Ramblings of a Tainted Mind

Some of you that read my blog don't know that I am a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (http://sca.org), an organization of geeky historians who enjoy dressing up in clothing from between the years 600 and 1600 AD. The reason you may not know this is because I haven't been very active in the group for a while, mostly because my husband was going through some surgeries on his hand, so we weren't able to really deal with the camping events, our favorite part of the whole thing. I even let our memberships lapse, because there didn't seem to be much point in paying for it.

My historical interests flow in and out like the tides; I'll be very gung ho about say, Turkish Embroidery for a year or two, and then leap into Ancient Roman costuming. In the SCA, you can do projects on things that interest you, and enter them into special events made just for the purpose. Lots of people get to see your work, and you get scored on your accuracy and attention to detail. The event that I went to this past weekend was this sort of event. Here's some of my geeky buds:




Aren't they cute?? From left to right: Marina, lepidopteragirl, vittoria0, anarawd, madrun.

I won't dwell on how crazy hot in was outside, or the fact that the power went out in our cushy cabin and a bunch of folks decided to pack up and go home. I will focus on the good stuff.

I got to briefly hang out with my SCA household, nearly all of them, which is a great feat--we are hardly ever all able to make the same event.

I was able to see how displays are done and how judging happens for the first time since I joined the society, and I'm much less scared to tackle a bigger project now.

On the way home, lepidopteragirl and I discussed the possibility of working on a Sephardic/Christian/Moorish cooking entry together. I think it might be really cool, if we can pull it off.

I am inspired to create some new hot weather garb, because what I have is not what I'd like it to be.

I crocheted a dread snood for myself, and you can never have too many snoods. Remember that.