Day 58

Well things are still moving right along. The badge sat in commentary for the month of Sept and was report as such :

2. Bronwen Blackwell. New Badge. Argent, point pointed vert, two covered cups sable.

No conflicts found.  

Best phrase ever - No conflicts found- a very good sign. My fear was that it would get to commentary and hit a brick wall. (Commentary is where the heralds look over the previous months submissions and basically take a fine tooth comb to them. Checking for conflicts and such.) 

So now that it past them it continues on its path to becoming a real badge!! 

Day 7

Got all the copies, the check, and the envelope- Here goes nothing!

Day 6

After talking with my heraldry mentor this badge looks great and I am making my copies today in hopes to get it sent off with the submissions for the month.
I really like this setup - very clean and simple and cute.  So break out the markers and let's do this thing.

Day 5- I GOT IT I GOT IT

White, point pointed green, two covered cups in black.  YES!!!

Heraldry talk - argent, point pointed vert, two covered cups sable. Oh yes I so love this..... wait, How do I put it on a badge form? crap. It's the point pointed thing that is gonna be rough.

But all in all I really like this design. I hope that it does not have any problems going through. But I will leave the conflict checking up to the higher up heralds.

I am so excited about this project now I love this setup.

Day 5

Still none of the ideas up on the fridge is sticking for me. I guess I could start over but I honestly have no other ideas.

Up on the fridge

Day 2
These ideas don't look any better. I absolutely love the covered cups idea but how to get them to look right I am not sure yet. But what I do know is that the one with the 6 divided background- that one is way out- makes me dizzy.

LET’S DO A SUBMISSION

Idea - a badge that can signify what is within His Excellency Don Govanen’s Estate.

Plan- to design something that will be easily recognized as his.

Day 1 - spent most of my day looking online to hopefully find some ideas that would work for this badge. Bad idea! To much information!  So I head to the Baronial Herald’s Library. Sure there are books upon books of information but there is much more control of the information. So book 1, 2, then 3 lots of ideas but what am I looking for? Go again, book 1, 2, then wait there it was “covered cups”, these were used to signify the location of apothocarys throughout Europe. With my knowledge of herbs and their uses, I thought this would be a good way to make this badge both of ours. So now I have a general idea of the direction.
    Next color and position of this image. Govanen’s colors being black and white and mine being green and white seemed easy enough to combine, green black and white.
    a silver covered cup on a background half green and half black?
        a black cup with a silver lid on a green background?
        a covered cup centered with green and black sections on the back 3 of each color.

I don’t think a white background with a black chevron and a green covered cup would look complete. SO MANY IDEAS!!
    I decided to draw all of these up, put them on paper and look at them. Which is always a good idea when finding a name or designing a badge. I learned that from Pendar way back when he helped me with my name and device. He said “ put it to paper and hang it on your fridge and/or bathroom mirror so that you can look at it every day. If after a week or more you are not sick of it or have no doubts then you’re good”. So where did I put my markers? Here goes nothing did a rough draft of each one. They all look so plain. Well, up on the fridge they go.