Mary Ostler

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I have been thinking about entering something in the Tir Righ A&S championship. Just a single entry as I really have no interest in being champion. It would be flattering, but I just don’t have the desire to win… I’ll leave it to other hungry artisans. I just don’t know where to start, so I [...]

Thorgeir Ingvarsson makes these wonderful rawhide lanterns.  I didn’t see one aglow at night, but I am certain that the rawhide screen would give any candle a wonderful glow. Really makes me want to play with rawhide.

Thorgeir Ingvarsson runs a merchants shop at events called Thor’s Gear. He goes that extra mile to make his [...]

I had been playing around with making a bedouin tent, but even I am surprised at just how quickly the idea went from wishful thinking to completed prototype. If not for the sale on canvas painters tarps at a local hardware store, It would not have happened. In less than 4 days I went from [...]

The Norse Tent is done. Leland got to play in it briefly with his friend Nathan before the traditional onslaught destruction of 8 trees worth of gift wrap began. He seemed to like it.
Happy Dance.

Since I found little to no usable information on Bedouin tents, I have decided to make a post on how I set up my tent.

Investiture has came and went yet again. I made the trip with my fellow Apprentices Alienor Sanz-Argent and Maeda no Kiku Mariko and much fun was had.

Yet again another post on Ash the Turnip (my mascot).  Ash is now in bloom with pretty yellow flowers.
I am thinking of taking him to Investiture this weekend.
I know, my devotion to this root crop veggie is weird… I’m OK with that.

The deadline for the tent is drawing near. I still have a bunch of stuff to do, and only a couple of days to do it.

I started in on the carving. Carving has never been my forte, but it is a fairly simple pattern…

The carving is finished. I am not overly happy with the finished [...]

Its my nephews 3rd birthday coming up in ~ 2 weeks time. I decided to make him a Norse tent to play in.
Image heavy post follows

When to SYGC on Saturday. I was introducing my two pod casting cohorts into just what was this weird SCA thing I did.

Opening court, where Baroness Caitrin informed us that she was the autocrat (as the real autocrat was rushed to the hospital the night before). Wielding even more power in her iron grasp.

I love [...]