Monday I managed to get a bunch thing working at work while dealing with a body that was healing. I've now reached the snake skin shed stage, and the skin is very tight where its healing. So sitting against things hurts. putting my back pack on is a no-go etc. But we prevail.

I managed to finally get things off my to do list which was to clean up my studio, put all of the clothes away, put the fabric I pulled in January away and then moth ball the ever loving shit out of my stash and the closet. I even got mel to help with the wool storage in the closet since its up above my head. I felt very accomplished and then went to Poe's for scribble since Ari is out of town on Business. I set out to do 3 scrolls of calligraphy with my new pilot parellel pen. I can say it was lovely to work with and I got very very clean calligraphy and was super happy with the precision of the nib. And then after I did three I went back to erase my pencil and it started to smudge. Talking with some scribes on discord I think these were part of a batch of "oily" pergemenata and that is causing it to not dry well and not "stick" to the page. So I ordered some stuff to make my own pounce from John Neal and will soak them in that before I finish erasing. Then I can fix the smudges. But man I was so happy with them until that point.

Poe was painting on a snack plate for a retiring scientist from the park and its turning out awesome. My student is very very talented. Trying to take her lead on make stuff to not think about the crazy but oof its hard after a full day of work.

Things have just been hard to motivate for all of us and I will have another post on that.

Yesterday I had planned on doing laundry but I sat and chilled. After dinner I pulled my shawl that was stuck, tinked back a row and then got it restarted, set my row counter to the correct number and got through 2 pattern rows (4 total rows) before I took myself off to bed. Course the figuring things out turned my brain on so I was still awake when mel got home. We had a very quick chat where I realized I just needed to curl up. I was asleep by the time he got our of the shower. I slept okay until about 530 when the bathroom lit up with impending sunrise. Time to remind mel to shut the bathroom door at night.

But I was happy that I got that darn shawl back on track. I really want to get that moving past the first chart. and yanno, get a shawl out of this hopefully. I'm annoyed that I can't seem to work on a complicated knitting project...my brain just isn't there? Its annoying. I'd like to have some of that back please but I will just keep making simple socks if that helps keep me busy. I do hope to work on some clothes eventually but maybe my body getting back to the gym (next week when my tattoo is healed enough to not be ouchy) I will feel like making clothing or at least underunder dresses. Anyhooo that is for another time. Just trying to get things settled to work on something versus doomscroll or play video games.

Finally after 722 days our crown stepped down. We left Tucson with the boy after school let out and then drove to Prescott Valley for dinner at Brian's pub. It was good food and the pumpkin beer was the best I've ever had. They did a cinnamon and sugar rim on the glass...OMG. We stayed at the Holiday Inn per usual and they have updated their rooms since we were there last and that was nice. Got up and to site on Saturday on time and got the tent up between Mel and I and a hand from Tati and Mingo. Then it was like hurry up to do scroll things (drop off) and see people. Court was nice and it was there that I presented Wolgrim's scroll. Here is a picture of me lofting the 44.2 lbs of rune stone up while Wander read the scroll text.



It was very well received. I sent a picture to Wolgrim on the Discord and he was aghast. I let it sit at the A&S display with my 1 page of documentation, 1 page of bibliography pictures and the 1 page of transliteration.

I'm super proud of this project. Like super proud. This is my magnum opus right now.

Here is the full album of start to finish of the scroll (click the picture).



After that and chatting with folks at A&S I was kinda overwhelmed and sat in our shade and sewed trim on my tunic for the next day. It was relaxing and what I needed. Mel had fun fighting and didn't push and still made it into the top 12. Then it was a wait and chat and take things down before sunset court. It was nice, the weather was cool and the only real issue is that this is the off season so all of the local places close for food at 8pm and were booked by when we left site at 730. We made do with Sonic and headed back to the hotel for showers and an early bed. Benton was worn the eff out. He played hard all day long and when he woke up the next morning he was so sore. Poor kiddo. Growing is hard. The amount of people who couldn't believe how big he had gotten in the 19 months since they last saw him was funny. There were folks who hadn't seen him in longer since we had a lot of out of town guests from the outlands/artemesia. Got to see Nikki, Casca & Melissa, Cecilia, Bela, Gabe, Elanor Peregrine, Abby and Kaz, and Helga.

Sunday we slept in a bit and then got to site to hang out in teh shade. We did not set up the tent just set up under the trees which was just fine. Hung out with Olrun and Dominique while I tried to get my knitting project back on track (I failed), so I spun. We left site at 2pm after mel had his fill of fighting melee and then got stuck in traffic on the I17. It took us 3 hours to get down the mountain when it usually takes 1.5. Ugh. But we made it to Rudy's BBQ and had early dinner. Then it was a quick 1.5 hours home.

We were tired when we got home but unloaded all of the needed stuff and then it was an other early bedtime. All in all a good weekend. Now its time to pack for NOLA.

This past weekend was the mid-year virtual KWHSS. I only found out about it the previous weekend at Aten 50 year from a household member. When we were chatting. So I attended classes and social time and learned quite a few things. During all of that I worked on my CCC entries. I got the hat done. Its drying from blocking. The dress....well danabren was right...don't cut out things while drunk. Now the cutting was find but I didn't double check any math and that was past me's problem. But I sewed the dress and it was skin tight.....not what you need for layer 3 over your boobs and fluffiness. So, I set it aside on Saturday night and knit during the last few classes. Sunday I got up and took more classes (one on making parchement) and did measurements, chatted on text with the arts crewe and cut whole new larger and longer gussets. Then I moved up the goes to match the added width since I had cut them long to start with due to the math error. It now fits. Yay! Though mel was confusing me by saying it was too big...he though I wanted it super fitted. Honey, its going over a pleated underdress...I need the room!

The apprentice is awesome and picked up tasty meat vittles at Forbes Butcher shop. They are super good (spendy though) but I used their bacon to make a diary free carbonara. the bacon while fatty crisped up perfectly and didn't have extra water content. It was worth it for that alone I think. But the dairy free parmesan I grated is perfect (brand is Violife Parm Wedge). I modified the Alton Brown recipe in his latest cookbook for breakfast carbonara. Tasty. Also since it was fresh cured bacon we actually needed to add salt. That was bizarre. So good. 10/10 I'm making it again.

After I made dinner I was on the West Kingdom Scriptorium Zoom. That was nice. Got to chat with folks from all over and talk through different ways to do stuff. Everyone learns differently and for me square hands are hard. I had Palmer method writing drilled into me for decades so I can't switch well. So, its okay. Had a nice time honestly and worked on my dress and got 1.5 seams hand finished. So all good. I will be trying to stop by there more. I need the influence to scribe more and I have commissions to work on anyway. My scribal supplies and my sewing machine are just staring at me right now shoved to the side of the desk. Sighs.

I also gave blood yesterday and for the first time in a really long time it hurt. And I got woozy later. So I think I was dehydrated so that is a thing. I've been slamming water a lot.

So this week I have to finish the dress and then get gussied up in the full ensemble for nice daylight pictures which means try to finish by friday so I can get things to the dry cleaner and then me in it. Hopefully I can accomplish this but oof lots of work. I can do it. Plus I have Friday off though I have a volunteer thing for work but its on zoom so I can sit and sew.





The other things we did do was unpack and setup the new tiffany lamps we bought. Trying to keep up with the 1920s aesthetic and they are so nice. course now I have a mix of compact fluorescent bulbs which have yellow light versus the LED which are white light. I will be changing things out for better light quality. We do want to replace the ceiling lights in the front room and the kitchen with tiffany style but need to pick one.

Busy week.

When I last wrote I was working on being better to myself and taking care of myself. I've cut back on the booze to only a few in the week, tracking what I'm eating again and hitting the gym. I did good!  2 weekends ago was the Kingdom A&S Collegium.  We attended Saturday and Sunday and I spent the time painting and taking a class or 2.  Had a lovely dinner out with Hrafn folks and Master Gyllym.

Finished this and this:

The friday was 5 hours of clinics. Now, I had signed up to go and with my TKD blackbelt and my yellow belt in kung fu I have a lot of experience....it just hasn't been used in about 5 years or so.  So, I was a bit worried I would suck and make Boxer's Rebellion look bad since we are already the red headed step child of the org since we aren't karate, judo or juijitsu specific but we are kung fu and Kajukenbo.  Well, our school rocked it and it showed in all of us.  I did really well on Friday and took 4 of the 5 hours of clinics. I was tired and a bit exhausted. I'm out of shape but my instincts are there and luckily I have quick handspeed still.  I was very happy with what we did.  The group of us headed to Sentinel Peak for dinner and sat outside in the warmth and had a good meal and discussion. 

Saturday we got up and headed to clinics and I got hurt. Sighs.  It was the first class which was a really cool Judo class on different ways to "fix" some reactions to grabs and throws as dictated by the form.  It was cool.  I went in for a low sweep (sweeps have never been a strong point for me) and my left knee (the problem one) popped so loud they heard it 2 mats over and I collapsed into a little ball.  It was not as bad as the time I screwed it up at Ed's fight night and I iced it and took it a bit "easier" the rest of the day.  My bad plan was taking a kicking clinic towards the end of the day on basics.  It was all about good form and I kicked a lot.  The instructor was a 71 year old bad ass and I was really glad to listen to him ramble and teach but that basically blew my wad on learning. I took one more class on karate forms and that was good but by the end I was brain dead and limping pretty good.  Benton was also tuckered out and we changed clothes and sat out the last classes of the day.  He had fun and we headed out to dinner at Bj's and then back for the kids party and the dessert banquet and talent show. I finished my hat that I had been working on and Ben had a nice time but by the end I was toast.  My leg hurt and the cold shower did not help.

Sunday was the banquet and that went good. Good food and good convos and then home for me.  Since this was weeks ago now I'm not sure what else we did but here is pictures of the hat. (ignore the double chin..yeesh).

Work was okay. Got news that Janelle was in labor and later that day Miss Theadora made her debut. Yay. Busy working my newest projects at work and the eye strain is a bit much from staring at drawings for 7 hours out of yesterday. Ooof but that is my life. Soon will be the changing said drawings for 7-8 hours per day. Woot.

Got done with work, stopped off at the credit union to pay on the roof pledge loan. Need to be hitting that harder if we want it off the books by years end. Admittedly, we have 5 years to pay it off but we don't like to be in any sort of debt. Got home to an empty house. Well, I wanted to work on projects right away but as we've been telling Benton, do the things you don't like first so they are done so you can do the things you do like. So, I did dishes. Was just starting in on the sink after putting all of the clean ones away and getting the dishwasher going when Mel and Ben came home. He took over the dishes since it was silverware and a couple of glasses and feast gear that was left. I put on a load of shirts and then hopped into the studio to work on the lolita.

I got the peplum cutting mistake fixed and once its ruffled no one will be able to tell. Then I got the sleeve pieces out and started to piece the first sleeve. Got the top sleeve gathered to the bottom and then sewed up the inside seam to find out my She-Hulk Bicep/forearm combo does not meet a Size 22 dress size. I need about another inch. Oof. I made a sandwich for dinner and then Wander was by for movie night so I got her take and my assessment was good to add a bit to the sleeve pieces and then resew that seam. Its on the inside of the arm and its covered by another flounce (which I still need to cut out and will now lengthen for curvature of my forearm. Good to know. I need to mark the pattern pieces because I really to like the sleeve pattern and it will be nice for later projects too. I also got her take on my plan to cut the gauzy fabric and my plan is good and I may be able to just tear the fabric. I will have to see if I can get my serger to serge those edges.

I got my stuff and headed to scribble where it was names on scrolls for a few events and then I callig'd 2 scrolls for one of those events. Next week we have more full texts to do and hopefully will have the last august event on the books. I know the closer we get to Dragon*Con the less we want to work on scrolls and Ari as Gwyllym's MOD to do as well. Luckily that is straight calligraphy for her but still time.

Got home and cut the pieces for the sleeves and then drank some water, showered, read for a bit and went to bed.

The weirdest thing about yesterday is that my mouth feels like I flossed too much and my left side feels like my wisdom teeth are coming in. I had those yanked 15 years ago. Not sure if its sinus stuff or worse but we shall see. Its just not making things pleasant.

So for tonight I will get the sleeves finished and cut out the froofy fabric and the strips for silver trim. All good.


( To Do List )

I am weary from the weekend still….I guess I’m getting too old to be going back and forth with a 6 hour round trip on things. Oof. It was also cold and windy and that I’m sure didn’t help. We got going with Count Thomas about 645am which was later than we planned. I had not had the heart to finish packing and was just too damn worn out from the week. I had triumphantly finished the scroll on Thursday night with Bridget. Friday I got to sleep in and then head out to drop Ben off and get a massage with a heated rub/biofreeze chaser; breakfast, pedicures and shopping with Erika and then just as I was going to go to the knit shop to hang out the school called.

Well, he got to have the mother he did not want to pick him up. We got home and he got to pack all of his books up and then cry for a few hours in his room. I was a mess and tired and just uncaring about things. My day had been going well and yeah, had to be the monster parent. He refused to do as his teachers said and was a punk. Actions have consequences, child. Just frustrating. So, Saturday he had to sit with me almost all day as punishment and listen well. He did okay…course he also asked for food every 45 mins. Seriously, he ate more Saturday than we all did. The tourney was fun. Laurel circle was okay. I knit and was cold. Got done and headed to Lonesome Valley Brewing Co for a tasty burger and a porter I can’t stop drinking…Seriously, Brian has my number on that one.

So, the scroll, start to finish: Arsenda’s Laurel Scroll.

Sunday we were just all crabby and tired. All of us. Ben was a brat and refused to even be calm and quiet in his room. There were tears and spankings and a bin of toys was taken away. Sighs.
Monday was okay. He had a pretty good day at school and got his toys back. Tuesday was not as good and Wednesday he was so bad Mel had to pick him up about 1pm. Sighs.

My Monday involved lots and lots of meetings, arguing over a hyphen in a part mark and hitting the gym for arm/shoulders and some running. Oof. I pushed hard and ran more and increased my time on the treadmill two minutes more. Gonna keep trying to push time up to a full 30 mins. I got home and had a wonderful chicken stew mel had made and then was unmotivated to do much else. Ari was not there due to kiddo karate testing and I was running stuff which was ‘work on what you have’ and getting Sam working on learning calligraphy. I attempted to draw and was just not into it. I looked through some books and chatted with Bridget and I’m not sure what all else. Sat down to read while mel was in the shower and fell asleep with the cats snuggled on top of me.

Tuesday was just weird and Wednesday was work related frustartions (see Monday) and just a general lack of empathy and care about things going on. I was headachey and tired when I went to the gym but that perked me up quite well when I was done. I pushed up my squats to 75 lbs 3x8 and the calf raises to 348lbs 4x12s. I also did 4x20 on snowmen and added 2x12x2 on the ballet leg circles. Oof. Left there refreshed and then grabbed lunch from Rubios where I ran into Hastini which was odd but I guess serendipitous to the fact that I was running to teach at Arts Night. The new location is at Don’s business and it was an okay space. Its gonna be small though for big classes…not sure. I only had one student but that was okay. I went, I taught and I got to read her documentation that she had started for a projects. I got home and mel was snuggled up in his pj’s watching movie trailers on youtube. It was nice to see some upcoming movies. We got showers pretty late since I didn’t get home until 930. I really didn’t have any time to decompress. I read for a bit after my shower and curled up after being a good girl and remembering to put on biofreeze on my calves. I guess I was tired because I woke up in the exact same position I went to bed in and my hands were asleep. Sighs.

Today has been frustrating on a number of levels. They did a change to ingress to my plantsite that left me on the road 1.5 miles away for 35 mins for stop and go traffic getting in. Sighs. It was poorly executed and just nuts. We are all frustrated and mad and they could have warned us that things were changing ahead of time versus being stuck in traffic missing meetings because we didn’t know. Then the argument of the hyphen, I’m just not going to win so I caved. So much money wasted for a non-technical issue. So frustrated.

I hope Ben had a good day at school. Right now I’ve gotten no phone call and I will be leaving in a hour to pick him up. I’m tired and just want to knit and watch a movie.

At least on the taking care of me I’ve lost almost 10 lbs. It doesn’t really feel like it but I can see it in my face and my pants are better fitting. I’ve also noted my calves are looking better and that is good. So, small steps.

Survived last week, my last post talked about how I’m amazed at times that I’m a scribe. If we were talking like a D&D character I think I leveled up in my Scribe class and I took extra skill points in drawing, painting and calligraphy. For me it has been a very slow progression, sometimes plateau with scribal arts. I got into in in January of 2001 with the first meeting of the Atenveldt Southern Scriptorium at Megan’s house. Normal participants at that time were Megan, Raylee, myself, Mouse, Bridget and visits from Alex the Scribe. It morphed throughout the years into what we are now which is 9 strong awesome women of various skills who push each other to get out of our comfort zones with arts and just do awesome things. We now have a hedge of laurels normally in attendance which seems to push us to try crazier things. From being at other scriptoriums we’ve found that our way of doing business which is open and honesty critique is not the norm. We expect a critical eye and being told what a scroll is lacking before its ready for presentation. We don’t get annoyed by it but stymied by the words and if we can’t figure out how to do something we learn it from one of ourselves. Our group is also good for pointing out you are painting or shading yourself in circles…I’ve very guilty of that. Anyhoo, I’m reminiscing since ickaimp was figuring out how longs she’s been painting and her journey has been short compared to mine with respect to getting to doing a peerage scroll from start to finish by yourself or in her case the art was mostly by herself with calligraphy and chemistry help by others. It’s a journey for all of us.

So, photos to share:
Violante’s County Scroll
Southern Scriptorium’s Crazy May
The latter album is a WIP since I’m fighting with the Flickr App on my phone to upload things…grump. Other than that Benton and I survived the weekend.

Friday I picked Benton up and he was UBER excited because he’d had no accidents at school and that meant we could go out to dinner (Culver’s) and get ICE CREAM. I guess ice cream is a major motivator for him. We had a nice dinner and ice cream (frozen custard really) and he was soo happy to have done good.

Saturday morning I got up way too early compared to when I went to bed and got ready for Coronation. I got Benton up and he was confused by the fact that I was in “event clothes” and he wanted “event clothes.” Once I reminded him that he got to spend the day with Uncle Ed and get comic books and go to a party and not sit in boring old court all day he was okay. We got out the door and arrived at Ed’s just at 7am and then I headed to Ari’s. She was finishing up putting the pendant seal on Morgan’s Ducal. The kids weren’t ready and she wasn’t even dressed in event clothes yet. So, I got folks moving, Ari got dressed and we got on the road, with me driving Jensen, just before 8am. I had been a smart monkey and put coffee for us in the thermoses. Got to the event, found the ready room and got things settled with Morgan on the items we owed them for the day. Spoke with the incoming herald and then we got ourselves and kiddos situated in the lobby of the conference center and then just hung out all day. And by hang out I mean we sat at the back of court, me knitting and Ari and public_shaylan drinking margaritas. What was nice was we could hear and see court and relax and enjoy our company, kibitz and untangle the largest yarn snarl I’ve ever had that was not created by cats. It took three of us to untangle the rest of the ball but I managed to finish mel’s heel flap on his sock and start my heel flap of my sock (red cashmere). By the end of the day we were all just tranq’d. I drove us home and Mason and Ari fell asleep in the car and Linnet quieted down after a while. Got them dropped off, picked up my car, grabbed an iced coffee and donuts at Dunkin and then picked up Benton.
Benton had had a great day! No accidents, fun at Home Depot making me a cute little flower pot, they hit Hayden’s 1st Bday party which involved some awesome red frosted cupcakes and then hit free comic book day at Fantasy Comics. He had a great day and unfortunately he was so tired and I was so tired that the evening didn’t go too well. He did not want to go to bed and I wanted only that to have time for me to relax. We fought a bit, I yelled and it was not the best of things. I did get to talk with Mel on facetime quite a bit and that was uber helpful for my sanity. But Benton is growing again (more evidence on that later in this post) and I’m sure that along with the stress of dad being gone things weren’t great on Sunday but we managed.

Sunday Benton woke me up with “Momma I pooped!” which means he woke up like that…poor kiddo…it was a big one too. Not surprised though. I changed him and then we both fell back asleep for a few hours which I needed. We got up and then headed to joe’s for breakfast. After Joe’s we hit Costco and then safeway. Benton was pretty good during these excursions and went to the potty at Joes and at Costco. He did run away from me at the entrance to Safeway when I went to get a cart. I yelled and he came back to say “but momma! I was looking at flowers for you!!” because he had run into the floral department. How do you argue with that? I told him that while it was a good thought, running away from Mommy is not a good thing. We did good, had some frozen yogurt and then hit home to watch Cars 2. Now what I missed though was that we didn’t have lunch. It’s okay for me to skip lunch (especially for all of the food /beer I’ve had over the last few weeks) but not for a boy who is in growth mode. So by the time Mel got home, Benton was crabby, very crabby. Dinner was too late and it didn’t work well. Oh, well. We got him to bed, I got to have my husband home and that was the important part.

Monday dawned and we were smart and had coffee ready and went about our day. Benton did not want to get up. I don’t blame him. I was so drained by all of the events of the last few weeks that I was brain dead most of the day. I took off a few hours early to finally take time for just me and got my toes done and then hit some errands. Got home and the house was quiet. Mel was cooking dinner and Benton was ASLEEP. WTF? He fell asleep on the way home and wouldn’t wake up except to say “I’m not tired” and fall back asleep. So we let him sleep. After we had dinner we managed to get him put into pj’s and back in bed. Poor kiddo. Monday was also Cinco de Mayo and I had emailed the scribble list to state “bring booze and munchies” to celebrate the holiday and our scroll slog of the last few weeks. All told we did 35+ scrolls for the weekend including 4 peerages (1 county, 2 ducals and 1 laurel) with only 8-9 of us. It was impressive. I brought booze and forgot ice and luckily Sioux arrived later with ice and limes and salt and cups for good margaritas. We enjoyed ourselves and watched Sherlock Holmes with Robert Downey Jr.

I had finished a Boar Counter-Ermine scroll but you won't be able to see that until its handed out.

I did finish painting a scroll that is going to be a Guardian of Atenveldt and I had finished another one two weeks ago that I haven't shown either that I think will also be a Guardian cause I like them.
( Picts of Scrolls )

Other than that I managed to hit the gym, up my weight on squats and deadlifts and then ran for a half mile slow and then cranked out a good straight run mile in just over 13mins. So good. Very glad and I really think that has helped me work through the soreness of the weekend and my knee is aching. The cold weather is not helping my hands or my cut finger. I had cut it while replacing my wiper blades on Sunday and its a bit stiff and sore now too.

So, in the midst of working on the latest batch of peerage scrolls I got to thinking...how many peerage scrolls has the Atenveldt Southern Scriptorium actually done. I knew it was quite a few in the last few years but what have we done since our inception in January 2001? So, we sat and listed them out on Monday night and here is what we came up with....

If anyone sees and error or an omission please tell me.

( Peerage Scrolls by the Group )

( Peerage Scrolls by individual members )

( Cyphers and Sygils by Group or Individual )

Well, Mr. B got his check up yesterday and he had a good time playing at the doctor's office and just being cute.

He now weighs in at 25 lbs 10 ounces and 31.75" long. He also got shots which he did not like and then to make matters worse I accidentally smacked him in the face with the folder I was carrying his medical papers in...oof. Poor kiddo. Got him home and mel was awesome made dinner and we had a nice family dinner and then played in the living room until bed time. He was out after a bit of a scream though cause Mr. Elephant was in the wash. I checked in on him and he was passed out like he did when he was a baby all flopped back with his arms and legs akimbo. So cute. I tucked a very clean Mr. Elephant in with him and later when I checked on him before I headed to bed he was clutching him all cute.

Just amazed every day at what we have made.

Over the weekend we had a nice evening in with some folks and games for Mel's bday on Friday. It was a good time to chat and we played muchkinthulu. The kids had fun (Inara, Faydra and Benton) and the adults did too.

Saturday we headed up to Twin Moons to see the investiture of Bran and Deletha. I spent most of the event watching Benton with a few breaks. He walked up and down the stairs of the hotel over and over and around the lobby endlessly. We then headed to IKEA, had lunch, bought a few things and Mel crashed. He was feeling great (that was the drugs for his infection talking) and his body said "REST DAMN YOU!" so he slept almost the entire way home...course so did Benton cause he was pooped and needed a nap too.

Sunday we headed to Tom's for the household gathering and had a good time playing in the pool. Benton was not about just floating with us in the pool. I had to hold him and "superman" him around the pool. We splashed in the cave area and had a nice time and then he had had enough when the waterfall got turned on. He got very scared. I hung out with folks for quite a while and then it was time to go home. I was increasingly having a sore throat and then my voice was going. Mel and I were in bed pretty darn early.

Also on Sunday I manged to finish #12 for the year (Total Eclipse by Rachel Caine) and then I started #13 which is "Lost in a Good Book".

Monday brought work and scribble. I was really loosing my voice by the time the work day ended and we hit the doc appt for Ben. Got home and well, we had a nice evening with Scribble folks giving a very good send off to msaimeesue for her trip to St. Louis. We shall miss her but being scribes we sent her off with a sugary/coffee rich evening of ATC's (artist trading cards and lots of sweets).

Here is the album for Elsa's ATC Album.

Additionally, I made these: