MIA

There is some (indian?) story where they tell the hero, that sometimes s/he must sit down and wait for his/her sould to catch up. 

So much happened the last few weeks, with the London trip and the week of March 15th (which is a big national holiday for Hungarians, as it is the annyversary of the big 1848 recolution and freedom fight, and as a reenactors we are ever so busy at this time of the year). Don't get me wrong, I love life when it is busy but yes, sometimes even I do have to slow down and wait for my sould to catch up (all the while I am catching up with the work that I do for money :-) ).

The Tuesday Travel will -hopefully- return next week with another London Episode, now, let me show you what I did for the week.

I spent three morning in the Buda Castle with kids, 12-18 years, with a teammate and we were talking about the "age of reforms" (which is the period leading up to that 1848 revolution), me from the women's perspective, especially fashion, as in what and why women wore what they did, and my teammate talked about the same, as in what and why wore a man from the national guard from the period. 

(Pictures were made on the last day :-) )

And fashion was the theme of the week. On Saturday, we went to the Gödöllő Castle, and did the little show, on fashion history from the mid-18th century to the early 20th century, and talked about the changes. 

Norbert could not come, so no photos, but a short videoclip, just to show you, that we really have anything for every decade of the 19th century :-)

(the video was shot by my son, Chris, who stepped in as my chaffeur and support for the day)

And then, on Sunday, back to the Buda Castle, though to a different organisation/museum, where we sent the day presenting the "touchable", living history. 

Yes, seeing the pictures, it is obvious, that I already knew, that as much as I love this dress, and think of it as one of my masterpieces, I lost way to much weight for it to fit me, in other words, it is hanging on me (like, as we say a pair of bloomers on a cow).  Now, I had fully planned to make a new dress, I literarly spent months thinking about what kind of dress I should make, looked at hundreds of fashion plates, existing dresses, even movies, television films to get some ideas (see tomorrow's strong opinion about that), when I finally decided what to make I prewashed my fabric, made my mock up... Only to have it put away because some urgent work came in, so I had to cancel my plans and spend some days and nights with my computer (like my week way not busy enough in itself...)