Bonus post - John Steven's penmanship

 Those envelopes in the regular post below are so lame, I am adding some gorgeous penmanship that is on John Steven's IG today. Hopefully it will inspire people who are going to work on their penmanship.

Since I will be out of town for a couple weeks, I am going to post all of the penmanship tips before I leave and you will be on your honor to not skip ahead until you are ready. 

I also encourage everyone to [Follow] John Stevens on IG because his work is dreamy. If you need a place to surf, check out the people that he follows. There are some heavy hitters there.

From Betty in April

Wow. This took a lot of work. Betty's been putting in some time on both her lettering and cutting.

So pretty.

But my favorite part is her neatly written little note. Tiny little penmanship wows pretty much everyone. Betty's is at the pinnacle of penmanship perfection.

Kudos.

Throwing down the gauntlet.
Does anyone want to submit their own penmanship and see if you can be labeled - as good as Betty - or
better than Betty. Not that we want to go down the path of competitive penmanship... but seriously - people who can write like this deserve recognition. it did not happen by accident.

On second look - I think it is a font. Duh.

first new scan - from miss cathy

miss cathy and i are probably close in age so we probably have fond memories of penmanship classes. i was fond of the concept and i admired grown ups who had penmanship that matched the samples - but dang---- it frustrated me to no end that i could not replicate the exemplars. in college i spent hours working on my penmanship. not palmer method. i copied the penmanship of a classmate who had very tidy penmanship.

this is so pretty. thank you miss cathy. and i like the stamp choice.

the order of my new batch of scans will be very random. i know i owe thank you envelopes to the people who sent mail in june - when i had the open call to send something. if you are annoyed that you have not received your thank you - send me an email and i will be sure to respond promptly.

1874 writing

sent by chuck.
hope to try it.
not exactly an envelope,
but it will be when i do my version.