Guten Tag!
Today I am inspired! I've been struggling lately to find a focus and that's been detrimental to my
SCA experience. It can be a little disheartening to be running around helping everyone at events or practices (which is my natural tendency) when you haven't got something you're passionate about to work on.
It's even harder to handle the administrative duties of being a group
Seneschal!
But thanks to a couple of long chats with our most excellent Baron and Baroness,
Branwen and
Kilic, I am once more inspired to work on my own projects. It was only when I sat down with their excellencies who are both highly knowledgeable and highly engaged in researching the medieval period that my own interest in research was re-kindled. Yes, I am a nerd at heart and in the
SCA I can find like minded people who won't ridicule me for wanting to read a book more than drink a VB.
Through our chats I realised that one of my major problems is that I try to be involved in everything and that I haven't yet identified what it is that I'm truly excited about. But there's one thing I do know, and that's that I'm interested in the Crusades and particularly the involvement of the Holy Roman Empire. Now couple that with the fact that there's a disturbing amount of Tudor garb at
Anealan events and I find myself inspired to put together a Crusade era outfit. This will be the first time I've actually put together an "outfit" rather than cobbled together some typical
SCA bits and pieces into an ensemble.
I'm still searching for inspiration but here's one image I found:
Yes I know this is a picture of royalty but the effect is pretty impressive.
I'll post updates as I make progress (or just find pretty pictures to inspire me!)
Until next time
Bechtold (the Crusader)
