falling behind...
Oct. 28th, 2009 05:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
abendgulesI seem to be struggling to post regularly. I'm trying to stay busy at work, and am (mostly) succeeding, and now have a lot less inclination to sit in front of the 'pooter once I get home. I much prefer the idjit box and my knitting.
Recent weekend activities have included:
- a demo at Gamesfest on Saturday, and shooting over 100 arrows(!) on Sunday
- a fabulous local revel, with a terrific class about late-period cosmetics and associated recipes
- attending the Far Isles' autumn event, and waiting on Her Celestial Magnificence Nerissa
...this doesn't include finishing my post about Raglan, from 2 months ago.
AND documenting the joy of the first permanent full-time employment paycheck in 3+ years (that was last week's high).
I've wanted to document all these things, but have trouble squeezing it in at lunch or between e-mails at work.
This week's small victory: completing a scroll with both calligraphy AND illumination. I'd planned to hand the illum. on to someone better at is, but that original plan fell through, and last night I had to buckle down and once more try my hand at some painting.
I kept a practice page on hand, so I did nothing on the scroll without first testing it on a scrap scroll.
Wonder of wonder: it wasn't appalling! I was reasonably pleased with myself when I finished.
It's not as fine as the original, or as delicate, but that will come. And it gives me the freedom to do all the work on a scroll, without having to coordinate w/ an artist (which has its own rewards! but this means I can burn the candle at both ends w/out keeping someone waiting...)
Pictures shortly...
Recent weekend activities have included:
- a demo at Gamesfest on Saturday, and shooting over 100 arrows(!) on Sunday
- a fabulous local revel, with a terrific class about late-period cosmetics and associated recipes
- attending the Far Isles' autumn event, and waiting on Her Celestial Magnificence Nerissa
...this doesn't include finishing my post about Raglan, from 2 months ago.
AND documenting the joy of the first permanent full-time employment paycheck in 3+ years (that was last week's high).
I've wanted to document all these things, but have trouble squeezing it in at lunch or between e-mails at work.
This week's small victory: completing a scroll with both calligraphy AND illumination. I'd planned to hand the illum. on to someone better at is, but that original plan fell through, and last night I had to buckle down and once more try my hand at some painting.
I kept a practice page on hand, so I did nothing on the scroll without first testing it on a scrap scroll.
Wonder of wonder: it wasn't appalling! I was reasonably pleased with myself when I finished.
It's not as fine as the original, or as delicate, but that will come. And it gives me the freedom to do all the work on a scroll, without having to coordinate w/ an artist (which has its own rewards! but this means I can burn the candle at both ends w/out keeping someone waiting...)
Pictures shortly...
