Like so many other pastimes, Ren faire can be as expensive as you want it to be. That doesn't mean you can't do it well if you don't spend a lot of dough, just that there are plenty of people out there more than willing to sell you expensive ren toys if you're willing to fork over the dough.
I - for one - am not. At least not usually...
If I can make it as good or better and pay less doing so... how can I afford not to grab a saw or a sewing needle and set to?
I make my own buttons, my own plumes, my own garb, my own camp furniture and even my own pavilion. I don't pay a lot for my materials, and I never pay someone to do something I can do myself for less money. I am the pennywise peasant. Care to join me?
The Pennywise Peasant is dedicated to helping members of St Brigid's Hearth and the rennie world at large get started at ren faire without going broke. If you start here, there are limitless possibilities ahead of you. Not everything you find here will make you period-perfect. We're not about that here. We're about getting to faire, presenting ourselves in a period manner and evolving into period perfection without the devolving into penury in the process. Just because we play peasants doesn't me we want to become one.
Because it's the easiest place to start, we'll begin with Garb...
Garb
- Barrow Wright (a Pennywise Wheelbarrow) NEW!!
- Lighting a room
- A period oven
- A "hornbook"
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