I had a hectic but awesome weekend.

Saturday I went and helped out at a 'craft demonstration' at Tony Swatton's shop, Sword and the Stone, in Burbank, CA. Now, when I say craft, I don't mean going over to the Wal-Mart and picking up some beads and t-shirt paint (though, I could do fun things with that as well)rather, we had chainmaille, blacksmithing, smelting, gem-cutting and all that fun stuff.

I was at the chainmaille table.

they left Sue and I alone a little too long, and we got a bit creative with patterns, i'll post one later.

the guy doing the smelting promised me a piece of the nice, high carbon steel he was smelting, as long as it came out right.


Sunday I went over to my friend Kris's house and played all kinds of traditional music, ate chinese food, and drank lots of raspberry lambic.

good times