OMG OMG OPENING WEEKEND!!!

So I've been preparing for my first year in the Guilde of St George since January, my costume is done and approved, I officially have my backstage pass, and opening weekend is less than 6 days away!!!!

Please come and see us, we've been working so hard to bring an awesome show this year. Fight cast is going to be out on the streets with robin hood, no longer just on stage, but amongst the crowd!!

Queen Show is back for the Court with an awesome performance between the Spanish Ambassador and Captain Francis Drake!

We have new fantastikals, the ever growing RenQuest, and of course our wonderful Guilde of St Lawrence (mmm FOODDD) and Guilde of St Michael (military! BOOMS!)

Come to see the maypole dance with Bristol Bruskin Frolic, take your kids to kids kingdom and be knighted by her Majesty, or just shop and totally pig out on the streets of Bristol!!

Bristol Renaissance Faire is open Saturdays and Sundays, July 11th - September 6th, and Labor Day Monday, September 7th, from 10am to 7pm. Advance tickets are available online @ [link]

I will be playing Lady Frances Pierrepont, Eldest Daughter of Elizabeth Hardwick, Lady Talbot, the Countess of Shrewsbury. I will be there in costume and in character on:

Saturday July 11th
Sunday July 12th
Saturday July 18th
Sunday July 26th (with the Queen)

Saturday August 8th
Sunday August 9th
Sunday August 16th (with the Queen)
Saturday August 29th

Sunday September 6th (with the Queen)
Monday September 7th

Stop in and say hi!!! I love to meet Deviantart friends!




PROJECTS IN PROCESS

Commissions/Contest Prizes:

Fox hat and gloves for ~Chroias - 0% work will begin in July

Costume Work:

Mistress Katherine Cooke French Hood - 100%
Sir Henry Pierrepont garb - 25%
Lady Pierrepont Brown dress rework - 100%
Michelle's Blue court gown - 75% - On hold, reworking
Red and Brown court gown - 100%
Colin's court garb - 100%
Colin's Dark Jedi/Sith Costume - 100%




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So I haven't updated in a while. I'm almost finished with my garb for Lady Pierrepont. I wore it to the Janesville Renaissance Faire in Wisconsin this last weekend. All I have left is a few beading and to fix the armholes, because they are a little tight. It was really excited because it was the first time playing my character and really being out with some of the guild members. (IF ANYONE has any Sunday photos, let me know!!!! Seems all the photographers went on Saturday.)

Also, after the faire season starts in July, I will be taking a limited amount of commissions for hats/hoods to help build my millinery portfolio. If anyone is interested let me know. I will be charging for supplies, shipping, and a small amount for labor (about $10-15 depending on how much beadwork there is). I will take notes/questions early, but won't start any work until after July 10th. Please help me make more hats!!!

<3 Jamie




PROJECTS IN PROCESS

Commissions/Contest Prizes:

Fox hat and gloves for ~Chroias - 0% work will begin in July

Costume Work:

Mistress Katherine Cooke French Hood - 100%
Sir Henry Pierrepont garb - 25%
Lady Pierrepont Brown dress rework - 95%
Michelle's Blue court gown - 75% - On hold, reworking
Red and Brown court gown - 100%
Colin's court garb - 100%
Colin's Dark Jedi/Sith Costume - 100%




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So I had to quick post.

I am offically going to be Frances Cavendish, Lady Pierrepont! She was a knight's wife, married to Sir Henry Pierrepont (who at one point was a sheriff of Nottingham, just not the robin hood one, lol) Oh sooo excited! I reading up on the little i can find on her and I'm already getting ideas on how to play her!! ooooooooooooooo!

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Faires I will be at this year:

[link] Bay Area Renaissance Festival: (Tampa Bay, FL) March 7th or 8th, 2009 (not sure which day I'll go)

[link] Janesville Renfaire: (Janesville, WI) May 16th and 17th, 2009.

[link] Bristol Renaissance Faire: (Kenosha, WI) July 4th - September 7th, 2009 (though I will only be there Saturdays for the most part.)

[link] Stronghold's Olde English Faire: (Oregon, IL) October 2009. (date not set yet) probably october 3-4th.

Her Madjesty's Winter Renaissance Festival: (Madison, WI) Date not set yet, hopefully we'll see a second year of this one!! (December 2009)




PROJECTS IN PROCESS

Commissions:

*Cait-Shoxxi-Stock's self plushie - 90% On Hold

Contest Prizes:

~Chroias's contest prize, full metal alchemist plushie - 85% On hold

Costume Work:

Red and Brown court gown - 100%
Michelle's Blue court gown - 75%
Colin's court garb - 100%
Colin's Dark Jedi/Sith Costume - 100%




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So my friend Kat, Lady Mary Radcliffe of the Guilde of St George, lent me her farthingale that another cast member made for her so I could see how it should look. I decided not to use a pattern (so naughty!) even though I've never made one before...but the more I cut out my pieces..the less intimidating it feels. Lets hope I don't jinx myself!!

So far I have all my pieces cut out. I needed seven panels cut into triangular like shapes, as seen below, the waist band (which is actually two waist bands, one for most of the skirt and one for the front panel so the buttons work), and long long strips of fabric (i cut two @ 4 yards each, which will probably be too much) for the box pleating at the bottom of the farthingale.



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Faires I will be at this year:

[link] Bay Area Renaissance Festival: (Tampa Bay, FL) March 7th or 8th, 2009 (not sure which day I'll go)

[link] Janesville Renfaire: (Janesville, WI) May 16th and 17th, 2009.

[link] Bristol Renaissance Faire: (Kenosha, WI) July 4th - September 7th, 2009 (though I will only be there Saturdays for the most part.)

[link] Stronghold's Olde English Faire: (Oregon, IL) October 2009. (date not set yet) probably october 3-4th.

Her Madjesty's Winter Renaissance Festival: (Madison, WI) Date not set yet, hopefully we'll see a second year of this one!! (December 2009)




PROJECTS IN PROCESS

Commissions:

*Cait-Shoxxi-Stock's self plushie - 90% On Hold

Contest Prizes:

~Chroias's contest prize, full metal alchemist plushie - 85% On hold

Costume Work:

Red and Brown court gown - 100%
Michelle's Blue court gown - 75%
Colin's court garb - 100%
Colin's Dark Jedi/Sith Costume - 100%




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So the next Renaissance Faire that I will be attending is in Tampa Bay, FL in March and then Janesville, WI in May..and i'm not 100% sure i'll be at the FL one...but I will be starting a lot of workshops/meetings for the Guilde of St George, starting this month, jan 25th.

I spoke with my Guild master and based on my dress and the fact that I'm new, they are hoping to make me a Knight's wife, and assign me to a baroness or countess/wife of an earl that i can follow around and be her companion (but NOT servent). (btw on total random tangent, there isn't a word for a female earl in english...so they just use countess.) But back to Bristol, I'm totally psyched. I really didn't want to start out as a worker of the house, so even to be a knights wife is..jifjasl;gjioagjaoi! so excited! I think it will be a really great way for me to adjust, and then in a few years when i change characters and dresses i can get bumped up.

So they are going to look for someone for me to portray and I can also look myself. I'm looking through what I can get of Wives and Daughers: Women of Sixteenth century England by Kathy Lynn Emerson on the net until my copy comes in at my local bookstore. I could probably find the whole book online...but I like actual books...they are more portable.

In the meantime, until I can start fixing my garb for bristol, I've been making a small riding hat and a french hood to sell to RavenWorks here in Madison, WI as Raven requested of me so nicely. And also doing a little work on Michelle's costume to fix some of the things I didn't like about it...over the next few weeks I should have some more things to post.

Faires I will be at this year:

[link] Bay Area Renaissance Festival: (Tampa Bay, FL) March 7th or 8th, 2009 (not sure which day I'll go)

[link] Janesville Renfaire: (Janesville, WI) May 16th and 17th, 2009.

[link] Bristol Renaissance Faire: (Kenosha, WI) July 4th - September 7th, 2009 (though I will only be there Saturdays for the most part.)

[link] Stronghold's Olde English Faire: (Oregon, IL) October 2009. (date not set yet) probably october 3-4th.

Her Madjesty's Winter Renaissance Festival: (Madison, WI) Date not set yet, hopefully we'll see a second year of this one!! (December 2009)




PROJECTS IN PROCESS

Commissions:

*Cait-Shoxxi-Stock's self plushie - 90% On Hold

Contest Prizes:

~Chroias's contest prize, full metal alchemist plushie - 85% On hold

Costume Work:

Red and Brown court gown - 100%
Michelle's Blue court gown - 75%
Colin's court garb - 100%
Colin's Dark Jedi/Sith Costume - 100%




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