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Salon Artificum

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Salon is basically like a school science fair: you get to display and infodump your particular interest(s). Mine was "Anyone Can Scribe, Including You, You Can't Change My Mind." I made a bunch of scribal trading cards of simple, funky, and/or geometric art from across the world before the 17th century.  There were tips for hesitant calligraphers: calligrams/micrography, speech bubbles, invented languages, less than perfect calligraphers, even transliteration. 99% (a few escaped without) had the source on the back, my name, this blog, and a Bob Ross quote and I gave them away at the end of the event. I should have included a caveat that the potential scribe had to be able to hold a pen and perceive 2 dimensional media because one friend challenged me with hand tremors.  I pointed out the  Tremulous Hand of Worcester  and even then WORDSMITHING IS STILL SCRIBAL! ...
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Charter Calligraphy

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These are calligraphy for principality charters, which is why there are bits of white-out here and there and some smudges since the digital scribe can easily clean those up.   This one is transliterated from English using phonetic alphabets from Rezansky . 
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More Early Scribal

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  This was when I was still forgetting to take photos of the finished product and I wasn't entirely happy with this one because you might not have noticed, but I'm a bit of a perfectionist.
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Plethora of Purses

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I've knitted soooo many purses for largesse, I could probably knit at least a Gunnister (top one) with my eyes closed.  Seriously, I've probably made a couple dozen over the years.       This last one is from a pattern adapted by Dame Christian da Holcomb from extant knitted items.  I took a class from her at an An Tir West War once upon a time, on paternoster beads, of all things (beading and religious stuff are not my bag), but it was still highly enjoyable.   I still wore those beads - roughly carved wooden roses - up until last year when I lent them to a newcomer who fell in love with them as a textured fidget toy.  Since I'd only worn them as an accessory, they found a new home with her.  
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First Experience with Cyrillic

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  If you read Russian, please don't point out how I butchered this one.  I know that I lost track of which word or letter I was on more than once.  I cringe looking back since an acquaintance of my spouse who's a professional translator kindly did it for free. I think this one was a baronial Arts & Sciences award?  I don't even have a proper finished photo because of how embarrassed I was over the mistakes even though the recipient can't read it. 
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Largesse Needlebooks

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    Stumbled across this photo of pure linen and wool needlebooks I handsewed for largesse 11 years ago, finishing the edges with blanket stitch in blue wool on the lower three and the top two had *squints* split stitch topstitching in light blue wool.
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For my spouse

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    I thought I was so smart in hiding this one from my partner since they're not great at cold reading calligraphy, but I left my notes lying out and spoiled the surprise.  :(     First time doing art with ink and pen.  At the time, I was so upset because the exemplar had wash shading, which I had no idea how to achieve so I resorted to dots which now I think look great, but at the time I hadn't managed a "perfect" replica.  I was also fighting the ink, can't remember which kind it was but it was likely Speedball India Ink or Noodler.   I'm now in love with Pilot Iroshizuku Take-sumi, but I managed to spill my barely used bottle and the Papiery is out.  At this time of year, they can't risk shipping ink in glass bottles when it's below freezing in the areas it would have to travel through.  Tried another random one from the Papiery, and I really don't like it.  For some reason, it negates the thick/thin delineation so it all k...
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