I can’t sleep
January 25th, 2007 at 12:29 am by Hope (SCA)
Tonight was another SotSS Music Group meeting at the Inn of the Oak and Dragon (that’s what we’ve taken to calling our home for SCA meetings LOL!). I had so much fun pretending I can sing! I think I even sang a few notes right. *giggle* My throat feels kinda fatigued though. I wonder if that is because I am really not a singer. 
One of tonight’s songs was “Rose Red” and I can’t keep from humming it. Just for grins I googled it and found there are many, many variations on the verses. Apparently it is a popular campfire song. Guess I’ve never been at the right campfire.
Saturday is Queen’s Prize. I get to leave a 6AM. Oh joy. But I won’t be travelling alone and may be following others to the event so there is less of a chance of me getting lost. 
Since personal badges aren’t encouraged in Calontir (they’re for households or guilds, so sayest the herald), I think I’ll come up with a badge for “the Inn”. I’ve kinda wanted to be a part of a household for a while but we’ve never been invited. (I think that’s how it works) So, we’ll have our own. 
It would be fun to have it on the mailbox. Ok, enough rambling incoherently. G’Nite!
Ismay said,
January 25th, 2007 at 1:23 am
I learned Rose Red in grade school. Now I have it running through my head.
Can’t wait to hear the news from Queen’s Prize!
ismay
Dayle said,
January 25th, 2007 at 3:27 am
Households are a non-official thing in the SCA, so there are no rules. Some households have a whole mission statement and charter; others are a loosely grouped set of friends who hang out together.
I lean more towards an anti-household stance, mainly because I’ve seen households scoop newcomers up before the newcomer has really experienced the SCA, and gives them a somewhat skewed version of what we’re all about. That said, there are wonderful households as well. I guess I’m anti-formal households, when it comes to newcomers. (If that makes any sense.)
Umberto and I formed our own household, Ty Craig-y-Ceiliog, years ago, and the other members have come and gone as we’ve moved and they’ve changed their SCA interests and desires. We’ve also been part of loose households that have no official name or badge, but are just a group of folks who camp together.
It really depends on what you want, and what you put into it, to discover what you get out of it.
Hugs, Rhieinwen
P.S. And personal badges are quite all right, no matter what the local herald says. Ask Bruce. He’s The Herald!
Ilaria said,
January 25th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Hi there,
We’ve got to get to site by 7, since Cassandra is one of the event stewards. 
But maybe I just don’t understand what a badge is.
I think we’ll be leaving our crash space at 6 am.
As for badges, I’m soooooo do not speak heraldese, so I have a question: a badge is different from your device right? And in calontir, it’s totally encouraged for people to wear their devices. I think, if I understand it correctly, that other people really aren’t supposed to wear your device, but they can be allowed to wear your badge. Does this sound right to you? I must confess to seeing a certain Royal Peer wearing a blue-boar badge, and having his supporters do the same at the last Crown tournament……so I can’t see why it’d be bad for other people to wear a badge.
And as for households, I was and am still part of one in Northshield. I absolutely love my Northshield household….. we are Domus Echinus (House Hedge-hog). We have our own device, and we camp together, and hang out together at events……… so I really miss it! In Calontir, we actually don’t have households, in a sense. There is a history in this….. when Calontir first became a Kingdom, households caused a huge rift among some large groups in the Kingdom…. so their presence in Calontir is shunned….. *except* for Peerage households. So, a Knight can organize his or her Squires into a household. Or a Pelican or a Laurel can do so as well. So, I’m part of Cassandra’s household, which in part includes Mighel and his apprentice, Brian. And in a way, it’s part of an extended household with Dejaneira, because she was Cassandra’s Laurel. This was very new to me, as I had never thought of apprenticing myself to anyone…. and then when I decided to, that’s when I learned of the household system in Calontir. So, you could be part of a household…. you just need to ask to be apprenticed, squired, or protiged (sp) to someone, and have them accept.
Ismay said,
January 25th, 2007 at 4:52 pm
Hey there,
Don’t know what happened to my comment from last night… Learned Rose Red in grade school.
Badges can be a simple way of identifying yourself or your stuff! The vair hand puppet that is my badge is easier to stick on something than to paint my device as you well know. darn squirrels… and it allows me to be incognito so to speak.
As you know I belong to a household. House of Five Bells was created by a bunch of ladies who liked to camp together and to be of service.
We have a household protector in the form of Duke Sir Guillaume de la Belgique. After all we are a household of defenseless women……
Ismay
Hope Martin said,
January 25th, 2007 at 11:32 pm
Many thanks to all of you! Seems I have much to think about.
Ancelin (sp?) was the one who said I should create a badge for Robert & I as a “household” rather than for me personally. Now granted, I am not talking about registering a name or anything. I don’t think he was either. I’ll have to ask him some more about it.
In any case, I don’t see our “household” being anyting formal. Just for fun and most likely just for us.
Thanks again!
Dayle said,
January 26th, 2007 at 10:19 pm
I love IKA (Inter-Kingdom Anthropology)! When I was a protégé, I was never formally part of my Pelican’s household. (Nor did I want to be–not because of anything bad, just not my cup of tea.) I was never invited, nor expected, to “join up.”
Anyway, a badge IS different from your device. Your device means “this is who I am.” It takes the place of you if you’re not around. A badge, on the other hand, says “This is my stuff.” It’s technically incorrect, from a heraldese standpoint, to put your device on, say, a small box, because the box is not you.
Here’s a nice essay by a former Laurel Queen of Arms for the SCA, on the sca.org website: http://www.sca.org/heraldry/laurel/lessons/lesson13.html
It makes it clear that a badge can be for an individual.