The beginning September 2005 to December 2007
Been by herself, and the creation of the household
The beginning of the household known a the Manor of Pheasant Hollow now known as Phasiani lacus Manerium has its beginning back to the year of 2007, but prior to this Christiana Elizabeth Constable also known as Guinvere Beverly Swan in 2006, because of a mistake on her part, because of been known by her mundane name of Beverly when she attended her first Medieval Event in British Columbia. The event is well known as the Medieval Times of the Summerland Fall Faire of 2005 (September) where she met with a few members of the Shire of Appledore (SCA).
It was by mistake that she thought it was connected to a prior event that she attended in Chicago in 1992, also known as Medieval Times, and assuming that they were of the same. By an invitation from Duncan she would attend an event know as the Tournament of Golden Swan October 2005 at Skunk Hollow, in the South Okanagan Valley. Christiana came on Saturday, and paid for a day pass, and a feast ticket, which would lead the way to becoming more involved in the events of the local shires in the Okanagan Valley. She would also begin her training in rapier, that would evenually lead her way to tournaments in future years. And also target archery of which she came back on Sunday of the Tournament of the Golden Swan and partake in the William Tell. Christiana was becoming hook on playing creative anachronism, but at the time was not settle into a persona role, of which would not be until 2008 when she locked in her persona.
It was doing the Tournament of the Golden Swan that she would meet with and make friends with Thomas of Appledore and Orick a merchant from Bear it Armories, where she acquired a dagger, that she would use later that day as an eating utensil. She was not informed that she would require feast gear, and to fit in would have to settle on Gold Key (loaner garb). In trying to find information of the organization she mistakenly tried to communicate to one of the Golden Swan candidates to obtained information, when she was informed not to communicate to these two individuals, and was not informed of any information, thus making it to the point where Christiana would learn it on her own. She also took part in a couple of classes that lasted a couple of hours each, in persona development, and long arm cross stitch.
For 2005 Christiana attended two events; The Tournament of the Golden Swan, and the Principality of Tir Righ Investiture, hosted by the Shire of Danescombe in November of 2011. Christiana would not leave the Okanagan Valley till 2007, but was quite satisfied in attending local events between Kelowna and the Canadian, US border.
In Feb of 2006 Christiana would attend the Tournament of Roses held in Westbank at a local community center, and would partake in a Medieval potluck feast where she presented a smoked ham and would take in a few rapier pickups with some of the rapier fighters. Although not carded at the time she would have a chance in doing pickups after the tournament of rapier fighting was over. Also Feast of Fellowship was held in Feb. which took place in Oliver, and this would be the time when she would meet Kasper breifly when he was playing the lute, and was also the beginning of problems to come with some of the the other members. The weekend of the Feast of Fellowship Christiana would spend the night at a local motel North of Oliver before attending rapier practice at skunk hollow, but because of differences, Christiana after a brief mis understanding with the instructor was just about to say quits, and was threating to sell off her rapier equipment and leave the group. If it were not for one of the members that was there that stated she was not be interested as acting as an agent to sell the rapier equipment, this would have been end of the story.
April of 2006 was a chance to improve on rapier skills of which Christiana would take part in taining sessions for two days at Danescombe Academy.
It would not be till October of 2006 before taking the next event known as Golden Swan. Christiana would attend the event by herself, and only day trip it on Saturday and attended the feast.
The year of 2007 would see 7 events of which Christiana would attend all seven except for three events where she would meet with Kasper. The first was 12th night a local Appledore event that took place at the Oliver Arts center, a municipal garage converted. It would be a pot luck, and a quick fried turkey was provide to the group by Christiana. Tournament of Roses would take place at Peachland, which was also a pot luck feast, and Christiana would take in the Feast of Fellowship which took place near Cawston where Christiana was able to do a few pickups in rapier, and do a bit of needlework. Here she would meet with Kasper, and the talk of getting together would begin to cement a friendship. Feast was cater. Damescombe Academy was hell in early May of which she would take a refresher course in long arm cross stitch, along with sack making and Norse hat making besides a few rapier training sessions. June would be the new event that Appledore have created known as Mid Summer. Few members showed up, and this was the time that Christiana would try out a small commercial tent along with a pop up pavilion she attained a month earlier. The was to be the equipment she would use for camping at events, but resulted in not been successful for camping out in. Mid Summer event was so hot, and with so few members attending, not much happen at the event.
With the new camp equipment Christiana would attend Clinton Wars 2007 but with problems with her membership in the SCA, she just about did not attend the event as she was upset with the aspects of paying the non membership fees. Kasper was at gate during the time Christiana would be arriving at the event, and somehow the situlation was defused, and she would be attending. Finding the campsite was rather difficult as she wish to be near Kasper, and when she did find his campsite, she manage to set up with the limited space that was available, right on top of an ant hill. At the time, because it was late, she did not see the ant hill. Clinton has a weather pattern as been chilly at night and hot during the day, but this time, it was chilly and coolish during the day, with showers ever once in awhile. This made the two person tent clamy and cold at nights because of the nylon materials it was made of. Saturday and Sunday, while at Clinton Wars, Kasper would come around once in awhile and keep company with Christiana but had other duties and visits to do. This gave time for Christiana to finish off a cloak and her garb, on Saturday so that she could play the game. On Saturday night Christiana would walk over to a group known as the dew drop inn (privates inn) where a drumming circle would play and was entertained by the beat and by the belly dancers. This was when she begin to think of buying a drum to join in a drum circle later on. She did not stay to long on Saturday night. Sunday, now completed her garb, she took in one class that she was hoping to receive of which would make her a junior tam marshal and she began to get in the spirit of the event. The test was both written and pratical, and she would take the test along with several others that Sunday and would be carded the same day. After the test she would explore the event site with some two thousand attending the event, and she realized that her camp setup was that of a poor person that was not in persona. This began her to seek out new designs and techniques, and why not, their were many styles to pick and choose from and a lot of members to explain how to create these pavilions. She decided on something simple and that was a six star pavilion, but one person mention to her that this style was unstable in a wind storm, so she redesigned the pavilion as an eight sided pavilion. She would find the truth that the person that state the six sided star pavilion was right, as she has seen at least three six sided pavilions come down in a wind storm.
She would use the tamming skills for an archery championship for the September Tir Righ Coronet of 2007 hosted by Appledore and the new pavilion for Coronet 2007.
The Tir Righ Coronet would see Christiana setting up the archery range, and during tamming except acting as an assistant tam when it came to the championship. She also would look after the torch lights for the events. Kasper, Karla and Emmy were also at the event, but would day trip the event as they lived near the site of the event. Kasper would be busy during his thing which was wood carving and trying to sell a created pieces of carving by his skill. Tournament of the Golden Swan was only a couple of weeks away, and Christiana camped out in her new pavilion that she made prior to the September Coronet of 2007, and was able to have it lined, and fortunately it was lined as it rained on Saturday of the Swan, and than frozed. She sat up near the start line of the archery line where she would tam the archery challenge of the William Tell shoot for Sunday, and a couple of other senarios which included the skunk in the hen house.
It was in 2007 that the idea came to Christiana to join one of a couple of households that she was interested in, but to her these households did not wish her to join. One evening in early Feb 2008, while talking to a member of Appledore, he suggested that she should create one of her own, as she was not wanted by the households that she was interested in. It was than and there were problems arising in the Shire of Appledore, that allow for the household to form with one person, and hopefully that it would grow, but problems occurred that were out of control for Christiana to make the household grow. It would not be till June of 2008 that she would acquire three new members, and later on a few more.
April of 2006 was a chance to improve on rapier skills of which Christiana would take part in taining sessions for two days at Danescombe Academy.
It would not be till October of 2006 before taking the next event known as Golden Swan. Christiana would attend the event by herself, and only day trip it on Saturday and attended the feast.
The year of 2007 would see 7 events of which Christiana would attend all seven except for three events where she would meet with Kasper. The first was 12th night a local Appledore event that took place at the Oliver Arts center, a municipal garage converted. It would be a pot luck, and a quick fried turkey was provide to the group by Christiana. Tournament of Roses would take place at Peachland, which was also a pot luck feast, and Christiana would take in the Feast of Fellowship which took place near Cawston where Christiana was able to do a few pickups in rapier, and do a bit of needlework. Here she would meet with Kasper, and the talk of getting together would begin to cement a friendship. Feast was cater. Damescombe Academy was hell in early May of which she would take a refresher course in long arm cross stitch, along with sack making and Norse hat making besides a few rapier training sessions. June would be the new event that Appledore have created known as Mid Summer. Few members showed up, and this was the time that Christiana would try out a small commercial tent along with a pop up pavilion she attained a month earlier. The was to be the equipment she would use for camping at events, but resulted in not been successful for camping out in. Mid Summer event was so hot, and with so few members attending, not much happen at the event.
With the new camp equipment Christiana would attend Clinton Wars 2007 but with problems with her membership in the SCA, she just about did not attend the event as she was upset with the aspects of paying the non membership fees. Kasper was at gate during the time Christiana would be arriving at the event, and somehow the situlation was defused, and she would be attending. Finding the campsite was rather difficult as she wish to be near Kasper, and when she did find his campsite, she manage to set up with the limited space that was available, right on top of an ant hill. At the time, because it was late, she did not see the ant hill. Clinton has a weather pattern as been chilly at night and hot during the day, but this time, it was chilly and coolish during the day, with showers ever once in awhile. This made the two person tent clamy and cold at nights because of the nylon materials it was made of. Saturday and Sunday, while at Clinton Wars, Kasper would come around once in awhile and keep company with Christiana but had other duties and visits to do. This gave time for Christiana to finish off a cloak and her garb, on Saturday so that she could play the game. On Saturday night Christiana would walk over to a group known as the dew drop inn (privates inn) where a drumming circle would play and was entertained by the beat and by the belly dancers. This was when she begin to think of buying a drum to join in a drum circle later on. She did not stay to long on Saturday night. Sunday, now completed her garb, she took in one class that she was hoping to receive of which would make her a junior tam marshal and she began to get in the spirit of the event. The test was both written and pratical, and she would take the test along with several others that Sunday and would be carded the same day. After the test she would explore the event site with some two thousand attending the event, and she realized that her camp setup was that of a poor person that was not in persona. This began her to seek out new designs and techniques, and why not, their were many styles to pick and choose from and a lot of members to explain how to create these pavilions. She decided on something simple and that was a six star pavilion, but one person mention to her that this style was unstable in a wind storm, so she redesigned the pavilion as an eight sided pavilion. She would find the truth that the person that state the six sided star pavilion was right, as she has seen at least three six sided pavilions come down in a wind storm.
She would use the tamming skills for an archery championship for the September Tir Righ Coronet of 2007 hosted by Appledore and the new pavilion for Coronet 2007.
The Tir Righ Coronet would see Christiana setting up the archery range, and during tamming except acting as an assistant tam when it came to the championship. She also would look after the torch lights for the events. Kasper, Karla and Emmy were also at the event, but would day trip the event as they lived near the site of the event. Kasper would be busy during his thing which was wood carving and trying to sell a created pieces of carving by his skill. Tournament of the Golden Swan was only a couple of weeks away, and Christiana camped out in her new pavilion that she made prior to the September Coronet of 2007, and was able to have it lined, and fortunately it was lined as it rained on Saturday of the Swan, and than frozed. She sat up near the start line of the archery line where she would tam the archery challenge of the William Tell shoot for Sunday, and a couple of other senarios which included the skunk in the hen house.
It was in 2007 that the idea came to Christiana to join one of a couple of households that she was interested in, but to her these households did not wish her to join. One evening in early Feb 2008, while talking to a member of Appledore, he suggested that she should create one of her own, as she was not wanted by the households that she was interested in. It was than and there were problems arising in the Shire of Appledore, that allow for the household to form with one person, and hopefully that it would grow, but problems occurred that were out of control for Christiana to make the household grow. It would not be till June of 2008 that she would acquire three new members, and later on a few more.
