Changing my Coat of Arms (I hope)

I have always liked my coat of arms but have a terrible time trying to recreate it. I am not a great artist and the panther is fairly complicated to draw. I thought I would try to change to a more geometric design, so I have submitted a new device. The blazon of this new device would be Quarterly Argent and Gules a Mullet Azure. I have submitted this and will release my old arms if this one passes. I will keep the Panther badge.

Upcoming Artisans Guild Schedule

Spring 2008 Schedule for Artisans Guild:
Jan 15 Period Embroidery and Hand Sewing (Lady Eron) If you have a sewing basket or Magnifying Glass please bring to class.
Jan 22 Youth Crafts Work on Treasure Chests (Lady Teryll)
Jan 29 Crafting Time / Officers Meeting including Event Discussion (Lord Gerard)
Feb 5 Youth Fighting / Crafting Time
Feb 12 Leather Working (Lord Diego)
Feb 19 Youth Crafts type TBD
Feb 26 How to Run an Event (THL Skalla) / Officer Meeting (Lord Gerard)
Mar 4 Youth Fighting / Crafting Time
Mar 11 Ukrainian Eggs (Lady Teryll) All ages welcome
Mar 18 Youth Fighting / How to enter A&S events (Lord Diego) / Officer Meeting (Lord Gerard)
Mar 25 Arrow Making and Archery (Lord Ervon)
Apr 1 Youth Crafts TBD
Apr 8 Arrows Continued (Lord Ervon)
Apr 15 Youth Fighting / Crafting Time

Guild Night Tuesday

Last night the Artisans Guild met to determine the coming Spring Schedule of classes. Many good suggestions and ideas for classes were discussed and Teryll will put together the list with dates and publish them soon.

If I understood the gist correctly, every Tuesday night will include guild activities. One week will be all guild activity perhaps with a class. The next week will be youth combat with guild work after the fighting has ended. This way if projects are not completed or fall behind, people will have time to work on them.

After that a more general meeting broke out about what the Shire should do about the webpage and a few other issues for the next couple weeks. It was decided to talk about this again during the meeting at the revel later this month.

It was noted that this would be the Guilds first anniversary and that it had had a pretty good first year all things considered. Everyone is looking forward to an even better second year!!!

12th Night in Cynnabar

I attended 12th Night in Cynnabar this past weekend and had a wonderful time. My wife and kids attended also and had a nice time. Alex, who is not very excited going to most SCA events, said “it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be”, on the trip home. It was good to be able to touch base with people and catch up a little.

Drogo and Kayla were very gracious and allowed us to set up our stuff at their day camp in the gym (which reminds me I have to find our chair covers or make more). Stormvaler’s in attendance were Drogo, Kayla and son. My family Giovanna, Saiyuke, Bjarky and myself. Gerard, Breanna, Laura and friend, Ervon, Eron and Teryll. I did not get a chance to speak with Teryll but did get to spend time with everyone else.

With Lady Jaelith’s help I was able to convene a meeting for the Seneschal’s of Pentamere. It was sparsely attended (in fact I had more Seneschal’s show up after the meeting had ended than during). I did get the opportunity to meet Duchess Eanor and Lady Jaelith and have them explain the ins and outs of the job. I should have a good footing for this job going forward.

After theSeneschal’s discussion broke up, I headed over to the Heralds meeting. Back in the day (the mid 90’s) I did the internal submissions for the Kingdom and did some commenting for the Middle Kingdom College of Heralds. I would like to get back into doing more Heraldry so was looking for information on how the commenting process currently worked and how to get back into it. I was advised to sign up on the Middle Kingdom Heralds e-mail list and so I have done so!!

The afternoon was spent in shopping and hanging out at the Stormvale camp. Later in the day Drogo (who was arranging the guards for the royalty room) needed a guard and I thought it would be great for Bjarky (Alex) to stand a watch. Since he is only 13 and wouldn’t know what was expected I decided to stand the watch with him. Drogo promptly stranded us for 2 and half hours : ) Needing to get dinner we snagged Ervon, Gerard and Saiyuke to relieve us from guard duty so we could grab something to eat.

I ended up running out and picking up food for most of Stormvale and due to a wrong turn ended up getting back with barely any time to eat before Court would start, so many of us ended up sneaking into Court after it had started. After Court was over it was time to make our goodbyes and head home.