Intentional Lettering

Since starting a Bullet Journal (which I will write about and show you in a future blog post),

 I have been trying to improve and explore my lettering skills.  

Whether it's for headings and titles or just the plain old handwriting I'm using, 

I want it to be pretty and I want it to be an endeavor of creative intent.

I am thinking a lot lately about living with intent, versus being on autopilot.  

It's a mindfulness practice.  It is helping me slow down a little, stay in the moment, 

appreciate the process, as well as work toward the goal of improving a skill.

I started my Letter Love Inspiration Journal for this purpose, based on Joanne Sharpe's book,

The Art of Whimsical Lettering.  

I thought it would be fun to share, and maybe 

inspire someone else to start one, too.

It was fun altering the cover of this Decomposition Book.  Joanne gave me the idea to use some of my washi tape stash, finally! I used a few of my own handmade art papers, scrapbook papers, security envelope scraps, book text and random stuff from my collection of collage papers.  

Collage is another mindfulness practice that is calming and rewarding!

Inside front cover

Inside back cover

Back cover

Thank you for visiting!  

I hope you might be inspired to start the mindful practice of artful lettering, too!

XO

Sarah

Hopelessly Devoted

I know I'm not the only one who suffers this affliction.  So it's not that big a deal to confess to my addiction to paper/pens/office supplies.   This has been a life-long condition, as I have felt this way for as long as I can remember.  I'm not only inexplicably drawn to these things, I also must possess them, coveting and collecting like a hoarder.  Some journals/notebooks go unused for years!  I am selective...it can't be your ordinary spiral notebook or gel pen that seizes my interest.  I'm extremely particular about my pens:  They cannot be broader than .7 for writing, and I must have all colors of the ones I find that write smoothly and make me happy.  I really love my Pelican Jr. fountain pens (notice the plural here, each with a different color ink cartridge).  And the papers...I have many a Moleskine, and fell in love with Rhodia and Clairefontaine when I lived in France.  Just discovered Semikolon!  Yum yum!

Dangerous places:  BlickArt; Paper Source; any old-fashioned stationery store; any papeterie in France.

I have to avoid these places and if inside them, I must force myself to be frugal.  Restraint is an issue!  Comment and tell me about your addiction and dangerous places (I might have to go there)!