On Sunday, October 5th, 2025, we traveled to Lake Geneva for Dragon Days Fall Fantasy Festival.
This is the festival's third year of celebrating the city as the Birthplace of Fantasy.
On Saturday, August 23rd, 2025, I traveled to the Bristol Renaissance Faire for one last romp before the faire closes on Labor Day, ending their 2025 season.
Jenny was unavailable for this adventure, but she once again encouraged me to go and have some fun.
I decided it was time to make a new set a bracers for my D&D character, Lord Aladon Tresendar.
Hello friends, and welcome back to Our Basement Workshop! Today, I'd like to talk to you about boots. Specifically, my Medieval Ranger Boots by Fell & Fair.
I purchased them through the Fell & Fair website about two years ago for $189. Since then, they've seen a great number of adventures and it was time to give them a little refresh.
On Sunday, June 15th, 2025, my amazing wife and daughter helped me celebrate Father’s Day with a photo shoot for my Ranger character, Aladon Tresendar.
On Sunday, August 10th, 2025, we journeyed to the Bristol Renaissance Faire.
The theme for this sixth weekend of the season was RennCon, a celebration of cosplay!
On Sunday, August 3rd, 2025, we made our first visit to the Sterling Renaissance Festival in upstate New York. We were joined in our adventuring party by my parents, both of my brothers and their wives.
They are celebrating their 49th year of fun and the theme for this fifth weekend was Highland Fling.
On Sunday, July 27th, 2025, we traveled to the Bristol Renaissance Faire near Kenosha, Wisconsin. This was the fourth weekend of the 2025 faire season, and the theme was Cottagecore.
Hello friends and welcome back to Our Basement Workshop.
My wife Jenny recently created a Druid character for an upcoming D&D campaign, and we’ve started working on an outfit so that she can also portray this character on future ren faire adventures.
So, sit back and enjoy the build process...
For the past couple of months, my wife has been after me to start posting videos of the creative process. So that's what this is.
In a few weeks, my parents, two brothers and their wives will be accompanying us to the Sterling Renaissance Faire in upstate New York. My sister-in-law asked me to make a leather kidney pouch for my brother's garb.
On Sunday, July 13th, 2025, we traveled once again to the Bristol Renaissance Faire.
The theme for this second weekend of the faire season was Time Traveler & Steampunk.
On Sunday, July 6th, 2025, we traveled to the Bristol Renaissance Faire near Kenosha, Wisconsin.
On the first Sunday of each faire season, GSM Bristol conducts a Memorial March in remembrance of all those who have passed away over the previous year. Having lost our son Adam just six months ago, we made it a point to be present.
On Sunday, June 29th, 2025, we traveled a couple of hours to Vasa Park in South Elgin, Illinois for the Goddess of Thyme Renaissance Faire.
Hello friends!
On Sunday, March 16th, 2025, we drove to Milwaukee for the Faire Folk Spring Revel, hosted by Awkward Nerd Events and Deeplight LARP. We were told that this was the second year for this event and we were excited to check it out.
Over the past decade, most of our activity has been on Facebook and Instagram. We've certainly evolved in terms of our interests and activities. I've been thinking about returning to this format in one manner or another, but nothing is firm at the moment.
At present, the best places to follow our various shenanigans are as follows:
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OurBasementWorkshop
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/ourbasementworkshop/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@SgtHumpty
• TikTok: tiktok.com/@our.basement.work
Until next time, take care of yourselves and may your adventures be fulfilling.