New game posts on the Rampant Strawberry

I typed up the rules for 2 games I sell that I have been meaning to do so this way I can have them with the things I sell like a professional. I will still need  Lady Khadagan to edit the Crown and Anchor rules because I am Dyslexic

Egyptian Sticks

https://therampantstrawberry.blogspot.com/2020/01/egyptian-sticks-rolling-sticks-dice-for.html


Crown and Anchor

https://therampantstrawberry.blogspot.com/2020/02/crown-and-anchor.html

Down the Rabbit hole.

The challenge in my SCA gaming are the rabbit holes. I am down 2 right now.

I just received the 50 Tagus nuts I ordered so that I can carve a chess set from nut Ivory. 

At the same time, I am working on the rules for Tafl I just received "Flora Lapponoca-Primary Source Edition by Carl von Linne'" anyone want to translate it. lol. thats ok there are a few translations out there, it seems they are all based of the first translation which was wrong. and so the rules for tafl that we have been using are not quite correct and I want the correct ones. This book is by a botanist it is his diary of his trip and he observed this game being played by locals. ___from wikki about Linne' a Swedish botanist, zoologist, and physician who formalized binomial nomenclature, the modern system of naming organisms. He is known as the "father of modern taxonomy”. Many of his writings were in Latin, and his name is rendered in Latin as Carolus Linnæus (after 1761 Carolus a Linné). 

At the same time, I need to apply this to making rules for sets I intend to sell. This so I can justify it for more than just my happy little fun because, I must pay for all the books I keep buying, and the money comes from the games I sell. That money also pays for me traveling more to share gaming. Gaming has always been so much a way of life, the way doctors , lawyers, businessmen and politicians make deals PLAYING golf. (golf is an OLD game) people played games to relax and hang out and to talk politics or business deals then aswell. I researched how to make period golf balls wet leather ball not fully sawed up stuffed with wet feathers as full as you can get it. sew it up and let it dry the leather shrinks as it dries and the feathers expand that puppy is hard as a rock. any way I see a rabbit with a watch running by I must chase him he says he is late.

But wait there is more.....

I am also working on a game board for His Majesty for his Japanese chess set. 

And physiography-ing dice for dice chess. I wonder if Daffyd would like to make then? then I can sell them. and I or he can make 10 for the dice chess at Courtiers tournament? hmmmm.

I should see if I can install Dyslexia font on here.

This is how I work in so many directions at once. I bounce from thing to thing. I do come back around to the beginning and some people are better about bringing me back to the point they wanted me on. O bounce from project to project at home because I get board or tiered of that subject and need a break. the husband has seen me do dishes, play a video game, and paint a scroll, all in a circle. set dishes to soak play a round of game, paint for 10 mins or so, then wash the loads of dishes, set new batch to soak. Remember to switch laundry. repeet. 

Some people think it is ADHD but it is not traditional ADHD Because stimulants don’t calm me down. My mind does race with a lot of things, going on all at once though. Getting my mind to stop is nigh impossible. I make lists in order to try and put things to rest on the page instead of in my head and sometimes that works. However, I build and deconstruct every project in my head a hundred times before I put tool to material. I practice brush strokes in my head, I practice glass handling to get my glass to do what I want in my head. I am telling you all this so that those in the same boat know they are not alone. 

Now where did that rabbit go? Maybe I should get him carrots? 

Carrots sound good for dinner. 

Oh! I should eat.

Some new beads

13  strawberry beads

My 2 favorite  

1 gray piggy & 1 gray mouse

A Sukura Blossom button bead

A guinea pig

Morris on the brain New post of 3 of my boards

The Rampant Strawberry Inn has my post about the Morris Boards I have made a long with the rules.
Morris is one of the longest continual used games that is still played today. you can ever get an App for it.



https://therampantstrawberry.blogspot.com/2020/01/morris-or-mills-games.html

Up date on other blogs .Stuffed peppers low carb style

Experiments with low carb stuffed peppers and tomatoes.
I have always used barley for my stuffed cabbage and peppers and tomatoes. Since trying to clean up our eating while not losing any of the taste I have tried and remove as much of the higher carb foods as I can. When I feel it is necessary, I still have clean carbs as it is not worth the scarifies of the taste of food, I would rather not eat a thing them have it taste bad, but if I can change them out and the calories are less, and the taste is good, then I do. Here is my experiment not using barley or rice in stuffed peppers.

https://cookingwithstrawberry.blogspot.com/

Updates on the other blogs. Birth of a Circular Chess board

Byzantine Chess Board
https://therampantstrawberry.blogspot.com/



I am excited about this one. It was at 2 Rums ago that I was playing Circular Chess and since then I have been speaking with Master John about the board. I expressed a concern that while the game is great, that people wouldn't want to pay for another chess set especially at the price I would have to charge for hand made pieces. To wit he pointed out I don't need to sell pieces. Because anyone interested in a Circular Chess set,  has a chess set and can use the pieces they have. That making one set of glass pieces to sell is all well and good but that I should sell the board on its own.
Now I will say that this is good besides I do want to make one set of glass pieces with the elephants (these became bishops) and the kings adviser (this piece became the queen) also the pawns need something to mark their front to easily delineate which way they are traveling. However I don't want to make a lot of these sets unless people want to pay the money that it would cost to have them.
The pawns would be worth at least 10$ each and the other pieces about 25$ each. yet no one would want to pay that for a full set of Chess pieces. If a Ceramics person has molds and wants to get together on producing a set I am up for collaborations.
But just having the boards works and I will have them ready by Maiden's Jan 25th, in Springfield IL.

Crystal Ball dancing videos That I up loaded to You Tube

Dancing and Music at the Crystal Ball
I videoed Crystal Ball 2019, I caught the 1st 2 sets with the first set having singing along with the live musicians. The 3rd set had live musicians too but It was passed my bed time. Find the videos here on my you tube channel. 

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaL2pTMAxtSG-9e2sHIqVKtjg6PcqeVjo