Hello dear readers! In August, I attended a fabulous reenactment. In fact, it is up there as a contender for the best of the season! It was the annual Hale Farm reenactment. I’m taking fewer and fewer pictures per reenactment, since camera looks a little out of place around my neck… but I’ll try to
Category: Reenactment
Painesville, 2012
Reenactment in Painesville, Ohio, at the Lake County Historical Center! July 14th, 2012 (or 1862, if you prefer!). Tried to make sure the background was period appropriate! Back view. The bodice isn’t fitting quite right, but I think (hope) that mostly took care of itself with new underpinnings. The strange juxtaposition of troops marching, hoopskirts,
A Ball!
By February 2013 I had gotten my “ball” gown ready enough to wear. I’d been to a few reenactments (Summer 2012 – posts will follow at some point!), and was excited to hear about the Grand Military Ball in Canton, Ohio. (Edited to add: the ball is called the Ohio Regimental Military Ball [SK 2/17/2014])I
Learning possible Civil War hairstyles
Posting some older items, to catch up with what I’m working on now! I used this hairstyle for Painesville 2012. Data:– Type: 1860s Hairstyle– Date made: /– Pattern: braided + ringlets– Fabric: n/a– Trim: n/a– Time to finish: About an hour, I think.– Notes: This is at the end of the day, so the ringlets
Painesville reenactment, 2012/1862
Hello! Since I’ve now stepped into Civil War reenacting, during the 150th anniversary cycle, many of my posts from now on will be related to the Civil War era. I’ll also be trying to organize the blog a little better, so you may start to see “labels” applied to old posts too, which should make