Mary Ostler

Well another 365days have passed. Overall I rank 2009  as slightly more than adequate .

This is going to be a long and rambling path .

Looking Back

Web Site Stuff:

In the last year I have had over 10,000 hits & the top three topics where $35 yurt, Bedioun tents, and Trestle tables. I am allready predicting that next year will have home made indexing jig in the top three. Lots of recent traffic.

Things I built that kind of Rocked:

Turned bed frame

Emily’s Highchair

Folding Aumbry

Bedouin Tent

Table Trestle

Back Stool

Make things 1st’s:

Milk Paint experiments

Barley Twists

Weaving

Playing with cooperage.

Best Things / memories from 2009:

My niece Emily was born

May Crown in Avacal with Mistress Agnes (the wind baby…the wind)

Hanging with all the aprenti

Being way more social

Vancouver Film Festival (sans broken ribs)

Podcasting with Marina & Dale

Meeting new super cool peoples (Safiya, Elenor, Tristan …etc)

Looking Forward:

Things I am planning to do (or at least hoping)

More Camping

More Hanging with the aprenti

Make more period items with out huge amount of SCAism’s creeping in.

Games…Lots of Freaking Games

Turned table base for my brass turkish tray

More Weaving

Upgrading the webpage with better bio, bibliography, better organization…etc

Watch Way More Movies!!!!! (Is it wrong that I am counting down the days till next VIFF)

More Playing with medieval science (magnetics, paints, optics..etc)

Improve my carving skills

Use pole lathes more than my electric lathe (build a camping lathe)

Music boxes / Automata

Make an Inlay German Crossbow

Learn to brew

Possibly merchant again (must build portable periodish market stall)

Pipe Dreams:

Building an Alachigh style yurt (boobhaus)

Gypsy Wagon

Wagon construction (wheelwright)

Cooperage