[Ansteorra] Fun, Fiber & Fire at Runs with Scissors/Plays with Fire with Kingdom Eisteddfod - Shadowlands, January 18th

[Nina of the Lost Caverns]

Greeting from the Shire of Shadowlands,

Runs with Scissors/Plays with Fire with Kingdom Eisteddfod is rapidly approaching on January 18th.  It will be a day filled with Fiber and Classes and Contests.  For the bards and the lovers of their art, Kingdom Eisteddfod will please the ears. A War Practice will please those with marshal interests.  In the evening, there will be a pot-luck dinner, with a Ball following. So with all of this fun, who would want to miss this event.

Accepts (http://acceps.ansteorra.org/index.php) will be only be open for the next 4-1/2 days (through Monday, January 13th) and offers a discount for registration off of the at the door price.  So get you to your digital secretary to make your arrangements.

Classes:
- Whipcording
- Fingerloop Braiding
- Sprang
- Rigid Heddle Weaving
- Bobbin Lace
- 5 Basic Embroidery Stitches
- Nalbinding
- Venetian Vision
- Vikng Wire Weaving
- Bodking Making
- Beginning Lampworking
- Kitchen Dyeing
- Class on Copper enameling

Competitions:
- Speed Weaving Competition
- Twining Race
- Siege cooking Competition
- Bransle-off Dance Competition

The site for all of this is the Son's of Herman Hall in Deanville, TX which is a couple of miles off of Hwy 21 between Austin and College Station, TX.  To get there, make your best way to TX Highway 21 @ Farm to Market Road (FM)60 (~8.0 miles west of TX Highway 36 in Caldwell, ~15.1 miles east of U.S. Highway 77). Turn SOUTH on FM 60 and go ~2.4 miles to FM 111. Turn right on FM 111 and go ~0.5 mile. Site will be on your left.

Please see the website at: http://shadowlands.ansteorra.org/event/ for more details.  Contact the Stewards with any questions: Mistress Nina of the Lost Caverns, nina at oakenstaff.org, 435-770-3940 and Lady Morina O Donnabhain, elwenaduialloth at yahoo.com.