More Painting.

We had heavy rain in the night, a few showers in the morning and for the rest of the time it's just been windy.

I have spent the day painting shields, 22 small ones and 2 large. Only the central bosses to stick on and then I can go back to adding to our costumes. Although I've based the shield designs on Viking shields, so easy to do research now we have the internet, I've snuck in some LOTR designs for the large shields. Any fellow fan will recognise our Rohan shields. Peter's shield is a simplified version of Théoden's shield though to make it more 'Viking' I've added runes. But not any old runes, they're dwarvish runes that spell Pete. You would have to be a real fan to work that one out. I've just looked up the runes I painted on some of the small shields and saw they are X, W, T and Q. A truly random choice.

 

Enough of the sweet peas that I planted out survived for me to pick flowers every day for the utility room. Their scent is absolutely gorgeous. (Can't bear hyacinths or paperwhites.)