Ok, to be fair, my year 1 was actually about a month ago, but this only occurred to me yesterday and it's 5:30 in the morning and I can't sleep. Blog post time!!! I feel like I'm in a weird place with costuming because I've done other textile arts my whole life, so I can [...]
Category: Meditations
Rule #1
Never read the comments. I have not been following this rule. And I keep stumbling into situations where breaking it is very, VERY bad for my emotional health. Last night I stumbled upon the account of a Jewish woman in the SCA who was sent death threats and disinvited from an event when she complained [...]
Artist vs Craftsman
It's 4 am and I can't sleep which means it's time for a slightly rambling meditations post with no point or conclusion! Woot! Today's topic (or maybe yesterday's topic, it's hard to tell at the moment) is thus-- I realized a while back while talking to a co-worker that I consider myself, at least in [...]
An abbreviated and sarcastic history of lace (plus identification)
Today at work we were making a new display on lace types and how to identify them and I gave my abbreviated history of lace lecture. Breanna, one of my co-workers, suggested I teach a Costume College class on this. While I am in NO WAY prepared to do that, I figured a blog post [...]
What next?
I came back from March Crown with SO MANY INSPIRATIONS and SO MANY IDEAS so I need to take a second and just. Calm down. Firstly, a quick event summary: Crown was excellent despite my SCA dad tripping in his first bout and doing something very-not-good to his spine. It was kind of terrifying. But [...]
Dreaming of a robe a la francaise
Pretty much the only thing that's going right in my life right now is costuming, so I'm dreaming of a robe a la francaise to try and keep from freaking out about everything else. What's making this complicated for me is that I'm not one for ruffles and floof-- it's just not me! And I [...]
ARGH
Finding Renaissance-appropriate brocades and buttons on a budget is basically impossible. That's it. That's the post.
My Life in STEM
Once again I'm writing a blog post when I should be sleeping... but here I am. I wanted to get this out of my head before it disappears. The robotics organization that my entire life was devoted to in high school posted something on Facebook recently about the rates at which kids drop out of [...]
Minimalism in Costuming
Soooo I'm sick, and I got about two hours of sleep last night, and I still most likely will have to go to work today. As a result I'm reading costuming blogs to cheer myself up, and I'm 4 or 5 pages in to Terry Dresbach's blog of the Outlander costumes. Now I haven't seen [...]
Not Another Costuming Blog 