Goodness! A house fire sounds dreadful! Good to hear that you survived, though!
I was extremely lucky to have been away from home, I normally would have been in bed when it happened.
And congrats on the impending elevation (welcome to the Grove and all that <g>). The gown should be lovely--the inspiration portrait is a new one to me, but then, I'm only slightly familiar with 16th century German styles.
Thank you:) It's a rather unique regional style, I'm a bit known now fr a *slight* obsesion with the Cleves style and the whole North Rhine- Westphalian style. The one in the portrait is one I have loved for a few years now and was thrilled to see a large size copy of it online.
--Sue, who sometimes looks remarkably like someone named "Maire," who is an SCA member with all sorts of Official Alphabet Soup (for late-period embroidery, primarily
*grin* Willemyne has only a few letters after her name one of which already looks like OL;) Luckily that has changed to OGL! (Order of the Golden Lily rather than Order of the Lily.) I really need to decide on the translation of Mistress though. I need to decide on the Dutch or German translations. Michaela http://glittersweet.com _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list h-costume@mail.indra.com http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
