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Home Sick,But Home
We made it back (a day early actually) but are all at different stages of getting over the flu. Will write more as soon as I can breathe again. Until then, have a Happy New Year!
Posted in Life
QPT: Guilded
Slowly but surely (and into the wee hours on several mornings) The guilding is largely done. There are still some more holes to be filled as you can see but I DID IT! Whew. I’ve used about 2 and-a-half “pages” from my gold leaf book. By the time I patch all the little holes, smooth [...]
Posted in Life, Queen's Prize, SCA
QPT: Guilding
My first attempt to guild with real gold leaf has been a total disaster. I can’t get it to stick to the gum arabic or to the instacol. ARRRGGGHHHHHH!!! If things go much worse I will have to start all over again because I ignored my better judgment and started guilding on my inked drawing [...]
Posted in Queen's Prize, SCA
QPT: Inked
Ta Daaa!! Major lines have been inked. Gum arabic is soaking. Who know, mebbe I’ll get to the guilding this week too. I’m not as happy with my execution of the ink outlines. The horses neck doesn’t arch nicely and I kinda wobbled on the knight’s arm. I think I’ll go in and do the [...]
Posted in Life, Queen's Prize, SCA
Exzema EO Blend
Used this blend in the pourable lotion yesterday. DH gave the scent a two thumbs up too! It has a clean/fresh scent with a lingering hint of patchouli and I think, lavender. I’ve made another batch of the blend and will let it mature in the bottle to see if/how the scent changes. As the [...]
Pourable Lotion
The inspiration for this recipe comes from a wonderful and wise herbalist friend. It is the first pourable/pumpable lotion I’ve ever made. With the high water content though, it will be prone to mold. I added a couple of drops of GSE to see if that helps. In microwave, I heated 1 cup distilled water [...]
Posted in Recipes, Toiletries
Re-Pounced & Penciled
Re-did the pouncing on my QPT entry today. This time I think I got a lot of it too small. LOL! Especially around the horses head. I wonder what a “period pouncing tool” was? I used the point on my compass because it offered the most comfortable grip. Tonight I “connected the dots” (see picture [...]
Posted in Queen's Prize, SCA
Queen’s Prize Progress
Well, I’ve got a humble start on my QPT entry. Woot! A brief explanation of pouncing… a period technique used to copy images. A blank sheet of vellum would have been placed under the illumination. Then holes were carefully poked along the outlines of the image content. The vellum under the illumination became the template [...]
Posted in Queen's Prize, SCA
Preprints: One & Two
Just realized these aren’t on the new blog. I did a third one that, unfortunately, I did not get a picture of. They’re already off to the Crown too. Oh well. A fourth is on my desk, but that will have to wait until after Queen’s Prise Tournament.
Waaay Cuuute!
OMG! Take a look at this. That is just way too adorable for words. The website has a lot of other neat stuff too.
Posted in Life