After Abbey22 I was very excited to hear that my third daughter (plus husband and 3 kids) was intending to return to Australia after 10 years overseas... and wanted to resume reenacting with us :-) Needless to say this resulted in a flurry of activity and Making Stuff ;-) We'd need a bigger kitchen tent, somewhere for all the kids (5 grandkids, and all reenactors!), they'd need a tent to sleep in, costumes, shoes, rugs, hangings... and they were planning on returning about 6 weeks before Abbey23.
I made more toys and the like to go into the toy basket, but the highlight was a 1:10 scale model of one of the tents that they could set up from scratch, more or less, like the big ones.
I also put together a lantern (the goatskin came from an old drum) with a tiny olive oil lamp in it, painted myself a cup, and embroidered a cushion cover for the Idiot Box (so called because it took 8 hours to make the box and only about 10 days to paint it because I was hyper and obsessing LOL)
AROW (in May) let us test out the kids' tent - reenactorlings need their own area - and the new bigger kitchen;
and I made the kids some period-ish plates.
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