Wenchy Things – Page 3 – Betsy Snow White Bibliophile

These Are Things that I’m Gonna Do.

I had so much fun working through my bucket list for the last quarter of 2019, so I decided to do more of them in 2020. Here is what I have so far…

~~Create 2020 Vision Board~~ – Done!! Photos Below.
Get prettied up for Shrimp’s Cocktail Party!
Meet Dirty Martini at Shrimp’s Cocktail Party! on Saturday.
Buy a pair of Veronica Lockhart’s rhinestone cockroaches.
Go with the Wenches to Pub Sing at Dub Pub.
Wench wine meet up in February.
Be under or close to 200 lbs by my birthday March 14.
Visit Prologue bookstore.
Sew new Viking garb for Seth.
Write 30,000 words in my work in progress.
Go to Mustache Ride Drag Brunch
Go to Archery Range
Visit Elizabeth’s Records
Set up new Entertainment Stand.
Set up Stationary Bike.

Vision Board – The lovely Molly Roberts held a live event for her Patrons all about creating a vision board. I decided to get in on the action and began building up images and words for my board. I just bought myself a brand new Webster’s New Collegiate Dictionary (as previously stated my favorite dictionary) so my old falling apart one became fodder for my vision board. I found these battery operated lights I bought at Target a couple of years ago that have glitter in bulbs around the lights and I decided they would look amazing on my vision board. I bought a shadowbox style wooden box to use and painted the inside neon pink and the outside silver. I used glitter infused mod podge to place my images on the board. I began with bright colored images and then added words and pieces from the dictionary. I found some star shaped push pins and attached the lights to the edge with them. I am really happy with how it turned out. It is going to live on my new altar for 2020.

January 23, 2020

What I got done in the last three months…

~~Wench photo with the Queen!~~
G~~et my major changed to creative Writing.~~
~~Attend both days the last weekend of Ohio Renaissance Festival~~
~~Get autographs from Rasputina (Melora Creager)~~
~~Finish Blogtober strong (I get a book if I do)~~
Rennie outing to Book Loft?
Get Wench tattoo
~~Participate~~ and succeed ~~in NaNoWriMo (Are you participating? Link me BetsySnowWhite)~~
~~Do a writers night.~~
~~Photo with Krampus!~~
~~Wench invasion of the Krampus Walk~~
~~Photo with Santa and the Wenches~~
~~Wench invasion of Columbus~~ and Cincinnati Zoo.

Wench invasion of Columbus Zoo was a small but mighty event. We got our picture taken with Santa. The invasion of the Cincinnati Zoo is happening this weekend.

Wench invasion of Kentucky Dickens Festival
~~Set up Christmas trees~~

Our tree did go up this year (last year it never happened.) It did make me feel more festive.

~~Christmas Party~~

We did not have a party of our own, but I attended a couple and enjoyed them more than if I had to plan them.

Attend Roaring 20s New Year Party

We have tickets to attend a party at The Forge gaming tavern. I am super excited about it.

December 27, 2019

Gruss vom Krampus!

Columbus has over the past couple of years really embraced the darker side of Christmas which has led to a prevalence of Krampus related activities. This year the first day of December was marked with the second annual Merry Krampus craft show and the Fourth Krampus Walk sponsored by a local pagan shop, The Magical Druid. The International Wenches Guild Local 73 decided to plan an invasion of the Krampus events.

The Merry Krampus was held at Strongwater and featured many alternative craft vendors. I had splurged and bought early bird entries for myself and Seth which gave us an hour of shopping before the show was opened to general public. I bought a beautiful hand printed calendar from Midwest Mermaid and an amazing wrought iron wand from Rust Wolf. I ran into some friends who were vending and selling chain maille and knives. My Madame of Vice, Sarah, and I got our pictures taken with Santa and Krampus.

We then headed down to Clintonville to participate in the Krampus Walk. We had a pretty good turnout of wenches, and had a wonderful time parading down the street all dressed up. We were photographed a lot, and made quite an impression. Obviously I chose to go for more of a Krampus look, and I had a great time.