This was not a normal work week. Part of the problem is that my husband’s current project is gutting and re-doing the kitchen and I am required to help on occasion. I lost several days this week to picking out granite counters, flooring, and appliances. Next week I get to pick out paint colors.

But I digress. The week started with scanning a few books to make them back to the library before they became over due. There was a lot of great information in this batch of books and I don’t like to miss anything so I scan the entire section that has a page-tag and the associated footnotes. I also make sure to enter the book information into the bibliography right away.

I also took care of about half of my correspondence because I’m really falling behind with it.

I had made a request last week to a parchment processor and received a reply this week. So I placed the order and should see it on Monday or Tuesday. Then I can get to running the parchment and vellum trials.

And I planned out a good number of my future silk needs so that I could mail out my list to a friend who’s in a position to go pick it up on the one day a year that it’s all on sale. I am forever grateful.

And even better I received a package from overseas that contained silk samples. This is excellent because they are samples that I can’t get here in the States and I will have a much better sampling of available silks.

So next week I will be able to test the silks on the parchments and have some very clear answers as to what works best and what works just kind of well.

It should be fun.

In other news – we started the new session of wood carving and have now started caving some statues for the shrine project. So through the end of the projects I will be spending one day a week on the statue and four days on the flowers, alternating between bookwork and handwork. Thus far I have about seven flowers completed so I need to just buckle down and get it done.