The knitting madness has begun....

After years of saying "one of these days, I'm going to learn to knit..." I finally took it up over the fall..though I didn't get very far with my first attempt coming back from Texas. The project (a basic scarf) was the bane of my knitting existence. Evil little thing!
Fast forward to early December, and I started on something else...another scarf, imagine that?!
That one is coming out quite nice, though I haven't really worked on it due to recently starting on yet ANOTHER scarf (this is waaay to addicting!), but a more complicated one that I am knitting for Eddie. That is my favorite so far, and I'm quite amazed that as my first attempt at "cabling", I actually designed my own knit pattern! Thank God it is actually coming out quite beautiful. It alternates between dark grey and dark burgundy. Once that one is done, I am itching to try something even more challenging and knit a gorgeous Celtic knot-work sweater I have a pattern for.
Here's a pic of the first scarves!

Welcome to our newest family member!

While TRF (Texas Ren Fest) was immensely fun, it is so nice to be home after more than two months on the road, and just in time for Christmas, too.
The other day Eddie and I were trying to decide what to get each other for Christmas this year, and I confessed that I have been seriously considering adopting a second dog for a long time now and have been doing a few searches online. Well, it just so happened that last week Eddie ended up near the animal shelter and came home to tell me that there were two malamutes up for adoption. Hmmmm....

We went the next day to visit them, only to find that one had been adopted already, and the other was pending adoption. I didn't want to really pay attention to the dogs - and they were SUPER gorgeous and WELL MANNERED - because I didn't want to get attached to them since they were adopted anyway.

Saturday, the lady at the animal shelter called us up and it turned out that WE could adopt the remaining male. I was out in MD when Ed called, and we decided that he would go pick him up and adopt him!

So, now we have a new dog! And he's a BIIIIG one: a 110 pound malamute mix, and he is a total gentleman. He's very impressive! He and Ceilidh have been going for walks together and doing some occasional rough-housing; they seem to be getting along just fine.

He's already attached himself to our family and claimed us has his new pack, and will whine and wimper if we are not ALL in view. Strangely though, we have had him since Saturday night and he has yet to bark. He is completely silent. Though earlier when I took him for a walk, he heard some dogs barking near by and he threw his head up as if to howl. I can't wait for him to do that, I bet it is gorgeous.

We think we are either going to name him "Koda" (which means 'friend' in I think Chereokee...I could be mistaken, we looked at so many names recently) or "Hacuma" (Ha-KUMA) which is a mixture of Inuit and other languages meaning "Fire Spirit".

He's a jem!!

Videos from TRF

While browsing the latest from YouTube, I came across these two clips of me (and my husband with the tamborine...*g*) performing with E-Muzeki at TRF a few weeks ago.

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The weather is finally cool here, whooohooo! Bouncing around the kitchen making cookies for Faire and working online...hehe...must get back to the cookies...

Cheers!

Hittin' the road again

Over the past two months at the Maryland Ren Faire, Eddie and I have become friends with one of the Faire's new musical acts, E-Muzeki. (Check out their website, emuzeki.com)
From the first moment we walked up and saw their shows, we were hooked on their sound! We were all sad to see them on their way the weekend of Sept. 23, and it seems strange to not hear their music at Faire.
Then we got a call from Jenny the day after they left and asked Eddie and I to join them at the Texas Ren Fest this season, Eddie as their drummer, and me to dance. We are so honored and thrilled, I can't wait.
So, we are off to the Texas Ren Fest tomorrow for two months. However, due to previous obligations, we will be back for the last weekend of the Maryland Ren Fest, and then head back to TX.
I will post pics and updates on the blog from the road.
Much love to my friends and family!!

Is it the moon?

Been feeling a little...well...wolfish here the last couple of days. Is it the moon? Last night to try and calm down (but it didn't work) I went for a skate and ended up going about 12 miles out without stopping and with only two small swigs of water. It was sooooo enjoyable, as by the time I left my house it was almost dark and pouring rain and sleet and the temperature freezing, but to me it was perfect. It's something that has been pulling on me for a while now, and I just had to go. Enveloped by the darkness and feeling the slicing rain soak my face as I met it head on I drew even more energy from the environment around me. The rawness invigorated me, soothed me, drove me. Granted, what I was doing and where I was not remotely safe, but I kept going without a care about the dangers around me.
It felt great.
There are some things that you just can't explain or put into words.

Gaelic Storm tonight!

Rock on, we're seeing Gaelic Storm again tonight right down the street from me. Can't wait!!

It's good to be home

As much as I love to be on the road and travel, I can't express the wonderful feeling I had to feel "at home" again, back at my home faire (the VA Ren Faire) back in my home state. Not to mention the view that surrounded us for three days...just breathtaking. The photo is what we woke up to on Sunday. :-)

Our shows rocked, we had such a blast. It was sad when it was all over again...but of course we couldn't leave without me doing SOMETHING stupid. hehe...just got around to cleaning the car out today. Long story. And no, I don't do these things on purpose, lol!

The drive back was *insane*, I have never been so tired in my life, and there were waaay too many deer in and near the road for my taste, :-/ At least Eddie drove the first half...but I still had an hour to go after we dropped him off at 3 am and still had to drive all the way up to Baltimore to get Kristen to the airport on time. No one can ever say we don't love what we do! lol!

With that being said, I'm going to make this a short post and try to get some sleep. Love to all my gypsy friends, no one could ask for a better pack of core friends. Miss you guys.

Love,
Meg

I passed the first year!! :-)

I just received my grades and my first-year certificate from Dance Masters Teacher's Training School...and....I passed!
I'm so excited...1 down, 3 more to go. Woot!

My new blog :-} (oops, fixed the link)

I have been booted out of so many blogs over the last few years or just not happy with the ones that I was with...except for the last one that just closed the service. ;-(
And since I take so many bloody photographs, I went ahead and opened a new blog. I just couldn't post the amount of photos I wanted to on my Tribe blog - though I will still be using it.
My new (and hopefully permanent) blog is:
www.wandereriam.blogspot.com
Cheers!
Meg

Pirates of the Caribbean Gown...

In a way, it's good to be back home for a little while. I have had a chance to work on things that have been sitting in my closet unfinished for several months now...some belly dance costumes with unique twists on traditional outfits, and hopefully finishing my gown from the first Pirates of the Caribbean movie. It's pretty much done, I just need the underskirt and finish sewing on the front closures. We're going to go out to this really neat fort and get some pics of it when it's all done. Here's what it looks like so far...the photo was taken this evening in the yard. The light at the end of the tunnel is in sight with this gown! :-)