HERB - Fwd: A&S Tourney Help?

[Sara Bairrington]

May I suggest she harvest small twigs from her garden and have a "Name that 
Herb" Contest.

Ulrike

At 11:10 AM 12/27/00, you wrote:
>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?
>>X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200
>>
>>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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