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It's been two months since my last post
May. 2nd, 2014 05:01 pmOops?
The symposium in Williamsburg was lots of fun. I met some new friends, failed to get any new pictures of my piemontaisse, and started making a calash bonnet. And it's out of the prettiest cross-barred silk, too. I need to remember to take pictures of it.
There have really only been two noteworthy events in April, the first being my birthday on the 5th. The Metropolitan Opera was performing La Bohème that afternoon, so my mom and I went up to see it. And of course that meant I needed to make a dress. I used one of Butterick's vintage patterns for a 1953 dress, with some slight alterations, and I made myself a crinoline to go under it too~
The other big event sadly fell the same weekend as Ft Fred, which meant I had to miss 18th century shopping with everyone. But! I did something sort of 18th century related?
I haven't mentioned this before, but back in December I joined the Daughters of the American Revolution. I never thought I'd actually be elegible for it, 3/4ths of my grandparents being first generation Americans, but my mom went on a big geneology kick, and low and behold through my father's mother, I could trace back to the revolution.
The reason why I say this is because the New Jersey state conference was the same weekend and I was invited to be a page, AKA a gopher, basically. I got to spend two days running around doing whatever anyone might need me to do, wearing white the whole time. Nonetheless it was fun. I'm going to be helping out next weekend at the NJ history fair at the DAR table. If anyone is free, you should come check it out, up in Washington's Crossing on the New Jersey side. The site for it is here. There are going to be a lot of different types of tables and displays there, and the food trucks sound like they'll be awesome too.
On top of all that, I've also been spending a lot of time lately at Pennsbury Manor, mostly doing school tours in the mornings. I've been averaging twice a week lately. so lots and lots of kids. Yippy. Life's been busy.
As an aside, I went onto Winterthur's site for tickets for the Downton Abbey exhibit, and they might all be sold out. There was no option for times on the 17th, which makes me very sad.
The symposium in Williamsburg was lots of fun. I met some new friends, failed to get any new pictures of my piemontaisse, and started making a calash bonnet. And it's out of the prettiest cross-barred silk, too. I need to remember to take pictures of it.
There have really only been two noteworthy events in April, the first being my birthday on the 5th. The Metropolitan Opera was performing La Bohème that afternoon, so my mom and I went up to see it. And of course that meant I needed to make a dress. I used one of Butterick's vintage patterns for a 1953 dress, with some slight alterations, and I made myself a crinoline to go under it too~
The other big event sadly fell the same weekend as Ft Fred, which meant I had to miss 18th century shopping with everyone. But! I did something sort of 18th century related?
I haven't mentioned this before, but back in December I joined the Daughters of the American Revolution. I never thought I'd actually be elegible for it, 3/4ths of my grandparents being first generation Americans, but my mom went on a big geneology kick, and low and behold through my father's mother, I could trace back to the revolution.
The reason why I say this is because the New Jersey state conference was the same weekend and I was invited to be a page, AKA a gopher, basically. I got to spend two days running around doing whatever anyone might need me to do, wearing white the whole time. Nonetheless it was fun. I'm going to be helping out next weekend at the NJ history fair at the DAR table. If anyone is free, you should come check it out, up in Washington's Crossing on the New Jersey side. The site for it is here. There are going to be a lot of different types of tables and displays there, and the food trucks sound like they'll be awesome too.
On top of all that, I've also been spending a lot of time lately at Pennsbury Manor, mostly doing school tours in the mornings. I've been averaging twice a week lately. so lots and lots of kids. Yippy. Life's been busy.
As an aside, I went onto Winterthur's site for tickets for the Downton Abbey exhibit, and they might all be sold out. There was no option for times on the 17th, which makes me very sad.
