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Kingdom of Meridies, Meridian Grand Tournament, Misc., Photos, SCA, SCA - Heavy Fighting, SCA Events

Meridian Grand Tournament – 09.2017 – photos are online! :D

2017/10/04

We are back from another awesome SCA event – the Meridian Grand Tournament! Like in the years before, we had a terrific time. I got to watch my husband fight in several tournaments as well as in the grand final tournament. We got to hang out with dear “old” friends and new friends which we just met. Yeah, my sweetheart and I enjoyed ourselves tremendously. And what makes this already amazing day even better is that Our beloved Majesties decided to bestow a “Grant of Arms” upon me during court.

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Kingdom of Meridies, Meridian Crown Tournament, Misc., Photos, SCA, SCA - Heavy Fighting, SCA Events

Meridian Spring Crown Tournament 2017 – photos are online! :D

2017/05/31

The last days I not only worked on getting rid of the Spring Crown Tournament aftermath at home. I also worked my way through all the photos I took during the tournament. And here are some of my personal favorites: From afar as well as from up close is this pavilion set up quite impressive – all these banners, the tapestries in the background… *sigh* I really love this set up. But I am not quite sure to whom this pavilion, the tapestries and all the banners belong. However, this doesn’t dampen the great inspiration it provides for the future…

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Border Raids, Kingdom of Meridies, Misc., Photos, SCA, SCA - Heavy Fighting, SCA Events

Border Raids 2017 – photos are online… :)

2017/05/31

After getting rid of most of the Crown Tournament aftermath at home, I finally found the time to pick my most favorite picture taken at Border Raids in Tennessee two weeks ago: The Baron & Baroness of the Barony of Glaedenfeld are not only very handsome, they are also very nice and gentle. And they are definitely one of my favorite couples within the SCA. Yeah, I can’t help it, I am a helpless romantic… 🙂

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12th century crusader kit, 12th century projects, 12th century sideless fighting surcote / tunic, Blog - Racaire's Embroidery & Needlework, Kingdom of Meridies, Misc., Photos, Projects, Racaire, SCA, SCA - Heavy Fighting, sideless fighting surcote / tunic

Racaire is now also on Instagram… :D

2017/05/24

Yes, it’s true, now you can find me on Instagram too! And after taking a look at my rather new account, I just can’t believe how many pics I already posted there… *lol* One morning I woke up and simply decided to go with the time which meant to embrace yet another app. And to my utter amazement Instagram seems to be quite amusing despite its simplicity. Or maybe it’s just so nice to handle because it is such a rather simple app…

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10th to 15th century - medieval islamic inspired embroidery, Applique, Bayeux Stitch, Embroidery, Embroidery Patterns, Gulf Wars, Hand-Sewing, Islamic, Islamic laid and couched work, Kingdom of Meridies, Materials, Medieval Embroidery, OvO - Order of the velvet Owl - pouch, Projects, Refilsaum, SCA, SCA Events, Surface Couching, Wool-Silk Thread

my super secret project revealed: OvO pouch with medieval islamic inspired embroidery

2017/05/03

And finally a picture of the OvO pouch with the medieval islamic inspired embroidery which I put together for Gloria, my awesome mother-in-law. (OvO -> Order of the velvet Owl, Kingdom of Meridies, SCA) Yeah, this quite special piece of medieval islamic inspired embroidery was the super secret project on which I was working on from the first day of January until our favorite SCA event – Gulf Wars – in March. And at Gulf Wars Gloria finally got introduced into the Order of the velvet Owl. Just right before the knighting ceremony of her son, my dear husband. And not a moment too soon as keeping this project secret was killing me… 😉

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12th century knighting scroll, Calligraphy, Inspiration for Scrolls - 12th century, Kingdom of Meridies, SCA, Scriptorium, Scroll Peerage - Knighting, Vigil book pages

Scriptorium – my 12th century inspired knighting scroll & vigil book page for my husband :)

2017/04/20

And finally – last but not least – the 12th century inspired knighting scroll and vigil book page which I made for my husband’s knighting at Gulf Wars! Well, as you might already know, I consider the 12th century the one “true century”. However, I have to admit that I awfully neglected my beloved century when it comes to calligraphy and scrolls. Therefore I made the creation of his 12th century knighting scroll my very personal mission. And yes, I even learned two new styles for it. 😀

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Glaedenfeld's Iris Faire, Kingdom of Meridies, Misc., Photos, SCA, SCA Events

Glaedenfeld’s Iris Faire 2017 – The Crumbs of War – photos are online… :D

2017/04/16

Wooohoooo! My photos taken at the most recent SCA event “Glaedenfeld‘s Iris Faire 2017 – The Crumbs of War” are online! 😀 Glaedenfeld‘s Iris Faire has always been a great SCA event. And also this year my husband and I enjoyed ourselves tremendously. He participated in a lot of good heavy fighting on this day and he even won one of the tournaments. 🙂

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Coronation, Kingdom of Meridies, Kings Champion, Misc. Scrolls, Projects, SCA, SCA Events, Scriptorium, Scrolls for Tournaments

Scriptorium – my Kings Champion scroll for coronation :)

2017/04/11

…and finally a picture of the Kings Champion “scroll” which His Majesty Bryce commissioned for coronation: This is the second “viking scroll”, as I call them, which I made so far. …and apropos second “viking scroll” – maybe you remember my very first “viking scroll” for Kail’s knighting. Ok, I admit that Kail’s knighting scroll turned out so much better than I initially thought but I am still quite surprised about the fact that I was commissioned with not only one but two “viking scrolls” till now. *lol* I really can’t repeat it often enough – this is not my field of expertise! *lol*

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Coronation, Kingdom of Meridies, Photos, SCA, SCA Events

Coronation of Bryce & Rhiannon – the photos are online… :D

2017/04/04

…and we are back again from another amazing SCA event: the Coronation of Bryce and Rhiannon! …and here are two of the first pictures of the new King and Queen of the Kingdom of Meridies!

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Gulf Wars, Kingdom of Meridies, Misc., Photos, Racaire, SCA, SCA - Heavy Fighting, SCA Events

Gulf Wars photos online… :D

2017/03/29

Wooohooo! My photos taken at Gulf Wars are online!

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Gulf Wars, Inspiration for Scrolls - 14th century, Kingdom of Meridies, Misc. Scrolls, Rose Tournament, SCA, SCA Events, Scriptorium, Scrolls for Tournaments

Scriptorium – scroll for the “Rose Tournament” at Gulf Wars finished! :D

2017/03/07

Wooohooo! The scroll for the “Rose Tournament” is finished! 😀 After all the recent postings about my progress concerning this project, I proudly present to you a picture of my finished scroll for the winner of the “Rose Tournament”. A tourney which will take place at the upcoming Gulf Wars event! 😀 Looking back it seems like I just started working on this scroll. However, I know just too well that I worked for about 2 weeks on it. It is really amazing how fast time can go by when you are concentrating on a project. Like the hours just flew by as i was adding paint and ink to the pergamenata. But all that really counts at…

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Calligraphy, Gulf Wars, Inspiration for Scrolls - 14th century, Kingdom of Meridies, Misc. Scrolls, Rose Tournament, SCA, SCA Events, Scriptorium, Scrolls for Tournaments

Scriptorium – working on the scroll for the “Rose Tournament” at Gulf Wars .1

2017/03/06

…and finally, after finishing the two scrolls which were on my to-do list, as well as the artwork for the vigil book for my husbands knighting, I am able to catch some breath again. And it’s definitely time to show you more of the progress that I made concerning my most recent projects. Well, at least the progress of the projects which don’t need to remain secret until they’ve reached their recipient at war… 😉 In todays posting I am going to show you an update concerning the scroll for the winner of the rose tournament, which will be held at Gulf Wars. I’ve already posted about my very first progress concerning…

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Calligraphy, Kingdom of Meridies, SCA, Scriptorium, Scroll - Order of the Argent Comet, Scroll - Order of the Argent Shield

Scriptorium – some new blank scrolls… :D

2017/02/26

And here are two new blank scrolls which I finished while preparing for the calligraphy on the “Rose Tournament” scroll for the winner of the rose tourney at Gulf Wars. At the left you can see a finished blank scroll for the “Order of the Argent Shield“. The artisan who made the lovely illumination at the bottom of the scroll unfortunately forgot to provide a name on the back. However, I believe that the illumination can be attributed to Isabella de Boyce. It’s quite a pleasure to see how nice my Batarde/Bastarda hand works with the illumination at the bottom. 🙂

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Calligraphy, Gulf Wars, Kingdom of Meridies, Misc. Scrolls, Rose Tournament, SCA, SCA Events, Scriptorium, Scroll - Order of the Cygnet, Scroll - Order of the Guiding Hand, Scrolls for Tournaments

Scriptorium – working on the scroll for the “Rose Tournament” at Gulf Wars and some new blank scrolls… :D

2017/02/21

…and now, that I got the “ok” to share my current project with you, I can spill the news and reveal what I was working on during the last days: The scroll for the “Rose Tournament” at Gulf Wars! 😀 Though being asked to provide the scroll for the winner of the “Rose Tournament” at Gulf Wars – a very prestigious and great tournament – was quite a surprise for me, I felt very honored and immediately agreed to take on this task. And knowing that some of my dear friends as well as my husband will take part in this tournament – either as fighter or inspiring “rose” (former queens within…

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Gulf Wars, Kingdom of Meridies, Misc., Racaire, SCA, SCA - Heavy Fighting, SCA Events

Gulf Wars preparation & great news for my husband… :D

2017/02/15

Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow! My husband was asked to join the order of the chivalry during court at War college in Alabama! 😀 It already happened more than a week ago but – gosch – this awesome news still seems so amazing and unreal to me. Like it is just too good to be true. And being the natural skeptic that I am, I might actually not believe it until it really happens… We will see… And… Omg! Omg! Omg! Well, sure, I hoped that this day would come eventually but when it finally happened, it completely blindsided me. I can not even imagine how surprised and excited my sweetheart was……

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