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Continue reading →: The Violin BagMany eons ago, I bought a knock off of an Innocent World violin bag. I had only a passing interest in EGL fashion, but I am a sucker for violin novelty items, okay? Even though it was a knock off, it was still pretty damn expensive for a bag so…
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Continue reading →: Rabbit’s Split Brim BarettRabbit needed a hat, but I didn’t want to go with the stereotypical, oversized muffin hat that bards always get stuck with. Besides, I’ve made a muffin hat before. I wanted to try my hand at something different! After a brief and surprisingly fruitful search, I found myself enamored with…
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Continue reading →: Rabbit, 2025 versionI am extremely good at not getting costume photos, so I tried to remedy that today: I stacked a phone tripod on top of my regular tripod–and yes, it was as awkward and precarious as it sounded–and made use of the timer function. I definitely miss having a good photographer…
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Continue reading →: A Tale of Two HatsOr: Holy Shit, Two Cakes Hats! I survived another trip to the Ren faire this weekend. On the plus side, the weather was perfect for it, uppers 70s and survivable humidity, and I went with some friends; on the downside, it was a very busy theme weekend and Grief Brain…
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Continue reading →: Digital window shopping: Costume edition
I’ve been spending some time doing what I, preciously, call digital window shopping. It’s really just costume research: looking at paintings and extant garments when available. Since I’m not a historical reenactor, I’m really just looking for cool elements that I can Frankenstein together. Today I browsed some portraits (and…
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Continue reading →: In which I am unusually defensive about a penIt’s been a hot minute, huh? Spring was rough; it’s been a struggle to keep plugging away at things. But I have made incremental progress. I migrated this blog to its new home (with a few different stops along the way, to try different blogging platforms) I’ve made some major…
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Continue reading →: Fun with couchingI finished embroidery all the crosses on the back pieces of the new doublet, and I decided to do the couching before cutting out all the crosses to maybe hopefully not distort the linen as much. Hey, for not attempting to match the embellishments at all, I did a pretty…
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Continue reading →: Digital window shopping againOh gosh, look at this beauty! It’s a kit violin from the 1700s, in the Burrell Collection in Glasgow. Sadly they do not have a robust digital archive, so I have to settle for this one picture ;_; …I’m not collecting inspiration for any reason, nope.
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Continue reading →: One Very Strange Year
I realized the other day that I had totally missed my one year anniversary of returning to violin. I felt that I should have some profound words of wisdom about the experience. After thinking about it for a bit, I came up with a very simple summary, and I think…
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Continue reading →: Digital window shoppingI was trawling a museum’s digital collection in the vain hope that they’d still have an instrument described in a book from the 1880s. But first, I ran across this Thomas Howell violin, which is great: “Help, my instrument is melting” And then I found the little beauty! “There is…
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