Prompt Me
Name the most expensive personal item you’ve ever purchased (not your home or car).
Inka, my covid-purchase mini doxie.
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A Scribe’s Wellbeing: Nurturing Our Craft & Ourselves!
As talented artisans and dedicated volunteers, we know just how fulfilling it is to create beautiful scrolls that honor our esteemed members. But let’s have an honest chat about something essential: knowing our limits and recognizing when we might be heading towards burnout.
Size Matters
Medieval illuminated manuscripts came in all sizes. There are the giant church tomes, like the Codex Gigas in the National Library of Sweden. It is probably the largest, weighing over 165 pounds. Photo by Michal Maňas (User:snek01) (Own work) [CC BY 2.5 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5)], via Wikimedia Commons And the minuscule, palm size personal portable books, like the Stowe MS 956 psalm-book at the British Library. Manuscript with miniature portrait of…
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Nothing to go wrong here. Murphy’s law is a popular adage commonly stating “whatever can go wrong, will …” Variants and corollaries exist for assorted skills and daily activities. Over the years from experience I’ve developed my own Murphy’s laws for scribes. 1. If you quickly add something to an illumination when you are nicely…
Guest Post: Another Scribal Perspective –Still Making Art and Having Fun
~by Aidan Cocrinn, O.L., mka Holly Cochran Greetings, Scribal Friends! Mistress Jehanne has honored me by asking if I would add a few words to her wonderful blog. I am happy to do so. Let me start by introducing myself. Since starting in the SCA in 1985 in a small shire, I have been an…
On Being A Good Apprentice
In the SCA along with the craft you learn there are its laws, social interactions and functions. Learning how “the Dream” works. . Everyone learns differently and everyone coaches differently. How do you get the best from an SCA peer relationship?