Mary Ostler

I was able to day trip earlier this year to the Barony of Seagirt’s annual Daffodil tourney. I posted about the event, but have had this post sitting in the draft folder for months. Its just a series of images of some of the art the Seagirtians had kicking around the site. I had a [...]

Its amazing the difference a good event can do for a tarnished outlook. At war is the desert after a mediocre meal. I love this event like I use to love Clinton a dozen years ago. Bit of a mixed bag of photos this time, lots of court, and some of the party.

Lots of rapier [...]

 
I took a whole bunch of pictures at Coronet this last weekend, but most of the court and fighting pictures turned out awful. The majority of the good images I got were on my early Saturday morning walk around. It came as a bit of a good surprise at just how many period/periodesque/non modern pavilions [...]

Lions Gate Archery & Heavy Defenders happened this weekend despite the horrific weather. Only a few die hards managed to brave the weather enough to camp. I was among those glorious few, as I wanted to test out my new tent at an event that was near-ish to my house if it turned disastrous.
 
Friday night was just [...]

May Gamers (also known by some as May Bardic) took place yesterday. It was a smallish affair, but also kind of awesome. It was one of those events where just about everyone ended up doing all sort of stuff.
I ran my first games tourney as Lions Gate games marshal. I decided on making a format [...]

This last weekend I got to go to Daffodil tourney in Seagirt. It was a last minute decision as I had originally had not planned to attend. <rant on> I find the whole going to Vancouver Island daunting. Build a bridge already! <rant off> Godfrey posted about the Short Bus to Daffodil, and I decided [...]

I got to go to Daffodil Tourney this year. I’ll be posting soon about the annual Seagirtian event, but I thought I do a quick post on my entry into the A&S tourney.
The contest was “items inspired in some way by the theme “daffodil”. Since I only decided to go to the event the weekend [...]

Tir Righ Investiture 2010 happened up in Kamloops (Shire of Ramsgaard) this year. There will be a post on the event in the next few days, but wanted to dump the plethora of pictures I took of the Court house now.
This site was a sight to see. The detail to woodworking through out the building [...]

Day of Dance and A&S defender happened this weekend. A smallish, but fun event all told.

Milling masses gather
Lots of images after the jump.

Baroness’ Birthday tourney took place yesterday. It was a smallish event, but still covered all the basics. Rapier, and Heavy fighting, A&S contests, dancing, feasting, drinking, court, and merchant row. I ran a small merchanting booth selling wooden goodes (turned stuff and furniture). Since I spent most of my time merchanting, and hanging out with [...]