I'm feeling a bit knackered at the moment. My back and shoulders are stiff and tired. I'm sure I've also got some allergy related nonsense going on in my head.
We had a lovely weekend. For those who don't LJ on the weekends, I already posted a link to
pictures from KA&SFest on Saturday. Since posting on Saturday, I've also tagged a bunch of the photos so if you want to just see the
Scribal pictures, or the
Weaving pictures, or just the pictures of
Argh's stuff, you can. I had quite a bit of fun being a shutterbug at the event, and I confess that I didn't take notes so all the captions are from memory or clues by others. It also means that I wasn't very good at reading any documentation. Like seriously, the only docs I read were for the one entry I had to judge. I kinda wish now that I had sat down to read Griele's docs on her silk painted
Persian head scarf, Aime's
paper on sweet bags, which I imagine expands on her TI article, as well as reading some of the sound-bitey science fair presentations that were no doubt awesome if a bit hard to reach/read. I know I'm also not the only one with basket weaving envy thanks to
Magda and
Aime.
I made certain to point out some displays to others, and fondled a Roman mug by
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thatpotteryguy that I ended up passing on. Eventually the feet needed a break, so I sat and elightened poor William the Younger about the Plimoth Embroidered Jacket project, and showed off the pictures I had on my laptop. I also shared them with Martine from Isenfir (?) (who is working on a coif of her own thanks to Isobel's patterns) as well as cool extant knitted items pictures. The point was just to show her the top of two of the coifs that I took pictures of to give her ideas on how to finish her own when it comes to that, but as always, our conversation was less of a train and more like a runaway carriage. I had meant to leave my laptop with my display so folks could look though pictures themselves, but there was both a lack of space and the layout made me a bit nervous to leave it unattended and there wasn't much room to attend to it. I did send a few more precious butterflies home with folks, but not as many as I had hoped to. Too distracted looking to think of pimping.
I've already made my
Layout is Important rant back in October, and I think it still holds true. I liked the little cul-de-sac that the InterBaronial Champs section got. It was concentrated and easy to navigate. The merchants area had nice flow, and the Pentathalon area was okay too with only one table depth oer row, if a bit tightly packed, but sadly not near the other displays. The main areas were an exercise in frustration. It was tough to get to the wall of the hall down a skinney row between tables to see what was furthest down the row. I thought it was great that some folks got to be with their displays much of the day like Virag and Rowan, but it did add some obstacles. The area that James had was the best set-up for staying with a display ever.
Bah. Nothings gonna be perfect, and I didn't volunteers to run it, so I should just shut up.
I did get to enjoy the
attack_laurel 's company for the drive there and back, and for dinner afterward of chinese delivery to our place. The pup-slut got lots of attention and bellyrubs and was well behaved, if a bit beggarly.
Sunday was another beautiful day. I called and invited
lisettelaroux , her pup Simon and Tara's Brodie-man over to have a puppy playdate in the backyard. The canine's all got along quite well and tired themselves out mightily after an hour of running around like crazy-dogs. That was awesome, even if I did forget to return her crockpot. Later we also enjoyed
theodorad and
rolanddem 's company for grilled steak on the patio since the weather was so lovely.
Sadly I haven't picked up and embroidered any since the sample bits I did for the display. I can hear quality embroidery time on the couch calling my name.
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