whew...

The scroll is.... 99% done. If it has to be, it's done now. I'd like to touch up the outlines of the gold leaf, but that's it. Last night around 10:30 or 11 I had a serious oh, shit! moment when I realized I had several more hours of work to do, which was way more than I had hoped. I don't know why it finally hit me then, but the adrenaline kicked in and I worked till 2 AM. Then it took me another hour to go to sleep (okay, I admit I was reading the latest Janet Evanovich and I was laughing pretty hard a fair amount of that time, but even when I finished it and turned out the light it still took me a while to get to sleep, what with the remains of the adrenaline. A couple more hours this morning and I finished the scroll as noted above. Whew! That was too close for comfort. I still have to pack, and Livia is coming over to hem her dress on the machine. She was also doing court scrolls... plural. No idea how many.

Off to pack. I'll outline while she hems.