I’m taking Nicolette’s creative lettering class and already seeing a difference in my lettering. Two important tips have helped me so far: use pencil lines and outline your letters. Truly, just going slow, taking care to form the letters and then outlining them has made a huge difference and given me a lot of confidence. Here are two recent pages from my journal:
Journal Page
(You can click on the image to see more detail).
I love this quote!
The really strange thing is that I liked the result of my lettering so much, I started to draw little pictures – and they don’t look half bad!
Today is the start of NaNoWriMo and I figure I need to get down about 1,700 words a day to make my goal of 50,000. I’m using my real name, dianeensey, as the user name, so if you’re participating make me a buddy! Oh, and they should be arranged in a semblance of a narrative. My DH, when I told him what I was doing joked that I’d have a hard time finding 1,700 words a day to write down. As in individual, non-linked words. I guess you had to be there.
Anyhoo, since he is off elk hunting this weekend and my inlaws are on a cruise to Mexico (insert your choice of bitter, jealous language here), I’m home collecting rent. That isn’t going to stop me from making a run to the Craft Warehouse, which is having a sale. When I dropped in earlier this week to pick up something, the nice lady at checkout gave me a 40% off coupon which I’m going to use to buy the pastel set of Le Plume II markers.
I shouldn’t be spending any money. Seriously. And I’m going to feel guilty about it, but darn it <start sad violins>I’m stuck at home all alone and I don’t get to go hunting or to Mexico, so I deserve some goodies. </end sad violins> Feel free to validate my justification in the comments. Please. I could really use the validation <grin>.
I’d like to point out that this post is almost 400 words, or 1/4 of what I need daily for my novel. This should be easy, right?
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Jennifer
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dianeensey
