Featured Artist: Lily LaBelle of Lilystrations
While chatting with Lily over Facetime, LF discovered she’s a delightfully positive woman who radiates joy. A native of Pennsylvania who loves Barcelona, her playfulness was evident by the cat ears popping up behind her shoulders, courtesy of a cute … Continue reading Featured Artist: Lily LaBelle of Lilystrations
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Loving a Feminine Hero’s Journey: a Review of “The Ten Thousand Doors of January”
Even the safest circumstances can feel binding. In Alix E Harrow’s The Ten Thousand Doors of January, a young woman living as the ward of a 19th-century tycoon crafted in the mold of a Vanderbilt or a Rockefeller discovers that … Continue reading Loving a Feminine Hero’s Journey: a Review of “The Ten Thousand Doors of January”
Falling in Love at the Faire
The God of love, a benedicite! How myghty and how greet a lord is he! Ayeyns his myght ther gayneth none obstacles, He may be cleped a god for his myracles, For he kan maken at his owene gyse Of … Continue reading Falling in Love at the Faire
Enchanted Desire: Love in Myth and Fairy Tale
For those of us who love the world of the Renaissance Festival, the fairy tales of old are a cherished source of wisdom and beauty. We’ve all loved seeing the knights and ladies strolling the lanes of our faires. Read … Continue reading Enchanted Desire: Love in Myth and Fairy Tale
A Playlist For Breaking Up: A Choking Gall
Is there anything more bitter than an epic breakup? And there’s no better way, short of slashing your ex’s tires, to process fury and heartache than blasting a playlist that veers between melancholy and rage; named, to quote famed lover … Continue reading A Playlist For Breaking Up: A Choking Gall
A Playlist for Falling in Love: A Preserving Sweet
Ah, the joy of falling in love! And what better way to celebrate being in love on Valentine’s Day than a happy playlist named, to quote famed lover Romeo, “A preserving sweet”? Our team curated a fabulous, diverse music playlist … Continue reading A Playlist for Falling in Love: A Preserving Sweet
Featured Business: Saorsa Beads
At LadyFaire Living, we want to celebrate and support female-led businesses that operate within, as well as without, the gates of the Renaissance Festival. We hope to appeal to our readers’ sense of style and moxie, while exposing them to … Continue reading Featured Business: Saorsa Beads
Woman-Owned Business: Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery
Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery was born in a tiny kitchen overflowing with love and magic. In 2008, self-proclaimed Kitchen Witch, Dawn Aurora Hunt happed to be on a mailing list for springtime Beltane festival that was in need of workshop … Continue reading Woman-Owned Business: Cucina Aurora Kitchen Witchery
Diversity in the Realm: Part Two
From Part One of this series by Hilary Bryant: A Renaissance Festival is many things to many people. Just about every kind of person, in fact. What started out in Southern California as a small bit of countercultural rebellion has … Continue reading Diversity in the Realm: Part Two
Midwinter’s Faire
Imagine sitting around a fire of olde, Renaissance era minstrels and bards singing and reciting love poems, or perhaps poems about the darkening of the sky in midwinter? For lovers of Renaissance festivals, we still celebrate poetry and song, fires … Continue reading Midwinter’s Faire
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