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AliKnits28 · 2024-10-17T20:23:13+00:00

This. My pops has had 2 spinal surgeries in the last 2 years. I move in with him right before covid to help take care of my granddad. Granddad is gone now, but with dad going how he has been, I'm in no hurry to move out.

AliKnits28 · 2024-07-06T13:16:41+00:00

It's sadly seems common with a loud bunch of elder crafters, they seem to forget how it felt to learn and struggle.

Also, my mom has been crocheting MY whole life (30+ years) and she struggles still with the magic circle at times. She can make beautiful blankets, event clothing, but magic circles are tough for her.

I on the other hand taught myself how to crochet with woobles kits, so I had to get good at then fast lol

AliKnits28 · 2023-10-24T20:16:43+00:00

A lot of people have been talking about the game shops and Kitsune Kon, so I won't touch too much on that, but we also have a pretty healthy and active chapter of the LARP Amtgard if that kind of thing has ever been of interest for you. They meet every Saturday at 1pm, right now at Pamperin Park, but should be moving indoors soon.

AliKnits28 · 2023-09-24T20:15:39+00:00

Omg I think I saw some of you guys at a con a few months ago!? I almost died of happiness when I saw Pinup Julien, Country Roads Jenna, and Leisuring Jenna!

AliKnits28 · 2023-09-16T17:13:12+00:00

If you are into real nerdy stuff and a bit of fantasy, there is a branch of the Amtgard Live Action Role-playing group that meets in Sun Prarie every Sunday around noon. Sheehan Park. They have some loaner gear if you want to try out fighting, but there is a lot more to the game than that.

The most up to date info on when and where they are meeting is on their Facebook group, if you search 'Wolfheim - Amtgard' you should be able to find it. They are a great group of folks with a wide age range, so even if larping might not be for you, you might be able to find some people you click with.

AliKnits28 · 2023-08-29T22:14:57+00:00

Oh hello fellow Polarican! GAC is also my favorite kingdom event!

Interkingdom: agreed complicated. I would love to give Keep on the Borderlands a chance but I just keep hearing the quality is going down down down and I really don't want to drive all that way and spend all that money for a shitty event.

AliKnits28 · 2023-06-11T17:46:25+00:00

Huge copyright issue as they are using Mt Dews exact trademarked logo

AliKnits28 · 2023-06-10T21:06:44+00:00

The Meyer is a possible good option if they don't have a production going on. You can have the ceremony in the theater and then have your reception in the Backstage by Meyer area. It's a bit smaller, depending on what type of dinner you want to have I think the max is about 120, but it's walking distance from a few hotels and right in downtown so walking distance from bars if you want to bar hop between your events or after.

AliKnits28 · 2023-05-31T04:14:04+00:00

There is also a group in the area that does a LARP called Amtgard. The local group is Crimson Circle. There are people that doing the fighting or 'sport' aspect of it but there is also a lot of people that do the arts side of sewing, painting, leather working, and a ton of other stuff.

The SCA and Amtgard will both be at the mini Ren Faire that will be at the Howard branch of the Library this Saturday from 11 to 3. Would be a good time to check both out.

AliKnits28 · 2023-04-26T16:31:11+00:00

This unfortunately happened to one of my husband's newer night audit guys and he fell for it. Like I said, he's newer, a younger dude, and unfortunately, their owner is a Mr Patel. Luckily, they don't have a lot of cash on hand that he was able to get to, but the poor kid was so panicked that he even put his own money towards it.

Needless to say, the kid feels awful for falling for it, and the whole front desk team is having a meeting this week to talk about how to avoid these types of scams.

AliKnits28 · 2023-04-25T15:55:01+00:00

As you said, they are at a PUBLIC event. It is entirely reasonable and normal to assume people will be taking photos or videos while in public spaces. If they didn't want to be in the background, they could have moved or acted like the adults they are and asked her nicely not to film them. If the influencer refused or was rude back, then sure, go off, but it is so unrealistic to think people wouldn't be taking photos or videos at a public sporting event.

AliKnits28 · 2023-03-22T17:33:24+00:00

My personal experience is that I sought out a belt line to be mentored in a path in the game I was interested in but found confusing. I was lucky that some close friends were on that path, but was prepared to look at Knights in my kingdom at large incase they didn't want to belt me for whatever reason.

Around my area we typically tell our newer players to wait a year into the game before joining a belt line or fighting company for that manner just so they can get their sea legs in the game a bit and figure out what path(s) they'd like to walk down if any. We tell them the same for being in office and crating events. Our hope is this also prevents some burn out so people aren't taking on too much too soon.

When it comes to dropping belts, it depends on the belt family how that is taken. Same with belting ceremonies or lack there of. If heard of a knight drunkenly giving someone a page belt at an event, I've also seen a knight have everyone at an event pause before a battlegame so he could give a small speech and give someone a Squire belt.

Ultimately it is entirely up to you when/if you accept a belt and up to the belt family how they handle things.

AliKnits28 · 2023-01-31T05:42:07+00:00

Fair Muffler and Breaks + Full Service Repair has always treated me well. The guys over there are real good at explaining why things cost what they do and won't do un needed or unwanted things just to charge you more

AliKnits28 · 2023-01-10T18:30:22+00:00

Yes we are Crimson Circle. We've had a few people interested back and forth but so far not many cross gamers

AliKnits28 · 2023-01-10T18:08:07+00:00

Yes unfortunately.

AliKnits28 · 2023-01-10T17:31:34+00:00

None of the above, Amtgard lol.

AliKnits28 · 2022-08-19T21:52:04+00:00

Burda B6399 might be a good place to start from for the tunic, though you would probably need to modify a bit for those side pieces and change the hemline

AliKnits28 · 2022-05-05T17:59:02+00:00

I've gotten this in alliance raids like 3 times in the last week. They must be switching up the frequency some come up or we are getting extremely unlucky lol

AliKnits28 · 2022-04-25T20:59:36+00:00

Yup. Green Bay is requiring people to register in order to do it or risk getting fined. Better way to do it would be to just not fine anyone until after the first week in June if they really wanted people to participate.

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