And not even riding the subway could harsh my vacation bliss buzz.  A more thorough post later (like tomorrow) when my brain cranks up to speed. For now let me say I had a wonderful time, and many many thanks to all the fine people who made it possible.

My Pennsic class registration form is submitted.  Woot!  

Singing 101: You too can sing around the campfire

Focusing on helping the beginning singer build vocal and performance skills and confidence through exercises and group singing of rounds and easy period (or near period) songs. Repertoire for the budding bard will be discussed.

Even better, the marvelous bard, Lady Katherine, has agreed to help me out with pointers on SCA performance practice and repertoire.

SCA member X researches nifty Nordic single needle knitting/crochetting technique (Nalbinding).
Sarahbyrdd takes a workshop from SCA member X, gets a feel for the technique and thinks COOL I CAN DO THIS. 
Sarahbyrdd tells the lady at the yarn shop about it as, sparks yarn-shop-lady's interest and promises to bring project back when done. 
Sarahbyrdd shows half completed project to the office knitting lady, sparks knitting-lady's interest. 

Winter 2009 ... all of New York City sports Nalbinded hats and mittens?

The first Whyt Whey sing thing seems to have been a success!  The music that I brought with me seemed to be familiar to some but not all which made the pacing of the evening go well.  I think there was general consensus that fun was had and that we should do it again on a regular basis.  Woot!

Next time I want to mix it up a little, and block out enough time to work on an easy part song as well as building the round repertoire.  I'm very much not thinking performance, I want keep the evenings focused on the idea that singing is fun and easy to do anywhere a few people plunk themselves down on a blanket. 

Why is it that I can't get over the feeling that buying some garb would somehow be cheating?  I'm an adequate seamstress, so it's not that I can't sew for myself.  I'm just pressed for time these days and laying out large patterns in a NYC sized studio apartment is ... um .. challenging.  Also, I suspect that running up day/war garb while reasonably easy, just isn't engaging my creative drives.  Plenty of rationalization, but still, it feels like cheating.  

I suspect that this is one of those situations where I have to tell the perfectionist side of my personality to chill and get the #$@! over it. :-)



Mood: Puzzled (Is there a way to add more moods to the drop-down list?)