update on the projects

you can take the project plan away fro the project manager, but you can't take the innate need to report out progress away from from the project manager.

I have been working on a lot family history research. I am tracing my grandfather on my mother's side's male family line. I may have gotten the off shoot of My great, great, great grandnmother's mother born in Ireland in 1708. It is unknown if it is her as I a missing the names of my great great, great grandparents.

As for names and persona- I am know hell bent on finding the proper family line in hopes to chose a name of my own ancestor. Although I will actually have a trade, which they probably did not have, I think it would be pretty cool to pick in a name in that way. As of now I am learning toward Agnes /Aggie (me) and John (Justin). I am hell bent on also finding out if the gentleman (schoolar and memeber of parliment) beheaded with my family's last name in the late 1500's for refusing to convert from Catholic to Protistant is of relation.

As for trade, I am going to go with wife/(miniature) painter and Justin is just sticking with the able bodied seaman (hahahaahhaha this one makes me laugh every time I say it). As fot the back story, I am daughter of an Italian middle class merchant (importer of fine msucial goods) who set up shop in England and married a yong British woman.

I was trained in the arts of both housekeeping and other fine skills needed. The only child of the marriage, I was given leaway to help with my father's business- where I happened to meet a ship worker, a cause of much commotion and run away from home since I was forbidden to continue the relationship. I managed to procuor enough money for passage aboad a ship that he could earn his keep and we've traveled toward the Caribean claiming I am visitng my sick Uncle to help keep house there. No family, little money and a penchant for the finer clothing and skilled at painting and cooking we find ourselves in a bit of a bind looking for work and a more permanat and nicer building, to call home.

Current project list

So my 3 new projects:
1. Finish the 15 or so photo assignments
2. Work on persona as living historian (this is a post on it's own)
3. Begin the process for learning to pain in enamel for miniatures accurate to the 1600-1800's

Number 3, will be apart of my living historian persona- but is also out of interest in increasing my rendering of the human fae and figure and to help me refocus on painting again. Although less contoversial than my normal feminist and political topics the idea of still performing combined with painting and working with objects isn't too far away from the work I had been doing- although the topics are much different.