Rebloging ‘Beadwork and Reenactment’: Insights from Phoenix Safe Place
I hope you enjoy this beautiful bejeweled post by Helga Phoenix
I hope you enjoy this beautiful bejeweled post by Helga Phoenix
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Civil wars, clashes between cousins, are known to be full of battles between men on foot and horseback, with their eyes set on the throne of their desired country. Many stories of civil wars tend to leave out the women who often were left on the sidelines, ready to pick up the pieces. The story…
Hey there, history enthusiasts! Finally, I gathered information on the early traveling scribes. I have wanted to do this because of my blog’s title ever since I started it. So, let’s journey back in time and explore the realm of itinerant scribes and the traveling courts that relied on their indispensable skills. Let’s begin things…
I am deeply aware of how fortunate I’ve been to see so much of the world. Over the years, I’ve traveled through 40 of the 50 United States, 10 Western European countries, and two Asian countries. Some of those trips were quick—tourist snapshots and postcards—but others shaped my life in quieter, longer-lasting ways. I didn’t…
Lately, I’ve been reading Anne Lamott’s book Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. I’m almost at the end, and something she wrote about being a Giants baseball fan really stuck with me: …the bigger point of baseball, that that it can give us back ourselves. We are a crowd animal, a highly…
I am unbelievably shaken to be once again at the end of the year, and babes, for me it’s been a year of books. Firstly because, of course, my book The Once And Future Sex made its debut in the world. As I type this, it is in the process of being translated into several…
For last Saturday’s Crown Tournament, I finally finished the heraldic design with the blue background and three white crescents. It’s a simple design—elegant and clean—but true to form, I tried to make it complicated first. Azumi Nariko’s device isn’t up on the Calontir website yet. So, I tracked it down on the SCA heralds’ OSCAR…
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