Sunday Morning

Yesterday was CP Prize Tourney, the annual fund raiser for the Crown Prints, newsletter of Caid. The amount raised was an amazing $10,000 which funds the best (as far as I'm concerned) newsletter in the SCA. As far as I can tell, it's the only newsletter left with an 8-1/2 by 11 format, all the rest are half folio and completely event announcements with little other content. The generosity of the people of Caid is astonishing.

I sat with the weavers and spinners as they did the Sheep to Shawl shawl. :) It was amazing to see that come together from wool to finished yarn to finished shawl.

One of the other cool things was Graf Gerhart who is pretty darn cool all the time, but he did a presentation at court that had us all rolling on the floor. I know he's a nice guy, but I didn't realize he was that funny also. Anyway he was selling pewter pilgrim badges that he had made (also one that Una carved) that are gorgeous. I bought several. I need to work on my pewter casting. I have the idea, but I haven't done a final drawing and I haven't started carving yet. I need to prep the piece of wonder stone I have. (Cut it in half lengthwise I think, as long as I have at least a 1/2 inch on both sides. I need to examine the mold that I have that Gerhart did for the scribe tokens).

The plan for the day is cleaning, and more importantly to get a bunch of stuff ready to go to Goodwill. I don't need 30 t-shirts and 12 pairs of jeans (most of which don't fit right now). I also need to put together a raffle basket (or two) for Lyondemere Anniversary.

And I want to do at least some embroidery.

Under the piles

So, I've been trying to downsize (i.e. get rid of junk I don't need) and in between allergy attacks from the dust, I'm making some progress. I've put together a dragon raffle basket for Lyondemere Anniversary of small to large dragons that I collected at some point, keeping only one of the dragons, and getting rid of eight. I've filled a bag with purses, belts and scarves that I never wear and won't miss for Goodwill and found a couple of dollars in spare change and $80.00 in an envelope. (Mad money?)

Most things I'm not having a problem making decisions on, but one thing is a puzzler. I found a baldric from when I was on Queen's Guard (yes, really, me.....as a Queen's Archer) and I'm not sure what to do with it. It's not appropriate to go in an SCA white elephant sale, I don't think. And giving it to Goodwill seems weird also. I suppose I can toss it in the trash, but.....


anyway....back to work.