Who am I.. It’s complicated.
Well ok, no it’s not. I play in the SCA as Sylvie la chardonniere. I’ve played in the West Kingdom of the SCA since 2001. I’ve cooked several feasts and autocratted several events. I hold a couple of Province offices in the Province of the Mists(near San Francisco California). I live in the Province of the Mists with my honey Fearghus MacAirt, three birds (Pip the budgie, Sweet pea and Dr. Whistler McClaw the cockatiels), two whippets (Fynriss and Tiggy) and a cat (His Evilness Emperor Loki the Kitty).
This is my blog to dump the random reasearchy bits that I find or figure out in recreating the middle ages.
My name is French.. in cookery I’m mainly interested in medieval French cookbooks.. but I like wearing early 16th century German clothes. So sue me.
Please contact me at Sylvie@fibergeek.com
I’m also on LiveJournal Half-baked Drivel: You only wish you were this disorganized
Here they are, 6 random facts about me:
1. I was born in the same hospital and delivered by the same doctor as my mother. The hospital burned down after she was born.. but they rebuilt it before I was born.
2. I have a scar on the back of my right hand and the top of my right foot. Both scars were made by nails (rusty nail on foot.. thumbnail on hand.. my thumbnail).
3. The first garment I ever sewed was for the SCA in 2001. It was horrible and has happily vanished into the mists of time.
4. My Dad believes that “the family that builds together stays together”. When I was a kid we built four houses from the ground up. Mom and Dad are working on the fifth. It’s a Queen Anne Victorian on 47 acres on the Yellowstone River(Neverdone Farm). The only contractors they’ve hired on the new house were the concrete workers who poured the gypcrete for the radiant floor heating system, and the guy who will be checking the elevator to make sure it’s installed properly.
5. I’m a good cook because 1) my mother’s an indifferent cook.. 2) when I was a kid if you cooked dinner you got to stop working on the house for a while in order to go make dinner and 3) she who cooks the dinner doesn’t have to do dishes.
6. Although I seem productive I’m actually very close to crippled by “analysis paralysis”. I will analyze a problem forever and have a hard time starting a project that I find daunting. I’ve mitigated this somewhat by making lists. Lists allow me to mark things off. If I can break a project into smaller projects I can edge around the paralysis by working on the smaller projects. But sometimes it’s a close thing.
Curiously enough, blogging is also allowing me to get past the paralysis. By talking through the task with an (imagined) appreciative audience I can more easily decide what to do.. and just do it. With progress shots. Maybe no one cares.. but I do.. and it helps.
