The Goings On

Stevie is well on his way to being well...all except for his ankle. We went to an orthopaedist on Thursday and he put Stevie in a boot. The boot reminds me of the foot of a Storm Trooper from Star Wars...but, if it helps him heal, I am all for it! :-)

As mentioned in a previous post, I joined the SCA. I have been to two events so far. The first was over Memorial Day weekend...As if I didn't already know this, Florida is not a good place to have outdoor events from the beginning of May until the end of October. Especially if those events involved layers of clothing and, possibly, full body amour (yes, it was about 90 and there were people fighting in full body amour). J, L, D and I went to the event, Trimaris Memorial Tourney (TMT). J, L and D camped, in a tent, in the heat. I had resevered a room at a little inn in Umatilla. While it was not a 5 star inn, it was air conditioned, a roof and walls!!!! :-) As you can see, I am not the camping type.

On Saturday, we spent most of the day wandering around getting used to not seeing people in modern clothes. I left fairly early because I could not take the heat. On Sunday, the Trimaris Textile Guild had a tea and we were invited. We met several interesting people. I learned a basic naalbinding stitch from a Lady who was kind enough to take the time to show me.

The following weekend was the Summer Arts/Sci event. J and I went to this. L and D had other things going on so they could not accompany us this time. This is a semi-annual event held for people to submit projects and documentation (yes, kinda like a very advanced science project) regarding the items, tools used, methods used, etc. The projects are judged and the winners are given beautiful hand painted scrolls and have the opportunity to take the project to a multi-kingdom event for entry. I was very disappointed in the number of entries that were there. However, I was very impressed by the entries that were there. I am going to have some serious fun in this!!!!

While at the event, I ran into the same Lady who had taught me naalbinding the week before. Once again, she was extermely kind. She gave us a lot of information about the different awards, stations, etc in the SCA. She has been in the SCA since 1992, so she really knows what is going on. I hope this will turn into a friendship. She is truly an amazing and talented person.

One of the fun parts of joining the SCA is creating a persona and coming up with a name. Well, I started with Ascelina Juliana Godwin (my mom was going to name me Julia Asenith before my sister asked if she could name me), but that just didn't really sound like me. Then I thought about reversing the names, Juliana Ascelina...that still doesn't really fit me. So I guess you can say that I am having a type of identity crisis right now...Here are a few names I am considering:

Ederra
Marina
Adriana
Avacyn
Bertha (somewhere in the name - Goddess of Spinning)

I guess I am kinda partial to Kelley! :-) Well, I am off to my first attempts sewing!