Photographic Medievalness

As promised, I now have just a few photos to share from my eventful Memorial Day weekend (see previous post for details). I would have had them up much sooner, but my internet connection has been rather churlish and spiteful lately. I think I've gotten it chided back into proper behavior for the moment, touch wood. I don't have the one photo that I was boasting about previously, and I apologize--you know, the one with me throwing a sinister look at the camera as I sip from a skull. I know you are all wound up with anticipation, but you'll have to wait it out...I'm sure that no one else finds it as riveting as I do anyhow. I was told that I don't look sinister or threatening at all in that photo, just cute. Hmph!

I also apologize that we have no photos of the other colorful war attendees: the guy dressed up in the amazing Pan outfit, complete with hooves and furry legs (or was he just a garden-variety faun? He didn't have a set of pipes on him), the belly dancers in the ramada dancing to some really outstanding percussion, the singers from the "Bawdy" version of the bards' concert (of course including terrible songs about sheep complete with inflatable lipsticked ewe), the fighting, and all of the other merchant's booths. Of course, I do think, as do numerous other SCA members who told us so, that Kiva Han was one of the best booths at the event. We had no visible PVC or cheap tarps, darnit: lots of tassels, tapestries, a wooden booth and counter, and a lovely little pavilion on the side with low tables and hookahs and full of rugs and pillows to lounge about on.

So here are those photographs:
This is another version of the one at the top. I included two because various people had their eyes closed in each version. This is all of the Kiva Han women except Anna, plus a few hangers-on.


This is Kiki and me in our fabulous hookah lounge. Lounging.


Kiki and me standing in front of our lovely coffee booth. Pretty much all of our costumes are borrowed, but the jewelry is ours, dangit. Check out Kiki's gorgeous necklace!








Kiki looking beautiful, as always. She really doesn't need to cover herself with adornments and makeup to look good.





















Me modeling my sparkly outfit (all mine except for the blue hip scarf, by the way) that I bought at the previous war in February. Sparkly!!