I never got around to updating this and now almost an entire year has passed.  Work got a little overwhelming and with the threat of layoffs I went to another job only to encounter one of the WORST co-workers I have ever dealt with.  Leaving there, I went to another company only to find out that I was lied to in several ways and was fired (essentially I was hired on as holiday help so the regular workers could use up their vacation before losing it).  So…now that I have time on my hands, lets get my blog site updated!

At the last Estrella War (2018…when I originally started this post), I found myself sitting at the Hrafenheim households mead circle.  There are few things that are comparable to be sitting with friends at a fire drinking various flavors of warm mead.  Several cups later, I found myself discussing the application of gilding…both flat and raised with Mistress Ari and Mistress Ian’ka Ivanovna zhena Petrovitsa.  I was lamenting the fact that none of my gilding was working correctly and I typically had to redo sections of gilding…and that I was beginning to suspect that the lack of humidity, here in Arizona, had something to do with it as well as my paper.  They both commented that humidity had everything to do with it and they only worked on gilding during the monsoon season.  It was good to confirm my suspicions but it still did not dampen my desire to do gilding “out of season”.

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