Mary Ostler

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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 Bell.
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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 [...]

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 [...]

At War has come and gone again this year, and I am sad to think its another 52 weeks til the next time Tir Righ wipes the floor with the Avacalians. I was happy to be included in the Kingdom of Drachenwald’s Encampment. In honor of Queen Caoimhe’s attendance at our little war I decided [...]

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 [...]

I have an evil plan to run a siege engine boules/ golf tourneys at up coming events. Since I have only so many weekends off before camping season starts, I needed to get on with it.

Well the verdict on this weekend is in, and it was 4 kinds of goodness. Friday & Saturday I got to hangout with Agnes and some of the aprenti. It was a two day work on A&S stuff gabfest. I got a start on the final carpet cartoon, the wooden board games in the barony’s collection have [...]

There was a call out for bids on breakdown-able eric stands for the barony. I had played around with the idea, but have decided not to bid due to lack of information. I “HATE” commissions that leave all the decisions up to me. I am a student of Overkill, and left to my own devices [...]

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 [...]