Fresh hell
Aug. 9th, 2016 06:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chocolatepotOhhhhh dear, has anyone else ever gotten nauseated after (passing out after) giving blood? I have been having a tremendously difficult afternoon. I know I have to replace what I sicked up but putting more food in my mouth is hard. At least I'm finally starting to feel better after slowly working on this soup (vegetable broth with some spices and a handful of mini wheel noodles).
Pondering some possible events for the museum in 2017 ... I don't know if we could do a marriage reenactment for Silas and Clarissa Wright, but we could at least have some kind of anniversary thing where I could wear an appropriate dress, which would be half the point. The other half of the point being to encourage people to remember Silas Wright as more than a name on a blue-and-yellow sign in front of the house - he was tremendously popular locally during his lifetime and seems to have been a genuinely good dude. And I have to do something awesome for the anniversary because it's my birthday, how often does a coincidence like that happen? Wear a period I like that has no practical/military reenactment value for my birthday!
Another thing I'm thinking of is part event, part fundraising idea. A sampler quilt! Sponsor a square - tiered levels, simpler squares costing less and applique squares more - which will be made embroidered with your name? And then when it's done, set it up on a frame and have a quilting bee, where people can pay $1 or $5 to twiddle on it for a little bit (with me there to show them how and encourage them. In early/mid-19th century dress). I feel like doing it as a fundraiser might be too much work, but it would also provide some kind of framework for it and pay for material. Really, I just want to teach people what a quilting bee is (until I came across a reference to young women making quilt tops and setting them aside for quilting before the wedding, I thought it was people coming together to piece quilts) and what hand-sewing is like. Maybe this is instead something I could set up for next year's Remington Arts Festival, though: this year and last year we had new, tangentially-related exhibits going up, but I don't want to always have to shoehorn Remington into exhibitions and the next one I'm thinking of is not going to be compatible. On the weekend of the festival, we always have a display of historic toys and some costumes we've borrowed from Upper Canada Village for kids to try on ... so I could very easily justify sitting out there quilting.
Am I just angling for more small children to call me a princes? Maybe. Maybe I am.
Pondering some possible events for the museum in 2017 ... I don't know if we could do a marriage reenactment for Silas and Clarissa Wright, but we could at least have some kind of anniversary thing where I could wear an appropriate dress, which would be half the point. The other half of the point being to encourage people to remember Silas Wright as more than a name on a blue-and-yellow sign in front of the house - he was tremendously popular locally during his lifetime and seems to have been a genuinely good dude. And I have to do something awesome for the anniversary because it's my birthday, how often does a coincidence like that happen? Wear a period I like that has no practical/military reenactment value for my birthday!
Another thing I'm thinking of is part event, part fundraising idea. A sampler quilt! Sponsor a square - tiered levels, simpler squares costing less and applique squares more - which will be made embroidered with your name? And then when it's done, set it up on a frame and have a quilting bee, where people can pay $1 or $5 to twiddle on it for a little bit (with me there to show them how and encourage them. In early/mid-19th century dress). I feel like doing it as a fundraiser might be too much work, but it would also provide some kind of framework for it and pay for material. Really, I just want to teach people what a quilting bee is (until I came across a reference to young women making quilt tops and setting them aside for quilting before the wedding, I thought it was people coming together to piece quilts) and what hand-sewing is like. Maybe this is instead something I could set up for next year's Remington Arts Festival, though: this year and last year we had new, tangentially-related exhibits going up, but I don't want to always have to shoehorn Remington into exhibitions and the next one I'm thinking of is not going to be compatible. On the weekend of the festival, we always have a display of historic toys and some costumes we've borrowed from Upper Canada Village for kids to try on ... so I could very easily justify sitting out there quilting.
Am I just angling for more small children to call me a princes? Maybe. Maybe I am.
