Sansan Crafting, Etc.
Well to get my mind off my misery I did some crafting yesterday. Here's the result! Its a little muslin bag, stamped with the Stark direwolf, a "Made in Winterfell" sign and some embroidery of blue roses. I purchased the bags at a local stationery store, designed the custom stamp and embroidered the roses.
Why "Made in Winterfell?" I like to think its a souvenir from a fictional trip to Winterfell. If you weren't aware of it, Westeros is a fictional top travel destination, beating out Diagon Alley and the Shire. Personally, my top travel fictional destination is Narnia. But there are serious visa restraints there with tourists required to be under the age of puberty. :P
I'd like to go pre-AGOT while it was still summer in Winterfell and the snows were brief. It would be safe time for female travelers as the mountain lord Liddle claimed to Bran in Bran II ASOS:
When there was a Stark in Winterfell, a maiden girl could walk the kingsroad in her name-day gown and still go unmolested, and travelers could find fire, bread and salt at many an inn and holdfast.
No doubt due to my coloring, people would assume I was from Yi Ti and ask me if magic was still strong in my part of the world and if dragons and basilisks roamed the land. Haha, NO I would say.
But our alchemy is very advanced, so advance we've been to moon (which has no dragons either) and we have devices fit into the palm of our hand, yet they could hold all the books in the Library Tower of Winterfell and store vast amounts of human knowledge. But most people just use it to look at pictures of cats and write down what they they ate for breakfast. Why, here's a picture of a cat who looks like the King's Executioner.
Maybe I'd get an introduction and be allowed to enter Winterfell as a guest. Perhaps do a little embroidery with Sansa and Arya and Septa Mordane. My embroidery skills are probably more rudimentary than even Arya since I needed some refreshing on how to sew a buillon and chain stitch.
Here's some photos of my trip to Winterfell. (Actually photos of my trip to York and its surrounding areas. Since ASOIAF is based on the War of the Roses with House York =House Stark, House Lancaster=House Lannister, they'll have to do).
Bread, salt and beer at an inn in Winter Town.
The Broken Tower, it was once the tallest watchtower in Winterfell, but over 140 years ago a lightning strike set it afire and the top third collapsed inward, and no one bothered to rebuild it.
Great Keep and roof of Great Hall
The First Keep, the oldest part of the castle, a squat round fortress. It is no longer in use. They say it was built by Bran the Builder with the help of giants.
I do like to bring food home as souvenirs, preferably chocolates. But chocolates have not come to Westeros (yet), so I'll have to settle for some spun sugar with lemon essence that Gage made from the Winterfell kitchens. Surprising they taste quite a bit like the Japanese candy "Super Lemon" which many candy fans consider the best tasting lemon hard candy. Should you like to receive the muslin bag and some lemon candies, comment here or PM me. I have more than enough to distribute and like sending gifts.
Why "Made in Winterfell?" I like to think its a souvenir from a fictional trip to Winterfell. If you weren't aware of it, Westeros is a fictional top travel destination, beating out Diagon Alley and the Shire. Personally, my top travel fictional destination is Narnia. But there are serious visa restraints there with tourists required to be under the age of puberty. :P
I'd like to go pre-AGOT while it was still summer in Winterfell and the snows were brief. It would be safe time for female travelers as the mountain lord Liddle claimed to Bran in Bran II ASOS:
When there was a Stark in Winterfell, a maiden girl could walk the kingsroad in her name-day gown and still go unmolested, and travelers could find fire, bread and salt at many an inn and holdfast.
No doubt due to my coloring, people would assume I was from Yi Ti and ask me if magic was still strong in my part of the world and if dragons and basilisks roamed the land. Haha, NO I would say.
But our alchemy is very advanced, so advance we've been to moon (which has no dragons either) and we have devices fit into the palm of our hand, yet they could hold all the books in the Library Tower of Winterfell and store vast amounts of human knowledge. But most people just use it to look at pictures of cats and write down what they they ate for breakfast. Why, here's a picture of a cat who looks like the King's Executioner.
Maybe I'd get an introduction and be allowed to enter Winterfell as a guest. Perhaps do a little embroidery with Sansa and Arya and Septa Mordane. My embroidery skills are probably more rudimentary than even Arya since I needed some refreshing on how to sew a buillon and chain stitch.
Here's some photos of my trip to Winterfell. (Actually photos of my trip to York and its surrounding areas. Since ASOIAF is based on the War of the Roses with House York =House Stark, House Lancaster=House Lannister, they'll have to do).
Bread, salt and beer at an inn in Winter Town.
The Broken Tower, it was once the tallest watchtower in Winterfell, but over 140 years ago a lightning strike set it afire and the top third collapsed inward, and no one bothered to rebuild it.
Great Keep and roof of Great Hall
The First Keep, the oldest part of the castle, a squat round fortress. It is no longer in use. They say it was built by Bran the Builder with the help of giants.
I do like to bring food home as souvenirs, preferably chocolates. But chocolates have not come to Westeros (yet), so I'll have to settle for some spun sugar with lemon essence that Gage made from the Winterfell kitchens. Surprising they taste quite a bit like the Japanese candy "Super Lemon" which many candy fans consider the best tasting lemon hard candy. Should you like to receive the muslin bag and some lemon candies, comment here or PM me. I have more than enough to distribute and like sending gifts.