Sunday, June 28, 2009

Medieval Festival

Last year, we had the Scottish Festival. This year, the theme was medieval, and there were more participants. There were two separate sewing classes, because there were two "middle locations" for the scattering of participating homeschoolers. Not all of us used the same pattern, but the most widely-used one (for the girls) was McCall's Costumes M5499. It was fun, and we learned a lot.



The authentic festival was on Saturday, and so I have pictures.

This would be some of the girls - (l to r) me, Arielle, Shiloh, Rachel, Jessica, and Annetta.

We had a dinner, and it was food that they might have eaten back then - things like potatoes, carrots, chicken, beef, and bread.


There were activities, both before and after the meal. I think that this picture mostly shows the sword fighting.

This would be Rachel and Aaron, of piano recital fame, and yes, Aaron has some sort of heavy, clinky, metal armour on.
(There are more pictures coming; I just had technical difficulties and the stupid thing published before I was done!)

7 comments:

Rachel said...

Hi Erika! How have you been since the festival?

Oh, and the Rachel in these pictures isn't me! :)

Rachel said...

Erika, how can I make it so where people can click on an image on my blog and it will enlarge it?

Erika said...

When you are creating a blog post, there are two tabs on the upper right hand side of the text box. One says "Compose" and one says "Edit HTML." Unless you know HTML code (which I don't!) you should stay in "Compose". However, when you are trying to make your pictures "clickable" (so that they enlarge in when you click on them) you need to work in the HTML mode. In order for your pictures to still be clickable, you have to move them while in HTML. Dragging them around while you are in "Compose" mode is what causes some of the photos to lose their clickability.

Taking it one step to a time...

Before you click "Upload Picture," click on the HTML tab to switch over from "Compose" to "Edit HTML." This will make all your text turn into a typewriter-ish font, and the HTML tabs will become visible. Don't worry about that. Just click "Upload Images", upload your photos, and when it says it is done uploading click "Done" to return to your post just like you normally do.

This is where it may get slightly tricky. Instead of your photos being actual photographs, they are now in HTML code. So how in the world do you move these photographs to where they are supposed to be, since all you have is some random, confusing code? You will have to do a "cut-paste" job, highlighting each picture, right-clicking, then clicking "cut," and then pasting the code where you want the picture. The only tricky part is trying to figure out where one picture ends and the next one begins, and so that is why you have to know that each photo begins with the symbols

So you can (fairly simply) find the beginning and end of the HTML code for each picture and cut-paste from there, just by recognizing the beginning and ending code symbols.

Now, there is one other tricky part: how do you tell which picture is what? You can click on the "Compose" button while you are in the process of moving your pictures around, as long as you don't do any actual moving of the pictures while in "compose" mode. In other words, you can scroll up and down, seeing what order your pictures are in, but in order to move them, you have got to click the "Edit HTML" tab again.

Does that make sense, or have I completely confused you? :)

Rachel said...

Thank you Erika! Now people can enlarge them!!

Erika said...

Good job!! :)

Anonymous said...

That would be neat to go to! Have a nice day and God Bless!

Erika said...

Thanks for commenting on my blog! Your blog looks very interesting. It's great to see a positive attitude!