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Almost 3 am
Apr. 21st, 2006 02:55 amThe Allergy Season. Being awake during the 3-4 hours that the grass pollinates in my area... at least, I think it's the grass. Trying to sleep means waking up because I'm raking my fingernails against my face, trying to scratch the itch in the back of my throat. Man. The new spray-meds work great except for these three hours every night.
I pray for rain, sometimes, just to sleep when it is dark.
In other news (meaning, "no more complaining, sailor!"), I got three items repaired for the Gold Key chest and one new one made up. I think I'm going to take the mountain of muslin that has been hiding in the bottom of my fabric stash and turn as much of it as I can into simple 16th century shirts/smocks and give those to Gold Key, too. If I make them long enough, they'll do equally well for men and women - many of our newcomer women want the rennfair skirt/vest combo and rather than the one or two pathetic drawstring chemises we have I'd like to offer something a little more correct to wear. Maybe it will inspire a few to experiment with something more correct to period. I know that the newcomer guys will wear the shirts tails-out with a belt ala "pirate movie', but that's okay - if they come to more than one event and like the late-period stuff, they will hear the siren call of the slops & jerkin soon enough. And they'll already be familiar with the shirt (even though I'll be sewing the minimum style of them - no fruched collars here, thankyouverymuch).
My depression is lifting. I've got to learn how to develope a thicker skin. Do you think that there's classes? It appears that frequent exposure to poking isn't helping me develope insult-histimines. I must think on this...
I pray for rain, sometimes, just to sleep when it is dark.
In other news (meaning, "no more complaining, sailor!"), I got three items repaired for the Gold Key chest and one new one made up. I think I'm going to take the mountain of muslin that has been hiding in the bottom of my fabric stash and turn as much of it as I can into simple 16th century shirts/smocks and give those to Gold Key, too. If I make them long enough, they'll do equally well for men and women - many of our newcomer women want the rennfair skirt/vest combo and rather than the one or two pathetic drawstring chemises we have I'd like to offer something a little more correct to wear. Maybe it will inspire a few to experiment with something more correct to period. I know that the newcomer guys will wear the shirts tails-out with a belt ala "pirate movie', but that's okay - if they come to more than one event and like the late-period stuff, they will hear the siren call of the slops & jerkin soon enough. And they'll already be familiar with the shirt (even though I'll be sewing the minimum style of them - no fruched collars here, thankyouverymuch).
My depression is lifting. I've got to learn how to develope a thicker skin. Do you think that there's classes? It appears that frequent exposure to poking isn't helping me develope insult-histimines. I must think on this...
