[Gemma]

That map is gorgeous, and  I am totally stealing your adulting/ fun things spread! 

[Mistr]

I am glad you are feeling better. The map is coming along beautifully. 

 

I hope you have a great game night!

[Elastigirl]

Good planning to get the walk in earlier today. Enjoy game night!

[Salinger]

It looks AMAZING xx

[Harriet]

Oh yeah, love those little lines. Can't wait to see what textures you use for the other land types

 

[Sovalis]

Hi Everyone! 

 

Map update: I made good progress on the coastline and stippling around the highways yesterday. Not the plains I had planned but those will go quickly today. I have to work out a water texture and a font choice for the main label. 

 

 

It felt good to work for a few solid hours yesterday. Hopefully today goes similarly well. 

 

I had a great game yesterday, so that was fun. Bryon is considering multiclassing his wizard with a dark cleric. It's really interesting that the rest of the party is more concerned with our Barbarian Roxanne's penchant for killing all the enemies (admittedly, sometimes it's a bit gratuitous) more than Bogdan's experiments with necromancy. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out. They destroyed the final summoning circle yesterday, so now they need to track down some submarines and try to rescue Muse's mentor who has been abducted and it being held on one of them. Nicole was alert and chipper and fabulous for the entire game and it was so good to see her in such high spirits and having fun. My heart is really full. I love this game and this group. 

 

One of my regular customers just came in and gifted me a copy of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, which is the only 5e book I don't own. 

 

 

Her Dad got it for her for Christmas but she already had it and he didn't have a receipt to return it. So now it's mine. I'm blown away. 

 

I didn't walk this morning and was very relaxed instead. I chose to get an egg salad sandwich from Jack's for lunch and save my burrito for supper. Now I'm catching up on forums and then I will work on the map some more. It's a good day so far. Hopefully it continues in this vein! 

 

I hope you're also rocking merrily along. Thanks for being here. 🧡

[Kishi]

I'm amazed at how much better your map keeps looking. You're really good at this!

[Everstorm]

I showed my son your map and his eyes bugged out. 

"You can do that?" he says.  I mean, I can't,  but some I know who is very talented can..  

[MaeradCase]

6 hours ago, Sovalis said:

Hi Everyone! 

 

Map update: I made good progress on the coastline and stippling around the highways yesterday. Not the plains I had planned but those will go quickly today. I have to work out a water texture and a font choice for the main label. 

 

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It felt good to work for a few solid hours yesterday. Hopefully today goes similarly well. 

So cool!! Your map is so nice to look at already. 😍

 

6 hours ago, Sovalis said:

I had a great game yesterday, so that was fun. Bryon is considering multiclassing his wizard with a dark cleric. It's really interesting that the rest of the party is more concerned with our Barbarian Roxanne's penchant for killing all the enemies (admittedly, sometimes it's a bit gratuitous) more than Bogdan's experiments with necromancy. Will be interesting to see how it all plays out. They destroyed the final summoning circle yesterday, so now they need to track down some submarines and try to rescue Muse's mentor who has been abducted and it being held on one of them. Nicole was alert and chipper and fabulous for the entire game and it was so good to see her in such high spirits and having fun. My heart is really full. I love this game and this group. 

*shenanigans* 😍

 

6 hours ago, Sovalis said:

One of my regular customers just came in and gifted me a copy of Wild Beyond the Witchlight, which is the only 5e book I don't own. 

 

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Her Dad got it for her for Christmas but she already had it and he didn't have a receipt to return it. So now it's mine. I'm blown away. 

😲 That's so awesome!!! 😍

I really loved playing in that setting for a session or two. My wild magic sorcerer fit right in. 😃 (My favorite bit was the carousel)

 

6 hours ago, Sovalis said:

I didn't walk this morning and was very relaxed instead. 

Glad you had a relaxing morning. 😃

[Salinger]

The map is AMAZING  

 

Whats your Sunday plans Sov?xx

[Sovalis]

FRIENDS! OH NO!

 

I have been working on the map all day. It has been a grind of a session, nothing flowing, no lines I like, very unharmonious. And then I go and ink in the name of the capital city - the only name on the map at all - and I SPELL IT WRONG. 

 

 

It can be fixed in Photoshop, but that just sucks for me. I had it correct in the pencil too, and just completely ignored my pencil when I went to inking. Gah! 

 

*grumble* I am going to get away from my desk and do something else for a while. My tarot card this morning was all "escape, run away, don't do the thing you intend to do" and then this happens. I should have just taken today off the drawing.  

 

Hope you are all succeeding more than I am! Thanks for being here! ❤️ 

[MaeradCase]

Oh man, big oof.

 

I'm glad you have a means to fix it. Ink mistakes are painful to the artist's soul. *sympathetic shoulder pats*

[Salinger]

nooooooooooo

 

is there no way of fixing it on the map? DAMN DAMN DAMN. 

 

Sending solidarity and love Sov x

[Harriet]

13 hours ago, Sovalis said:

FRIENDS! OH NO!

 

I have been working on the map all day. It has been a grind of a session, nothing flowing, no lines I like, very unharmonious. And then I go and ink in the name of the capital city - the only name on the map at all - and I SPELL IT WRONG. 

 

 

It can be fixed in Photoshop, but that just sucks for me. I had it correct in the pencil too, and just completely ignored my pencil when I went to inking. Gah! 

 

*grumble* I am going to get away from my desk and do something else for a while. My tarot card this morning was all "escape, run away, don't do the thing you intend to do" and then this happens. I should have just taken today off the drawing.  

 

Hope you are all succeeding more than I am! Thanks for being here! ❤️ 

 

OH NO. But is it for a game? I bet if you don't mention it none of your companions will notice. Just present it with total confidence.

[Sovalis]

14 hours ago, Salinger said:

nooooooooooo

 

is there no way of fixing it on the map? DAMN DAMN DAMN. 

 

Sending solidarity and love Sov x

I'm going to have to razor it out and then design a separate piece to go over it, I think. All commiseration accepted. ❤️

 

8 hours ago, Harriet said:

 

OH NO. But is it for a game? I bet if you don't mention it none of your companions will notice. Just present it with total confidence.

It's not, it's for an author to go in the front of his book. 😬 

 

20 hours ago, MaeradCase said:

Oh man, big oof.

 

I'm glad you have a means to fix it. Ink mistakes are painful to the artist's soul. *sympathetic shoulder pats*

Thanks, Maerad.  💜

 

Hi All! 

 

I haven't touched the map yet today. Instead I've had a slow morning, made chicken tortellini soup, and did an hour long walk on my treadmill. The walk is the single longest continual walk yet (2.9) and I'm feeling pretty good. I made my 5600 step count goal in that time, so anything else I do today is extra, woot!

 

I have ~2 hours to fill before I need to head to the store and then to work for the evening. One of my customers on Saturday told me that the Canex will have two people going on mat leave soon, so that might give me an opening to wiggle my way in there. Here's hoping. 

 

I hope all of you are meeting your goals today and have something nourishing for eating. Thanks for being here. 💛

[Radost]

6 hours ago, Sovalis said:

I'm going to have to razor it out and then design a separate piece to go over it, I think. All commiseration accepted. ❤️

Eek! What a pain, especially when you had it right to start with! When my sibling made some mistakes on their map, we went out to find a Gelly Roll white gel pen that’s apparently the best for going over ink…it worked well for them but it sounds like this might be for a much more formal purpose. Anyway, hope the fix goes smoothly. 

[Harriet]

14 hours ago, Sovalis said:

I'm going to have to razor it out and then design a separate piece to go over it, I think. All commiseration accepted. ❤️

 

It's not, it's for an author to go in the front of his book. 😬

 

Alas. Will he receive a digital copy or the original, or both?

[Kishi]

To be clear, I'm laughing at this part here:

 

On 1/8/2023 at 6:10 PM, Sovalis said:

My tarot card this morning was all "escape, run away, don't do the thing you intend to do" and then this happens. I should have just taken today off the drawing.  

 

Also the gif is just funny for someone with my background.

 

Anyway, I do hope it all works itself out. I have no idea how to fix that, but I'm sure it's gotta be possible to fix this or else incorporate the error. Maybe the map is an extension of narrative, and the cartographer misspelt it?

[Salinger]

Hey Sov, how are you today? xx

[Sovalis]

8 hours ago, Harriet said:

16 hours ago, Radost said:

Eek! What a pain, especially when you had it right to start with! When my sibling made some mistakes on their map, we went out to find a Gelly Roll white gel pen that’s apparently the best for going over ink…it worked well for them but it sounds like this might be for a much more formal purpose. Anyway, hope the fix goes smoothly. 

Gel pen wasn't something I had considered, honestly, so thank you for that! Going to need to do some tests and see if I can make that work. The texture might be better for inking over than razored paper. I dislike disturbing the surface tension of paper that way...

 

8 hours ago, Harriet said:

8 hours ago, Harriet said:

 

Alas. Will he receive a digital copy or the original, or both?

Both. 😬😬😬 The digital fix is very easy. I'm just disappointed about the physical copy being messed up. 

 

1 hour ago, Kishi said:

To be clear, I'm laughing at this part here:

I'm glad you laughed! I did, too, once I was done being in a funk. Teach me to ignore such a blatant card! 😅

 

1 hour ago, Kishi said:

Also the gif is just funny for someone with my background.

 

Anyway, I do hope it all works itself out. I have no idea how to fix that, but I'm sure it's gotta be possible to fix this or else incorporate the error. Maybe the map is an extension of narrative, and the cartographer misspelt it?

Unfortunately, it's for a book which has well established spelling. If it were a personal map, I wouldn't be nearly so stressed. 

 

1 hour ago, Salinger said:

Hey Sov, how are you today? xx

Hi Beautiful Sal! I'm pretty good today! How are you? Feeling better? 

 

Hi Friends! 

Apparently I goofed the formatting, so my responses to your questions are nested in the text boxes above? I have no idea how I managed that! 🧐

 

I walked 8326 steps yesterday and actually felt quite good for the whole day. I was a tiny bit stiff from sitting at work during my evening shift, but nothing too bad. I did go home from work and eat two gingerbread cookies because I wanted a treat, but I peeled all the candy and icing off them and just ate the cookie. This is the first time I've ever done that. It's interesting. The last four cookies from gingerbread have a *lot* of decoration on them, to the point I'm not sure I can get it off. I don't want to eat that extra sugar and am considered throwing them away. This is blowing my mind. I feel sentimental about having made them because I don't know how many more years my Gramparents will be able to do gingerbread with me (they're in their 80s). But eating them is not something I want to do. 

 

A thought just occurred to me: these cookies are wildly sturdy, especially all iced up. I could keep them as keepsakes for a while if I stored them carefully and kept them dry. It might be nice to have them for a family altar, or frame them in a shadowbox, or something at some point. I'll have to think more about that. 

 

This morning I woke up a little late after strange dreams, had coffee, did my Tarot (all clear for today, lol), and came to work. Walked to the bank and the post office, so clocked 1800 steps doing that which is nice. My right foot is bugging me a bit, but it's not bad enough to not walk today. I have chicken tortellini soup for lunch and will have zucchini noodles and home made spaghetti sauce from the freezer for supper. I really enjoy zucchini noodles. Dave prefers pasta, so I don't have them often when he's home. 

 

Brought the map to work and will engage with it today. Would like to wrap it up soon seeing as how I'd hoped to have it done on Sunday. Will walk tonight on the treadmill. 

 

My Bujo chat is looking pretty fly! 😁 It's astonishing how having a pretty pattern to fill in is encouraging me to get things done. 

 

 

Hope you're feeling secure and productive today. Thanks for being here. 💛

 

 

[Harriet]

Yeah lots of Germans buy those big iced lebküchen hearts and hang them up. they aren't for eating, as far as I can tell. ETA I think they get changed every year? so your biscuits could last a good long time maybe. but in cellophane perhaps so sugar loving pests dont eat them

[Mistr]

1 hour ago, Sovalis said:

I did go home from work and eat two gingerbread cookies because I wanted a treat, but I peeled all the candy and icing off them and just ate the cookie. This is the first time I've ever done that. It's interesting. The last four cookies from gingerbread have a *lot* of decoration on them, to the point I'm not sure I can get it off. I don't want to eat that extra sugar and am considered throwing them away. This is blowing my mind. I feel sentimental about having made them because I don't know how many more years my Gramparents will be able to do gingerbread with me (they're in their 80s). But eating them is not something I want to do. 

 

Excellent that you realized you did not want to eat a bunch of sugar and didn't eat it.  You are choosing to eat something you like as a treat, so you can pick something you really like. You don't have to eat decorative cookies just because they are there. 

 

1 hour ago, Sovalis said:

A thought just occurred to me: these cookies are wildly sturdy, especially all iced up. I could keep them as keepsakes for a while if I stored them carefully and kept them dry. It might be nice to have them for a family altar, or frame them in a shadowbox, or something at some point. I'll have to think more about that. 

 

Good plan.

 

1 hour ago, Sovalis said:

My Bujo chat is looking pretty fly! 😁 It's astonishing how having a pretty pattern to fill in is encouraging me to get things done. 

 

It looks amazing!  I can certainly see how that would encourage you to hit all your daily goals.

[MaeradCase]

3 hours ago, Sovalis said:

 

 

Hi Friends! 

Apparently I goofed the formatting, so my responses to your questions are nested in the text boxes above? I have no idea how I managed that! 🧐

I did that once, but I also spent 10 minutes struggling with emojis an hour ago because four of them were invisible to my phone after I posted my update, so maybe it's just some random gremlin on the forums. 😉

 

3 hours ago, Sovalis said:

I did go home from work and eat two gingerbread cookies because I wanted a treat, but I peeled all the candy and icing off them and just ate the cookie. This is the first time I've ever done that. It's interesting. The last four cookies from gingerbread have a *lot* of decoration on them, to the point I'm not sure I can get it off. I don't want to eat that extra sugar and am considered throwing them away. This is blowing my mind. I feel sentimental about having made them because I don't know how many more years my Gramparents will be able to do gingerbread with me (they're in their 80s). But eating them is not something I want to do. 

Wow! Loving that plan!

 

3 hours ago, Sovalis said:

A thought just occurred to me: these cookies are wildly sturdy, especially all iced up. I could keep them as keepsakes for a while if I stored them carefully and kept them dry. It might be nice to have them for a family altar, or frame them in a shadowbox, or something at some point. I'll have to think more about that. 

Hmm! Good ideas!

 

3 hours ago, Sovalis said:

did my Tarot (all clear for today, lol)

😂😂😂

 

3 hours ago, Sovalis said:

I have chicken tortellini soup for lunch and will have zucchini noodles and home made spaghetti sauce from the freezer for supper. I really enjoy zucchini noodles. Dave prefers pasta, so I don't have them often when he's home. 

I haven't made them fresh for myself, and I did try the frozen alternative for a brief time. Cid doesn't like it all, but I remember my older sister's enthusiasm for them, so I always feel like I could, maybe would, and probably should, but in the end I don't. 🤔

 

3 hours ago, Sovalis said:

Brought the map to work and will engage with it today. Would like to wrap it up soon seeing as how I'd hoped to have it done on Sunday. Will walk tonight on the treadmill. 

Hoping the physical fix isn't too bad!

 

3 hours ago, Sovalis said:

My Bujo chat is looking pretty fly! 😁 It's astonishing how having a pretty pattern to fill in is encouraging me to get things done. 

 

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I super love it. Good work getting all the pretty pattern goals. 😍

 

3 hours ago, Sovalis said:

Hope you're feeling secure and productive today. Thanks for being here. 💛

❤

[Elastigirl]

7 hours ago, MaeradCase said:

I did that once, but I also spent 10 minutes struggling with emojis an hour ago because four of them were invisible to my phone after I posted my update, so maybe it's just some random gremlin on the forums. 😉

 

I struggled with the emojis' earlier this evening too. Still can't see most of them.

[Sovalis]

Hi Friends! 😁

 

Today is a good day so far. Got up, had Greek yogurt with chia and hemp hearts for breakfast, talked with a friend, did my cards, played with Sax, came to work. My feet are bothering me a bit, but on the tops of them, not the soles. I've upped my step count a bit this week unintended, but I didn't think an extra 4000 steps over 2-3 days would be troublesome? Seems weird. Not sure if I'll be able to treadmill tonight but I will certainly try. 

 

Had my chicken tortellini soup for lunch and it keeps getting better. I really impressed myself with this batch. Recieved some inventory for the store so dealt with that. Now I'm doing forums, then digging into the map again. I'd like to get the rest of the water textured today. 

 

 

My friend Kim messaged me last night and reminded me of a Zoom yoga class she'd invited me to on January 17. It's $5 for the drop in, and if I like it it's $120 for weekly classes until around March 8 if I recall correctly. I'm trepidatious about confronting my mobility in front of other people, but I'm also trying really hard to say yes to invitations to do physical things. I emailed the instructor and asked some questions and got good, compassionate answers. Turns out they are also non-binary, so I won't be the only they/them in class, which will be a new and welcome experience for me, I think. So nervous I might be, but also excited, and trying to lean into that. Kim also suggested Darebee (I don't know if I'm spelling that correctly) as a movement resource, so I'm poking around on their website. 

 

I've also joined a small accountability group from the NF Facebook page and am getting to know the people in it. I think it will be a supplement to what I'm doing here, and it helps me meet my desires to support others on their journeys. We are only a few days in, so we will see how it goes. 

 

I think that's everything! Hope you are all feeling peaceful and productive! Thanks for being here! 🧡