Here is a short list:
1. I had to do a lot of faffing about on Friday, which involved two trips into town and back, BUT. I got to see two friends on the bus and have very short socialisations with them, and oh wow, the endorphins I got off that were amazing.
2. The book that I bought with my Xmas money from my rellies came! And I think I'm really going to like it. (It's Slow Stitch by Claire Wellesley-Smith - link goes to Goodreads). Except for the cover - for some reason it's flocked, and touching it sets my teeth on edge.
3. The next topic for the Post Once A Day meme, from![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lassarina, and it is about calligraphy!
So, I like fonts and lettering, and have for as long as I can remember, and I think any interest in calligraphy just stems from that. Although I resisted being interested in it for a long time, because my mum was also interested in it (she started buying herself books about it when I was a kid) and, of course, when you're a belligerent sort like I was, especially as a teenager, you don't want to be interested in the things your parents are.
I did use a fountain pen up till my late teens, but never learnt to write very nicely with it. Any interest I have now has been formed in recent years. In part because I spent a lot of late 2018/early 2019 watching mostly art videos on youtube, and seeing people do faux calligraphy (which sparked my somewhat dormant at the time interest in lettering), and then eventually I was like, "why not learn to do the actual thing? It's not like you don't have the supplies!" Which I did, thanks to my mum and her frankly massive pen and ink collection.
I just love the way some stuff looks? I follow someone on IG who is learning to write in Blackletter and other gothic styles with her dip pen, and it just. I dunno. I like looking at it. (Although I've always been drawn to gothic type fonts, so this should not surprise me).
I don't really know what else to write. Maybe there is nothing (although if you have any questions, Rina (or anyone else!), please feel free to leave them in the comments!)
1. I had to do a lot of faffing about on Friday, which involved two trips into town and back, BUT. I got to see two friends on the bus and have very short socialisations with them, and oh wow, the endorphins I got off that were amazing.
2. The book that I bought with my Xmas money from my rellies came! And I think I'm really going to like it. (It's Slow Stitch by Claire Wellesley-Smith - link goes to Goodreads). Except for the cover - for some reason it's flocked, and touching it sets my teeth on edge.
3. The next topic for the Post Once A Day meme, from
lassarina, and it is about calligraphy!So, I like fonts and lettering, and have for as long as I can remember, and I think any interest in calligraphy just stems from that. Although I resisted being interested in it for a long time, because my mum was also interested in it (she started buying herself books about it when I was a kid) and, of course, when you're a belligerent sort like I was, especially as a teenager, you don't want to be interested in the things your parents are.
I did use a fountain pen up till my late teens, but never learnt to write very nicely with it. Any interest I have now has been formed in recent years. In part because I spent a lot of late 2018/early 2019 watching mostly art videos on youtube, and seeing people do faux calligraphy (which sparked my somewhat dormant at the time interest in lettering), and then eventually I was like, "why not learn to do the actual thing? It's not like you don't have the supplies!" Which I did, thanks to my mum and her frankly massive pen and ink collection.
I just love the way some stuff looks? I follow someone on IG who is learning to write in Blackletter and other gothic styles with her dip pen, and it just. I dunno. I like looking at it. (Although I've always been drawn to gothic type fonts, so this should not surprise me).
I don't really know what else to write. Maybe there is nothing (although if you have any questions, Rina (or anyone else!), please feel free to leave them in the comments!)
