It's writing pretty. What kind of numbers of people are you're reaching? But yeah, it's mostly women that are older than 30. 29 min read, Lindsey Bugbee a.k.a: The Postman's Knock. So if I text you happy birthday, that doesn't really say much. Okay, she sounded just really sweet, and so she said, great, but you just need to talk to one before you can take on this project going. I mean, it was like a novel - if I printed it, it would have been three pages, just talking about how glad she was, she found my website, and it's funny because usually somebody's searching for one thing because we have a whole bunch of different tutorials, you know, there might be something about crayons or colored pencils or water color, but then there's a lot about calligraphy, so you sort of go down this rabbit hole, so a lot of emails will start off and say, I was looking for this, but then I also found this on your website. Lets take a moment to think about that. Of course, I only did commissions for two or three years, and then it evolved into more of like a teaching sort of website, but that's how I got started. I think it's pretty great for beginners, and then B, I've been making these oblique pens, would you like to try one? But I think anything is intimidating when you first start. Sketch-booking is big. Those hours are spent focusing, single-task focusing on exclusively on that person Lindsey Bugbee (left) and Tona Bell - Founder of The Paper Seahorse (right). by Tona Bell April 02, 2022 But I guess specifically, writing pretty and connected, you know, I guess you wouldn't look at beautiful block lettering, which means the letters aren't connected and say, Oh, that's some great calligraphy, it's more like it needs to be connected, at least in my mind. Powered by Shopify, Free Spirit + Wild Heart TRAVELER'S Notebook Meet Up. Especially with the internet, you have people that feel like they can say anything. So I started The Postmans Knock with the idea that I would be creating these envelopes and people would get excited when they heard The Postmans Knock because they'd be getting these beautiful envelopes. You mentioned bullet journals, there's all of these ways people are using writing, calligraphy and writing. I'd like to share that. But if I sit down for two hours and I make you this beautiful handmade card and I write calligraphy and send it to you, it says is Happy birthday, it's the same message, but it's a completely different form of communicating, which makes it a completely different message. Showroom Open (all other days by appointment only): 2022 The Paper Seahorse. For example, one of my batiques toured New York while I was in high school, and my mom said, Why would you major in that? And I think that that sort of pulls you into the present moment. I'm a blogger, calligrapher, artist and entrepreneur. It didn't take much effort. I think that's right. Every time I get on the iPad to create lettering and procreate, these notifications will pop up of emails I'm getting or text I'm getting, and I think that it's just kind of overwhelming because as humans, you hear a ding or see a notification and it's like Oh, I better check that. I love our house, this is where we work all day, and it's where we play too, we have a little one-year old, which is really fun, and so Yeah, we're in beautiful Boulder, Colorado. Yeah, I think that some of the coolest utilizations I've seen have been in public On chalkboards, for example, if you go to a coffee shop, those are neat to see, a lot of people are doing bullet journals right now. So what is the difference between an upstroke and a downstroke. As far as people whose work I admire, Phyllis Macaluso is a Canadian calligrapher who just makes these gorgeous floral motifs and flourishes and she sent me a couple of things that are just beautiful. I'm retired, I'm just making them in my spare time., Rodger Mayeda Examining His Hand-made Pen. So I think that calligraphy is a great way for people to really get into this mindfulness thing, but also create something beautiful and be productive. Just relaxing, I guess. Really, it's been pretty awesome. Calligraphy is a special kind of handwriting, right? Like in the workshops I teach, there might be a couple of people in there who will say, Yeah, I'm here so I can learn to make money with my calligraphy, but mostly it's people that are there saying, I just need a way to learn how to relax, I need something meditative to do, and I think this is it for me.. Artisanal pencils, paper, pens, journals, and typewriters help us slow down so we can experience and celebrate the little things that make living in real life refreshing and satisfying. So I just think it's different modes of communicating, it's getting back to Just to the days where you could just sit and not have anything going on and not have people able to just reach you immediately, it's refreshing. You have to really think about what you're writing. But you can use calligraphy for anything, for sure.-. Where do you think it could go? Now, it has to be really enjoyable, so you need to be making things that ignite your passion for this art, so whether you're making mail art, your sketch-booking, you're working on a bullet journal, you just need to make your practice fun because practice is mostly where your higher skill level is going to come from. I just want people to know how relaxing of an activity it is, because I think that it can be really great for your mental health. So I started by making a free little printable, and then I made a bigger printable that was like 20 pages and sold it for five bucks per PDF. That's so fun. So I think that that's why we're sort of returning to that because it's relaxing, it's intentional. We always get the nicest emails, Hey, just to let you know, and you know, this was so sweet, people are so nice. My husband is Carlos Hernn. Who goes by Hernn Because Carlos is a pretty common name. It was pretty cool with my website because I was hugely inspired by Molly Suber Thorpes book, Modern Calligraphy, and I loved that book. I started in 2012. When it started evolving into a teaching website, it would have been probably about 2014 or 2015, because that's when I became very serious about the blog on the website, because when I had studied at University of Kansas, my internship had actually been in editing, so I was doing blogging for Mother Earth News, which is based in Topeka, Kansas. Thank you for inviting us into your home. That would be something. So that's a good feeling. One woman I know is working on a piece right now for her daughter. For me, it's nice to be able to show my affection in that way, for example, I had taught a calligraphy workshop at The Paper Seahorse, your great little retreat in Tampa, and I wanted to express my gratitude to Tona, the owner afterwards that she had let me take that space for a while, and so what do you do? I think that calligraphy, once you get the hang of it, is not overwhelming, it's something that you can do with intention and it's not incredibly fast, so it just sort of counteracts what we're experiencing with technology. So to me, I guess half of my mind is on the story that I'm listening to, and then the other half of my mind is, I guess just paying attention to what I'm doing, so I'm drawing out guidelines, I'm making slant lines to guide my slant, I'm dipping the pen into the ink, making sure that it's at an appropriate level. I would say that calligraphy looks very intimidating. When was this, by the way? So I had experience with blogging and I noticed that every time I blogged about calligraphy, there would be this big response, you would see a spike and views on the website, people would be commenting on these blog posts, and so then eventually my husband Hernn, who grew up in Peru, told me about this little booklet they have in Peru called Oh no, I can't remember what it was called, but it was, you know, some booklet to teach you cursive and you said, You know, it would have examples and stuff, I think maybe you should make a printable so people can learn calligraphy. But the trick is you have to want to do it, just like anything. It's just you have to understand how to break it down, which is why I have courses on the website explaining how to do that, but I would say first you need to figure out the relationship between the strokes. I've noticed in marketing that companies have started sending out things that have scans of handwritten notes, just to catch your eye. So needless to say, I don't have a huge audience in Peru, just a couple of Peruvians. How is the experience of writing by hand different from when you're writing on a computer or an iPad or a phone? And then I've gotten to work on a couple of books. I actually have a book from a woman who was inspired by our website, Kestrel Montez, who just wrote a practice workbook on modern calligraphy. I guess I'm married to a rocket scientist. Just people use it for different things. Lindsey Bugbee:You know, when I first decided I was going to learn calligraphy, like I told you, it was, okay, I'm going to make these wedding invitation envelopes. Explain what calligraphy is compared to plain writing. For Thanksgiving, we usually put brown paper on our table and then we'll create calligraphy on there directly onto the table that you're eating on. Do you feel like you are helping to create some good in the world? Of course, calligraphy is a huge part of weddings, you've got invitations, envelopes, place cards, seating charts, all sorts of things. So I know how to paint with watercolors, I know a little bit about how to create things in procreate, which is an iPad app. When you are sitting at your desk and you're making calligraphy how does it feel? We appreciate your taking the time to share your thoughts with all of us.Lindsey Bugbee: You are very welcome. So I studied English and got out of college with this English degree What do you do with an English degree? I really don't know, I'm just going to go wherever it takes me You have a friend that makes watercolor paints, right? So I think it's just a mixture of being completely engaged with my writing and with this podcast, and then also feeling anticipation. That's what I want to do. Now, if you ask me what I want to do, yeah, I want to ship stuff out, I would love to get into watercolor a little bit more, I love watercolor, so I'd love to have some resources teaching people how to create watercolors, or not watercolor specifically, but watercolor paintings. Even if the email or message is of little consequence, I think that that can be really overwhelming, and so for me, especially when I became a mom and things were super stressful, it was amazing to just sit down put on a podcast and write. And then, of course, we have a lot of people from India who also enjoy the website, but I have just gotten a lot of emails from For example, there was a woman that said her mother had cancer and she was at the hospital with her a lot, and she just needed something to distract her, and so she would come out in the waiting room and do calligraphy with worksheets from The Postmans Knock. I'm Lindsey Bugbee. Could you describe the growth of a calligraphy and of handwriting and why you think it's happening and what it gives to people? So that's been a treat, Jodean Cooper is a calligrapher in Arizona, she makes gorgeous thing, she can write great Spencerian, which is a traditional script, and you know Kate Watson, she actually, I think got started with calligraphy because of the TPK blog - I could be wrong about that - but she recently did an event for Guy Ritchie, which I thought was fun. Thank you so much Lindsey. Oh man, I havent looked at Google Analytics in a while. So I went to a local craft store and I found a Speedball kit, and I didn't know anything about calligraphy, so I thought, Okay, well, these things -I didn't know what a nib was - look like they all work. I got them home and they were just awful. And then third, it's just a lot of practice, and I think practice really has this negative connotation where you're going to sit there for hours, not enjoying what you're doing. Were you surprised? What's going through your mind? Comments will be approved before showing up. Okay, so the person called me and it was a Hollywood agent wanting me to sign a non-disclosure agreement, and I'm going, Oh my gosh, when I saw the names on that agreement because I definitely knew those names. And it's not the easiest thing in the world to do. It does look intimidating, the strange looking pens and the nibs and ink, but what would you say to someone that feels intimidated? The difference between a sketchbook and a bullet journal would be that sketch-booking is more general, whereas the themes of my bullet journals pages are more specific - either specific to a day or keeping track of goals. You already know how to do art. So I became an office manager down here on Pearl Street, and I hated that job, it wasn't a great office manager because it was sort of this 9 to 5 really depressing sort of sort of work, and I started thinking about quitting after two months, but one co-worker said to me and planted a seed by telling me that she actually would write on envelopes for people's weddings for extra money. Well, I think that I was always under the impression that you cannot have art as a career. If I'm putting a picture on Instagram, because for me, it's about the art and it's about the calligraphy, I think really the Insta-famous thing, which again, I'm not even sure I would classify me as that, I would just say that it's been good because I'm finding these super nice people who are into the same thing that I'm into, whereas I have a great group of friends in my everyday life, but they're all aerospace engineers, are working on wind farms or whatever, nobody is really into calligraphy, and one of my aerospace friends did take a workshop for me, and that was fine, but you know, they're just not into it, like some people around the world are that are writing to me. What are some of the most surprising things that have happened to you related to calligraphy or writing? And the nature of art is that people have different styles, so I think that what one person is into is going to be completely different from what someone else is into. So how do you even get started in the calligraphy business? I don't know. I wasn't having ink battering issues anymore, and it was kind of like having a bike with training wheels. 1 min read, by Tona Bell March 02, 2022 I've had a lot of cancer patients who, this is just a way to get their mind off of things and relax, because in the end, calligraphy is a very relaxing activity, it's not something that you do fast, so it's really something you should sit down and do with intention and quite slowly. Add description, images, menus and links to your mega menu, A column with no settings can be used as a spacer, Link to your collections, sales and even external links, by Tona Bell May 27, 2021 That's a little bit more popular, I would say, than the dip pen because it only requires a marker to create, and then still others would argue that calligraphy is just pretty penmanship. Can you please share with our readers where we are today? You pick up books that look great, so why wouldn't it be the same when you're sending a greeting card or whatever you want to build up anticipation, and that's why brides and grooms want envelopes that are beautiful because what's inside is important, but the outside is what really sets the tone. I'm actually planning my son's birthday party and it's a lot of Ethiopian food, a lot of people don't know what's the difference between this dish or this dish, so I'm making place cards so people can know, you know what they're actually eating. So we'll see where it goes. Now when I see this actor or actress in movies, I think how I created their wedding materials, and I know that when they go home and in the evening, they have this invitation framed in their home, so that's a really cool feeling. Going back to when you write, when you send someone a hand-written note, aren't you also giving a piece of you? So you evolved into teaching. Well, I really think that anyone can do it because you can write already - you know how to write a letter. I mean, it's a necessary thing. I've been featured in my favorite magazine ever, Flow Magazine, which is a magazine that is published out of the Netherlands and super cool, and it gives me opportunities to do interviews like this one, which is justreally neat. Lindsey Bugbee:I would say that calligraphy and penmanship relate to mindfulness because you really have to be intentional and present with what you're doing in calligraphy. I'm not thinking about anything. Obviously, if you find The Postmans Knock, you're on a computer, you're on an iPad, you're on an iPhone, I love the potential for communication with technology; that said, I don't think that technology for me and for a lot of people is a good way to relax. And so I think it's been amazing to know that the website has that kind of impact, and it's been surprising for me to see how wonderful people can actually be. Yeah. And how does penmanship and calligraphy relate to mindfulness? And yeah, so that's what I do, I guess. And then you know, you have to think about to what the form that something is taking communicates. Luckily for me, he still continues to help me and teach me a lot of things pertaining to calligraphy, which sort of trickles down into the website. Her daughter's husband was recently killed in this horrible accident, he was working on a movie, he'd actually worked on The Shape of Water, but he was working on a new movie and a stunt went wrong, and so this woman is writing out of love for her daughter to sort of encourage her because they have small children, and so for this woman, she took one of my in-person workshops, it's a way of showing love and encouragement and giving her daughter something to look at every day to remind her that her mom is there for her as she's raising these kids alone. It's just different, and I notice I do have Procreate on my iPad, which is an app or you can write, but to me, it's a great practice tool because it doesn't require a lot of supplies, but it's just not the same as that tactile quality of sitting down with paper and dipping your pen into ink, and writing with it until it runs out. Many, if not most of our readers will already be familiar with you, your work and your fabulous calligraphy blog, but for those who may not, can you please introduce yourself to our readers? Mindfulness is a big topic these days. What does it feel like when you're writing? Yeah, I think that when you give somebody something hand-written, it's time, and time is the most precious commodity that we have, so if I send you an envelope that's beautifully calligraphed, what that says to you, first of all - I mean, besides being a visual treat - it's saying that I gave you some of the most precious thing that I have. We curate quality analog goods because we believe in the mindful magic of letting go of digital distractions so we may reconnect with ourselves and each other. And as far as what I see for The Postmans Knock specifically, I would just like to be able to share more of what I know with people. I think Molly Suber Thorpe did a great job with her Modern Calligraphy book, and I think that got a lot of people into calligraphy initially. It's just one of those things that you have to take one step at a time, so it's not a difficult thing. I really don't know where it's going with handwriting. And that's a curious thing because you're very in the moment, but then time also speeds up because you're doing something that you really enjoy and that's relaxing you. Second, you don't need really expensive materials to learn calligraphy, really all you need is the Nikko G nib, a straight pen, some Sumi ink, and then some 32-pound laser jet paper, specifically HP premium brand, I would say, and some exemplars wouldn't hurt. I guess, really think about the person and for me, I think about the reaction that the person is going to have receiving the envelope, it's just such a treat to get things in the mail, there's just an incredible difference between getting an email from someone and getting a hand-written note, especially when it comes in a calligraphed envelope really, that's why we have cool book covers. It's so fast and it gives us the potential to communicate so quickly, and I think that we're inundated with so much technology that you almost overlook when you're being communicated with that way, it's very easy to ignore a text, or even when you open up your mailbox and you see that you've gotten an envelope where your name is printed on it, I think you automatically give that less importance than the envelope where something's written out. I think everybody feels that way. 1 min read. I feel like it's a very special kind of website because even if we mess up on an order, because we just started shipping out tangible things that aren't downloads, and once in a while, my employee might forget to put an ink in there or whatever, and I feel like with other businesses, you might write and say, What is going on here? I think that people are gravitating towards the analog writing by hand because we are just so inundated every day with technology, and I think technology is an amazing thing, my family has a group chat where we'll all say what we're doing, which is great, because they're in Kansas, I'm in Colorado, but I think it can also be very exhausting. Fans? Then when I got done, it was really cool because the tabloids were speculating, you know about this wedding, and the brides mom sent me all these pictures of this venue and of the wedding, and it was really neat to get to be a part of that. Okay, okay, so we're in Boulder, Colorado, we are in my house We live here in Boulder because I'm from Western Kansas, which is three and a half hours away. It's kind of like losing weight or whatever, when it's your every day you don't see the results. Calligraphy Class at the Paper Seahorse in Tampa. I had this amazing instructor who I had her from Kindergarten through senior year of high school, so I had been doing art forever, and I won international awards, just making different things like Batiques. How do you make those strokes that you familiarize yourself with?
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