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May. 13th, 2015 09:13 amSo, yesterday was a trial, had to bring Ben home from school for basically being a punk. He had been throwing stuff all morning and then decieded it was a good idea to drop a wood menu sign from the play kitchen on one of his friends at nap time. *headdesk* I picked him up and talked with his teacher took him home and put him in a timeout after a spanking. A few hours later we are talking and I figure out they had given him a cereal bar which he can’t have due to the high concentrations of sugar in the dried fruit. Sighs. I know it doesn’t explain everything but being hyped up further than normal doesn’t help the situation. He was abhorrent after I got him a snack without sugar cause he wanted more an hour later and it was a hour or so till dinner and he got sent to his room again. Mel got home, had further discussions and all of the Legos got packed up until behavior improves. Next will be all of his books and then all of the stuffies. Seriously, kiddo. I know you hate nap time but do as you are told for once. I understand you don’t want to nap (though your body wants you to) and you are acting out so you don’t fall asleep…its not cool.
I was toast after all of that and working on work stuff. I managed to get a few old things off of my plate on some papers I had written but needed final edits and uploads into the system for archiving. I had dinner and read for a bit. Mel was awesome and got Benton ready for bath and bed after dinner and I relaxed a bit Mel left for practice and then I got the front table set up and ready to go. The house was too quiet and I was a bit melancholy so I texted Ari to see if she wanted to keep me company and she headed over. While I was waiting for her to arrive I put in the boxes for the big initials and noticed my print out had extra text. Texts to the apprentice got that taken care of and she arrived shortly after Ari with updated prints.
The text had to be written very small and to help myself Willa found me a font that was basically the same as the hand I needed to use and we (really she) futzed with it to make the spacing work between the split pages of text. I was basically using that as my spacing guide and since it is a hand I do, just smaller, I wasn’t tracing it too much just making sure I was lined up.
Ari helped me get things lined up cause when you do text that is on two different pages of a folio you want them lined up horizontally otherwise those of us with higher spatial recognition go into fits that it looks “wrong”. What threw me was that the borders were 1/16” different in height but we adjusted and I started callig’ing while Ari and Willa talked about various things. It was nice to have company and kitbitzing and I was very very glad I had borrowed Sam’s light box which I think is this one Artograph Light Pad Light Box and then I used Michael Stoke’s Bare Strength to keep the large scroll balanced at the same level. It was good to do since I had a flat surface and the scroll was completely supported the entire time.
Got done in about an hour and then sketched in the fancy initials and tonight I will paint those and get the historated initials completed or at least sketched and back painted. Almost done. I figure between Bridget and I we have about 4 hours or so of work to complete with finishing up the shell gold accents and me doing some final background blending on one border and the initials. Ari commented that its some of my best calligraphy to date and that made me very happy. Looking at it this morning I’m still pleased. It looks so good.
Hitting the gym tonight and then knit night before heading home to paint the final bits. I’ve been keeping up on the eating well and that is good. We decided this morning that we are daytripping the event. It will be a long day but that means we are home Friday and I can do some self care like a massage and pedicure. And some spinning at Grandmas I think.
I did manage to finish the (ack!) 3rd book of the year (eep) Foxglove Summer. Its the latest in the Rivers of London series and while fun, the ending was very rushed and weird. I don't think anything was resolved at all, just weird. Lots of info for historical purposes in the world but not sure it helps yet. Not the strongest of the books at all, course that could be because Peter Grant (the protagonist) is going through stuff in the books and isn't the most reliable narrator to give us the big picture. He rarely sees the big picture until its almost or is too late and unlike Harry Dresden, he doesn't play the long game with things quite yet.
I was toast after all of that and working on work stuff. I managed to get a few old things off of my plate on some papers I had written but needed final edits and uploads into the system for archiving. I had dinner and read for a bit. Mel was awesome and got Benton ready for bath and bed after dinner and I relaxed a bit Mel left for practice and then I got the front table set up and ready to go. The house was too quiet and I was a bit melancholy so I texted Ari to see if she wanted to keep me company and she headed over. While I was waiting for her to arrive I put in the boxes for the big initials and noticed my print out had extra text. Texts to the apprentice got that taken care of and she arrived shortly after Ari with updated prints.
The text had to be written very small and to help myself Willa found me a font that was basically the same as the hand I needed to use and we (really she) futzed with it to make the spacing work between the split pages of text. I was basically using that as my spacing guide and since it is a hand I do, just smaller, I wasn’t tracing it too much just making sure I was lined up.
Ari helped me get things lined up cause when you do text that is on two different pages of a folio you want them lined up horizontally otherwise those of us with higher spatial recognition go into fits that it looks “wrong”. What threw me was that the borders were 1/16” different in height but we adjusted and I started callig’ing while Ari and Willa talked about various things. It was nice to have company and kitbitzing and I was very very glad I had borrowed Sam’s light box which I think is this one Artograph Light Pad Light Box and then I used Michael Stoke’s Bare Strength to keep the large scroll balanced at the same level. It was good to do since I had a flat surface and the scroll was completely supported the entire time.
Got done in about an hour and then sketched in the fancy initials and tonight I will paint those and get the historated initials completed or at least sketched and back painted. Almost done. I figure between Bridget and I we have about 4 hours or so of work to complete with finishing up the shell gold accents and me doing some final background blending on one border and the initials. Ari commented that its some of my best calligraphy to date and that made me very happy. Looking at it this morning I’m still pleased. It looks so good.
Hitting the gym tonight and then knit night before heading home to paint the final bits. I’ve been keeping up on the eating well and that is good. We decided this morning that we are daytripping the event. It will be a long day but that means we are home Friday and I can do some self care like a massage and pedicure. And some spinning at Grandmas I think.
I did manage to finish the (ack!) 3rd book of the year (eep) Foxglove Summer. Its the latest in the Rivers of London series and while fun, the ending was very rushed and weird. I don't think anything was resolved at all, just weird. Lots of info for historical purposes in the world but not sure it helps yet. Not the strongest of the books at all, course that could be because Peter Grant (the protagonist) is going through stuff in the books and isn't the most reliable narrator to give us the big picture. He rarely sees the big picture until its almost or is too late and unlike Harry Dresden, he doesn't play the long game with things quite yet.
