Ren Faire junkies unite! :D

I was chatting with some friends in here and found out that there are quite a few faire junkies amongst my CC buddies so I thought we needed our own room lol. so share your faire and feel free tell about what you like most. I frequent the Texas renaissance faire religiously every year, its mandatory amongst everyone in my family to the point that i need a small bus to hold everyone lol (but thats in the works for the future, I even told my boss that if he won't let me off those days that he can kiss my butt lol. we go the whole weekend and camp on the grounds and just have an amazing time! (plus i met my now BF there so theres even more sentimental reasons to go.)

I'm actually part of a group, http://www.knownworldplayers.com/ , who does stage combat. Haven't had a ren faire in a few years what with all the cons we've been doing, but hopefully this next summer we'll have one! Regardless, we all go as pirates, wenches, and bellydancers to TennRen every year. It's great fun even if the weather is scorching. 

I haven't got to go to a ren faire in so long. It's a bummer too, I made myself a maille vest this summer.  I might wear it for Halloween, or when I'm playing Oblivion/Morrowind.  (Yes, I'm that big of a nerd .)

I absolutely love the RenFaire.  My DH and I volunteer to work it at least once each year.  We volunteer through AYSO soccer organization and staff a beer booth or tent each year.  This year was the first year we went in our own costumes.  See my gallery, I have posted 2 photos of us in costume along with adding my individual photo as my profile photo.

I can't wait until next year's Faire! 

great idea ipodgal!  I'll def look into it!  Thanks for the info!

Beanie, if I start the armed combat sessions our local SCA puts on on Mondays, I'll let you know how it goes!

lisainholly, thanks for sharing your pictures! You look fantastic!

I LOVE your dogs, too!

So excited 'cause we're going on Sunday!!!  Things have conspired all year to stop me from going.  May get to squeeze in a trip next month too.

Can't wait for the jousting and Fight Club!  And the mead.  And the pickle on a stick.  And the fresh honey.

Hmmm....this might not be good for ye old diet!  But I'll also walk for hours so.....I think I'll be ok.

seems its been a while since we've used this thread, but the fall festivals are over  and I'd love to see how everyone enjoyed their faires. ours went very well when we went in halloween but thanksgiving weekend was sooooo sloshy and icky we had 6 ppl in one tent cause the others sprouted leaks lol.

 

HUZZAH!!!!!!

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE RenFaire!!!

I started going, and got my first bodice at the Tampa Bay Area RenFaire @ MOSI {it used to be in Largo, FL} but now I call the Sterling Renaissance Festival in Sterling, NY my home Faire :)

I am getting married at Sterling this summer and am already working on the gown, well, I'm helping the woman who will be making it for me by looing for fabric, but I've got it picked out....July and August can't get here soon enough -  I am SOOOOOO excited!!!

I am interested in learning to make my own garb { I have a sewing machine but it's been about 15 years since I've used one } - what I have now is more "costumey" than I would like, and My Fiance and I are going to work on developing characters - I am squirrliling away every extra penny and dreaming of season passes :)

congratz hon. good to hear you're so happy. I make my own costumes. and generally everyone elses that goes with us lol so my septembers are always booked up with my sewing machine. i started sewing after not really having more than home ec in high school and didn't really know what i was doing. i started practicing by hitting the clearance cloth table and seeing what i could get cheap so that if i made a mistake it wouldn't kill my pocketbook :D but now my confidence is getting really good and i've even made a few costumes without benefeit of a pattern.

just find you a good simple pattern and give it a go and see what happens. start with regular tops, and skirts and see what all you can make. stuffed animal pillows are fun too just follow the instructions on the pattern, i know its sometimes greek. but you can work it out :D

lol.....I remember stuffed animal pillows form Home EC...now if I could just remember how to thread the machine, I'd be in business : p

I am pretty comfortable with hand-stitching, and I love embroidery - often times it's just a matter of getting myself to hold still long enough to complete a project {my Fiance has some pants he's been waiting a good month for me to mend}!

I think I would like to start with a simple skirt and then a chemise pattern ~ I have a couple of nice bodices, and I'd like to make myself something a bit more authentic to go with them ~ would you suggest looing at someplace like JoAnn's for patterns, or will I be better off looking on some of the Ren Sites?

Thanks for your advice and encouragement, btw :)

believe it or not i got all my patterns from walmart the week after halloween. all the costume patterns were on sale. i was able to mix and match pieces of different costumes and some pieces bought at stores to make a lovely semi gypsy peasant number that hopefully by this years renfest will be too big for me lol.

I've been to the Michigan Ren Fair and now that I am on the West Coast, I've been to the Washington Ren Fair. I've been involved with the SCA and Amtgard. I've been to Amtgard'd event Clan and Rakis, but someday, I would like to go to SCA's big event, Pennsic.

That is a great tip, Tempest, I'll check the sale bin next time I'm there...Halloween was awhile ago, but you never know what you might find lurking in the back of a clearance bin :)

Lollipopfairy, ...*sigh*... would that I had gone to the Washington Faire while I was on the west coast - the woods there are lovely, I can only imagine how enchanting the festival grounds must be!