Space Lord

I hope everyone (the one who reads this) had a great holiday. This year I was thrilled to give. My wife had a memorable Christmas in a very long time. This year Avery and I started working on it in early November. When I gift, I tend to have themes. In previous years, those themes have been wrapped around many book titles. For example, when we first moved to Chicago, I bought her a bunch of books by Chicago authors about Chicago. One year, she had a series of other persons views books like the Reluctant Fundamentalist...she says that book changed her life. 

This year however, books could not be a thing. First, space is an issue. Second, Andi is getting all of her books through Audible. But I did buy her one book...The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge. I purchased it used as it was listed as a hardback in need of repair. Since Andi repairs books for the Field Museum, I thought this may be a fun start for her. The book was her first gift. 

The second gift was the main gift to kick off everything else about the theme. She received the title of Lady. This is tied to a book series she has been reading in which Lady Hardcastle and Florence (Flo) Armstrong solve crimes in the UK. Our car was named Flo in honor of the book series and I felt it was only fitting that my wife be titled properly to drive her.

The third gift was the gift we (mostly Avery) have been diligently working on for over a month. We made her crest/shield. Unlike the normal crest, we needed something modern, round, and reflect the new Lady’s house. Avery designed a beautiful crest and then the hard part began. We went to Home Depot and purchased the round tabletop and wood carving tools. 

Let’s get a few details out of the way. I don’t craft or carve. In fact, prior to this shield, I had never carved anything. So after Avery made the design on the wood using nothing but a pencil (she still amazes me with her art skill) I watched a YouTube video and started carving out the outline details. I carved around the crows, around the arrow, and after about 1.5 hours, my hand was sore and we put it away for a week. The following week I finished with the outlines and started carving out the negative space. At some point Avery felt I wasn’t moving fast enough and started carving out the negative space as well. Hand carving is a lot of work in a small apartment in the city. No bench and lots of vacuuming. 

She carved it all out and was ready to paint. The negative space she already had paint for. The crowd needed to pop out more so I suggested model paint like I used when I was a kid making model cars. I knew there was a metallic version of model paint and thought that would help. After a few coats, she got it to where she wanted it. She then used coffee to stain the rest of the board and provide the wood grain to come through more. The last step was to seal it with clear coat. That would stink up the house so bad so she sprayed it in the emergency stairwell thinking that nobody would be in there anyhow. When she bright it back in, it still stunk up the entire house. It was down though. 

After seeing her face after getting her shield, we had to continue to bestow more of her proper needs such as gold embossed notecards, and Avery made her a custom coffee with her logo printed on it called Lady Andi Burkholder’s Mana. Both said the coffee was excellent. 

So how does all of this tie into the title of the post? Because I wrote a review of the place I purchased Lady Andi’s title, I was also given a title. To top that, my most awesome gift given to me is an entire solar system. I have a Star named John’s Coeus named on my behalf given to my by Avery. I have a star, I am a Lord... I am a Star Lord! Bring on the Marvel Universe. 

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