Brigandines and Squirrels

A one-eyed squirrel has been visiting our birdfeeder. Rumor has it, he lost the eye to a Telmarine king and hasn’t spoken since. But that’s unlikely.

The Telmarine probably wasn’t a king.

I shall attempt to get a picture in the future, if I remember.

I need to start setting an alarm or something, because I sleeping late because it takes me forever to fall asleep because I keep sleeping late because I stayed up late. Last night, I thought very thoroughly about costumes I want to make and somewhat about short stories I want to write while I was trying to fall asleep.

Today, I worked on a dress I’m making, did some house-cleaning, spent quite a bit of time studying Prince Caspian’s brigandine and researching scale lamellar and fun foam online, and researched various other costumes. (My laptop is being so slow at the moment, I think it deserves an award of some kind.) I’m seriously considering trying to construct a brigandine, but it will probably wait until after the other costumes I want to make (Ithilien ranger, Susan’s farewell overdress) which will wait until after the costumes I’ve comitted to making (two basic Renaissance lady outfits).

Oops. I just wrote about sewing outside of my costume blog. :ninja: There’s a link to it on my sidebar.

I have yet to finish A Tale of Two Cities. I should go back to reading more. I also started Bringer of Storms, and I’m reading From Sea to Shining Sea for history (which comes before pleasure reading, so I don’t know when I’ll finish the other two).

Have an amazing rest of your life!

- WM