This is a general note to all that I will be present on Saturday at the Texas Renaissance Festival!!! I cannot wait for another year of splendor. If you recognize me please feel free to stop and say hello, just remind me that you know me off of Renspace. :) I'm so very excited, it is my seventh year to attend and my second year to camp.

Huzzah and see you there!!!

Wonderful news children! Gather 'round!

I have an exciting anouncement. It's making me so giddy that I'll just go ahead and drive right on forth into the whole cherade.

I'm learning to play the carillon! Yes! The enourmous instrument that you have probably seen on a trailer somewhere at a faire thanks to the wonderful Mr. Frank DellaPenna. One major difference in the location of the carillons we play though. The one I play is in the tower of a building, whereas his is, quite obviously, not.

Its a wonderfully fun instrument to play and know that the entire surrounding area can hear you. Muahahaha. Baylor- submit to my musical wrath!!! Though...wrath isnt a good connotation. You know what I mean!!!

*flails in excitement*

I've been fufilling my desires for renaissance wonderland vicariously through you wonderful people. Though I may be in the shadows I've been reading aplenty of blogs and looking at pictures whenever I get a free chance. Just a little thank you all for all that you've been posting and the best wishes with everything y'all do.

I was talking to my friend that has been AWOL for months now, and he asked me suddenly whether or not he counted to me. He wrote, "you are one of the kindest, caring.. most lovable women i've ever met.. Hell, you ARE the only one I can talk to and feel like a real person not just an appendage." Obviously, I love this friend very very much and if he wasn't married he would be mine, pretty much without a doubt. I assured him that he did and he then said this...

"Damn you for working your way so far into my heart.. Last time I tried all I could think about was you. Which is a bad thing when driving at 140mph at 2am in the rain. But I couldn't flick the breaks and let the car go."

I started crying and something very important occured to me, through my own troubles and tribulations, unknowingly, I have helped someone else stay alive simply by loving them and doing everything I can not to question why they do things or who they are but trying to simply love them. I never realized that someone would need it so much...

I share this with you now to let you know to love blindly, with passion and good nature. You never know who will need you.

With 30 Minutes.
:)
So in thirty minutes I "designed" and made a petticoat for under one of my day dresses. It's black tulle and honestly, without something over it and lacking the corset to give my upper body a good form, it looks HORRIBLE. But hey, under the dress...IT LOOKS AWESOME! Which is all that matters. No one but me will be undressing me in this. :-D I'm so excited that I finally said "oh what the heck" and pulled out my sewing machine and just attacked a project...just because I felt like it.
Now if only the airports weren't so picky on the metal detectors...(sprung steel boning in corset) I would totally wear this to Illinois tomorrow. Oh well. Huzzah for petticoat awesomeness!