A ruff note

Yesterday, with the help of g0atface, I got my standing ruff tacked into my dress (my old blue linen French dress that got altered). I still have to do some finishing work on it. Looks pretty cool, if I say so myself. However, it's out of proportion for the dress. I was looking at the pictures in QEWU, and I took the proportions from those engravings/drawings. But that dress is pretty simple, so it looks a bit much. It doesn't help that I put in some wide gold lacy-braid on the inside collar, a la the collars in the Moda book (reason: to hide the neck sweat/dirt that I know from experiance with accumulate.)

Luckily g0atface is loaning me her farthingale, which helps the overall look a lot. (Still need to replace my stolen farthingale--it's on the list...)

OK, y'all have been warned. I'll be wearing this ensamble at the Salon.

Salon game glitch

I got a call tonight from Aimeric--there is a family emergency and he needs to fly back east, and will therefore not be at Beltane. I'll need to get the games back from him (I'd lent them to him for play-testing. So now I need to find someone else to head up the games. Volunteers?

Stressing out about Salon space.

Cut for those of you who really don't want to hear this.
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The answer is no (but a polite no ;-) )

Just heard back from the Beltane autocrat. Like I thought, he can't reserve space. He thought the best courtyard option (to minimize grousing) was the narrow-but-deep option.