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| My gorgeous new tent! |
What better reason to break a long silence than to ramble endlessly about my favorite event of the year:
Les Grandes Medievales d'Andilly? This French Ren Faire has been going strong for 19 years.. and I have been a fan since early days. I first went in 1998, when it was a tiny event held in the heart of a tiny village.
These days, it is the biggest one in France. Over the five days of the most recent festival, there were 57,000 people attending! And there was a new record set on May 24: 18,000 people in a single day!
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Check out Severin being awesome!
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And I am happy to say that my family is part of what makes the event fun!
Ever since 2010, I get together a group of my pals from the Music Conservatory and we perform Renaissance music. It started out very casual, but now we have great costumes and a big repertoire of songs.
And of course, my kids are there, looking gorgeous and doing various cool things like sword fighting, calligraphy, embroidery and music.
There was also a great innovation this year, we have our own camp!
We are now officially "
La Compagnie de La Rose Anglaise"!
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| Severin and Mallory battle it out! |
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| Valentine looking epic and medieval and lovely. |
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| Mallory in the adorable new outfit I made for her! |
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| Severin, Valentin, Alexa and Mallory |
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| Mallory as Joan of Arc. Wow! She could definitely mess up any English invaders. |
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| Life in camp. |
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| Fancy hairstyle by Valentine. |
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| Sisters |
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| Valentine looking gorgeous! |
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Relaxing after a long, fun, busy day of singing.
I am super proud of the head gear I designed and made.
It was complicated and I owe thanks to Valentine for helping a lot! |
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| Life in camp |
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| Valentine and Mathias are so cute! |
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| Valentine making Illuminated manscripts |
Coming soon: Photos of our music performances at the event.
