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Sure beats sleeping on the ground like a crusader. Very nice video, thanks for sharing.

I’m only three minutes in and I love it! It’s so much better to get a tour like this than simply hear descriptions when it comes to these sorts of things! But stahp, you’re making me want to go later period now! No, don’t stop, please continue. I shall watch the rest now!

I miss medieval camping!

Thank you Countess.

Thank you for sharing! I now have a vast need to create a toiletry chest. It's like I'm a pupper and a squirrel just walked by. :-)

Yes!!! I love your wooden toothbrush, it’s all I use! Beautiful pavilion!!! I’m in love with all your pieces! Your toiletries kit is everything!!!

What a wonderful tour of your Pennsic home! I am inspired by your attention to details.

I LOVE it! The tapestry is crazy nice. I'm in one like the blue/grey mundane tent to your northeast. YOUR tent is the goal! I mean, a period pavilion based on my early norse persona. I like your hygiene bucket! Yes, I actually use my little wooeden (anti lice) comb, it is quite useful. Containers, baskets, buckets, etc. I love them!!! The sewing book is great! I have pennsic garb with the hems still stained from decades of pennsic pasts. Hanging things up IN your tent is greatly preferrable, both for access and storage. AND airing.... I love the tent "lining" The morning sun is BRUTAL. LOVE your bed. I'm on an air mattress covered/layered with sheepskins. I am getting to the age that I need it up OFF the ground to make it easier to get up and down, and the underside of the bed provides storage!(rope bed planned) I like the bathing bucket. Oh YIKES....the privy! Yes, it has eaten many an accessory. Love your cat. We had a hen....complete with garb and accessories....(including a tiny bronze thor's hammer) who joined us at events, and loved the attention. She would get all excited when we put her in it, she got the idea. When she was garbed and armed (a yarn needle with an amber crossguard and bone skull pommel which she wore on a sheath on her back) I can't count the times that someone asked me if it was safe to give her a sword. I have two words for them....opposable thumbs.) At very least, we had fresh eggs every morning at events. At the Potrero war, we attended the food court daily to turn over our new egg to the crepe merchant, who would make our breakfast. Your kitty had the right idea.....just enjoy with family. She trilled listening to the music and singing, and bawked unkind comments at combatants while watching the fighting. Animals make life better. (Chicken 'garb" of embroidered herb-dyed linen studded with tiny amber beads. Tiny chain with thor's hammer Heavy leather studded belt with leather sword sheath and a tiny (less than 1") bottle of mead. a fur cloak for cold nights.) She "guarded" our encampment like a trooper! It's funny seeing drunk people back up when faced with an armed red hen. In their inebriated state, they are unsure of it's actual danger.......and it takes a moment before they start to laugh. Priceless. Cats, however, don't do accessories! I have seen them at events, perfectly comfortable in their moveable "home."

Love this tent and your set up!

That is some awesome purring!

0:50 OMG that necklace! Did you make it? Oh and how do you keep the butter from spoiling? I love the wooden toothbrush and your toiletry kit!!! Such a great idea for keeping even every day essentials in period. 👌 I also really love that you use that bucket & beautiful towel for normal washing. I love to see items being actually used! I love that you've created a separate bedchamber! And that canopy! 😍❤️ And you have a real straw mattress, how neat is that?! I've seen people using the rope or set beds but I've never seen anyone use a real straw mattress! Did you have any issues with tiny creatures in your bed from it? I love the tapestry wall/backdrop for your main living space! Where did you get it? In the future would you do another "How to play on a shoestring budget" but with your tent/event campsite as the subject? Would be super helpful and interesting! Thanks for the tour and for sharing your temporary living space. 😁

The Brentwood container looks as though it is made from thE inner box of birch. If so, my European friends tell me it can keep breads fresh for longer.

Gotta up my toiletries game!

Kitty! ❤️❤️❤️ You know a purring kitty is the content we wait for! Love the loving quarters. Lots of good ideas there. Thank you for posting.

Very interesting! A well done video!

What a luxury campsite! A bard !so jealous! Ive a break down bed from Birch a wool woven rug and linen bedding i use daily in my home that could work but I dont have a tent big enough yet. I might just get a cot for 2 and just use modern sleeping bags until then

Great Work! love the detailed work in your tent to make it homey but practical!

I’ve finished the video now. It just gets better! I love the rope bed and straw mattress and that you showed and told us all of the details! I appreciate all of the storage as well! Now I’m curious what kind of vehicle one needs to transport such a setup. I’m interested in those details as anyway.

I really love the editing of this video! I particularly enjoy the snips of pictures from the sources on many of your reproductions!

That was a completely different level of tent living, compared to what i was used to in my Army days! Another great video!

Thanks so much for sharing this. I now have even more Period camping goals… I love the way you showed historical examples of some of your kit. I wish we had a longer camping event here in Lochac, it would encourage more people to camp like this.

Wonderful video!

I really enjoy your stuff. I used to (SCA) camp several times a year. It's been a while but I'm anxious to get back to it. I prefer to keep as medieval of an encampment as I can.

Beautiful camp!

I LOVE the tent-within-a-tent! I'm going smaller (downsizing from a Panther Regent 12x12), but I'm thinking I could scale down and still put up cloth around my cot for more privacy.

Certainly a lot fancier and comfier than the geteld tents I stay in for Viking age events and the Battle of Hastings! Thankfully those ones only last a weekend, we don't need nearly as many amenities as you would at Pennsic

It looks like you have quite the household camping together at Pennsic! How big is it & how did you all come together?

So glad I found your channel. Looking forward to exploring your adventures. 🌍

How comfortable are those rope beds? I would have thought a slat bed would be much more comfortable then rope. Or if you use rope, you would have something like cardboard to cover the ropes before putting down your straw mattress.

Just wonderful! 💖 P.S.: What surprises me a little (since you pay so much attention to authenticity): Some bare metal poles/rods... 🤔

Turkey rugs are gorgeous andbsonit the b3d

How was the food court? I heard that the Bread Bowle had retired.

Where did you get such a large and Stirdy folding umbrella?

Sooooo... is the most expensive item the red silk bower??? 😅 Any tips for sourcing that much yardage and not breaking the bank?

Is that canopy real silk, or a good approximate? Regardless, huzzah on your set-up

What are the dimensions of this pavilion? I also have a lot of hygiene questions. Have you done a video on hygiene yet?

Your toiletries set up is lovely but i wouldn't decent sunscreen. Sunscreen is difficult to formulate and the containers they come in are actually specially designed to keep them functional. Treat it like the photosensitive product you didn't want to decant. I know this is an old video so sorry if you've changed how you do things since then this isn't relevant.