I would like to bounce ideas off people. I have a project that I think would be suited to Pennsic. (Though I may pretest a version at one of the larger weekend events)

I want to do a Spice tasting and education on those used in period. (I live in NYC I can get many of the odd spices for much less money than others can as well as different versions of things)

( Cut for those with no interest in this )
So has anyone run something like this or gone to a tasting class?
Do you think it’s a good idea?
Would you go if it was convenient?
What would you change?

Hi! I'm posting this for a good friend who doesn't have an LJ, but tons of great feedback at bpal.org (link upon request if we arrange a swap). Wanted are a few things that haven't turned up yet at the forums, and there's lots of good stuff to be had. We're located in Germany, btw., so you must be okay with shipping overseas since these are swap-only.

( Offerings: Weenies, CD, Yule and other GCs/LEs )


( Wanted: GC, LE, a couple TALs and hordes of imps )

Swap offerings are anything that's fair, that means bottle for bottle, or an equal amount in imps or decants for a bottle (since there are many of those on the "wanted" list). Also okay is a swap for your GC in exchange for one of the LEs on the offerings list. Thanks for looking! :)

To those to whom these words come, greetings from Olwynn ni Chinneidigh, Laurel Queen of Arms and Juliana de Luna, Palimpsest Herald.

The Laurel office is starting to review our policies and procedures for submissions. We expect that the eventual outcome will be a complete rewrite of the Rules for Submissions.

To start this process, we're asking the populace and heralds to give us feedback about the heraldic submissions process and how it should work. A survey which asks some basic questions can be found at http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/GLJZDDZ ; we'd appreciate it if interested people would take time to answer the questions there. Anyone can complete this; we promise to read all answers. We expect the survey to take fifteen to twenty minutes. Additional comments about or ideas for this process can be sent to rules@heraldry.sca.org.
We have several goals for this process:
- to make the Rules for Submissions easier to use for heralds and submitters alike
- to reduce discrepancies between the Rules as written and the rules as applied
- to reflect on the degree of authenticity we want for the registration process and how best to codify rules to evaluate it
- to reconsider the level of difference we should require between names and devices for registration

In all areas, the Society for Creative Anachronism has moved towards progressively better understandings of what people did in our period. Given this, we are not interested in discussing rules changes that would substantially lower our standards for registration of names and armory. But we are interested in exploring ways to make it easier for people register items that are in period style, whether or not they fit the rules as they currently exist. We welcome ideas about how to do that from all sources.
We look forward to hearing from you! The deadline for the survey is January 31; we will continue to accept comments by e-mail until the review of the rules is completed. Please forward this message to other mailing lists, so that as many people as possible can respond.

Juliana and Olwynn

NOTE: I have attempted, deliberately to turn off comments on this post - the best way to have your suggestions and voice heard is to fill out the survey and/or email to rules@heraldry.sca.org. When the time comes for making decisions and changes, side discussions and comments may fall through the cracks, but the survey answers will be all in one place.

5 mL Mitzvah from the Naughty or Nice Inquisition. Full into shoulder, label in great shape. Can take a picture if requested. I'd love to swap for a 5 mL of Spanked or Jingo-Kogo. Or, I'd love to swap for Formula 54.

I have good feedback on BPAL.org under the username Ondine.

Every day the Met has an Artwork of the Day. About a third of them are pre 1600 works. One of the best things about it is that if you click though it has a lovely zoom feature to really get a good close up view of details.

I started an LJ feed for it last year. It perodicly blanks out past feeds im not sure why.

Here are examples of works from the past month.


Scene from the Life of Saint Nicholas, ca. 1200–1210



Saint Barbara, ca. 1490



Plate with the Battle of David and Goliath, 629–630