This is the cheerful post...
...And I am feeling slightly smug.
I have been bust Acquiring Stuff(TM) for Empire. It is fun!
Little Brown Bottles for Potions! The brewing shop will probably be able to sell me some corks to fit.
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16 of these. I can fill them with dozes of things that are really consumable, like Patent Cold Cure, Cough Remedy, Relaxing Sleep Potion, and so forth, all made out of lemon, honey, ginger, cinnamon, and what have you. Herbal and spice mixtures, anyway. There are loads of recipes about that I can use. I shall need labels.
I also have a load of stoneware bottles in the shed that I can scald out and treat with brewing sterilizer before filling with other perfectly potable potions and cunning cures. It'll be fun to be able to give some child arnica for a bumped knee (with parental permission, natch), or some hefty blerk something warming for his head cold or soothing for his hung over stomach! Being an apothecary will be fun.
I have also acquired my comestibles nomming things:
The bowl is about 5" across: perfect porridge size. The tankard is one I have had for many years, but the goblet is new. It's nearly 5" tall, and holds just about a small wineglass full. Half full is a good measure of mead.
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This lovely horn spoon arrived today. It's a perfect desert spoon size: just the ticket for porridge, soup, stew, and mess of pottage... I may buy the metal cutlery later, but for now this will do most of what I need and the spoon won't scratch the bowl.
I don't care HOW anachronistic some folk may think it, I cannot manage a whole weekend without properly brewed tea and coffee. And anyway, this is fantasy LARP, not reenactment. Get over it. So I have a teapot and a coffee pot on the way. Both suitably well used looking...
OK, slightly battered! But of a nice plain style that won't look glaringly out of place. Or too shiny!
I have yet to solve the problem of a suitable cup for drinking the tea and coffee. I'm thinking a handleless pottery beaker of rustic mien, but I haven't found one I like yet. The nicest ones I've seen were horribly expensive but perfectly beautiful repro Simian ware jobs, which are possibly a tad too refined and up-market for my character and her nation. There is time. I shall keep looking. And I am pondering the possibilities of using a tealight holder/trivet to keep the drinks hot, as a tea cosy just doesn't seem right. Not even a heraldic one!
I have also commissioned a lovely medieval style leather girdle with a ring rather than a buckle, and a pouch to go with it. They were not cheap, but they will be lovely and last many years. Pics when it gets here.
I have been bust Acquiring Stuff(TM) for Empire. It is fun!
Little Brown Bottles for Potions! The brewing shop will probably be able to sell me some corks to fit.
16 of these. I can fill them with dozes of things that are really consumable, like Patent Cold Cure, Cough Remedy, Relaxing Sleep Potion, and so forth, all made out of lemon, honey, ginger, cinnamon, and what have you. Herbal and spice mixtures, anyway. There are loads of recipes about that I can use. I shall need labels.
I also have a load of stoneware bottles in the shed that I can scald out and treat with brewing sterilizer before filling with other perfectly potable potions and cunning cures. It'll be fun to be able to give some child arnica for a bumped knee (with parental permission, natch), or some hefty blerk something warming for his head cold or soothing for his hung over stomach! Being an apothecary will be fun.
I have also acquired my comestibles nomming things:
The bowl is about 5" across: perfect porridge size. The tankard is one I have had for many years, but the goblet is new. It's nearly 5" tall, and holds just about a small wineglass full. Half full is a good measure of mead.
This lovely horn spoon arrived today. It's a perfect desert spoon size: just the ticket for porridge, soup, stew, and mess of pottage... I may buy the metal cutlery later, but for now this will do most of what I need and the spoon won't scratch the bowl.
I don't care HOW anachronistic some folk may think it, I cannot manage a whole weekend without properly brewed tea and coffee. And anyway, this is fantasy LARP, not reenactment. Get over it. So I have a teapot and a coffee pot on the way. Both suitably well used looking...
OK, slightly battered! But of a nice plain style that won't look glaringly out of place. Or too shiny!
I have yet to solve the problem of a suitable cup for drinking the tea and coffee. I'm thinking a handleless pottery beaker of rustic mien, but I haven't found one I like yet. The nicest ones I've seen were horribly expensive but perfectly beautiful repro Simian ware jobs, which are possibly a tad too refined and up-market for my character and her nation. There is time. I shall keep looking. And I am pondering the possibilities of using a tealight holder/trivet to keep the drinks hot, as a tea cosy just doesn't seem right. Not even a heraldic one!
I have also commissioned a lovely medieval style leather girdle with a ring rather than a buckle, and a pouch to go with it. They were not cheap, but they will be lovely and last many years. Pics when it gets here.