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This is my cover girl shot. I was getting dressed
outside of my tent, because I have a small dome tent, and as you can tell,
it's kind of hard for me to fit inside the tent in a giant hoop
skirt. This guy who kind of has this thing for me (I think) came
along and was taking pictures of me getting dressed, so I decided to pose
for him. Anyway, this picture ended up on the front cover of the
next local newsletter, of which this guy was also the editor. I
would have felt better about it if he had asked me first, but I think it's
a fun picture. |
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This is me with my fiance, Owen, at my parents' condo in
Canmore. We're getting ready to go to the Canmore Folk Festival. |
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Here I'm playing mini-golf with some of my friends instead
of going to Court. |
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This is me outside the first Starbucks that ever was (Pike
Place Market in Seattle). It felt like kind of a pilgrimage at the
time, but maybe that was just because we had been driving for 13 hours
straight through the night. |
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This is a piece of garb I made. I first wore it to an
Avacal Winter Coronet tournament. I also did the thing where you put
rags in your hair to make it curly, like in Little House on the Prairie. |
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This is me and some of my friends at a Montengarde Twelfth
Night. I'm in the front on the left. Going clockwise,
Laura-Lynn Craciun, Jodi Dyck (HL Johanna Katrin), and my best friend Jean
Allan (Lady Althea Serafina Renata di Gianbattista Tamborri).
Uncharacteristically, I had been finished my dress for about 2 weeks, but
Laura had never sewed anything before and I was trying to get her in full
Tudors for this event. She looked great, but we were still finishing
her dress at 10:00 in the morning the day of. Jean's dress was
actually not finished at all - she finished the embroidery and sewed on
the sleeves at the event, and then we sewed her into it and tucked up the
skirt with safety pins so nobody could see that it wasn't hemmed. |
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These are some pictures from Hallowe'en, in which I was sort
of trying to recapture the spirit of my cover girl shot (see
previous). I was some sort of wench/sorceress. |
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I like to drink beer. |
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Here I'm drinking beer in Germany. |
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Here's kind of an arty shot I took of the staircase in our
hotel in Germany. |
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"For the aspiring law student, your proud Dad presents
you with Your First Beemer!" |
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Test drive of said Beemer. |
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Another piece of garb I made. You can't really tell in
this picture, but the dress is this really offensively bright purple
color, and the trim is yellow, blue, and purple. |
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Here I'm in drag as Pier Francesco. I was really proud
of the pair of Pluderhosen (Swedish Poof-Dah Pants) that I'm
wearing. I bought the stockings in a goth supply store -- they're
purple with silver hearts and daggers. |
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We went to the Calgary Zoo and were attacked by a ferocious
bear. Jean is already dead, you can kind of see her lying on the
ground at the bottom of the picture. Owen is having his arm chewed
off. Behind me are Kat (Jean's roommate) and Kim. |
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At the Zoo there's this giant fake stone structure that is
possibly intended to represent the geography of central Alberta (dinosaur
country - and yes, there are dinosaurs at the Calgary Zoo). I was
kind of eyeing it, and Owen said, "You are not going to climb
that thing," which I had kind of been planning to do anyway, but then
when he said that I wasn't going to I had to prove my independence by
climbing it. Owen stayed on the ground, so I've got my arm around
Trevor (on the left) and Malcolm (on the right). |
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Owen and I took a camping trip. My idea of camping is
a 20 foot trailer at a KOA with electricity and running water hookups, a
swimming pool, and a little general store that hosts ice cream socials on
Sundays. Owen's idea of camping is driving my car up the narrowest,
winding-est gravel road in interior BC to a place with pit toilets and
mosquitos. Here I'm washing my hair in glacial runoff water.
It was really freakin' cold. |
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This is probably not the wedding dress I will wear, but I
had all these pictures of wedding dresses from when I went to Vancouver,
so I thought I would put one in. I do like wedding dresses with red
on them, though. |
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This is Owen with my grandparents' kitten. Aren't they
soo cyute? |
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I like to sew. This is a picture of me attacking a
pair of pants (first piece of mundane clothing I made in like 8 years)
with the really, really cool Henckel sewing shears Owen gave me for
Christmas. |
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I'm so sad about my car. I really loved my car.
I really bonded with my car, especially after I drove straight through
from Victoria to Calgary in one day, with just me, my car, some tunes, and
the road. However, I had to give it to my parents when I went into
Law School, and then they traded it in for a gold Focus wagon. How
very stylish. Okay, so a jelly bean shaped Contour is not so stylish
either, but it was mine and I loved it. This is the last shot I have
of my car from when my parents were trading it in. This was totally
unplanned, but I think it's kind of curious how the way my parents and
Owen are walking into the dealership looks a bit like the cover of Abbey
Road by the Beatles. |
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This is a shirt that I embroidered. I was working on
it for about 18 months. Yes, I know. I'm insane. |
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This is my and Owen's teddy bear, Virgil. He looks
cute and innocent, but he's actually a fully grown Norwegian Bluegrass
Mountain Bear and he can be quite vicious. Two years ago at the
Calgary Folk Festival he mauled one of the volunteers. Some of his
other pastimes are smoking pot and attending protests. |
