Renaissance Festival

[pegkerr]

We are off to the Minnesota Ren Festival momentarily.

Delia's comment as I laced up the corset of my costume:

"Wow. I would double-knot it."

Thanks again to minnehaha B. and K. for the tickets! We'll get rained on, but we'll have fun.

Comments

[misia.livejournal.com]

Always double-knot your corset strings, I say. Makes it harder for the lads to undo them.

[jbru.livejournal.com]

But, but, that means it will also be harder to get out of it when one wants the lad to undo them.

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

*grins*

this makes me think of the time I was taught how to properly lace up a corset or bodice for maximum support and structural integrity.

[volkhvoi.livejournal.com]

Can you tell us how?

[liadan-m.livejournal.com]

it's what's refered to as a "spiral" or a "double spiral". Basicly, think of your garment as having an "inside" and an "outside". If you come up from the inside to the outside, that string goes from the outside to the inside on the next hole. Eventually, you can see the spiral...the lacing is wraping around your central seam. You never want to do shoelace-style, where the lacing always comes from the inside. That breaks your central axis by crossing it, and it pulls the fabric oddly, making wrinkles, or making them more noticeable. It is also easier to tighten the spiral style, again because of the axis thing.

[callunav.livejournal.com]

This is very useful, thank you!

(I remember a friend of a friend explaining the four ways she could lace her bodice:

1. Hello. My name is Jane.
2. Hello. My name is Jane, and these are my breasts.
3. Hello. These are my breasts, and my name is Jane.
4. Hello. These are my breasts, and I have a name!)

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

Photos! photos!

We had hoped to go over Labor Day weekend, but it was so wet and rainy, we opted for just hanging out downtown Minneapolis eating Thai food and window shopping.

Hope you have lots of fun!!

[vierran45.livejournal.com]

Children can give such compliments :). My sister's 3 year old just commented, when they were visiting my sister's friend and her new baby, that "my granny has real wrinkles" in a proud tone of voice (my mother is 62, and her skin type is such that she doesn't really have that many wrinkles...).

[callunav.livejournal.com]

A good friend of mine was playing in her livingroom, at a young age, while her parents and her aunt got ready to go out for dinner. When her aunt came out of the bathroom after putting on her makeup, my friend (apparently) looked up and said, with complete sincerity, "Oh, Aunt [name], you look beautiful! You look just like a clown!"

[http://users.livejournal.com/anam_cara_/]

When I was a young one, and the movie E.T. came out, I bawled so hard I had to be taken out of the theater... and became completely enamored with all things E.T. (birthday cake, sweatshirt, plastic candy containers...)

Given that I *LOVED* E.T. and thought he was the most adorable creature ever- I didn't think I was amiss in commenting at Thanksgiving dinner that my new baby cousin was a cutie- he had huge blue eyes and reminded me of, of course, E.T. My aunt was so taken aback at being told her firstborn looked like E.T. that she cried. Everyone was angry at me, and I recall being terribly confused by the uproar.

I was eventually forgiven :P

[amethistdolphin.livejournal.com]

Oh oh we dont have things like that here!!! Pictures??? Pwease???

[splagxna.livejournal.com]

i am adding my voice to the chorus requesting pictures...!

[aome.livejournal.com]

Wah! This is the second RenFaire trip I've read about on my flist today. I miss it! Feel like it would just be more hassle than it would be worth until the girls get a smidgen older (esp since our closest faire is still a good 90 mins away). Any chance for in-costume pics? :D

[king-tirian.livejournal.com]

This seems like the first panel of a calvin and Hobbes strip. What it needs to make it complete is the defiant retort Delia made from her bedroom as you left for the Ren Faire without her. :)

(And I am reminded of the French woman who attempted to charm me by telling me that I was every bit as funny as Jerry Lewis.)

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Well, thanks to Steve Brust and Paul Regge...but I'll accept in their names.

B