I'm putting my cards on the table (AIPON)

Okay, since I've been following the vicious screaming matches in AIPON's top 10 pages, I've decided to put my cards on the table, so you all can tell what I've put up (as if anyone cares but me! Hah!)

My entries are (fake drumroll here):
The SRB, which should be obvious. Docs and notes are here.

My Illuminator's Blue Loose Gown No online docs or notes or anything, but I wanted to make a gown that looked like an illumination. The color of the wool is deliberately accurate to an illumination and not to period dye methods. Yes, I know, bad, but fun. Sneakily Not Period. Like unto wearing Loud Silly Undergarments under period clothes.

The Ringer, or my deliberately posted, WAY not period outfit. It's a faire costume, made to the guidelines for St Brigid's at RPFN in 1992 or so. AT THE TIME we were told that we were making non-period theatrical costumes, based somewhat in reality, but mostly intended to convey a vague feeling of "Olde Scottisheness" to the Tourons. I'm amazed by the number of people who think it's African or Middle Eastern simply by virtue of the fact that I've got a pot on my head...
(this bit added acouple of hours later) Oh, another thing. There IS NO gap in the front lacing. The gown is dark yellow wool, laced around lighter wooden buttons (over a hook&eye closure). I'm guessing this is why some people think the front is gapping. It's not a modern cut, either, it's an older interpretation of the Shinrone Gown. (end of later bit)

My German Ren, first copy (I asked that Kirrily remove it, but I guess the request got lost). Not the best image, and I spaced on the auto-resize feature of teh server software, so it got even smaller and less clear than it was. I am amazed at the PURE HOSTILITY of some of the comments, and I'm amazed that anyone could imagine that someone could gain anything by pasting their face on someone else's pic. The other two ladies are two of my best freinds and I did not want to post someone's pic wihtout asking (nor does my very best freind want her face on the web without her permission), and somehow this became an obvious clue that I had edited myself IN the pic. Most interestingly, all the hostile commentary stopped after I posted the second request for emails from people who have issues with me. No emails either.

This is a much fussed with copy of the above image, to show detail better, with my freinds cropped out. No online docs, though once I've got this thing reworked, I'll put up pics of the process and notes on my reasoning for re-doing it. Currently, it's in storage 2000 miles away, so it'll be awhile. Mostly, it will be re-done as a 2-layer gown, kirtle and 1-piece overgown (more like a flemish market outfit, really), instead of a 2-peice bodice and seperate cartridge pleated skirt worn over a petticoat. Much reworking to be done, but the gown is made of the most wonderful brushed wool, so that I feel it's worth saving.

So, those are mine. I may put up a couple of more recent outfits, if I can get photos.

Off to continue the neverending housecleaning...

I wanna go home...

I read 's journal entry on how she's going to an event in Ansteorra today, and I got all homesick.

Alas, I'm stuck in southern Caid until at least October, with a closetful of garb that fit my pre-baby body much better than now. The people here are wonderful, and I've finally gotten to meet a lady whose research into German Ren has impressed me for years, BUT... I'm sitll homesick. I misssed the entire reign of a King and Queen who I really like, several arts comps I had wanted to enter, my family back home, my freinds. I missed the presentation of the first piece of Regalia that I ever had a hand in creating. My SCA 'parents' are back there too, and my 'little sister' just went into the air force, and I didn't get to see her off.

I'm just mopey today.

About that garb...Even if my figure is better (meaning that I seem to have finished developing at the ripe old age of 32, and I actually HAVE a figure now), it's still a pain to have to alter things. Everything is too small in the bust, too big in the arms (breastfeeding actually uses up that 'wibbly bit' - that's what your body puts fat there for!), and too big in the waist (I've been losing wieght since I left my ex andmost of my garb dates from before that.. And I don't seem to have time to finish the new stuff that's already cut out.

Whine, whine, whine.

I'm also all wound up about wanting to get down to remaking my German Ren, which is sitting happily in a box in my storage in TX. And then there's the box of sari silk that I want to try making a couple of bliauts out of. Argh.

You always want what you can't have...

old site all fixed and other news

Well, my issue with (my old web host) is all cleared up. Seems they changed their rate structure and didn't realize that it might have an effect on old users... Anyway, it's all better now and I'm not going to make (my old website, which is now gone, years later) go away any time soon, though the ads are there to stay. I liked the old teeny ads better, but I can't get them back now. I made the banners as unobtrusive as possible (they are the kind that scroll away after they load).

I'm trying to get ahold of the lady who runs amiperiodornot(dot)com (also long gone) since I've put together a browsable index, but she won't email me back (or my mails keep going astray), so I don't know if it is okay for me to make it public or not. Sigh.

The bliautlady site is up, but not updated. We're expecting houseguests and I've been busy trying to clean around the baby. That means, unfortunately, no sewing either. Argh, I can look at the Eyesore Gown, but no working on it until next week at the earliest. It seems fated to remain a pile of parts for awhile. My head is just bursting with ideas for the new site and improvements to the old one and I have a half-finshed set of illos for Arrianne de Chateau-Michel that I need to ink and scan. Too much to do, not enough me to do it all in time for me to be ahppy with it all.

Oh, go to her site: (website gone, sigh try the archive, here: https://web.archive.org/web/20070928174759/http://www.chateau-michel.org/ ) READ her articles. They are GOOD. She writes as well as I draw, or better.

I'm thinking I might want to make a custom set of moodicons, and make them public, since I'm not so happy with what's there right now. I used to do icon design at Tivoli, so I've certainly got the skillset.

Kid is TEETHING. 2 teeth and counting, he's working on the third and it really hurts him. Left Upper incisor is cutting thru right now, poor thing. We're going at a rate of about 1 every 8-10 days. Yes, before anyone asks, he's been biting, but he always did that, and I'm pretty good at getting him to stop.

Wow, this is my longest entry ever, not counting my project outline. ;)

Hope I have time to update soonish.

Fun with 50megs

Well, as you probably noticed, 50megs made some policy changes (weird) in the past couple of days without telling anyone. So I had to spend an hour or so wrangling my account and I may have to delete http://jauncourt.i8.com entirely if they still want to charge me 24 dollars for my free account.

HOWEVER, They still do free accounts (now with no setup fee...) and I've made a new diary site, just for my 12thCentury stuff. It's kinda fetal right now, but expect updates in the next week.

http://bliautlady.50megs.com

I'll probably set up seperate sites for my personal life and my more general SCA/costuming notes. But that can wait.