HERB - Fwd: A&S Tourney Help?

[Amy L. Hornburg Heilveil]

Hello, List!
This lady has requested help in ideas for a baronial a&s tourney....she 
says she has an herb garden and would like to do something with it for the 
tourney.  I thought that perhaps the list would have ideas and helpful 
suggestions for her?  She is not subscribed to this list (I believe) so I 
left her email intact for people to mail her.

Trying to help,
Despina

>Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2000 21:07:47 -0600
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>From: Isabeau-Sophea <isabeau at guamcell.net>
>To: SCA-ARTS at UKANS.EDU
>Subject: A&S Tourney Help?
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>
>Greetings all! Hope fervently that your Holidays are going well!
>
>Now for my query... there's a Baronial A&S Tourney coming up in April. I'd 
>like to try my hand at gaining the Coronet. It's 5 categories, and heavy 
>on documentation. It also must be able to travel, as I will likely have to 
>take a military hop. I have very few period skills...I can do cross-stitch 
>& blackwork, and some small bit of woodworking. I am wondering if anyone 
>has any ideas, or point me in the right direction? I dance & sing well 
>enough..but by myself(it is a VERY small, wide-spread Barony)..I feel that 
>would set me back.
>
>I have 2 ideas- one of which was suggested to me by a kind Lady I found on 
>an unrelated chat..I apologise, but her SCA name escapes me. She suggested 
>blackwork/Elizabethan garb- and I can do that! I'd actually like to stay 
>more in my favored time period, though (12-13c), as I feel that garb of 
>that period can be made just as beautiful as Elizabethan/Tudor. I'm very 
>excited about it now. Where can I (I am on Guam... access to books is 
>limited) find documentation to work from? Is online documentation acceptable?
>
>The other idea I have is related to herbs..I am still searching for an 
>actual project, but I have an herb garden and feel that my plants are 
>worthy of such a fun endeavor.
>
>I'd like to find some very nice documentation first, and then work from 
>that point. Does that make sense? Rather than to make something and then 
>try & find documentation for it, that is.
>
>Also, having found a few people's thoughts on A&S Competitions, I know 
>that display is very key. If I am to use garb, and I have no dressmaker's 
>dummy, how best to display it? I am allowed 2 small peices of luggage(less 
>than 75lbs). Is there a type of dummy that can be broken down to fit into 
>a small duffel?
>
>Thank you all so very much for this forum. It is wonderfully appreciated.
>
>Isabeau-Sophea
>Stronghold of World's Edge
>Barony of the Far West
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