{"id":4885,"date":"2011-03-20T19:06:25","date_gmt":"2011-03-20T19:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/?p=4885"},"modified":"2011-03-20T19:06:25","modified_gmt":"2011-03-20T19:06:25","slug":"a-day-at-the-faire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/a-day-at-the-faire\/","title":{"rendered":"A Day at the Faire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned on the blog in the past that I go to the <a href=\"http:\/\/texrenfest.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Texas Renaissance Festival<\/a> every year, and occasionally make a trip up to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.srfestival.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scarborough Faire<\/a>, but this past weekend I visited the <a href=\"http:\/\/sherwoodforestfaire.com\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sherwood Forest Faire<\/a> that opened near Austin just last year. And for a faire only in its second year, I was pretty impressed with what they&#8217;ve accomplished already. And it was really nice to visit a faire that only required about a 30 minute car ride, as opposed to 2 to 3 hours!<\/p>\n<p>I think it is a common staple of faires to have a Royal Mint where they do demonstrations and\/or make custom coins and medallions, and this faire was no exception. I was just casually glancing through the available designs to have struck into a medallion when a familiar face caught my eye &#8211; Elizabeth I! I then noticed the Tudor rose design and decided I had to have one made. I opted for the bronze with antique patina (they dip it in sulfuric acid and then polish) and you can see the final product below. I&#8217;m still sorting through the 250 pictures I took (we had really good seats for the falconry show, so I snapped a lot of pics &#8211; I love digital cameras!) and I&#8217;ll tweet out a link when I get them all uploaded to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rhubarble\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">my Flickr account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Updated 4-03-11: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/rhubarble\/sets\/72157626367963858\/\" target=\"new\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Flickr set is now up here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/tudorrose.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/tudorrose-sm.jpg\"><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/gloriana.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blogpics\/gloriana-sm.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve mentioned on the blog in the past that I go to the Texas Renaissance Festival every year, and occasionally make a trip up to the Dallas-Fort Worth area to Scarborough Faire, but this past weekend I visited the Sherwood Forest Faire that opened near Austin just last year. And&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"continue-reading-button\"> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/2011\/03\/20\/a-day-at-the-faire\/\">Continue reading<i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-re-enactments-and-re-creations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tudorhistory.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}