New TO DO's and Edinburgh Trip
Well, in celebration of being back online i have decided to change my layout more than i change my socks. I need a pretty banner image but I decided I like this for now.
Now Snupin Santa is completed:
* Gift Art & icons for TR lady (Icons nearly finished - sketches for cartoon done)
* gift art for ?
* Falling Script - (currently slacking / writers block)
* Special Project painting - (sketches done, canvas primed)
* High fat snack porn art for
12am_nosh (claim post here - stil need the lowfat snack/library sketches and full-fat snack final drawing) Posting in march
* Hierophant Tarot Card featuring Severus for
hp_tarot completed can't post til Feb
* Quentae pictures
* geeky snupin fic
* 4. promt for hp_art100
* Snape / Regulus Icons
Edinburgh was (as expected) bloody gorgeous. And surpringly, really warm. The hotel was a bit dodgy but it was cheap and cheerful and the bed was comfy. if we'd stayed there any longer it mightn't have been as pleasant.
all the tourist-ish things were done (of course) and now I have (nearly) all my christmas presents in! We did the open top bus tours and the camera obscura (they need a lift). I found myself overcoming two major phobias in one holiday.
Those that know me will know i'm both petrified of heights and have moderate phobia of enclosed spaces/crowds. So of course I was forced into going into the Blair Street Vaults and Mary King's Close (both underground and very claustrophobic). On top of which (ha) I also made it to the very top of the castle with only mild histeria! go me! i was told afterwards that I had been muttering under my breath about 'stupid bloody big high granite things' - i have no recolection of this.
The vaults were interesting, people actually used to live down there. i did the history tour as opposed to the *eye roll* ghost tour. (I just watched the Halloween Live Most Haunted from there :) - why is it always poor Stuart *snicker* ) learned all about Burke and Hair the body snatchers and the living conditions of the old town. the plague stories were a bit Bleurgh but i suppose that's the point. quite cool but i've concluded that i'm the most unpsychic person alive. I didnt even get a shiver. Same with Mary Kings Close which is supposedly haunted as well. The claustrophobia thing bothered me more than any 'spooky' activity even then I didnt realise I had been frightened until I came back above ground and my legs decided they didnt want to work properly :( *is a wuss*
using my sherlock icon in honour of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle a native Edinburghian hee!