Heraldry! Heraldry! Heraldry! And a little bit of calligraphy.

I sat in on two sessions taught by Mathghamian (Argh! Spelling? Damned Gaelic!!) on commenting in Oscar. Which I've been really neglecting. Every time I try to go through it, enough people have already commented "docs check out, no conflicts found", which is all I am confident in doing. But I'm going to try doing it more. I do still find it worthwhile sitting in on first level classes because there's always at least one new thing I learn every time.

A friend of mine asked about getting a device done up. Slaine asked if she could help with it to learn. So I drew up the device, checked with my friend to make sure she's good with the design, conflict checked it, and then broke it down so I can show Slaine how I went about it so she can see how I do it. Made arrangements to get together with her this past Thursday evening to do that. I think she understood my process of how I do it, but I'm not a terribly good teacher.

I also helped a friend come up with a device for his lady, and emailed that off to him.

Thirdly I'm trying to help another friend design a badge for his household, what they've been using is not registerable. I think I've come up with a possible alternative they might find acceptable. He also asked about a device for himself, but I'm having more trouble with coming up with something acceptable for that.

A post was made in FB Heraldry chat about Birka, so I plan on sitting in on at least one 2-hour shift at Heralds point. I also offered to do some voice heralding in court. She said she'd post a sign up sheet, but I haven't seen that yet. I've never been to Birka, but I'm assuming it will be much like  KWHSS was that I went to this past year. Also this works well with my previous thought of I want to do more to volunteer during big events and get to know more people, rather than hanging out solely with my best friends. I mean, I will still hang out with them. But there's plenty of time to flit here and there and back and forth like I an wont to do.

Fiona and I have a backlog scroll to do! It's a silver wheel and neither of us know the recipient. But we have friends who do know him, and I was able to stalk enough to find out more info about him and why he got the award. I came up with some words (with some assistance by my scriby friends) and started practicing the calligraphy. I haven't done any since early November for the St. Andrews baronial scrolls. Yes, I definitely need to get back into practice. But I'm very excited to be doing a kingdom scroll, and I hope the recipient likes it. I was also asked to do the calligraphy for the upcoming baronial bardic and a&s champion scrolls. Yay!!

When we last left our heroine...

Updates from last posting:

For the barony:

I'm still trying to get things done for changing the herald title from Seastar to Drake. The current herald has starting using Drake anyway, because what's the worst that happens? She's told it doesn't pass and we figure out another duck-related title.

Also no news on getting the ballista made, but it's cold out I don't expect any progress until spring.

For my household:

I finished the tablecloth and it came out really well! I found out on the first of three skulls that holding the fusible webbing-backed cloth in place with pins, then ironing them down makes black marks where the pins were. Oops. But other than that it looks great and I got a lot of compliments on it at the event I brought it to! At some point I'll make 2 more.

                          

For the Kingdom:
I harassed Ozurr enough that he made a decision on what name he wants submitted. Then after printing out the paperwork for him I found out that he doesn't have checks and was too busy to get a money order, so I said I was going to do it for him. So the paperwork and a check went out in the mail yesterday. Hopefully it'll pass on the LOAR before he finishes his reign.

I can now add onto my EK Wiki entry that I get heraldry done for "people in charge" before their time is up twice! First my baron, now my prince! Ha!