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I am once again slightly bored out of my mind while on the job. Although pretty soon I will be going to get some leather and tools and tooling said leather. How that'll work on the front desk, I'll have to see. Wait, maybe I should go back to that whole "tooling leather" thing.

One of the joys of being a) artistically gifted [a-thank you] and b) working in a museum whose main exhibit right now is Vikings is that when the co-worker who does Viking re-enactments asks you if you want to learn how to tool leather, you say yes [obviously; this also happened when he asked if I wanted to learn how to spin wool]! Essentially tooling leather is the method in which you take a piece of leather, wet'er down and then make impressions in it to create a design. Because the leather is wet, when it dries it'll hold the impression and you can get something like this:

Obviously, I am not that great. But I am working on it.



Anyways, the one I was working on Friday night while attempting to reel people in at an outreach programme at the mall [it, surprisingly, didn't work] was trying to channel Viking themes, i.e. a ship with these two weird animals biting each other's tails. The only problem was I had no pencil so I had to use pen which now shows more than the impressions, and lemonade instead of water so it looks very rustic and stained with age.

I think I might have to try again. Especially since it's snowing and so the likelihood that anyone is going to come in today is mighty slim. Ho hum.