Ragani

Yes! We just felt a minor earthquake, which means a local fault is bleeding off some of the pressure. I hope no one got hurt.

I had a delightfully low-impact weekend. With Ren Faire finally over, and Dickens workshops starting up this coming weekend, it will probably be the last mellow weekend I have until next year. Lots of sleeping in late, and lazing around.

I even found time to put together some new remakes.

	Will & Ragani I found a great portrait of a couple for me to use for a remake featuring Will and myself. I will probably redo my face, but Will turned out well, thanks to the lovely selection of photos from Stephanie of The Naughty Minstrels.
	Kate as Miss Bella Willfur From a painting by Ingres of Countess Haussonville. Again, the source for Kate comes from a photo taken by Stephanie.

Got the plans figured out.

We shall meet at 7 PM in San Francisco at the San Francisco Center food court. Yes, the food court is not small, and since we are not going to be able to be sure of where we can get a table, people are just going to have to look for us. I will try to get there early so as to get a large table that is centrally located. Some interest has been made in eating at Out The Door, however, many options abound.

The showing is at 8 PM, and I suspect that since this movie has been out long enough now we will not need to make too many plans to do more than get in line once we are done eating, but buying tickets before eating might be a good idea.

Anyone from LJ land going to join us?

Well, green is my favorite color.

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Thanks again to my mom. This one is for abditus.

Grumble, bitch, whine, freaking donuts, ƒ^¢%!#@ tribe!

I have never before attended Folsom Faire, although I have heard many good things about it and have been told I should not miss it. So, when chaosloom invited me to join him and The Naughty Minstrels for their annual visit I agreed to go.

It will be fun wearing my English garb for the first time in ages! I tried the bodice on yesterday and it is a bit tight, but will work (the gap is just over an inch in the front). gardengirl_34 has agreed to help me make sure everything works and make adjustments as needed tomorrow morning.

So, who else is going to Folsom Faire?

You guys are no fun!

Yeah, I doubt there is much historical value to Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and I fully expect to role my eyes through out the movie at much of the cheese.

However, I think this review has summed up why I want to see it:

The popularity of royal costume drama has given rise to a subgenre: textile porn.

I want to get a group together to go see the latest Elizabeth movie, preferably this week, some weekday evening in San Francisco (although East Bay might work too).

I am willing to consider next week, but since the main reason I want to do this is to take my friend Elizabeth (who's namesake is actually Elizabeth I) for her birthday, it all depends on when she is available. I missed her party that was last Saturday and need to make it up to her before she moves out of state.

Who is interested? If so, what night works for you?

Friday night game night went very well. The playlist was appreciated and set the mood well. We had nearly as big a turn out as last time, which even included the host of another game night, who skipped out on one of his own groups scheduled events to join us!

I slept in my own bed that night and got to faire late Saturday morning. Miss L ended up being the only henna artist there for the first hour or so, which is ironic since she was pulled in to be our back-up artist this year. Business was good and kept me and the other artists busy most of the weekend.

Saturday night I was pleased to have, for the first time, remembered in advance to bring the proper attire to attend Black & Pearl. Ironically, it took so long for the other shows to end before it started, I got distracted, and ended up in a rather nice RV drinking Manhattans with chaosloom and several other Naughty Minstrels. It really was difficult to convince myself to leave for the ball when I was sitting comfortably inside on a wing back chair with the occasional bachelor(ette) party crashing by and plenty of interesting conversations to keep me entertained.

Sunday I made my first real pilgrimage to Casa de Diner to wait for the traffic to disperse. chaosloom and I tagged onto gypsy_ritsa and her boy and eventually got a table and slow but friendly service. We kept telling her we were in no hurry when she apologized for the slow service - really it was that or sitting in traffic with low blood sugar.

Over dinner I asked what everyone's highlights had been so far at this Ren Faire. I think it would be fun to hear from any of the others who have been working faire this year their answer to the same question. Since I don't want to spoil the answers (yeah, I want you to think on your own about this one), I ask that you reply without looking at other responses.

So, what are your highlights so far from 2007 Northern Ren Faire?