Get to know your neighbors

[DeadBishop]

Good to see that most everyone didn't get lost in the process of losing the original site.  Still waiting to see more people show up, as we originally had nearly 10,000 registered members (even though only about 25% were truly active).

Hey DB just so you know not everyone gets the forward to the new site. LD had to send me the link because I never got the forwarding. There could be other people that are having that issue. Mine turned out to be a security setting on Firefox. Why it was on on my machine and not LD's I do not know.

Unfortunately I have no way of contacting everyone, as the only way previously was through the renmail system and profile info, and that information isn't available anymore.  Typing in "renaissancefestival.com" should bring people right here now at this point.

[Jean Pierre Dewell]

Bonjour all!!!
Jean Pierre Dewell here Royal Musketeer wow nice new place you have here lol, I do miss the old place but we can make this our new home. Bonjour to all the new people and old freinds!! Oh I live in South Mississippi yes where the hurricane hit and yes it was bad and still things are not as they should be but one day I plan on moving out of here one day lol.

  Jean Pierre Dewell
  Royal Musketeer
  All for One and One for all!!
  LONG LIVE THE MUSKETEERS!!

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

Hello again, everyone!  Great to be home!

My husband and I attended our first faire in 1980, when we had a booth at the Ringling Museum's Medieval Faire, in Sarasota, FL.  We had a brass rubbing business and thought that would be good advertising for the workshops I ran in an art gallery in Safety Harbor, FL.  We did that faire for several years and also demonstrated at the First Largo Renaissance Festival (now in a different location and renamed BARF).

Several years went by, we had kids, and while living in Florida in 1995, stumbled upon the Florida Renaissance Festival somewhere around the Vero Beach area (forgot exactly where).  That same summer, we moved to Western Illinois, and I had always remembered the MN RF as being one of the largest.  The next summer, the whole family spent the weekend at MN.  Then we found out about Bristol, only 3 1/2 hours from us, and our whole summer and fall revolved  around finding faires in the local area and visiting them.

I've been on the boards over 2 1/2 years now, and am so addicted that first thing in the morning, I pop downstairs to the computer room to check the forums.  My husband is British, and our real last name is a sept of the Buchanan clan in Scotland, so we wear the Buchanan tartan at faire.

We also have other personnas,  Stephen,  Earl of Wessex and Renee, Countess of Wessex.  Steve is originally from Weymouth, Dorset, one of the counties that make up Wessex.  As well as the dreaded pirate Redbird Annie, keeper of the parrot, and Captain Steve Dorset, captain of the Ocean Motion.   But you have to call me Renee, because I forget to answer to anything else.

My husband and I own a restaurant in Galena, and the decorations on the wall are the brasses and brass rubbings.  We have almost 100 brass facsimilies, though not all are up, and every so often, I still give brass rubbing workshops where the participants make their own brass rubbings.

I love surfing, been surfing since I was 16, though it's pretty hard to do in Galena.  lol.  Anybody who has met me knows that I get so excited about all things faire, I jump up and down and clap my hands.  A lot.

Met the most wondrous friends through this forum and am looking forward to meeting even more at RenDezvous and other faires throughout the midwest season.

[festmum]

Festmum here.  I've been a forum member for 3 years.  Loved the first festival I went to. Got into the festival community through my daughter, a cast memeber of TN for 7 years.  Always a "Mum" to the cast and anyone else who will let me...

[Lady L]

Greetings,
O nce upon a time, in the far Northern land of lakes and trees, there lived a young maiden by the name of Linda, who spent her days taking brush and pencil to paper, creating a menagerie of horses, bison, elk and other animals. With time and practice, she grew in both stature and talent, into a young woman of great ability and ambition. When finally she could learn no more in her sleepy hillside village, she gathered both courage and supplies and set out to seek knowledge in the world beyond ~ The School of the Associated Arts in St. Paul, MN. She spent three years studying the art of life drawing, specializing in sketching the fairies that had early on befriended her dreams. This is about the time the Minnesota Renaissance festival began, in the nearby hamlet of Jonathan~with no more than a few tents staked out in a field and the collective yearning for a bygone age, a time of romance, adventure and fantasy. She visited there in 1973, never thinking she would one day participate in it.

You may greet Lady Linda in person, at her most fyne shoppe numbered 228, near the front gate, to enjoy a viewing of her latest masterpiece and share a smile.

This is the 11th year I have had my shop at MNRF. I also enjoy making garb!

[Once Debauched]

Thick Leg Chelle here!

I think I was a renaholic since birth.  Who knew all those great b/w swashbuckling movies would finally pay off?  I've been a member on the R/F forums since Oct 07 and I've been attending The Greater St. Louis Renaissance Faire for 4 years now and the St. Louis Pirate Festival since it began, 3 years ago.

What's even better is I take my daughter along for the ride.  She hasn't a clue that not everyone dresses up like a Limey Bird or a pirate at least once a year and goes to faire or fest.  Poor kid, she never stood a chance!

[Malcolm]

Good Day! I'm Malcolm (formerly malcolminfife) and I've been a rennie since 2000 when I bought my first kilt at MIRF. By nature I am first a historian, second a Scot, and third a rennie. I have reiceved some training in theatre, but that was a long time ago.
For almost 30 years I worked as a civilian for the Army. I have been retired since 2006, and if I told you any more, I might have to kill you.
Attending Faires has allowed my to take up another old hobby of mine, photography. I post all my Photos at http://community.webshots.com/user/watermark, and post the better ones, after some editing, here http://www.pbase.com/lordmalcolm
If you're at one of the Mid-West's many faires, you might want to keep an eye out for the crafty celt in the kilt with a camera. If you see the flash, it's too late.

[laedyfaire]

Greetings all....glad to see everyone still here and thanks to all who are working so hard in keeping the board up and running.

NYRF if my home faire and we try to make the local smaller faires. Renaddict since 1992. I was lucky enough to have attended my first faire of this season..the Mayfaire in New Paltz NY..great faire.

Here's to another great ren season....2008! HUZZAH!!!!!!!! LF

[LadyOren]

It's just me   Lady Oren,  I'm a fabricaholic, leatheraholic, projectaholic....somebody toss me a rum...rumaholic....shoeaholic...
Mainly attend fairies to play, and I love to play.  This year were making it to Mayfaire Marshall MI (8 days and counting down) Faire in Danville IL, Fishers Ren Faire IN, Meta Park faire IN, and a couple I hope to get to in OH and Mid MI this year if time and funds permit.  Thanks DB for the life raft, you deserve a medal for this one!

[Baron Doune]

Kim your sure all these people are normal?

I'm kinda introverted ya know.

[ladiedragon]

Kim your sure all these people are normal?

I'm kinda introverted ya know.

I'm sorry, who are you? didn't quite get yer name or what you are about guy.

And of course these peoples are all normal, as normal as we can be-being renfest addicts.

[Baron Doune]

*stands up*

Hi, my name is Patrick Stuart and I've been a renahalic since 1987.

My title is Baron Doune and I live in 1566 at Castle Doune in Scotland.  (A Baron is the lowest of the low on the nobility scale and is just simply a land holder.  And I try to uphold this tradition.)

Stuart is not my real last name but is based upon a distant ancestor the Lady Margaret Stuart.  James McCord's wife.  Some of you might have heard of her.

My home faire is MNRF and I'm drawn there mostly for the music.  I prefer scotch, but will settle for a good cheap Irish whiskey.

And no I don't wear the kilts for good reason.  I'm sure somebody else has a pic.

Castle Doune was the castle in Pythons Search for the Holy Grail and was also the place Lady Stuart would take summer visits.

I tend to stick around mostly in the mnrf section but will try to stretch my wings a bit more.

Lord Patrick Stuart
Baron Doune
Order of the Coconut
L'ordre de Rose

and so there LD...

[ladiedragon]

thank you Sir Baron Doune, its always nice to meet new people and learn a little about them

[Joyce "Delfinia DuSwallow" Howard]

Lady Joyceanne here,
                Home is Revel Grove, MDRF. Found the faire about 4yrs. ago and like everyone else I'm also hooked. I'm starting to make my own garb, thanks to all the knowledge on the forums. Very happy to be here!

[CountessofPhoenix]

I'm the Countess of Phoenix, my husband is Graybear. We joined r/f.com just last fall, but we have both been attending fairs for years. My first fair was Scarborough in '95 when I was pregnant with the Lady Rachael so I guess she has been a renaholic from utero. One of my daughters got married at Scarborough in 2002 and it was with great pleasure we attended that fair this year with 3 of our daughters, a son-in-law, boyfriend and two of the grandsons. I've been sewing our costumes since 2000 and it is amazing after sewing for 35 years that ai have so much to learn. TRF is currently our home fair and we have been attending there for several years. Just getting to know the members of this family and those we do know for the most part are welcome editions to our family.
All I want to know is where are my stars? I was working hard to get to post my 100th post now I am starless. Some members have their stars, what about the rest of us?