Sounds like a Winner to Me

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Awakening from a slumber deep, the Queen turned to her Knight to speak
Words wrought passion in his breast as he gingerly bowed, the Queen he kissed.

I'm feeling a little poetic today but I'll leave you dangling right here. I wanted to announce my return to this blog after a very long sabbatical. You're wondering where I went, aren't you? I spent a long time out in the western mountains and in the magical California redwood forests. It was a good time for me to ponder my life, to pick up my boot straps and carry on.

So here am I!

Are you ready for more renaissance adventure?

I can promise you that this winter will be magical, entertaining and very poetic. Be sure to visit again soon to read the first in many adventure stories.

Ren Faire Reese


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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Announcing the Phoenix Swords

Sunday, April 26, 2009

Contact Information

Located in the Metrowest Area of Boston, MA
USA
phone:(508) 963-3722
fax (508)-546-4687 Fenix-Founder, Chairman
fenix@phoenixswords.com

Temper Content/Publications
temper@phoenixswords.com

The Phoenix Swords are traveling artists who entertain with theatrical performances and sword fighting demonstrations at renaissance festivals and pirate faires. Visit their site for an archive of video and photographs of their fun and fancy demonstrations about life in the medieval and renaissance era, using theatre to educate and entertain.

The Phoenix Swords will entertain next at The St. Gregory Medieval Festival in Danbury, Connecticut on May 16 & 17th. Visit their calendar page to learn about their performances past and present.

I'll be sharing my thoughts about this fascinating theatrical group and their fencing expertise. I want a chance to review their website and to visit the history of their shows then I'll come back to tell you about it. I'm hoping to conduct an interview with Fenix and Temper, who contacted me for this review in response to a message that I posted on facebook. From what I've read about the members of Phoenix Swords, they are a well educated, professional and interesting group of people. I want to find out more.

I have decided to add regular updates on performances and groups worthy of note along with adding a calendar page. Phoenix Swords will become a regular feature on this blog along with some of the other interesting people that I meet along my way.

Until I return, please visit their website and come back here to read more.
Ren Faire Reese

I'm Wondering How People Endured the Winters During Medieval Times

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

It's snowing today in the mountains and it's raining with sleet in the valleys of Utah. People are running off the road and sliding everywhere, so I am sitting still to wait out the storm. I hear it will be today and tomorrow before it clears out of Utah. Spring is having a hard time making its debut, I guess.

All this snow and stormy weather makes me think about folks in the middle ages. I wonder how they made it through extreme weather such as blizzards, tornadoes, and heavy rain storms with damaging winds. My thoughts turn especially to those who lived primitively.

First of all, I think about how their homes were constructed. Wooden shacks and cottages would have been more vulnerable to wind damage and large hail. Folks didn't have the luxury of glass windows, solar panels, and gas or electric furnaces for heat or electricity for light. So they had to be prepared to make ways to keep warm and to have light. They must have had some kind of emergency plans.

People who lived in castles were much more protected from wind, hail, and rain and snow. It's sort of coincidental that I just wrote about survival in the middle ages, because I searched google hoping to find some interesting tidbits of information for my readers when I found a book with the same title. It's only fitting that I plug it for them right here.

Just click the photo to order and tell them that Ren Faire Reese sent ye. The book is written by Fiona Macdonald and sells for the modest price of $7.95 in paperback. It's only available in the United States right now. The book is only 48 pages but the sellers state it is worth every penny because of the effort to utilize all its space in sharing common household customs in the middle ages. I'm going to order this book and read it. Afterwards, I can give a book review on an updated post. Remind me, will you?

If you have any information about the middle ages that you would like to share with us, please comment or email renfairereese@gmail.com and ask to be a guest writer here. I'll send you an invitation so you write your own story.

Books on the Middle Ages, Medieval Times and the Renaissance would be a welcome addition to this blog. If you can suggest one, leave a comment or email me if you think the book deserves a full review.

I'll be back before you can miss me.
Ren Faire Reese

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Enjoy this Documentary about Renaissance Faires

Saturday, April 11, 2009

Support these artists efforts to present a history of this great phenomenon that celebrates the 16th Century custom of faires first introduced by Queen Elizabeth. Enjoy and prepare to be dazzled with my personal accounts of faires and festivals this year.

My Gypsy Heart hears the Call of Music and Dance

Celebration is in the air. Easter has come in the early springtime, and with it the feeling of renewal, life and resurrection to perfect beauty. Music calls to some place deep within me. I want to dance and clap my hands and sing with a band of traveling gypsies. Violins play in harmony with the tamborines as we ladies swing our full skirts to the music, dancing round and round in merriement.

Heading to Las Vegas for a Wonderful Italian Dinner Tomorrow

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

There is a place that my travel partner and I enjoy eating every time we visit Las Vegas. Even if we're just passing through, we stop here to eat. It's a casino right along I 15 in the heart of Vegas that serves the best Italian cuisine. The name always escapes me so I'll take a photo this time and share it with you. The dinner includes pasta with a huge bowl of salad that can be refilled, whole bulbs of roasted garlic and home baked bread.

My mouth is already watering!

Too Rainy in Texas for the Faire

I was disappointed traveling through Texas looking for a renaissance faire to try out my new skirts. It was just too windy, stormy, muddy and rainy. There were so many downpours moving through central and western Texas that an outside event would not have held up against all that water. Tornadoes have been ravaging the area, too. I think I'll return to Texas when Mother Nature gets finished birthing spring.

I Have a new Blog to Have Fun Writing about Renaissance

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Tonight I finished my first post for Renaissance Model, so go check it out and tell me what you think of the story line. I would love your feedback to help me shape the direction of my blogging on this particular blog. I am certain about one thing, my writing about renaissance will involve historical delving to bring the lives of real people to the page. We owe our present day to our ancestors, and my writing is but a small tribute. But it is what I have to offer.

In memory of the people who brought us into this world, I dedicate all my historical posts in hopes that their lives will be remembered.

Ren Faire Reese

Pirates and Ghosts and Writers, Oh My!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

You all know how much I adore the pirates and that I have many pirate friends. Now you may not be as familiar with my fascination with ghosts. Well, it goes to say that if you're mingling with pirates that you'll run into your fair share of ghosts. I love ghosts! We'll talk more about them later, and my close encounters of the etherical kind.

As for writers, where do they fit into this threesome? Well, I am a writer. I'm a freelance creative writer, a blogger, and a ghost writer who happens to be a pirate queen. Aha! You figured out the connection.

Good news, I've been chosen to write on a renaissance blog. That is a sheer delight! I might be buying lots of new costumes this season. Check out the Renaissance Model and tell them Ren Faire Reese sent ye!

I'm traveling to higher ground. The rains in Texas have been torrential and its a little hard to keep me long skirts dry in the mud. Will you meet me in New Mexico?

Ren Faire Reese

In Search of Renaissance Faires in Texas and New Mexico

The dusty trail carried me to the doorway of the wild wild west. I feel at home here in this vast state of Texas, where time seems to revert to those past times that I love so much. I'm a history addict. The west is in my bones and I feel the mountains calling me where I will dance and drum with all my pirate and ren friends.

New Mexico will be my next stop. I'm shopping for a great costume to start the festival season. When I find one, I'll be getting photographed so you all can see the real Ren Faire Reese. Not that I mind that cute little avatar. I do like it and will use it sometimes. I think a real photo is more personal though. As soon as I'm happy with my costume, my hairdo and my photo, I'll post it here for you all to see.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Faire Season is Upon Ye

Monday, March 2, 2009

Four Winds Faire

This event opened up this week, the beginning of March , and features every weekend until the end of April 2009.

Memories of Pirate Fests and Faires Past

Friday, February 13, 2009

There is a time and a place for everything, I was taught. Since I am in search of current events regarding Pirate Festivals and Faires, I thought it only fittin that I feature a Memories of Pirate Fests and Faires Past. Send your event to the Pirate Memories Hall of Fame.

Join the folks from the northern California Pirate Festival held in Vallejo. The above video is compliments of http://www.youtube.com/user/wendywllms.

I have friends who lurk the pirate circuit but they also go to another type of gathering in the woods. I'll be featuring my friends the rainbow gathering pirates in an upcoming post. They became land lubbers for a couple weeks in Oregon in 2007 while the ship they normally sail the high seas in was being scrubbed and decked and ready for her next debut.

The pirate camp in the Ochoco National Forest cooked a hearty scurvy stew and kept all the crews well fed. They shared their stories and songs around the campfire at night and gave us all a great time. AAAAARRRRRRRHHHH!!!! was their favorite expression. I can't wait to find all those great photos to share so I can tell you all about them.

Ren Faire Reese

Gasparilla Pirate Fest in Florida Shares Their Video

The Gasparilla Pirate Fest Invasion in Tampa, Florida shares the video of their event. I wrote about this event on my favorite costume blog. The post is titled Find Fun and Adventure at a Pirate Faire in Florida. It is an exciting event complete with an invasion into the bay in honor of a famous pirate named Gaspar. A parade follows that opens the city into an all out celebration. Pirates know how to party!

Enjoy Some Dancing from a Renaissance Faire in 2008

I found a really nice video on you tube that represents renaissance dancing at a faire in 2008. Ladies are dressed in their best. I love the drums, the dancing, the interaction and joyful shouts of all the participants. And I really like how all sizes of folk are dancing, not like ladies drinking slim fast to qualify for a fashion runway. Nope. Real people.

Ren Faire Reese

Now You Can Find My Blog by Typing in my Name

Hi everyone!

I am so excited about my new adventures as the traveling historic blogging re-enacting queen of the pirates. Today I bought my own domain for this blog, so all you have to do is type in my name, and you can easily find my site to read all the latest news of my adventures.



Since I just drove past Dollywood today, I am considering dressing like Dolly Parton at the next event that I attend. I 'm almost short enough but I'll need to borrow some stuffing to match her ample cleavage. As for glamor, well, I can fake it but Dolly definitely has me beat. Maybe this lovely sister will understand my costume need and loan me an outfit from her awesome wardrobe. Oh yeah, Dolly, I need one of your wigs for the day, too.

Where am I sailing off to now? I am driving across Tennesee in the next few days hoping to run into a great event. My camera is ready to take some great photos to share and my notebook is itching to record the secret lives of some famous rennies!

Email renfairerees@gmail.com if you have news for my blog to share or if you want an interview.
If you have or know about a festival or faire, please tell me about it.

I'm on Twitter and Facebook, Youtube and working on some other social media so I can stay connected with my fans. I'll be listing all those connects right on this blog. Give me a bit, as I have lots of work happening right now. I have some stories to write and a blog to design.

Read my latest blog post With the Advent of Valentine's Day my Romantic Heart Looks to Paris

What events do you think Ren Faire Reese should attend? I'm looking for costume suggestions, too.

P.S. Don't worry, I won't forget that I am a Rennie Pirate Queen, but it is fun being a beauty fantasy queen for a dy.

Ren Faire Reese

Welcome Aboard Me Ship Mateys

Monday, February 9, 2009

Ahoy all ye pirates and rennies! I am ready to set sail on the circuit of renaissance faires, festivals, pirate fests and medieval special events. Join me right here as I tell my tales of adventure.

If you want me to cover your event, email renfairereese@yahoo.com.