Starkhafn Anniversary 2014
November 9, 2014
April was the Barony of Starkhafn’s annual Anniversary. We always try to make archery as fun and unusual as possible and this year was no exception. The theme of the event was The Hunt, so we came up with five ‘animal’ targets to shoot at. The first was a deer, a static target on a […]
Fall Cider
August 20, 2014
By the time I decided I wanted to take something to Yule, it was too later to start sake. After some looking at various things, I learned cider wasn’t hard to do and only took a short time. With that in mind, I attempted an apple cider with a cinnamon and clove taste. 1 tsp […]
Hatsuyuki – The First Sake
August 20, 2014
Hatsuyuki is japanese for the first snow of the season. This eventually became the name for my first batch of sake, as traditionally sake is made in the winter. So of course I was making it in the summer in the desert. I had bought a book from amazon, read a couple brewing forums, and […]
Dragonblossom Brewery
August 20, 2014
So at Highland War of 2012 I took a class on the history of sake, and learned that actually, making sake isn’t too hard. Between that, and an attempt of Rennfield’s to restart/make more active the baronial Brewer’s Guild, Tarou and I decided we’d try our hand at making stuff. Being the overly attracted to […]
Japanese Archery!
June 15, 2014
Its here! That is my shiny carbonglass yumi, arrived via FedEx from Narita. Several years ago I had started looking into japanese bows, the way they were shot, how they were made, etc. Its taken many years for me to save the money needed for all the neccessary equipment and then it took about four […]
Kumihimo Cloak Trim
April 4, 2014
We have these lovely half circle Moroccan burnoose cloaks that are fleece lined wool. I decided that a good use for kumihimo would be to make trim for mine, which is black wool with a yellow fleece lining. This is a 16 tama pattern made with a light yellow, dark yellow and black. The pattern […]
Bryn Madoc Archery Champion Quiver
March 24, 2014
When we first moved to Atlanta, we were closest to the Barony of South Downs and played with them for many years. During that time, we also started to plan our wedding and as that took over our free time, we participated less and less in the SCA. We ended up taking a four year […]