The faire was a hit.
I should post photos, but it’s a pain to get them from the phone to the computer and I’m not really sure how to get them from the computer to the blog. So there are no photos.
But Eleanor’s dress was really lovely – green with puffy lace sleeves and a lace inset down the front. Looking, perhaps, an awful lot like this, in dark forest green and ivory.
We were going to do fully matching outfits, but with the ranch sale I didn’t get the fabric selections even started till super late, and Eleanor was resistant to trying on any dress that was not already lovely … so it was decided to just make a just-for-a-fitting dress a full dress (hers) and to make it out of things that we had at hand (dark green satin).
And as it turned out, speaking of things we had at hand, I have these simple green dresses that were the underdresses for my two more complicated outfits, and wonder and glory, they still fit. So I wore one of my green dresses, and then put all my chain mai`lle on because .. you know .. sparkly. But since I had jewelry, there was a raid to my costume jewelry box, and Eleanor picked out a wonderfully beautiful necklace too.
So we went. Rain, thunderstorms, cold and all that predicted weather aside.
We had a lovely time. Eleanor romped, she played in the dirt, she scuffed around in her lovely dress (sigh). We rented a wagon for her (good call!) and she sat in it and waved to the passers by as we went. She saw pirates and fairies and horses and goats and a mermaid and everyone was lovely to her. She played with lots of other kids, and they were all good kids too.
People complimented us both together, seemingly universally amused at the princess and her mother/lady-in-waiting trope.
People complimented my hair and my chain maille. One person, who worked at the chain maille shop, apparently (he talked to Joseph) recognized the style and knew who made it. That was cool.
The rain was tedious but not awful. The weather was a little cool, but we were all in layers and adequately prepared so that was no difficulty. The crowds were very light, possibly because of the promise of awful weather, so that worked out well.
And we picked up some fun stuff, had a delightful time, and Eleanor is still asleep.
Wooo!
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