Fundraiser for New Fighting Mats The retired, old, well-loved, no longer safe to be used for fighting mats are available for purchase. These mats are suitable for workshop, garage, basement, playroom, padding under rugs at home or in your tent / pavilion, and a million other uses. Ten mats for $5 dollars! Mats can be purchased and delivered at Fighter Practice / Curia prior to Kris Kinder. The remaining mats will be offered for sale at Kris Kinder. Donations from the populous of cash or items to be sold with the remaining mats at Kris Kinder will also be accepted. Contact Brian Robert MacDougall or Brendan Mac antSaoir at Fighter Practice to arrange purchase of mats before Kris Kinder, or to make donations.          From Her Excellency, Countess Ylva Jonsdottir, Baronial Arts & Sciences Minister -   Upcoming classes at fighter practice site (indoors): November 20, 7 pm: Making Braided Hair Pieces class taught by HL Ysabel de la Oya. You will need to bring hair (real or synthetic). At Sally’s Beauty Supply it’s about $7 for two packages (for two braids). Let Countess Ylva know if you have a class that you would like to teach, something you would like to learn, or questions about any of this Arts & Sciences stuff. (Ylva@lewis-neff.net)    From the Web minister        Due to Yahoo! closing their Group function we have created a new Populace Group for the Baronly of Forgotten Sea. This group is called simply "Barony of Forgotten Sea".  Earlier last week all members of the Yahoo group received an invitation message at the email address that had been used to join that group.  Clicking on the link in that email should get you automatically enrolled in the group. If you have any issues please contact me at the webminister@bfs-kc.org address. _______________________________________________________________________________________     Baronial Classes & Arts + Sciences Announcements: 11/20 Making Braided Hair Pieces 7:00 PM You will need to bring hair (real or synthetic). At Sally’s Beauty Supply it’s about $7 for two packages (for two braids). with HL Ysabel de la Oya. ______________________________________________________________________________________     Upcoming Activities: Monday, November 18th- 6:30-8:30 PM - BFS Archery Practice at the Kearney site (Contact Master Lief of Crescent Moon for more information, lbh-archery@bfs-kc.org) Wednesday, November 20th - 6:00-9 PM - BFS Fighter Practice,  Irene B French Community Center, 5701 Merriam Dr, Shawnee Mission, KS. _______________________________________________________________________________________     Upcoming Events:      Dec 7th, Winter Court, Barony of Three Rivers (St. Louis, MO)     Dec 14th, Kris Kinder, Barony of Forgotten Sea (Kansas City, MO)     To add news or announcements - please send items to webminister@bfs-kc.org. Thanks!