From the Baronial Largesse Coordinator: Greetings, dear Barony! Summer will soon be upon us and we are beginning to gather (safely) once again! We have several very special events taking place in t…

Shortly after making my Saccoccia (pocket bag) I met up with a few women who play in the SCA and we made up a bunch of pocket-bags to give away as largess. I’ll admit, I don’t totally u…

I admit it, I'm a bit of a magpie. I love pretty, shiny things. Jewelry, goldwork embroidery, silk, you name it. Some of my favorite gifts and largesse have been veil pins, which feel my shiny addiction nicely. A local bead store was going out of business recently, and had a ton of items on

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Embroidered and embellished head bands, by Lady Kaisa Haapala.

As you can see, my husband and I had a lot of fun painting some small wooden boxes for our largesse stash. Now you might ask - what is largesse? Well,... :)

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I worked so hard to get my families new things finished for the event I mentioned in my last post, but to paraphrase Jane Austen “our intended excursion to Wadköping turned out very differently from what I’d expected. I was prepared to be wet through, fatigued…. ; but the event was still more unfortunate, for we did not go at all.” That is, little B and I didn’t go, as he got ill. Tobias went up on Friday afternoon, but came home again on Saturday evening to help me with the poor sick child…

These are small scent bags I made from my SCA groups Baroness to give out as presents.