New Stuff Tuesday

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April? Really???

 

It's April? Seriously? And not only is it April, but it's the MIDDLE of April?!!! Where did March go? Today is a true case of April showers bring May flowers, so I think I might need my galoshes! That or maybe I should just stay inside and get my rear in gear. Time to get back to work, and back to blogging!

 

 



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Handwriting to Calligraphy

One of the easiest and most personal ways to make a title is to write it yourself. Of course most of the time our writing is not fancy enough, or perfect enough to be used for the title. One way of fancying it up (yes, I'm making up words now), is to use a calligraphy pen. If you are like me though, my calligraphy always looks like a 5 year old did it. So I learned a long time ago that I could make my regular handwriting look like calligraphy by just adding some thickness at the curves of the letters. This is actually REALLY easy, and very forgiving.

Start by writing your word, or words.

Draw lines around the curves as shown below. This will give you your width.

Now, just fill in between the lines. If your lines are not perfect, it's ok, you can go over them to adjust a little.

You can make your curves as subtle or as bold as you want. If you want your lines a little bolder, just add some width onto the curves as shown below.

There you go! You now have a title worthy of your beautiful pages.

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New Stuff Tuesday

 

New stuff in the shop!

 

 

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Cute Kitchen Art

It's that day of the week, and New Stuff Tuesday isn't ready. We actually went out of town for the long weekend, and the website didn't get updated. So, I'll be putting new stuff up throughout the week, so be sure to check the shop.

Anyhoo, I got an email this morning from Better Homes and Gardens, and found this cute kitchen art. What a great use of leftover scraps!

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