Showing posts with label fonts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fonts. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

H A P P Y 🦃 T H A N K S G I V I N G


This is my annual post for Thanksgiving
made from a scan from my favorite antiquarian book, 
"The Royal Book of Crests"
The font is Elizabethan Script 
I lost it when my 
Windows PC crashed ages ago. 
This font is called
Jacques  Francois Shadow
it's a free download from Google
Let me know if it's garbled and I will replace it with another universally recognized font.

Monday, January 11, 2021

COOKBOOKS ON MY COUNTER



This is the only way I can figure out to share my thoughts using my favorite font. My friend @staceysnacks, the food blogger/antique collector, gave me a wonderful new vegetable cookbook and an antique French wooden bookmark with beautiful calligraphy in addition to a few other things for Christmas. xo

Friday, January 8, 2021

Making The Most of My Free Time

This experiment is a huge success. I was able to create a blog post using an old photo from my library, resizing it, and adding the text using my new favorite font.

Monday, December 28, 2020

Interesting Antique Calligraphy

Superimposed Letters Spelling the Names of Illustrious Women of Ancient Rome: Faustina, Lucretia, Virginia, Vittoria, Giulia, Flaminia from Mira Calligraphiae Monumenta or The Model Book of Calligraphy (1561–1596) by Georg Bocskay and Joris Hoefnagel. 
Original from The Getty.

Tuesday, December 22, 2020

N O E L

Old calligraphy alphabets are so beautiful and this one is no exception. This would make a beautiful Christmas Card. via

Saturday, June 1, 2019

Sunday, March 17, 2019

Happy St. Patrick's Day!


I made this Irish Blessing long ago.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY.
TODAY, EVERYONE IS IRISH!

I created this one too with a dog image photographed from my Royal Book of Crests.

See all of my previous posts celebrating St. Patrick's Day here.

Tuesday, January 1, 2019

New Year's Day 2019


I think I made this in 2009. I scanned a page of a decorative alphabet and cropped the individual letters to spell out this greeting. I am having my morning tea with no honey this morning in an effort to cut down on all the sugar I consumed over Christmas, Thanksgiving and Halloween. 

"A new year's resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other." I hope I can keep mine.

Friday, October 12, 2018

The Creaky Shed: Fresh Produce Greenwich UK


I love the name of this shop and the hand-drawn font they used for the sign. The Creaky Shed is a green grocer in Greenwich UK. The gallery of photographs with seasonal displays outside the shop plus more can be seen here. Looks as if they are all set for Halloween decorating with all the pumpkins. See you later with news of my car. Fingers crossed. xo

Thursday, March 29, 2018

Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Stunning Alphabet Letters Circa 1650




A series of stunning prints, titled Libellus Novus Elementorum Latinorum, designed by the Polish goldsmith Jan Christian Bierpfaff (1600-ca.1690) and engraved by fellow-countryman Jeremias Falck (1610–1677). See the remaining letters of this fabulous alphabet here

Friday, October 9, 2015

Fancy Alphabet circa 1650



Like what you see so far?
Want to see the rest?
Click here. This alphabets falls under the works which have now fallen into the public domain, that vast commons of out-of-copyright material that everyone is free to enjoy, share, and build upon without restriction. Enjoy!

Monday, July 27, 2015

Wednesday, June 24, 2015

S is for Selling in Summer


These people are all set for summer and are hopeful about selling their beautiful home. Found on the MLS. I think they have done everything right from the looks of the outside, don't you?

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Happy New Year 2015

I had to make a return at a small store today. The clerk wished me a Happy New Year and then she said, "The days are long but the years fly by." I haven't heard that one before but somehow it rings true.



Thursday, April 18, 2013

Saturday, December 1, 2012

14 Free Holiday Fonts

Those of you who know me will remember that I'm wild about fonts. You can never have too many, especially when the holiday season rolls around in December. Click here to locate each one and download. Free is good!

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Prairie Home Companion Floor Mat


I photographed this floor mat at the bottom of the basement stairs a while ago at an open house. I blocked out the owners' name. It was probably one of those promotional bonuses for contributing to NPR. Sometimes I sometimes listen to a little bit of Garrison Keillor on Prairie Home Companion when it begins on Saturday nights before I turn off the radio and switch to the television.
I thought this might be a good thing to stencil for DIY Christmas gifts or housewarming presents. All you would have to do is fill in the family name after you get the original pattern made. You could also make something to frame on your printer as well. What are you doing with all of those fonts anyway? This would be a good project to use some of them, wouldn't it? Have fun.

Saturday, July 14, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Listen to Ralph


This sounds like very good advice from Ralph Waldo Emerson. "Be silly, be honest, be kind." via