Pretty Letters



[edna-writes]

[edna-writes]

Picking up my calligraphy pen again with one of my favourite sayings.

[cidio]

Inkwell. Cost: $2.50 and some random crap I found. The cup is a food container, the change is for weight, the cotton balls are to catch spilled ink, the inkwell is the cap from a hair spray bottle. Aside from the lid, I also put a tiny cork in the well to keep it from drying out overnight. The pen grip is to keep shit from rolling away.

Copyright: Cidio, Scribe By Night. Patent Pending.

[nonasuch]

If it helps re: wax seals and envelopes, a wax seal company I follow says to take your envelopes to the post office and ask them to hand cancel your letters. apparently machine cancelling is what messes up the seal and not the transit itself. I've never tried it myself but they seem very confident about this.

I have also heard this! Advice seems to vary between that and double envelope + extra stamp.

[edna-writes]

I remember it all too well 🍁

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[edna-writes]

Happy Red TV day 🧣

[edna-writes]

One year 🥰

[edna-writes]

Sometimes I swear the price of fountain pens and the speed at which they dry out are proportional. On one hand I have my crappy little Zebra fountain pen bought 7 years ago from Dollarama, I think it cost me around 3 dollars Canadian, I reach for it once every few months, it never dries out. On the other hand there’s the hundred-dollar Faber Castell, which dries out if you so much as look away for 2 seconds.

[edna-writes]

have you ever wondered

inspired by that picture floating around that appears to be new Loki merch

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[catchymemes]

(via /r/oddlysatisfying)

[nehirose]

that is fucking IMPECCABLE script.

[stanifertheman]

It’s so pretty and so rude and I love it.

[pisshandkerchief-deactivated202]

What’s the point of learning cursive if you don’t use it to write curse words honestly

[edna-writes]

A few days ago I dropped a dip pen nib into the pool of wax in my candle and honestly that just has #1800sProblem energy

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

req’d by @rat-enjoyer

i see you’re bringing me back to my cursed energy based roots

[saoirse-1887]

To my humans (followers and mutuals alike) reblog this if you would like a notecard of personalised Tengwar calligraphy in your inbox.

[This is an example of what it will look like, it will have writing according to what I think of you or your blog. Translation is done by my own chart so it may be off

-Saoirse H.]

I'm making this for practise in both tengwar and calligraphy, and to give my humans a gift.

[scribebynight]

[calligraphy]

That awkward moment when the power goes out and I get to play “Monastic Scriptorium simulator 2015” Calligraphy by @verylikelynikp, Instagram

Live the CalligraphyLife.org

[major-trouble]

Finally got my commission from @theshitpostcalligrapher​ framed so here it is:

You can absolutely see it pretty clearly over my shoulder in zoom meetings.

[theshitpostcalligrapher]

hell yea bro! I’m glad you got it safely and found a great spot for it

[radhakawaii]

"I have seen the face of God, and it left me unimpressed." Go nuts

dont repost

[edna-writes]

I swear 00s teenagers’ Facebook statuses are the strangest pieces of literature. For instance,

This is from over a decade ago when I was 14. Hey past self, just a quick question:

What the fuck?

[memewhore]

[whatevercomestomymind]

Fun fact about me

I had HORRIBLE handwriting my entire childhood. Consistently got failing grades on homework and tests because no one could read my writing.

And then I hit middle school. I saw the "popular girls" getting praised for their stupid cutesy heart over the I writing. I saw people I could run mental circles around without breaking a sweat getting good grades, because the teacher could read their writing easier.

So I started copying it.

And wouldn't you know, my grades improved!

But of course, if you know me, you already know....there's no WAY I was gonna stop there. Oh no.

As a ADHD/Autistic, I did what any self respecting nerd introvert would do- I hit the library. And I researched. The evolution of the written language, the evolution of alphabets and writing styles from Ancient Greece all the way through the Spencerian movement.

And I fell into calligraphy. I hyperfocused.

And over the course of a year, developed my own cursive hand (going from never writing in cursive) that was a loose blend of Palmer, Spencerian, Chaucurian and 16th century Italian italics, with a lot of acender and defender flourishes.

I handed in homework in 15th century German High Gothic blackletter.

I did reports in 17th century italics.

And my teachers went from hating me for my horrible, illegible handwriting, to loving the sudden shift to legible bubble letters, to hating me again because they couldn't read my writing again, but for a different reason.

Only now, they didn't really have a good reason to be mad, because if they admitted to not being able to read Chaucerian font, they'd be admitting that they couldn't comprehend someone performing at a level of education and familiarity with the written language far above their own skill set (yes I had one teacher actually admit that to me in 8th grade. I genuinely respected her for it and picked a font that was easier to read than blackletter for her class).

And so began my descent into the rabbit hole of medieval illumination and calligraphy.

And so now, 25 years later, I do stuff like this:

(The bottom image has my celtic art business logo for Art of the Ancients; im on Instagram, but haven't updated in a long while because I've been busy with other projects and there wasn't a heck of a lot of interest. I still do commissions though)

Bob Ross once said, "A talent is just a skill you're willing to practice." I heard that, ran with it, and never looked back.

[child-of-the-wild-woods-deactiv]

That’s so fucking dope