If you've followed this blog for very long, you'll know that I do a lot of black scrolls. One of them, a couple of years ago, was a Dragon's Heart for Roland de Sullane, which I've detailed in another blog post . Well, it turned out that he and his partner liked it so much that, when he was offered elevation into the Order of Defense, they decided I was the only choice to do his peerage scroll. They wanted another black scroll, but beyond that, I was given free rein to come u

After about 2005, I took a break of a few years from scribal activity. We had worked really hard in the Rivenstar Scriptorium, and produced some great work, but a combination of burnout and my own micromanagement of the group led to its collapse, and I took a step back for a while. In 2008, however, an acquaintance approached me and asked if I would be willing to do the scroll for her husband's elevation to the Order of Chivalry. At that time, there were only three peerage or

A couple of years ago, I was invited to join the choir of St. John's Episcopal Church in my current hometown. While I'm not very religious at all, I've always found comfort in music, especially in performing choral music, and the friend who invited me thought I would get something out of singing at St. John's, so I gave it a try. The local congregation has turned out to be a warm, welcoming community, with a pretty great choir, and I've stayed to sing with them for three or m

My entire blog up until now has consisted only of SCA-relevant art pieces. I've been doing fewer of those lately, because commissions...