A week late in writing this, but...we're back from FtM!

I had a great time at the con, and of course, had an awesome road trip with Kalika and Nace as well, who were also my roomies during the con :)

If anyone had met me there and are reading this, I also would like to apologize for cancelling the Making Paint From Pigment panel. I was in a lot of pain, and I made the call during suppertime to cancel it, so I could go back to my room and stretch out on the bed for the rest of the night.

I have a bulging disc in my lower back, and it's pressing against the sciatic nerve to my left leg, which also gets pretty painful, and the pain seems to get worse as the day go along. I even had to miss out on the GoH Dinner too, because of it, which I hated to miss out on it but...there's really nothing much I can do about it. I'm due for a cortisone shot to my back in early April, so I pretty much have to grin and bear the pain till then, as nothing really does anything for the pain, and I really don't like the idea of taking a lot of Tylenol for it as well. I also missed out on some panels that I've been wanting to go to for fun, too, but...again, too much in pain >.<

With that aside, though, I had a good turn out to my What Is The SCA panel and I had help with a fellow SCAdian fur there, Draylen :) Thanks so much for the help, if you're reading this! I feel like I was just spewing out verbal diarrhea with whatever popped into my head XD But it went well, though!

Thanks to everyone who came by my table and were curious to ask what I had on my table too :) I had some of my favourite medieval facsimile books on display, as well as some folders that showed how I made some of my illuminated scrolls step-by-step, as well as having the original side-by-side (photocopied, of course!) to show where I got my inspiration from. I also had my tablet displaying my best works, which...really liked to turn the screen off and I had to constantly check up on it XD And, I also worked on my tablet weaving, and I was able to finish my trim by Sunday :)

I had the chance to check out the Marketplace a bit and bought a few things, too :)

Being at FtM has actually left me with some positivity and feeling like I want to do more art =D This is a good thing, cuz I've been really missing it. I might.....MIGHT...have a table at the Marketplace next year, but I still won't take commission work. Instead, I'll be focusing doing art stuff that brings me joy and happiness, and making some merch from that and offering it at my table. At least, that's the plan. We'll see...I've got about a year to get my butt in gear ;)

Thank you to all the staff at FtM who tended to me, and I probably bugged and harrassed endlessly from being GoH and trying to figure out where to go, and what was going on XD Hopefully I wasn't too much trouble. And thank you for having me as GoH this year! I had fun! :)

Anyways, I've got errands to run and stuff, so...it's back to the grind again XD