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Yesterday I went to Johan and Arianna's to help paint the new kitchen for Pennsic. It's a 10x10 Tudor facade, with a canvas roof, so painting involved mostly trying to paint brown timbers without splashing paint on the white walls. We were not entirely successful, but that's what the touch-up pass is for. We got interrupted by rain, but we got most of the painting done. This is going to look quite spiffy when it's set up, and it lets us eliminate one modern fly.

Before the rain the temperature was above 90 and it was very humid. The rain didn't actually do much for the humidity (it was a sprinkle, not real rain), but today is much cooler and less humid so something happened. I guess I was out in the heat and sun for too long yesterday, because I was really wiped out at the end of the day and didn't go to the party I'd wanted to go to.

Wednesday night I went to the officers' meeting for the local SCA group. ( Surprising things happened. )

Tonight I lead services at Tree of Life. Dani's out of town and the weather was hot until today, so I'd already decided to have cold foods for Shabbat. Cold cherry soup is good this time of year, and cherries were on sale Wednesday. Yum.

Here is a (bad) scan of the cover art for the SCA newsletter I mentioned before:

Someone else is doing the calligraphy, which will go in that block at the bottom. The lines aren't as fuzzy and faint in real life as they are in this scan; I just can't get the software to cooperate. (It also insists on believing that my scanner is 11" long when it's really 14", hence the tight fit. The original is just over 11" tall...)

It's based on a page from a Hebrew manuscript c.1275 (German). The original has one of the names of God in the center in large letters, with birds (like the one in this picture) and leaves/flowers surrounding it. I replaced the name with a comet, which is the symbol of the local SCA group. Most of the other critters are based on ones in the original.

I'm drawing the cover for an upcoming SCA newsletter. (It's a special edition of our local newsletter -- all articles, no bureaucratic stuff.) I hope to finish it, or at least get most of the way there, tomorrow. The major stuff is all pencilled in, except for some stuff that requires drafting skills that I'm too tired to try to conjure up tonight. So tomorrow I'll do those, fill in some fiddly bits, and, I hope, ink. (It's a black-and-white cover, so I don't need to paint.) I didn't plan far enough ahead to scare up someone whose calligraphy doesn't suck to letter in the title and stuff; I think I'll do my bad calligraphy on a separate piece of paper and invite the editor (whose calligraphy is better than mine) to plug in her own if she likes.

When it's all done I'll scan it in. So you guys will actually see it before the editor does. :-)

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