So, about Halloween...
Oct. 29th, 2009 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stitchwhichI'm going as - - - a Norse woman of the Viking Era. I know, I know, that's the worse sin of the Reenactor's world. But, well, the thing is - the kids in my neighborhood would get a kick out of it.
I already knew I was going to station myself next to the trunk of the willow tree so they'd have to come through all the hanging branches to get to me. And that I wanted the (scant) lighting to be flame. So, of course, being a fat late-middle-aged woman, I'm not really interested in trying for any kind of sexy clothing - no traumatising the children! And that leaves long skirts in whatever manner. I was a bit uninspired.
And then it hit me. I have a perfectly good iron (Oseberg) tripod and cauldron, and a pierced-bowl dipper of iron and beaten copper (very pretty) that is huge. It'd be fun to put the candy in the cauldron and 'dip' it up for the kids. And if I sat on my Viking chest, I could put the re-fill candy in there. And that led to "be a Viking woman" because it then occurred to me that my neighborhood kids have never, ever seen one. Especially one in full bling. Heck, I don't wear full bling in the SCA or doing LH, for the most part. Especially not LH. So I can go all gaudy-out and it'd be fun.
I'm going to pile wood up under my cauldron in a circular pattern and have it enclose a bunch of candles (for safety and reduced heat). That will be one source of light. I'll hang a ceramic oil lamp from a tree branch somewhere over my shoulder - and that's all the light they're going to get. It's supposed to be lightly windy and growing-more cloudy by trick-or-treating time. Perfect, it should be dark enough to be somewhat scary by dusk but not so scary that the littlest ones will have a hard time of it. (I bought stuffed animals and individually-wrapped baby biscuits for the stroller-crowd instead of candy).
Heh. I suppose I should feel like I'm cheating but instead, I'm pretty excited. I have ALL this BLING that I never, ever wear because it isn't really appropriate (or is in the way) and now I get to load it on... Heh heh.
I already knew I was going to station myself next to the trunk of the willow tree so they'd have to come through all the hanging branches to get to me. And that I wanted the (scant) lighting to be flame. So, of course, being a fat late-middle-aged woman, I'm not really interested in trying for any kind of sexy clothing - no traumatising the children! And that leaves long skirts in whatever manner. I was a bit uninspired.
And then it hit me. I have a perfectly good iron (Oseberg) tripod and cauldron, and a pierced-bowl dipper of iron and beaten copper (very pretty) that is huge. It'd be fun to put the candy in the cauldron and 'dip' it up for the kids. And if I sat on my Viking chest, I could put the re-fill candy in there. And that led to "be a Viking woman" because it then occurred to me that my neighborhood kids have never, ever seen one. Especially one in full bling. Heck, I don't wear full bling in the SCA or doing LH, for the most part. Especially not LH. So I can go all gaudy-out and it'd be fun.
I'm going to pile wood up under my cauldron in a circular pattern and have it enclose a bunch of candles (for safety and reduced heat). That will be one source of light. I'll hang a ceramic oil lamp from a tree branch somewhere over my shoulder - and that's all the light they're going to get. It's supposed to be lightly windy and growing-more cloudy by trick-or-treating time. Perfect, it should be dark enough to be somewhat scary by dusk but not so scary that the littlest ones will have a hard time of it. (I bought stuffed animals and individually-wrapped baby biscuits for the stroller-crowd instead of candy).
Heh. I suppose I should feel like I'm cheating but instead, I'm pretty excited. I have ALL this BLING that I never, ever wear because it isn't really appropriate (or is in the way) and now I get to load it on... Heh heh.
