Well, this weekend was a bunch of “other”. I was not able, nor did I feel up to working that much. Fortunately, i was able to work on some easier things that just brought joy. I managed to get three projects done. The first is the one I am happiest with. At my wife’s barn there is a young girl (Charlotte) who is 3 who keeps a pony in the same paddock as my wife. In order to keep my wife’s tack clean I made her a fence hook to hang the ropes and bridles from. Well, Charlotte fell in love with it and began hanging her tack on it. Because she loved it so much I decided to make her one for herself. It is just like my wife’s, just in charlotte’s favorite color: PINK.
While I was at the forge, I decided to take care of something that was bothering me. I made the viking frying pan/ griddle last week and put the matching handle for the Pennsic cooking set I was working on. This handle is designed to hang from the tool holder at Pennsic, but not a period design. This kind of bugged me more then I care to admit, so it needed to be remedied.
So…. Time to forge another one:
So now I have 2 griddles. One is going to remain at Pennsic, but what to do with the other one. Hummmmmmmm…… I know, Mistress Lorelei was the inspiration for making them in the first place, so I will go ahead and give it to her to use in her period cooking. I love when my A&S projects get used instead of just being made for A&S. And putting it in the hands of Mistress Lorelei insured that the thing will be used instead of just being carted around to events to be displayed at A&S. This is the perfect idea, and because Lorelei has told me that she reads all of these posts, she will know she can have it when she next comes to visit! All she needs to do is to let me know how happy she would be to own one of these and it is hers. Of course if I do not hear from her, I will assume she does not want it and i will just add it to my finished product pile and it will just travel with me to events to be shown off. The fate of the griddle is now in her hands….we will see.
Because of all my other commitments over last weekend, some of the work time I was able to find was after forging time (i try and be considerate of the neighbors). So it was time to pull out the broom making supplies. I had made a matching broom handle for the Pennsic set, and I had 3 other handles that I had made that were still waiting on broom heads. And so, Broom Time!
One is for the Pennsic set, 1 is for Gunnora’s Mother for Christmas (Shhhhhh…. don’t tell her) and I think the other 2 will be sold at Holiday Faire. Well that was what I have been working on for the past week. I have no idea what comes next, I hope to get into the forge this weekend, but I need to figure out what to work on next.
