More laurel thoughts

Well, I am surprised by the number of people who actually read my blog. I have gotten some responses to the message I posted a couple days ago. I have been thinking a lot about what I am going to do now. I think I have determined that I am both a goal oriented person and somewhat competitive (stop laughing). I was viewing the Laurel as a goal without really looked past it. I had never thought about what I would do with it. I know it frightened me a bit to get placed into something I had not really thought through. I thought I had time. I am not going to jump into anything new now until I see how the land lays. I am still really hazy on what Laurels do that is different from what I have been doing anyway. Generally I am feeling much better about the whole thing. I am actually kind of excited about it now. Yeah, it has taken me almost a month to accept that it really happened and stop sweating about it.

I can still find smaller goals, like the A&S display at Pennsic, K&Q A&S championships and Athena's Thimble categories. I still want to increase my level in some of the embroidery categories. Sometimes it is hard to come up with projects which are useful to my personna. I suppose it is not critical that I can use the items. I can always give them to people that can.

One thing this will do is give me the incentive to upgrade my wardrobe. I have a few pieces that are pretty loose in their interpretations of anything anybody would have ever worn anywhere. So clothing laurels need to look the part. That means I need to get some new fabric and make more clothes, right? Any excuse to buy more fabric and make clothes, and this is even kind of legitimate. Now if I could just find a loose gown from the 16th C that is cut low enough in the front to show the lace smock I am making. I am getting a little lazy about the whole corset thing, but really love the late period accessories. I can also get to work on that swedish gown, and the wool pleated gown from Herjolfnes. Oh yeah, lots to do.