Year In Review

Monday, November 12, 2007, 03:10 PM EST [General]

This is long over due, yet the weeks following the official End of Faire season are especially hectic and I find it takes some time to get my head and thoughts together enough to write...

So let us begin...January 2007. The year began with a trip to the Washington mall For the SCA demo. Meeting up with Lady K, scarlett and Morwyn and many others we got our first taste of Faire season for 2007.

It was a nice time, just being in garb, even though it was quite snowy, and very cold even in Side the mall.

March/April 2007. I join Renspace. A new site to play and meet people. I connect, and reconnect with so many people form my home faires of GLMF and Pittsburgh, as well as lond time...associates from the renaissancefestival.com.

A place to share pictures and e-mail back and forth. Great idea and alot of fun...

May: Scarlett, Morwyn, Syrac and I "crash" the SCA War Practice. (see Blog) Not sure what we were expecting, but it was good fun, being in Garb and tailgating....And establishng Scarlett and Morwynn as, Syrac and mine official counterparts.

June: Fairey Festival. The official Kick off to the season. WE met so many people at this faire. A small faire, yet a chance to resestablish old relationships and make new ones. See all the familiar faces...a Pittsburgh reunion and a prelude to GLMF since do many people from there came to Fairey fest From ohio to visit.(O'rourke, and Dave, Beer Blessings, and especially Mat and Tracy, and Barb)

July-August: Great Lakes Medival Faire. The Great, grand daddy of all Faires. I missed one weekend. The most amazing Faire, people and friends...The friendships I established I will treasure always....

August-Sept: Pittsburgh re-opens, after a year off Moreland shire opens her gates (new ones)once again. Made more special by the constant influx of friends who visitied every week.

Sept: We interupt Pittsburgh Faire to spend a Day at the Ohio Renaissance Faire. A Renaissancefestival.com invasion. Such a great time meeting people whom I have taked to online for years yet never met face to face....A very special Day for me personally as well.

September cont: Pittsburgh ends, and the new festival has some bugs to work out. The old magic and energy is somehow lost. I do hope next year we are able to recoupe some of it. Still I am gratefull to have our faire back.

October: Tradionally Syrac and I finish off our season with a Trip to PARF. This year we broke tradtion and embarked on a new adventure to Maryland. And what a way to finish the season. An absolutly amazing and beautiful faire. Such energy and friends from pittburgh and Great Lakes and new friends met right there in MD presented an amzing time. Truely the most amazing way to finish the Faire season.

So now it is over, and WE hunker down for a long winters nap. I am thank ful that I have renaissancefestival.com and now renspace.com to keep me warm and cozy these winter months, as I live vicariously through "family" from the southern faires.

Next year I will be hopefully be adding Tennessee to our repetoire, and possibly Virginia as they are early faires and will help get me through the spring months.

Fair well all and A Blessed Holiday to one and all...

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Opening Weekend GLMF

Friday, July 13, 2007, 09:40 AM EST [General]

I know, I know...This is about 4 days late, and I apologize for that. I have just been speechless as how to put into words what it meant to me. I feel that I will not do it justice.

Opening weekend this year was just ...overwhelming. It was amazing to be reunited with these people. A True Family reunion.

I could go on and on and on with people that I have met and have come to know throughthis faire. GLMF is home. I go to this faire and I am instantly comfortable. I go to this faire by myself yet am never alone.

Everyone was there this weekend. New friends and old friends alike. It was like a class reunion...Only, unlike, High School everyone is briliant and warm and wonderful to be around.

I overindulged. Yet it wasn't just the ale..well some of it was...but it was just a Euphoria that took over when I was there. One person commented that I just had this glazed look on my face all day. Well that was pure joy at being back at Faire and reunited with my friends...my family.