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guenievreAnd suddenly you realize that you're inspired enough to try and create 5 new objects for the competition in less than 2 months. This is what happened to me last night - Claire started talking about how easy it was to enter the Pentathlon in Persona and suddenly I found myself convincing myself that I *did* in fact have time to do so, even though I had decided none of my 12th night stuff was appropriate.
So that's my next project, even before my Arnolfini gown (which I think will get entered at the next Pentathlon - *that* one should be interesting.
The Basics: Entrants must enter five (5) items (no more, no less) from at least three (3) of the competition categories. Each of the five entries must be directly connected to the persona of the entrant's choice--could the entries have been owned, made, or consumed by that persona? The five items will be displayed together, and the entrant must include somewhere a brief description of their persona. The 'persona' chosen by the entrant need not be their regular SCA persona. Only one persona per entrant!
The Categories: (subcategories in parentheses):
I. Studio Arts (bookbinding, calligraphy, decorative leatherwork, drawing, illumination, painting, papermaking, pigments and inks, sculpture, wood carving)
II. Costuming and Needle Arts (bead work, costume accessories, all periods of western and non-western garb, embroidery, hats, knitting, nalbinding, knotted work, lace)
III. Pyrotechnica (armor, ceramics, chainmail, blacksmithing, enameling, glass blowing, metal jewelry, ironwork & tool making, lampworking, lapidary, metal casting, mosaic, pottery, stained glass)
IV. Household Arts (basket weaving, brewing & vinting, cooking, dyeing, furniture making, herbcraft, soap, spinning, toys & games, weaving. NOTE: cooks may enter subtleties in the Courtly Arts category.)
V. Courtly Arts (heraldic display, horse bardings, instrument making (musical), lyric and music composition, masks, poetry, prose, research papers, subtleties.
I definitely want to enter a hat, so that's "costume accessories". I also want to enter the golden chicken from last year, so there's "subtleties". I'm thinking I'll do another cooking thing - maybe mustard? or better yet a selection of period sauces/condiments. That could be fun. Especially if I could figure out exactly what would be on the table and how it would be served... now *what* did I do with Fabulous Feasts (yes, I know the recipes sucked. But it had good source material). I could do calligraphy... and a dress? The dress is what I'm most dubious about entering - I'd like to make another GFD anyway, and I do have time... but I don't know when I'd get someone to help me fit it. I suppose I could do a smock instead... or (yet another) houppelande. With nice dags that's a possibility, actually.... Actually, I like that possibility. In fact...even though I swore I wouldn't do it again... that white silk I've got is wispy enough for those layered dags of Maria of Gueldern... Yep, I'm a crackhead. And my fabric addiction is going to bankrupt me one of these days... oh well. Now off to find some more blue wool or silk...
So that's my next project, even before my Arnolfini gown (which I think will get entered at the next Pentathlon - *that* one should be interesting
The Basics: Entrants must enter five (5) items (no more, no less) from at least three (3) of the competition categories. Each of the five entries must be directly connected to the persona of the entrant's choice--could the entries have been owned, made, or consumed by that persona? The five items will be displayed together, and the entrant must include somewhere a brief description of their persona. The 'persona' chosen by the entrant need not be their regular SCA persona. Only one persona per entrant!
The Categories: (subcategories in parentheses):
I. Studio Arts (bookbinding, calligraphy, decorative leatherwork, drawing, illumination, painting, papermaking, pigments and inks, sculpture, wood carving)
II. Costuming and Needle Arts (bead work, costume accessories, all periods of western and non-western garb, embroidery, hats, knitting, nalbinding, knotted work, lace)
III. Pyrotechnica (armor, ceramics, chainmail, blacksmithing, enameling, glass blowing, metal jewelry, ironwork & tool making, lampworking, lapidary, metal casting, mosaic, pottery, stained glass)
IV. Household Arts (basket weaving, brewing & vinting, cooking, dyeing, furniture making, herbcraft, soap, spinning, toys & games, weaving. NOTE: cooks may enter subtleties in the Courtly Arts category.)
V. Courtly Arts (heraldic display, horse bardings, instrument making (musical), lyric and music composition, masks, poetry, prose, research papers, subtleties.
I definitely want to enter a hat, so that's "costume accessories". I also want to enter the golden chicken from last year, so there's "subtleties". I'm thinking I'll do another cooking thing - maybe mustard? or better yet a selection of period sauces/condiments. That could be fun. Especially if I could figure out exactly what would be on the table and how it would be served... now *what* did I do with Fabulous Feasts (yes, I know the recipes sucked. But it had good source material). I could do calligraphy... and a dress? The dress is what I'm most dubious about entering - I'd like to make another GFD anyway, and I do have time... but I don't know when I'd get someone to help me fit it.
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sounds cool
Date: 2004-01-13 09:50 am (UTC)I'm thinking I'll make things related to a pilgrimage to a holy shrine. So, I'll make a leather costrel (household arts), a pair of shoes (costuming), work up some cast metal pilgrimage badges - maybe of a couple different sorts ;-) (pyrotechnicia), a cloak/hood thing of some kind (costuming), and I think lastly, I will make something related to starting fires (either a steel for use against a flint, or maybe an entire kit with toe and charcloth, etc.). If I'm feeling really crazy, I'll make a nice box to put the fire kit in, but we'll see.
Please educate the ignorant masses.
Date: 2004-01-13 09:53 am (UTC)Re: Please educate the ignorant masses.
Date: 2004-01-13 11:53 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2004-01-13 01:04 pm (UTC)Who else posts about - errrr - Pyrotechnica in their damn journal? Well, besides the rest of your people. ;)