[Scriptoris] Greetings and Thank Yous

[Elaine]

Lord Thomas,

Congratulations on your new office!

Like you, my SCA scribal "career" [strange wording the SCA uses for  
club contributions since I always thought a "career" was a paid  
occupation- ; -D   ] has been for my local area, Steppes. I haven't  
been in it as a practicing scribe for a good many years (I am no  
spring chicken). Some of the older scribes may have heard of me. My  
neck (cervical bones on nerves) gave out after 40+ years at a light  
table, so I had to cut back to almost nothing.

The point of the following "quasi-resume" is that I am offering  
myself to you as a private reference resource.

I was active in the mundane calligraphy world, working for the likes  
of Tiffany & Co., Sprint, PFC, Roger Staubach, and others, besides  
teaching calligraphy for my shop, Calligraphy Heaven, and for a  
Dallas community college. I was recently asked to be the backup  
calligrapher for the Episcopal Diocese of Dallas by Bishop Stanton

In the past, I did the lettering design for some SCA commemorative  
totebags for Warlord, multiple award scrolls through the years, and  
teaching at two KW symposiums, one based on a large book I authored  
about how to analyze and reproduce a specific hand from a specific  
page. (Majadi has watched and commented favorably as he observed my  
doing just that. He started as a scribe, you know.)

  I have studied with most of the icons of the mundane world,  
including Donald Jackson, former scribe to QE II herself, and others.  
I have done the same with internationally known watercolorists and  
have works in four countries.  In addition, I have been certified by  
the State of Texas to teach art (my BFA) in high school and jr. high,  
so I am good at teaching and can offer tips about that, too.

Back to a major point----- best wishes on your term as Sable Scroll  
Scribe. You have a great group to work with, though the illuminators  
usually outnumber the scribal pool.... Email me if I can help you,  
Lord Thomas.

Bon chance!!
Lete

HL Lete Bithespring, Order of the Iris (Calligraphy), Sable Crane,  
Order of the Oak, etc.
mka Elaine Crittenden, Dallas
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On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:11 AM, Thomas Smith wrote:

> Greetings, scribes of Ansteorra
>
> Allow me to introduce myself.  I am Thomas atte Woode (mka Tom Smith),
> and I just stepped up to the office of Sable Scroll Scribe.  Most of
> my scribal career has been spent with my local group here in the
> Barony of the Stargate, but I look forward to getting to know more of
> you across the kingdom during the course of this job.
>
> I also would like to thank those of you who turned in new scrolls at
> Coronation last weekend.  We had a total of 108 new scrolls turned in,
> the vast majority of these from the Barony of the Steppes and the
> Shire of Rosenfeld.  Vivat Steppes!  Vivat Rosenfeld!
>
> If any of you are looking for projects to do in the coming weeks, we
> are particulalry low on Arc D'Or scrolls.
>
> Yours in Service,
> Thomas atte Woode
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