Monday update
May. 22nd, 2006 08:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
callistotoniGoing backwards in time:
Yesterday it was all about my pavillion. Ysuelt (or Ysueld), Robert of Woodsend's wife, came over to help me design the paint job. She's painted a lot of pavillions, and they all look fabulous. We came up with a design I'm very excited about. She had a picture (ink drawing) of a late 15th C Burgundian wedge-topped pavillion that had stripes with some sort of trefoil interupting the stripes at three heights. Very easy to substitue my Cross of Toulous. We cut out some templates of crosses for size until we got stuff that looked right. My homework now is to get come colored construction paper and cut forms out from that so finalize the design on the pavillion itself. And, as I said in my previous post, I need to get a font and blow it up so we can play with the motto band. Happily Y has agreed to come over (probably on some Tues. nights) to help me. And she'll probably paint the motto. I'll be owing her work for all her help--turn about is fair play. But I'm excited about how this can look. :-)
I spent the evening cutting up possible templates and watching a Mystery series show D&A loaned me called Heat of the Sun. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. If you read Pratchett, you'll understand when I say thi0s show is kinda like what would happen if you dropped Vimes in 1930s Kenya. :-)
No sewing happened, and I'm kinda bummed about that. But the pavillion will be taking up a significant amount of my 'art' time this summer--that's just how it is.
Mists Investiture was very nice, and the feast was Faboo! Crystal strikes again--a triumph. H&O seem like they will make a very good P&P. I'm looking forward to more "romance/honor" and less partying (although I do love a good party, but I'm sure you know what I mean in this context. And deepest thanks to Cordelia who surprized me with a gift of silk organza, and stella_nordica for the St. Sebastine pincushin. You'll be glad to know that St. S has already begun to fulfill his destiny. :-)
Wore my goatface-made cothardie, with the veil made by Marguerite, and my Laurel made by aastg. I swear, the best "awards" are those we are given by our friends. :-))) I have to say, it was a new look for me. I was later to the event than I planned because I had to figure out what to do with my hair. I had a memory of what Etaine does, so I went the braid-loop route. I thought it really brought out my German ancestry. Very comfortable, though.
Funny related story: Wearing a cotehardie made me "incognito". I thought the crosses of T on my medalian and veil would identify me, but apparently not. Wilhelm didn't know who I was, up to the point were I was swearing fealty and Wilhelm, as herald, thought "Why is that lady wearing Genevieve's medalian?" . :-)
Riding has been good. I had a breakthough moment when, after about 20 min of riding last Wednesday, my outer thigh muscles *really* engaged. Oh, I thought, *this* is what it's supposed to feel like. Brandee really responded well. And Brandee is starting to get 2 training rides a week, and is getting some trail rides from her new rider (while M is preganant), so her life is pretty good. :-) .
This will be a major report writing week, so I probably won't post much. See y'all on the other side, folks!
Yesterday it was all about my pavillion. Ysuelt (or Ysueld), Robert of Woodsend's wife, came over to help me design the paint job. She's painted a lot of pavillions, and they all look fabulous. We came up with a design I'm very excited about. She had a picture (ink drawing) of a late 15th C Burgundian wedge-topped pavillion that had stripes with some sort of trefoil interupting the stripes at three heights. Very easy to substitue my Cross of Toulous. We cut out some templates of crosses for size until we got stuff that looked right. My homework now is to get come colored construction paper and cut forms out from that so finalize the design on the pavillion itself. And, as I said in my previous post, I need to get a font and blow it up so we can play with the motto band. Happily Y has agreed to come over (probably on some Tues. nights) to help me. And she'll probably paint the motto. I'll be owing her work for all her help--turn about is fair play. But I'm excited about how this can look. :-)
I spent the evening cutting up possible templates and watching a Mystery series show D&A loaned me called Heat of the Sun. I'm enjoying it quite a bit. If you read Pratchett, you'll understand when I say thi0s show is kinda like what would happen if you dropped Vimes in 1930s Kenya. :-)
No sewing happened, and I'm kinda bummed about that. But the pavillion will be taking up a significant amount of my 'art' time this summer--that's just how it is.
Mists Investiture was very nice, and the feast was Faboo! Crystal strikes again--a triumph. H&O seem like they will make a very good P&P. I'm looking forward to more "romance/honor" and less partying (although I do love a good party, but I'm sure you know what I mean in this context. And deepest thanks to Cordelia who surprized me with a gift of silk organza, and stella_nordica for the St. Sebastine pincushin. You'll be glad to know that St. S has already begun to fulfill his destiny. :-)
Wore my goatface-made cothardie, with the veil made by Marguerite, and my Laurel made by aastg. I swear, the best "awards" are those we are given by our friends. :-))) I have to say, it was a new look for me. I was later to the event than I planned because I had to figure out what to do with my hair. I had a memory of what Etaine does, so I went the braid-loop route. I thought it really brought out my German ancestry. Very comfortable, though.
Funny related story: Wearing a cotehardie made me "incognito". I thought the crosses of T on my medalian and veil would identify me, but apparently not. Wilhelm didn't know who I was, up to the point were I was swearing fealty and Wilhelm, as herald, thought "Why is that lady wearing Genevieve's medalian?" . :-)
Riding has been good. I had a breakthough moment when, after about 20 min of riding last Wednesday, my outer thigh muscles *really* engaged. Oh, I thought, *this* is what it's supposed to feel like. Brandee really responded well. And Brandee is starting to get 2 training rides a week, and is getting some trail rides from her new rider (while M is preganant), so her life is pretty good. :-) .
This will be a major report writing week, so I probably won't post much. See y'all on the other side, folks!
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Date: 2006-05-22 06:45 pm (UTC)I must be honest, being tossed last year (i.e. April '05) is still with me... the pain, the shame and the recovery time is constantly in the back of my mind. I always try to act like I have things in hand, but there are times that I feel a little insecure... that feeling of "nothing is holding me on this horse except my sense of balance."
Yesterday, I felt my body helping my horse "bend" ever so gently into the turns. After the inside part of the body came together, the outside body, hand and leg came together to make the turn complete, i.e. Derk wasn't drifting his backside out of the gentle arc of the turn. (I trust that my words are insufficient explaination of what I am trying to say. Just know that I felt the turns, the way they should be... in the body and the legs.)
Letting go of the anxiety in the back of my mind makes everything so much easier... it's like I just said to myself: "even though this is a horse and not a machine, trust in yourself and your horse... everything will be OK."