University Recap

16. June 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Events, Fighting, Website · Tags: , , , , ,

I had a fabulous time at June University this past weekend.  I got to spend some time fighting C&T pickups with Giacomo, enjoyed Isobel, Robert, and Lisette’s furniture class, and my dueling class went rather well.

It was really rather hot on Saturday but I didn’t really feel hot.  I felt warm but comfortable while I was fighting which I found a little surprising considering how hot I felt fighting at Coronation which was about the same temperature.  I think the main difference was the amount of water I drank.  I drank an insane about of water before and during University and I followed that up with a bunch of water on Sunday.

The library seemed very well attended and there were a ton of books.  I was quite impressed by the work that was put into making it happen.

My class went rather well.  I had a bunch of students and the day shade that the group had provided for our class was quite comfortable and had plenty of space.  As soon as I format my citations I’ll be putting the handout up on my site so it will be available to anyone who was unable to attend the class.

Housekeeping & Feedback

09. March 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Website

I’ve been doing a lot of housekeeping tasks for the blog this week.  In addition to updating my version of wordpress I’ve also gone through and updated my plugin versions, gotten rid of some plugins that just weren’t working out, and added some new ones that I think might help improve the blog.

While I was working on the updates I thought this would also be a great time to get some feedback from you, my readers.  I’d like to hear what it is you really enjoy reading about here on the blog and what you would like to see more of.  I’ve put together a brief poll to help with that and I would really appreciate it if you guys could spare a few minutes to tell me what you think.  If you don’t want to participate in the poll or have information you would like to share in addition to the poll please feel free to leave a comment on this post.  I always love to hear from  you all.

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Establishing a Schedule

06. November 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Website · Tags:

As many of you know issues with my webhost in June precipitated me having to move my site to a new host and rebuild it. Part of rebuilding it was reestablishing and rebuilding this blog. I had thought I had lost many of my favorite old posts but thankfully I found backups that I had of them in early September and I was able to put them back up.

I spent a lot of July, August, and early Sept playing around with the site, tweaking things, and trying out different formats for this blog. To be honest I still continue to tweak (because really, when are any of us ever finished tweaking our sites and blogs?) but I finally feel like I have everything back the way I want it.

Almost.

While I’ve been setting things back up and tweaking here and there I’ve never stopped to establish a personal blogging schedule which is something I’d really like to do. So I’ve decided that next week I will be posting every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. On Mondays I will post about a topic related to fashion or culture, Wednesday’s will be the latest installment in my Silver manual, and Fridays I’ll either post about a fencing related topic, an HMA related topic, or a topic outside of Elizabethan England but still within the Early Modern time period. At the end of each month I’ll post about the status of my ongoing projects. As time progresses I will probably add in more days to the schedule but for now I think this will work well. I’ll also still be posting my thoughts on events, most likely working them in on off days.

I hope you will all like the addition of a little organization to this blog. I’m really excited about it.

Website Updates

29. October 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Website · Tags: , , ,

Yesterday I spent sometime updating my website:

Reorganizing:

One of the big things that I did was reorganize the menu at the top of the page. I’ve removed the Weekly Inspiration feature. It wasn’t really working with the site the way I wanted it to and I think it would work better as a blog feature anyway. I also reorganized the menu items so that my hand sewing and embroidery projects are now under the clothing section.

New additions:

On the A&S 50 page I’ve added links to all the projects I could. I’ve also added two new modules: one displaying my 3 most recent blog posts and one listing the projects I plan to accomplish during my PerCoFiMo.

PerCoFiMo:

As I mentioned in an earlier article I have be thinking about declaring a personal costume finishing month to help motivate me to finish up several sewing projects that had been on the back burner. We’ll I’ve decided that November with be that month and I’ll be keeping a list on my website of the projects I’ll be working on which ones have or have not been finished. While I won’t be able to finish my jacket in one month I do think I can finish the sleeve I’m currently working on and all the gores. I may even be able to make some good progress on the second sleeve which would be awesome. (The monthly status post for the jacket project will, of course, be coming on the 31st.)

Tonight I’ll be working on the next Silver installment. It should be up this evening or tomorrow.

New Additions

23. October 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Website · Tags: , , ,

There hasn’t been alot to add this week. I’ve been working on prep for Mousehole so I haven’t had as much time to write about my projects or martial arts. I expect that will get back to normal though next week.

What I have done is add a new page for my Silver training manual. This will help keep all those posts in one place.

Elizabethan Mafia also has a facebook page now and a twitter account. Now that we’ve finally joined the 21st Century with everyone else feel free to check us out in our new locations.

New Articles Available

16. September 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Fighting, Website · Tags: , ,

My new Swetnam article, The Fight of Joseph Swetnam with Rapier and Dagger: Thrusts and Passages, and my thankfully rediscovered revision of The Footwork of Di Grassi are both now available on my website.

What once was lost….

02. September 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Fighting, Website · Tags: ,

I didn’t loose much this summer when issues with my old host caused me to very quickly have to move my site to a new host.  I lost a couple of blog posts I was rather fond of but I wasn’t too upset.  That just meant I could write about those topics again later.  I was however kinda miffed that I lost a revsion to an old article I wrote on Di Grassi’s footwork.  I thought I had made several backups that I really hadn’t.  So I was rather annoyed but chalked it up to lessons learned and swore to always have 3 backups in 3 different places.  After all, I could always revise it again and decided I’d takle that project this fall when I had less going on.

Well, last week a found a copy of my revised article sitting in my google reader as well as copies of all the old blog posts I thought I’d lost.  I plan on putting them back up sometime over the next couple of weeks and I’ll be backdating them so that they will show up in order.  Word to the wise though, keep several backups in several different places…even if you don’t think you will ever need them.  Don’t make my mistake!

Weekend Recap: New Gallery Edition

21. July 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Website · Tags: ,

I’m exceptionally pleased with myself.

I’ve replaced my old Gallery 2 gallery with a JoomGallery that is incorporated into my site and looks so much nicer than the old one. Those of you who are actually good with computers with probably think this I’m very silly for being so excited but that’s ok. :) This now means that I can fully devote my attentions to finishing putting my pictures up. I’ll need to redo the few galleries I had gotten back up but I don’t really mind. I really am much happier with the look of the new gallery. The old was ok and Gallery 2 had served me well for quite many years but it just never seemed to fit with my new site layout. While having to move my site has been a bit of a pain it has been a really great catalyst for getting me off my bum and making me finish doing all the things that I had intended to do. There are no more bits of the old site cluttering up my web space and everything just looks and feels so much more integrated and cohesive.

In other news I got work done on several of my projects over the weekend. I got together with friends Friday evening and Saturday for some sewing fun. We had a blast and everyone got something done. I’ve patterned the bodice lining for my 18th Century gown and finished my pocket hoops so I can finish patterning the outer bodice and skirt. I finished futzing with the layout of the embroidery design for my jacket however I’ve decided that I will need enlarge it after all so that I don’t have to move the pattern around when I transfer it to my fabric. So it will need to go to Kinko’s after all since I think I will need at least another repeat of the design. I should be able to get out to Kinko’s sometime this week if not this weekend so it’s not so bad. I also got some work done on the embroidery for my forehead cloth. Not a whole lot, but some and every little bit done is a little less I have left to do. :)

Progress

13. July 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Website · Tags:

Things are now, finally, pretty much back up. I’m still working on uploading pictures back into my gallery and some of my project write ups are on hold until I can get those pictures up. But I’m hoping to have finished uploading them by the end of the week so I can finally have my page back to normal.

I do have some new features to my site up and running. You can now comment on articles and projects and my Google calendar is now integrated into the site. To view my SCA activities simply click on the little blue arrow above the calendar and select “Rosalind Delamere”. You can also now subscribe to my website via RSS feed or email to receive updates on projects and new additions to the site. Just select the subscription icon at the top of the page and select your favorite method.

Now that my site is 90% back up I finally have some time to work on projects…which is pretty much how I spent my weekend.

Engines At 50%

07. July 2009 · Write a comment · Categories: Website · Tags:

My website is now about 50% back up. My HMA articles are all back up except for my recent rewrite of my article on Di Grassi’s footwork. That is sadly lost because it wasn’t backed up like I thought it was. But it’s ok. I’m working on another Di Grassi project and I just would have ended up rewriting it again anyway.

I’m planning on getting some more work on done on it tonight so I should have my clothing and embroidery projects back up tonight or Thursday night. After that it’s just a matter fixing the background on my blog and uploading my pictures back up into my gallery. I have a lot of pictures so that’s taking a bit of time but I’m hoping to be finished with it by the end of the weekend.

Once that’s done I’ll be able to get the new pages up.

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