Mary Ostler

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The other day I posted on a set of foldable shelves. I have since that time had the idea tickling the back of my mind. I did a quick doodle of how I could adapt Sir Geoofrey’s shelves into a foldable Ambury cupboard. Well the doodle has grown into a cardboard mock up of the [...]

I made up a few sample kumihimo spools for HL Mariko. Not sure If they are exactly what she wants, but I have had the project on the todo list for way to long.

I made them out of Dogwood blanks. They are old twisty thin pieces not much thicker than ~1″ thick. This size limit, [...]

Sir Master Geoffrey de Rennes has made this wonderful collapsing shelving set out of recycled plywood. The whole thing breaks down into two separate parts. The lower section for larger more mundane object gets covered with a cloth.Large cut outs in the bottom cut down on weight, and the cut outs are then lined with [...]

Tir Righ Spring Coronet 2009 has come and gone, and I the better for it.
I got to see three of my aprenti sisters brought before the court. Margaret was entered into the Order of the Grey Goose Shaft (Archery).  Mariko was given her long over due Jambe de Leon (A&S). Morweena was given a long [...]

A while back, the B&B of Lions Gate asked if their was anyone in the barony that would like to make them a simple chest or table to place between their thrones. I agreed to build them a simple 6 board chest.  I offered to give them my experimental hutch w/lock but The Baroness what [...]

Well, We survived.
Mistress Agnes, and myself braved a 12.5 hour trip into Avacal. An Avacal populated by gigantic windmills. If they had been any closer to were we camped, I may have had to go Don Quiote on their butts.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
I found my old banner in the bottom of a tote, so I used my old [...]

 Years ago at Clinton war (I forget which year) I entered the A&S war point challenge. That years challenge was to build period lighting. I decided to build a peirce work lantern using scrap duct work I had lying around my shop.
   
I can no longer find the original image of the period lantern I [...]

 
So the long and trying road has finally winded to the end. The bed is done. This project was a fairly ambitious project for myself.  The whole thing needed only a fairly simple skill set, but its a marathon of time and patience.  I have a severe backlog of projects I need to do for [...]

Back in March I attended a shoe making workshop.  It was a one day course, where we recieved enough supplies to finish 1 full set of shoes each. I had initialy all but finished the shoes within a week off taking the course, but then the turned bedframe project took over my life. Now that the [...]

Well the bed frame is finally completed. I roped up the bed this evening, and carefully lowered myself on to the cot. Not even a creak was to be heard. Hurray! Super comfy with the wool rug hooked mattress.
I just have one thing to decide…
To paint, or not to paint?  That is the question.