I snagged this from attack-laurel . She wrote it. It's mostly SCA related, so may be boring for those not of the medieval persuasion.
1. What is your SCA name? (You don't have to write the full name, just your first name if you want.) It's Leofwynne le glasyer, which is a man's name, I found out later, after the heralds at Pennsic told me it was perfectly fine for a woman. It didn't pass Laurel, though, because of the spelling. I'll get around to futzing with it one of these days. BTW, it's pronounced LEFF-win, or Leff-WIN-a.
2. What is your home kingdom? Atlantia
3. Have you ever lived in another kingdom? If so, where? Yes, I lived in both Trimaris and Aethelmarc, but neither as an SCA member.
4. Do you remember your first SCA event? When/what was it? Yep, it was Caer Mear's Kingdom Twelfth Night held at the Scottish Rite temple in RIchmond. I think that was January 2000.
5. Do you have any awards? (You don't have to list them if you don't want) Yes, I have a few. Go here .
6. Do you list them after your name in communications like e-mail? Uh, no. I thought about it when I got my Pearl, but it felt....weird. Sometimes I use the THL (The Honorable Lady) that comes with my Pearl, but not always. I have mundane credentials I write after my name in my Real Life, so I have enough alphabet soup on a daily basis.
7. Do you have a device? Yes, per pale, sable and vert, on a lozenge argent, a chess knight sable. Basically, black on one half, green on the other, a white diamond in the middle with a black knight chess piece on the diamond.
8. Do you use it? On what? Balynar has a favor with it that he wears on his knight's belt, and I am in the process of making a banner for myself out of heavy polyester for use in our pavilion. I know poly is not period, but it holds up really well, and banner-making is not as much fun as I'd hoped.
9. Are you on all the kingdom/society lists available to you, or do you avoid them? I'm on one kingdom list (which I unsub from when it gets into too much drama), and I'm on one kingdom order list.
10. Do you keep your Pennsic/Estrella/Gulf Wars/etc. site tokens? Yep! I don't make them into jewelery, though. Just keep them for memories.
11. Do you keep the favours you've been given by royalty/friends/SOs, etc.? Do You wear them all? I have most all the favors and tokens given to me. I will wear one or two, on occasion. I still wear a thistle pin that Duchess Padraigin gave me years ago when she was first a Princess.
12. Do you call your friends by their SCA names even when you're not at an event? Actually, yes. Some people just ARE their SCA name to me, so if I call you by your SCA name outside of the SCA and it bugs you, please let me know.
13. Do you go out to dinner in garb after an event? I've done it, mostly when I first started, but now I think it's a dorky thing to do.
14. Do you have all kinds of garb, or do you generally stick to one period? I love garb from a lot of periods, but I have mostly been wearing 12th-14th century gowns. They're easy to wear, flattering to me, and comfortable when pregnant, toting kids, or extremely hot. I do plan on making myself a Venetian gown one of these days, though. And maybe another Elizabethan.
15. How many interests do you have within the SCA? What's your favourite? Well, I blame the SCA for my ADcraftD. I started with dancing, waaay back in 1999, and then I got a look at the clothes, thus starting my foray into costuming. THEN I discovered other fiber arts: spinning, weaving, knitting...and THEN came my ultimate downfall -- GLASS. Within that, I started with stained/painted/leaded glass and moved on to flameworking and glass fusing. It's a slippery slope. There are plenty of other things I am interested in, but I don't have enough time to explore them all.
16. Do you have an SCA-oriented web site (to show off projects, keep dress diaries, etc.)? Just this site. I mean to put up another site of just my work, but so far, only my Typepad blog.
17. Do you maintain a hairstyle that is more period style than modern? How about any other part of your appearance? No, I tend to keep my hair long for ease of styling at events, but nothing else really.
18. Do you tell "No $###, there I was" stories? (Admit it.) Do any of them involve well-known SCA people? Sure! Although comparatively speaking, I have not been in the SCA long, and so do not have quite the repertoire of stories as, say, my husband and my king do.
19. Authenticity is Fun. Yes or no? Why? Yes. It's fun to try to get as close to the "way it was done in period" as possible, and to be creative in coming up with ways to cover/hide/alter the appearance of so many modern items. I will say, however, that I am no Authenticity Nazi, and while I try very hard to be as unobtrusive as possible, sometimes I fail. Like when I take my infant to an event. It's difficult to cover everything, so I try to keep my mundane baby gear at least as out of sight as possible. No, I don't really have time to make a cute castle cover for my pack'n play. And Wren will likely NOT give up her pacifier all day at an event. I just try to have large cuts of fabric I can hide stuff with.
20. Is there one modern thing at events that really bugs you? Bag chairs out in the open bug me. Sunglasses in court, soda cans, fast food wrappers....I really hate coming upon a pavilion that contains many fighters and there is a random scattering of plastic water bottle detritus all over the pavilion. Get a mug.
Oh yeah, I hate seeing people who are not new wearing jeans and sneakers under a tunic.
Bonus Question! 21. Everyone has a shameful garb/accessory mistake hidden somewhere in their past. What's yours? (We're all friends here, we promise not to laugh. Much.) Some of my mistakes are still in my closet. Nothing's TOO bad, but there are definitely some bodice-based gowns that I would not wear again, and at least one "cotehardie" with princess seams.
Thanks, Isobel! That was fun!
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In other news, I completed a few sewing projects. My favorite thus far has to be the fabric bowl I made from this McCall's pattern:

I need to add a bit of trim to the edge of the one I made, so I'll post a pic as soon as I can. It's cute, and I want to make more.
I think I feel more balanced when I spend time being creative every day. Aside from this writing, I haven't done a creative thing this evening, and I was hoping for some time to plan my next sewing project, but I think I may miss that tonight in favor of sleep. I did notice I ate a whole lot less yesterday evening (and wasn't hungry), and I spent several hours between 2:30pm and 11:00pm in my sewing room. I also felt more relaxed. I'm not big on public declarations of resolutions, but one of mine is to reconnect with my creative self on a daily basis as a way to center and ground myself. I need that. Dance used to fill it without my even thinking about it, but now, I think I can find a similar centering in sewing/working with the materials of my various arts.
I know I had more to say earlier, but now I just need to go to bed. I'll write more tomorrow.
***UPDATE*** I remembered what it was I was going to say....I got my scores back from the Miller Analogies Test I took in December.....it's for grad school entrance....
I scored a 474 out of a possible 600. It's a scaled score, and the percentiles were 99 for both my intended major and for the test-taking group at large.
Ninety-nine percent of all the test-takers scored lower than I did. I'm pretty proud, and I think I did well.
We'll be at Interbaronial Twelfth Night this Saturday. I guess I should make Wren a gown!