mikekn

I put up some photos of the regalia I got at 12th Night.

Elizabet and John also have some photos up now.

I've added the Grand Tournament of the Unicorn on April 4th in the Midrealm to my SCA calendar. Three events a month is a bit much, but we'll see how it goes.

First off, photos from our camera and Naomi's can be found on Flickr. Tomas and Marion's pictures start here. If anyone else has photos, please let me know!

I'll try and get good photos of the scroll and regalia up soon.

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Thank yous need to go out to so many people:
Joe and Kandy for putting together a great vigil spread.
Finn, Vicky, Bertana and every one else for setting up the vigil area.
The many friends old and new who stopped by the vigil to advise, visit and congratulate.
Casey for taking the job of heralding me into court at the last minute and doing a kick-ass job of it.
Gabriel for speaking as a member of the Order of the Chivalry. (PS. I hope to make Wrightstown this year!)
Justin for his kind words as a member of the Order of the Laurel - and Steffan for bringing those words to us.
Garlanda for speaking for the Order of the Rose - and Istvan for reading her words (yeah, that was a great picture when a Rose was called for and he stood up :)
Margarete for your words, the medallion and so many things - here is to looking forward
Alissa for making my Pelican Cloak (so very warm!)
Naomi for making my Cap of Maintenance.
Marti and Arpad for creating my scroll - and Kat for reading it :)

Most importantly to Amy - for making my garb, organizing everything, and putting up with me during the last two weeks (not to mentions the years leading up to them). All my love to you.

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violet_amy, complexated and I left Friday after work and went up to the hotel. I believe the only big thing we forgot was my CPAP machine (added it to my eternal packing list now). Saturday morning we had breakfast with shadowpony and starseeker1221, before getting into garb and driving over to the site.

We met joef_johnm, kandy_elizabet and bertana at the site, followed quickly by dame_margarete, finnfinnegan and AJ.

Set up went well - we only punched one hole in the ceiling before following the other vigil's lead and removing the drop ceiling panels before putting up the pop-up. I kept getting into trouble by trying to help set up, but what was I supposed to be doing? I avoided shopping for games, took a table for a walk, and otherwise tried to keep myself busy and out of the way. Around 12:30 or so, there was a mini court to send a few folks off to vigil, and let people know where our vigils were. From that point on, I pretty much stayed in the tent. I had a plate of food and a cooler with water and diet coke, so I was in good shape.

There was a pretty constant stream of people, about evenly split between those I knew and those I did not. Discussions ranged from history stuff, jokes, advice and congratulations. It was very touching and humbling to hear the thoughts and words of so many friends. It will probably take some time for me to really process most of it. I felt like I was at a loss for words during most of it - unable to come up with much more then "Thank you".

As things wound down and court got started I spent some time just trying to relax. At this point I started to feel nervous :) We hung out in the hall for a while before heading into the auditorium where court was being held and waited for my name to be called. After that, everything seemed to go very quickly.

Casey heralded me into court, Vicky and Alissa carried my banner and Amy and I walked in together. I answered their Majesties question with "I will", and listened to the kind words of many people. I was glad for the baggy pants I wore, as my legs twitched and shook at times (for once it wasn't my knees :) ). I received the cloak, cap and medallion. Heard the words of the scroll and swore a shaky oath of fealty. Then stepped back to take my place in the order as the next person was called up.

After court and clean up, several of us (the vigil crew + our friends Jessica and Cathy) went of to dinner and enjoyed a great time eating, drinking and laughing.

Getting a peerage was not something I strived for or expected any time - I knew it was possible, but I never wanted to worry about it. I didn't have many requests for the vigil or ceremony, I was more then happy to let my friends plan and run whatever they wished. Looking back, it was everything I could have hoped for.

Thank you all.

Just heard from Rosamund that the missing poster frame with the photos was found. We should be able to get it back at Mudthaw.

( Final 40th )

Vigil/Elevation stuff coming soon!

We are home safe and sound. Had a great time, have stories and pictures. May take a bit to get them up, but I'll be working on it.

Started by katnboots
(just seeing if you're paying attention)

I'm not bored, so I don't have an excuse, but here's a meme.

1. Post this list to your LJ.
2. Add three SCA-related things to the bottom that you've done.
3. Bold everything in the list that you've done.
4. Tag people, if you're so inclined, and watch the list grow.

Taught a class at Pennsic
Ran a court
Fought or fenced at an event while drunk
Worked the "Puking Duke" shift a Chirurgeons Point at Pennsic
Been an Event Stewart/Autocrat
Been an officer (Local, Regional, Kingdom, Society)
Cooked for a vigil
Wrote articles unrelated to my mundane education
Fell asleep at Heralds point at Pennsic
Been an officer at Pennsic more than once
Been a Society Officer
Received an Order of High Merit
Brewed mead
Been on staff at an out of kingdom event (not Pennsic) [Ealdormere War Camp - ran games]
Spoken to Diana Listmaker about the first tournament

EK 12th Night has been officially moved to January 17th at the same site. I've canceled my hotel room for the weekend, and canceled the dinner reservations for Saturday.

Next step is to get in touch with the folks involved in the vigil and ceremony and see if there are any issues with the 17th. Of main concern are folks traveling from far out of town and the food. If there are major issues, we will ask about moving it to another event. I'll post as soon as possible about what is decided.

From an email sent to the EK list from the 12th night Steward:

"Due to predicted snow (don't get me started), the school has pulled our site citing insurance issues! As of right this minute, 12th Night is either cancelled or moved-- but I just received word and will notifiy people as I can.

PLEASE tell anyone you know that is planning on attending-- I will be calling those that I have phone numbers for (or -mails) in a few hours when I have more information.

Harried and stressed 12th Night steward,

Lyn Greaves
Lady Rosamund d'Alwareton
COMaunche, COTerpsichore, COSalamander
Thorny Rose"

I'll keep folks updated on what is going on the best I can. I should be on-line all day and available by cell phone.

Over the weekend complexated and I finally got back to newsletter sorting. On Sunday I managed to get through the last stack of newsletters, then as I was printing out a guide for the boxes (which titles are in which box) I notice that a whole long box was missing from the database. My first thought was that some titles got misfiled or I screwed up their location while shuffling stuff around in the database. No big deal, just going though and correct the database, 15-20 minutes tops.

Further investigation this morning shows that the entire box was never entered into the database. At some point it was used to store some sorted but un-inventoried issues and then forgotten. So tonight I get to work on them, instead of cleaning up the basement and moving all the boxes downstairs...

Event websites that contain nothing more then a copy of the event announcement from the EK website.

Last Friday complexated and I (with some much appreciated help from violet_amy) finished our playing card project and took them up to the St. Festus Fair laurel challenge.

The whole process was a lot of fun, though by the time we had decided we were going to try for it and then got half decent at the skills we'd need, we only had about a week left before the challenge. We took several short cuts along the way such as stenciling the pip cards instead of block printing them (this was done in period, but was a later technique then we were going for). We didn't finish carving four of our face cards so some images had to do double duty.

I uploaded a bunch of photos taken while we were making our set of playing cards. Our documentation is also on-line now. Sadly I forgot to get some good pictures of the completed set before we took them up to the event (where we gave them to Adhemar). But we plan to make more in the near future. We need to finish carving the blocks we did, and make some better stencils.

I'm looking forward to continuing this project, but for now I think I'll take a week or so off :)

Anyone else going to St. Festus Faire?

( We've been busy )