Tabitha Pennywarden suggested: <<< That's a good idea; you could use beeswax, (or another period wax) if you have some - beeswax doesn't go rancid, is water...
Any stone workers out there? I need to chisel some pieces off of cement slabs. I was wondering what is a good base to use for shock absorbency, sturdiness,...
When I was in Art School, we used old sofa cushions, wrapped in duct tape, for chiseling marbel, plaster, cement, etc.... worked pretty well actually Robert...
Hello, all. I attended a handful of SCA events during my collegiate years in An Tir. Fifteen years later, I now find myself missing it, so I'm gearing up to...
... If you do decide to stick around, I highly recommend the Medieval Names Archive <http://s-gabriel.org/names/> as a good place to look for a period name to...
Thanks, everyone, for the helpful suggestions about names, personae, persona-origins, and encampments. Wow, if this is the help I get just for saying howdy,...
Judith, welcome to the group. I am also in the kingdom of AnTir. I have been playing with SCA for a number of years but Milord husband & I have just...
Greetings Judith No Name Yet, Welcome back to the SCA! And yes, you may need to find the rest of your name or stop using this descriptive. A number of SCA folk...
Hello Judith, Welcome back! It sounds like you have a fairly good handle on SCA internet info, but just in case you missed this one; the society maintains a...
My flatmate and I have picked names, at least tentatively. I'll be Divash and my flatmate will either use her name Mika, or be masquerading as a man called...
I'm pasty-pale, and I want my persona to be quite dark. I know it's okay to be pale even when one has a pale persona, but I LIKE darker skin, and would love to...
Canthaxanthin is sold in several health food places I've been as a tanning agent for bodybuilders. Canthaxanthin is stored in bodyfat. Your palms/soles of your...
Thanks, Ron! Will it turn me brown, though, or orange? I've heard of canthaxanthin before but not tried it myself. I really want to avoid an orangey color if...
I am Seminole Native American ..so kinda tending to the dark anyway, it turns me a really dark brown for about 4 days. Unfortunately, you will burn like heck...
I haven't worked out the fine details of my persona yet, but I know that I want her to be a Jew from either North Africa (Morocco to Yemen, somewhere in that...
You didn't mention spray-tan in your options. Call around tanning salons in your area and find a good place that does spray tans. You can take a few...
Dia duit! The aunt of my husband wanted, for an Halloween party, to be an African person and took a black ink bath... Oh, it works good but 3 things about it: ...
... *laugh* Having recently spilled about half a bottle of sepia ink, I can confirm that sepia will dye your skin a lovely dark brown which will last through...
How do the various Kingdoms handle it when someone lives in one Barony's/Canton's/Shire's territory but wants to play - and HOLD OFFICE - in another's??? This...
... The short answer is, it depends on your kingdom and on which office is involved. But there are some general principles that apply, and I'll make some notes...
We have quite a bit of that here in parts of An Tir because of how close our groups are together. If you wanted to you could easily go to one of about 10 ...
I guess because I live in Atlanta, I never saw the point of "Your zipcode determines the area you can play in." I've seen situations where people would...
Thanks, Lord (?) Justin! I've added your reply (minus names, of course; I'd rather keep the respondents anonymous...) to the documentation I've started on...
Thank you, Lady (?) Shere'e! I really appreciate your input. I'll bring these points out in the next meeting on the subject [your contribution will be...
Thanks, (?) Lady Keppel (??)!! I appreciate your input; I especially liked your illustration of the children in the playground - what child playing freely...
Okay, i have to pipe in here. And i will try and be as........polite as possible so as not to sound like a ranting fool. But reading these posts has the hair...
To Whom It May Concern: I have noticed that in The Society For Professional Anachronism at least as far as the United States of America is concerned seems to...
Way cool! Thanks for that information! Would you consider passing on the name of the person you contacted - or SCA Corpora bylaw - or whatever SCA...
Hmm. I've wondered about that, myself. Speaking from personal experience here, in the western U.S., people of 'color' seem to generally be accepted as part...
... I'm going to assume you meant "The Society for Creative Anachronism", since that's the organization with this Yahoo! Group is associated. I wouldn't...
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