Ankantoiel's Diary

2 responses so far – published on Jun, 29 2010 at 16:29 under Hobby,Holiday,Site.

With astonishment I discovered that my last blog post dates from April 20th. *gomenasai* Well, summer is finally here… FINALLY. And that is a wonder by itself as only two weeks ago it was snowing down to 1200m – very unpleasant and cold *brrr*. But summer found its way and right now I am enjoying the warming sun. My herbs and flowers agree that life couldn’t be better.

So the question right now is, what was I doing the last couple of months? And I really would like to tell you some adventurous tale of dragon slaying and freeing a prince ( sorry, I am the hero here! ) in his tower, but actually that isn’t even true for DSA right now. In fact I did nothing extra-ordinary, but there are some things that will make the near future a bit more interesting.

I guess one can consider sewing an Elvish gown an adventure – for me it is after all. It took a while to select the fabrics I would like, but now they are here: A lovely creme colored Crush Satin for the dress and the same fabric in silver for the corsage. For the cape I will use a olive colored panne velvet (sounds cheap and was it at a price of 2,79€ per meter, but looks better than you might think) and a gold colored satin for the lining. Next week a friend of mine and I will start our work. She is planning to create a lovely Elvish mantle and dress for herself ( a mixture of Legolas coronation gown and Elrond’s and Celeborn’s robes). Hopefully we will not encounter too many problems. I am not experienced in sewing, so a catastrophe will surely arise somewhere. Tomorrow I will buy stitching silks and all the other stuff a good tailor might require.

We will have time until August 12th (latest!!) to finish our project. There we will be on our way to the Festival in the Shire and we would like to take the new gowns with us. The timetable is very tight.

Eva-Maria and I will be in Kaprun from July 23th to 25th for a medieval encampment. I am really looking forward to this weekend. As you may remember I was there two years ago, and it was so great. It’s absolutely fantastic that I have the possibility to see it from another point of view and to become part of the event by staying with the guys from Ausfall. Hopefully the weather will be good. Camping with rain is not that fun.

End of July I will also stay some days with my sweetheart in Amsterdam. There are some thing I would like to see there including the Heinken brewery, the Rembrandt and Van Gogh museums, make a boats trip in the Grachtengordel (the canals that are so famous).

I surely will have some pictures from the short-trip as well as from our sewing adventure, Kaprun and the Festival. I will promise to keep you more up2date in the future and that you, my imaginary readers, will be the first to know when something special happens. Maybe there will be a fallen over sack of rice in China to report.

No responses yet – published on Jan, 04 2010 at 14:28 under Fanfiction,Holiday,Sport.

Welcome to a new decade! I hope you arrived healthy in 2010 and the New Year’s Eve was pleasant. For my part, I spent that evening with Alex and my sis’ Marina having fondue and a lot of fun playing Wii – so much fun that we got to bed at five in the morning. The last weeks were in general very nice. I spent a lot of time with my family and Alex, learned free cross-country skiing – a sport I always wanted to try and I fell in love with – and I enjoyed my holidays.

Finally, we also got a bit of snow on Christmas Day – not much, but better few than no snow at all – and I have tried the first time in my life cross-country skiing, skating to precise. It was so much fun that I bought me my own skis and equipment. It’s no cheap sport at all and I am sure that I spent over 600€ for everything: skis (Fischer), boots (Salomon), binding (Salomon), sticks (Swix), Björn Daehli pants and jacket. Nevertheless, I am now very proud of my first tries and I am getting better already. It also helps very much that my dad and my sis’ are doing that sport some years and that they can give me tips. Hopefully, next weekend will be not that cold at the last – -10°C were nearly too cold for skating – then I can train again.

Before I end the first post in the new year I want to congratulate myself to the third place in the fanfiction winter contest of FF@OBL. The task was to write a ficlet containing ten given words. My story “Zauber der Winterzeit” was selected on the third place and that was quite surprising for me. Therefore I will post the story also here on my blog under writings – it couldn’t be that bad.