I've sent the contents of the entry below to Paul Antonio, in the hope that he will confirm that I've not gone insane,
I also sent a mail to him about diamonds and lozenges, and the construction of letters a few days ago. I'll put that in when I get a reply.

Meanwhile, I've got a little project to do. It's a friend's birthday coming up and she has expressed an interest in some personalized writing paper.
So I'm doing up an original with 'From the desk of Dianne" in Gothic Textura Quadrata, with a few flourishes on the letters. The D will be illuminated and have a bit of trail-y vine-y stuff with a few flowers going down the page an inch and a half or so. I'll gild the D and the centre of the flowers with Will's Quill's gilding mix. (Still too cold to use the gesso I have, which I found out the hard way is formulated for Australian summer).
I'll then copy the original onto a heap of paper that is coloured to look a little like parchment.
I want to get some envelopes to match the paper, and do a little something to decorate them in a matching sort of way as well. Hope I can find some to match.

It's nice to have a break from thinking deep thoughts about g.t.q. To think I haven't even gotten onto the script analysis of the Bedford Hours yet!