Just an update...

Not much going on, but I thought I'd try this whole updating thing.

Ellen's parents are in town, and we're going to be taking them around for the next couple of days. We'll probably visit the Grand Palace and Wat Po, but everything else is rather up in the air. It is great to have them, though.

Oh, we have another SCAdian out in Bangkok. Yay! If we can find two more, we could have an actual Canton, which is one of the smaller groups you can have in the Society. We are also all Japanese personas, which is rather an interesting stroke of luck. This is motivating me to work on a new set of armor for the SCA as well. We'll see how that turns out. Part of the problem is finding the correct materials.

We also went down to the fabric market recently. Wow! 3 meters of nice fabric (i.e. not muslin) for 100THB, which is under $3 USD, and in good widths. Silks for maybe 100THB/meter. Lots of dance costumes, Thai fabrics, etc. Didn't quite find what we need for SCA stuff, yet, but I think it probably is in there, somewhere. Lots of good Chinese silks that we could use for some Chinese stuff.

I also picked up some pearls in Bangaladesh. I'm thinking of making one of the Chinese Imperial mortarboard caps, with the dangling pearls. My only problem is that it would not be something I could use much. The Japanese don't seem to have used pearls too much (mother of pearl they used a lot), but I may be able to do something Elizabethan. Perhaps a nice doublet, studded all over with pearls? I picked up some white, pink, and black pearls there for incredible prices.

That's about it for now. We'll have pictures up about our trips with Ellen's parents around Thailand and Japan, just as soon as we finish taking them!