10 things that never fail to cheer me up (Taken from Marie Chantal)

[liadethornegge]

1. Make a list of ten things that never fail to cheer you up.
2. Post this in your LJ.
3. Add it to your memories.

My list, with disclaimers that it was written in winter:
1. Walking outside when it snows great big huge flakes that drift slowly to the ground.
2. An unexpected hug, and for me, that is the same as any hug.
3. Images and sounds from the Lord of the Rings, I know, the ultimate of geekdom, but there it is...
4. Ode to Joy
5. A book so good that when it is nearing the end you don't want to continue reading because it will mean it is over, but it is so good you cannot possibly stop.
6. Sitting in an airplane seat going someplace
7. Working on my historical gowns and through my hands figuring out why that works and how.
8. Thinking about Chrichton and Aeryn in Farscape: The Peacekeeper Wars Again I am showing geek-colours but I don't care!
9. Opening my blinds and seeing glistening, shimmering, glorious snow decorating the world.
10. The moments when you realize that if you look around you there is beauty to be seen everywhere-and you look.
11. The grunching sound of boots on snow in the dark, when you know that even though it's dark out now, when the sun comes it will make it all sparkle.

Comments

[mc-cadieux.livejournal.com]

Girlfriend, you do love winter a lot !!! Hé ! hé !

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I do. Not so nuts about snow that I run out in my dressing gown and slippers and make snow-angels like another shire-member said she did, but nevertheless, I love winter and snow.

[mc-cadieux.livejournal.com]

BTW, i didn't forget you, i just didn't get the time to find my french hoods stashed in some boxes somewhere, to take pictures and show you the inside. So many things, so little time !

But the reason i was saying they're not period i because i used to much of modern things to construct them. They were made for my picture-book, not for reenactment so, i needed something effective, practicle, fairly cheap (they come to about 2$ each) and durable since many people will be putting them on. So i used (i don't know at all how to call them in english) plastic of metal headbands shaped like a "U" with integrated combs that goes from one ear to another (does any of that make any sense?)

The sorta crown or flap that stays up is made of foam sheets that i buy at the dollar store (i just love working with those). It's easy to machine-sew your fabric and trims over, waterproof, flexible and easy to handsew, bead or pearl. As for the Hairbag or viel, on some of my hoods it is directly sewn to it and on some others, it's attached to it's own plastic or metal headband which is worn under the hood.

That's why i didn't want to cite mine as reference, they're meant for theatrical purpuse, not period recreation...

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

Aha. Yes I know what you are trying to describe now, I know what it's called in Swedish(diadem), but not English. Basically a haircomb; that's what my friends here have used to keep their hoods on as well.

I don't quite see how you do the crescent ("sorta crown or flap that stays up") so pictures of that would be great. I've been offered pictures to explain the process from Bess Chilver as well, which will be fabulous, but I figure the more I see the more I have to base mine on.

Good luck with your new mi-parti project as well! I am still amazed you would even consider sewing in wool when you are so allergic to it. How does your hands survive it? Does gloves help?

[mc-cadieux.livejournal.com]

It's much better now, thank you.

I still wear rubber gloves as prevention but it's not really my hands that are sensitive to it, it's wherever i touch my self without noticing ! If i pull my hair back, if i scratch my noze, etc... But even that aspect is way better. At the last event 2 weeks ago, i wore my Magdalena look all day so of course i kept toutching my skirt as i walked etc, but i only got a very small rash at the lower back of my neck where the wool was toutching my skin because my kirtle was moving around and around my garters where the socks that i was wearing underneat my hose kept sliding down. That was a bit painfull the following day so for the next event, i'll make myself a "Non-wool" pair of hose. It's not with a serious reenactment group is just an "SCA market" type of event...

I'm not home at the moment but, i know that the pattern i use is quite simillar to the french hood pattern that Drea (I think it's her) has on her website... I'll come back to you later...

By the way, your construction is quite interesting as well !

[liadethornegge.livejournal.com]

11 needs some subcategories you know..
11.a) Walking on snow that has fallen on frozen solid ground, on a very cold and dry day, forming small and hard flakes it makes a big FLUFFY snowy shroud for the ground and billows around the feet when you walk on it.

11.b) The cold type of snow that still has a little bit of moisture making it screech under your boots, but not stick together like mad.

11.c) The somewhat more moist snow which crunches together under your foot in a MOST satsfying way, the kind of snw that can be packed into any shape or form and when made into a snowball is so good you'd almost want to keep it.

11.d) Cold, compact snow that has been ploughed over with a straight and heavy blade sheering off layers to form a foor as solid and glossy as well-polished dining-room parquet floors. This is the kind of snow to walk on when you are feeling brisk and active as you could skate along on it for miles and miles.

... I had some time to think about this, last night, walking home in the dark.