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!!