[Hartwood] Ideas: Yule Gifts and Fundraising

[Amber]

I am totally sold on a tree decorated with wee gifts.  A charming notion, 
Cunegonda.
As we are somehow connected with bookmaking in the wider world, and we do 
plan to continue, I would think a branch of the guild is a grand idea.  I 
nominate Cunegonda to check out the why and wherefores and organize it.  :-)

Marina

-----Original Message----- 
From: Danielle Bevan
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 1:43 PM
To: hartwood at tirrigh.org
Subject: [Hartwood] Ideas: Yule Gifts and Fundraising

I had these ideas that I kicked around with a few people, and thought I'd 
see if the larger group thought there was any merit to it.

For Yule, I thought of doing a few small trinkets as 'gifts'; things like 
some braided lacings, a wire-woven bracelet, a little book, a few glass 
beads, etc, sort of scale. We could have them hanging on a Yule tree (real 
of fake, Jamie is checking the hall's policies), and our guests could pick a 
gift to take with them. Originally I had thought we'd all make a bunch as a 
symbol of hospitality, but that way lies madness -- we don't -always- want 
to be under a one month deadline for something! So a brilliant person 
suggested we put it in event copy for everyone to make one thing, and we all 
just make a few 'extras' in case some people can't bring anything. What do 
you think? And of course, we are expecting the Princess at the very least, 
and possibly her Prince, as well as the Baron/Baroness Seagirt -- maybe we 
should do something special for them?

My next idea is a bit more complicated. When I learned that the shires had 
amalgamated, one of my first thoughts was, 'I wonder what happened to all 
the newsletters?' Thankfully William has all of Ravensley's on electronic 
format; I'm fairly sure I can cobble together Cragmere's with a few friends 
help and set to scanning them. Anyone in Hartwood have large chunks of their 
old ones? The reason I'm asking, is because I figured we could put together 
volumes of collective wisdom from our past -- a cookbook, for example, or a 
book on armoury, or a memory book of events past, etc. The complicated part 
is tracking down all the authors to get their permission to re-print, and 
perhaps sell as a 'hot-damn-prospective-baronies-need-lots-of-stuff' 
fundraiser. Jean, do you have any advice on the legalities of it?

And how much cooler would it be if some of us hand-bound them? Cooler still 
if they were printed, but that's the sort of monolithic task I don't want to 
be volunteering Elspeth for.

Speaking of Elspeth's printing and our collective recent interest in 
books -- did you know there's a book-binder's guild? Would anyone be 
interested in forming a chapter up here?

~ Danielle/Cunegonda
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