Re: [Mid] All-nighter!

Sounds to me like you challenged yourself to do things you had never done
before and persevered! Way to go! "Hoobah " to you, milady! keep it up!
M. Hroar

>
>Okay, now that I'm back from Pentamere Regional A&S, and feeling
>somewhat
>more rested (naps are nice) and thus sane, I'll tell! Guess I was too
>
>out of it to remember last nigh. . . err. . . morning. I made an
>Elizabethan bodice, circa 1585, based on a portrait of Lettice Knollys
>
>(page 127 of _Queen Elizabeth's Wardrobe Unlock'd_, if you really want
>to
>know). It's off-white fleur-de-lis brocade, with a tan-and-off-white
>brocade and goldish velvet as contrasting fabrics, and tons of gold
>beads
>and pearls. Really nifty hanging sleeves. First high-necked bodice
>I'd
>ever done--I think I'm doing more, cause they look classy, IMHO.
>
>Never done the documented A&S faire thing before. Both the Lady of my
>
>household and my Baroness both pretty much ordered me to enter this
>time,
>so I felt honor-bound to do it. Despite nervousness, I liked it! The
>
>really frightening thing is that during the event I and a couple of
>friends left to hit a local fabric store. The same place the brocades
>I
>used this time came from, even. Big surprise--I left with more
>brocade and
>ideas bouncing about in my head for 'next year's entry'. Hmm. . .
>handsewing the whole thing sounds like a good start. . . and perhaps
>the
>whole outfit from skin out? I wonder if I could learn knitting this
>year
>so I could knit stockings. . .
>
>AIY! SOMEBODY KNOCK SOME SENSE INTO MY HEAD! :):)
>
>Insanely yours (muahahahahaaa!!!),
>Adele
>
>-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
>Annikki Weston Lady Adele
>Desfontaines
>weston@tardis.svsu.edu Minister of Arts and
>Sciences,
>http://www.svsu.edu/~weston Shire of Fearann na
>Criche
>-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-Vivat, the Dream--May It Live
>Long!-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-
>
>From: Annikki Weston <weston@tardis.svsu.edu>
>+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ to unsubscribe, send a
>message to
>`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~` sca-middle-request@dnaco.net
>with
>. | | | | | | | | 'unsubscribe' as its body.
>
From: freyja1@juno.com (Timothy A Whitcomb)
+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+ to unsubscribe, send a message to
`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~`~-, ,-~` sca-middle-request@dnaco.net with
. | | | | | | | | 'unsubscribe' as its body.
Received on Mon May 5 01:15:47 1997