee, now. 

     His dad had sent his gifts, so I wrapped them up when I wrapped the one we had gotten him.  

     The Nightmare Before Christmas is kinda big in my house. At least it is with Shae and I. :-)

     I make a cookie-brownie creation for his "cake". We decided that his piece kinda looked like Oggie Boogie. It was also decided that Oggie Boogie Christmas Brownie-Cookies will become a thing this coming holidays. And I can't wait! I love fall!! It can not come soon enough!

     And here is Shae, trying to decide just which game to play first. LOL he is such a stinking ham! I love this kid! Even when he is being a substantial pain in the butt!!  Teenagers. 

     Will we ever really understand what each generation is going through? I'm in my 40's. Can you just imagine going to school with the technology that our kids are using? The phones? The tablets? 

Well, I'm still working on my two shawls. They are coming along so well. I love the feel of these yarns!

     This is the Noro yarn. It's so thick and scrunchy!!

     This is the Malbrigo yarn. It's so fine and soft and fluffy!

     And this? This is my newest garb project. I need a supportive under garment that will give me comfortable support, and not give me too modern a silhouette.  For this, I've gathered up some scrap patterning fabric, and an old bra to use for a somewhat guide. This will be a fly-be-the-seat-of-my-pants sewing exercise!

    Stay tuned for the, um, fun! LOL

   Ttfn

         Jenn

Helping M.A.R.S. and watching Pardus entertain college kids.

      Last night, my husband and I went to one of our local fighter practices.  Our local SCA group has guys that attend the M.A.R.S (Medieval And Renaissance Society) which is the college branch for our group, the Barony of Bryn Madoc.

     We went in garb, and and many of the fighters were wearing theirs too. 

      The group consists of Rapier fighters.

     As well as what we call Heavy fighters. This is my husband, Pardus.

      Here is my hubby again, with one of the MARS guys, and another local Barony member.

     I took along the crochet project that I had started for working on while in church. Yeah, I'm finding that I don't want to put this one down. So, I started another one, but this time in a lace weight yarn. It's proving to be much trickier to work with. But the color! I'll post about that as I get further along with it. :-)

    While at the practice last night one of the MARS guys mentioned that he wasn't going to have time to make a banner for the colleges activities fair this coming Wednesday, so be me, and having a bad case of helium hand, I offered to make one.

     Pretty red flannel cotton material laying about in my fabric stash, with some trim that adds a bit of a wow factor, I'm hoping. 

     And the finished banner! It looks pretty rubbish up close, but back off by about five feet or more, and it looks right nice; if I do say so myself. 

     Well, I'm off to finish cooking dinner for tonight, then the hubby and I are off to our local sca meeting, and I'll pass off the banner to Ray.

Interested in learning more about the SCA? Check out www.SCA.org

Ttfn

Jenn

Going Back in Time

So, about this 'hobby' of mine. :-)

It is called the SCA; or the Society of Creative Anachronism.

We recreate the art and sciences of the Middle Ages.  From armor making, cooking, clothing, weaving, spinning; if they did it then, there is someone in the SCA trying to do it now. 

The local group I play with is the Barony of Bryn Madoc.  The center of our group is based in Athens, GA and we have quite a nice size group.  Even so, we are always welcoming of new members. 

Here are some pictures of a small sampling of what we do.

 

This is me finishing up the string for a pouch that I had made.

 

Here is a picture of my minions participating in youth combat.  

Please note the so not medieval safety gear.

We believe in safety first. :-)

 

This is a picture of my husband in the adult form of heavy weapons combat.

Please note the attempt at wearing "real" armor.  Safety is still important, however, so is historical accuracy.

My husband is the one with the panther on his shield.

 

This is our group's Baroness giving an award to a friend at Court. 

We even had our King and Queen at this event.

We also have feasts where most likely food is served as close to what would have been served in the middle ages as is possible.  No, there are no turkey legs. LOL

We are not like the ren-fairs either.  The ren-fair to us, would be like a Six Flags in Medieval London. ;-)

My family and I have so much fun when we get to get away in time on the weekends.

I'll be sewing this weekend, getting ready for an event next Saturday.  I may even have some thing to enter into an A&S competition. I just may ...

ttfn