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We didn't float away, surprisingly!

Lucked out on Saturday with weather in the 60s and no rain, but it rained every other day and that field is a damn mud pit after that much rain! We bailed on Sunday and drove home after breakfast. I will be very surprised if nobody parked in a field rather than the small paved lots had to be hauled out at the end. And camping through that seems like a terrible time, more power to the people who want to do that.

Still, Saturday was very nice, we saw people and did shopping (home base was in Amber and Cait's tent, and we were occasionally marginally helpful rather than in the way). I didn't buy a ton, but I did buy some Dames a la Mode earrings (unnecessary) and a 5-yard-length cut of one of Amber's cotton print fabric (even more unnecessary).

Unpacked almost nothing yesterday,  except my soggy-ass leather 18thc shoes that I wore on Friday. Lili helped me unpack the molasses cookie that I bought at lunch on Saturday, put in my basket, and forgot about until this morning ("what are you sniffing?").

I brought it to school and ate it with my cup of tea this morning, it wasn't as stale as you'd have thought.

As you may have noticed from Instagram, I didn't finish the pink dress... when it wasn't almost done by Wednesday night, I tossed that idea and wore the plaid wool closed gown instead. It's nice enough! Pink wool isn't TOO far from done,  but is far enough that a late night panic sew wouldn't have done any good anyway!

Robin and I are planning on going to a New Castle event in late May, I'll see if I can finish it for that!

As you may have noticed on Blogger...I found my camera cable. :)

Windy! That would be my word to describe Fort Fred this year. Lovely weather besides that though, and I'd much rather have that than Too Hot.

First things first, here are some pictures of the new outfit, all put together. I didn't get pictures til we were in the parking lot, ready to go ("WAIT I didn't get pictures of my dreeeeesssss!!") so I'm rocking the windblown hair look! I'm surprised the cap didn't just take flight.


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Yep, I made it back in one piece - I just had to wait until other people posted their photos so I could steal them, as usual! I'm such a lame photographer.

Oh, and I put together a blog post for the striped jacket I didn't wear...it's here, though I prefer comments here if you like. I always forget to reply on Blogger...

So, yes, it ended up being too chilly to wear the striped cotton jacket. I'm very glad I wore the wool instead; I think I'd have been rather sorry if I'd worn the jacket!

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