Reenactment is one of those hobbies where there's a constant flow of things to do, whether it's upgrading current gear, or stumbling across something cool while researching and then making/doing/learning that.
The first upgrade was the kids' cups - what they has was adequate and reasonably in keeping with the period, but I wanted to make them something better:
and because the entire family's neurodivergent in a variety of forms ("neurospicy!) I made them some in-keeping-with-the period fidget toys - metal rings and bone bead paternosters.
I came across a clay frypan in an op-shop and bought it on spec that it would be reasonably period; dug around a bit online and found it'd pass, and then learnt to cook with pottery gear as it was a lot more typical than iron pots and pans (which were rare/valued highly enough that women willed them to their daughters in some cases!)
We made up a fire-starting kit because someone at the previous show wanted to know how it was done, and the whole group is now reasonably proficient with flint and steel.
I came a cross a reference to sprang weaving and so of course had to give it a go - I can't do anything fancy, but I can make bags :-)
We put together a sunshade for the public to use, because quite often events are hot - even in winter! We had a member of the public go down in our encampment with heat exhaustion at the previous Abbey - there's a false sense of security that because its winter there won't be a problem, but between the heat and the lack of humidity and the preference for people to dress up in costume for the event (and some of the costumes the public come in put a lot of reenactor efforts to shame - they're magnificent!) it's very easy to overheat (jumping ahead to Abbey24, it rained constantly and the sunshade was used as a rain shelter, but at least it was used).
Nat's getting a Scribe's desk display ready for Abbey24, so Rob built her a lectern to put her parchment on.
...and the blasted finials on top of the tents occasionally need re-gilding...
And we'll test out all the new stuff at AROW!
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