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Mar. 7th, 2004 11:17 pmI spent most of the weekend at the An Tir Arts and Sciences Competition. I went because aelfgyfu was competing; she displayed all sorts of different pieces including a stunning (though sadly lacking in bronze) Byzantine polycandelon. It's a sort of lamp or chandelier made of glass cones filled with water and oil, which hang in a circle. (Since aelfgyfu is about to graduate and become either a starving artist or a starving grad student, I should remark that such reproduction medieval wonders are available to you, too, O Reader, for a reasonable price.) And aelfgyfu won! and is now the Kingdom Arts and Sciences Champion, which comes with impressive regalia and an obligation to travel.
Meanwhile, I finished embroidering the pair of Tudor socks I've been working on off and on for ages, and gave them toaelfgyfu to whom they had been promised, and glasseye and I were frighteningly cute, and I threatened to make nobu medieval hats. I also found myself strangely non-invisible; my Barony's Arts and Sciences Minister asked me if I'd consider her job (I said, "Eek! Ask me after prelims!") and aelfgyfu half-informed me that I am competing in Kingdom A&S next year. (I could probably make a creditable showing, especially if I counted translation as an art, or forgot the aforementioned prelims; I think I'd have to learn to spin or make ink to compete, though.)
aelfgyfu was competing; she displayed all sorts of different pieces including a stunning (though sadly lacking in bronze) Byzantine polycandelon. It's a sort of lamp or chandelier made of glass cones filled with water and oil, which hang in a circle. (Since aelfgyfu is about to graduate and become either a starving artist or a starving grad student, I should remark that such reproduction medieval wonders are available to you, too, O Reader, for a reasonable price.) And aelfgyfu won! and is now the Kingdom Arts and Sciences Champion, which comes with impressive regalia and an obligation to travel.Meanwhile, I finished embroidering the pair of Tudor socks I've been working on off and on for ages, and gave them to
aelfgyfu to whom they had been promised, and glasseye and I were frighteningly cute, and I threatened to make nobu medieval hats. I also found myself strangely non-invisible; my Barony's Arts and Sciences Minister asked me if I'd consider her job (I said, "Eek! Ask me after prelims!") and aelfgyfu half-informed me that I am competing in Kingdom A&S next year. (I could probably make a creditable showing, especially if I counted translation as an art, or forgot the aforementioned prelims; I think I'd have to learn to spin or make ink to compete, though.)