Happy National Handwriting Day! It’s a good day. It’s Friday and it’s a day to celebrate handwriting. That’s pretty amazing to me.

The last two weeks have been a slog. I got sick just in time to not feel like going to the art store for calligraphy supplies at all and spent the next two days on the couch, which my cat enjoyed. This rather put a kink in my plans of calligraphy practice over the weekend and through the next week. This week has been so hectic at work, I’m not really sure why, that I’m very much looking forward to the weekend.

I did manage to start doing a mock-up and paste-up of a piece I’m doing for our friend’s upcoming wedding. As you can see from the photo below, I’m playing around with sizes, spacing, and centering right now. The calligraphy isn’t perfect, but I’m more interested in the overall feel and figuring out how large the piece will be in the end. Now if all my handwriting only looked that nice!

Also, in exciting writing news, we got our first shipment from Ink Drop. A subscription service for fountain pen inks is something I can get behind. I’ll use up ink faster than beauty products most likely. I was excited to get the verdigris color as it might be useful in the project I’m working on now.

So, while I didn’t get as much done as I was hoping the last couple of weeks, it hasn’t been a complete standstill on the calligraphy front. Now I just have to dig into some revising of stories to make a submission deadline coming up in the next couple of months.

Have fun writing today and encourage others to write a letter by hand today. It’s a perfect excuse to take the time to create some beautiful writing before the weekend. 🙂