Mary Ostler

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For the first 10 years or so in the SCA I considered myself extremely late period English. It was kind of working for me. Due to me… being me, I ended up wearing almost exclusively Men’s clothing. Give me a dress even mid calf level, and I will find a way of face planting within [...]

Damn… I need to start hanging out wih these ladies.   Snarf! Her name was Roberta Paulsen…

I have an idea…. Its a backpack sized period encampment. Something small enough I could in theory lug onto the BC ferries as a walk on passenger thus saving me stupid amounts of money. so… In my seemingly never ending need to build different kinds of tents, I bring you the 15th century Timur Disked [...]

Emily turned out to be a rocker. To such a degree, the high chair with its fairly narrow foot print was becoming a bit on the dangerous side. So a year early than I thought, I have cut the legs down to a  child’s height. I had designed the chair so that there was a turned [...]

My fingers feel like the are going to snap like a twig, but I managed to finish the rug cartoon in the last week. Thats it…

Thanks to Gürcü Iskender (Sasha Khan) I now have a new awesome time waster on my hands. Simply the greatest game EVER that features a turnip. Action Turnip image  from sweetbeetandgreenbean flickr

The project has been at a bit of a stand still as off late. The main hold up was the loom. I have been pulling out my hair trying to find either an image or a decent description of a near eastern rug loom in period. The closest I could find were a few images [...]