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So how do you even get started in the calligraphy business? Could you describe the growth of a calligraphy and of handwriting and why you think it's happening and what it gives to people? 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. And as far as where I see it going, I really don't know. We always get the nicest emails, Hey, just to let you know, and you know, this was so sweet, people are so nice. I remember going into university and I said to my mom: I'd really like to major in Art, and I had been doing art since I was in kindergarten. Sketch-booking is big. Or for myself? I think that people have always been interested in calligraphy and handwriting, it just has gotten bigger as technology has gotten bigger, which is ironic, but I see that technology is getting so much bigger, so that it makes sense to me that a return to the analog, like hand lettering and drawing and things like that, would get bigger as well as a reaction. So it looks like the popularity of the Nikko G nib is coming from me, but really, it's all coming from you know, this guy in Roger Mayeda in Albuquerque! Fans? So I had been creating calligraphy for a while and sort of blogging about it and using these speedball nibs, and this man named Roger Mayeda from Albuquerque, New Mexico reached out to me and he said, First of all, hey, I think maybe you would find success with the Nikko-G nib, have you thought about using that needs sort of medium flex? In calligraphy, dip pen calligraphy specifically, pressure is very important. 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. 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 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. Going back to when you write, when you send someone a hand-written note, aren't you also giving a piece of you? It's very easy if your mind isn't really in, it to skip a letter or mess up on the letter you're making, so you really have to concentrate on what you're doing. Yeah, yeah, Jessica, she has Greenleaf and Blueberry, and they're the best watercolors, I do use them for calligraphy and of course for painting, but she is a pretty amazing artist. Just relaxing, I guess. You already know how to do art. Can you please share with our readers where we are today? Just people use it for different things. When I say calligraphy, I'm talking about dip pen calligraphy. It's beautiful here. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. The Postman's Knock Class at The Paper Seahorse. 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. What do you think about all that? 1 min read, by Tona Bell March 02, 2022 Lindsey's Husband Hernn and their little boy. 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. Yeah, let me think for just a second Yes! 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. So I think that that's why we're sort of returning to that because it's relaxing, it's intentional. When you are sitting at your desk and you're making calligraphy how does it feel? 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. Absolutely, there's really no handicap for that, you know how to create letters, so why can't you do it beautifully? Thank you for inviting us into your home. 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. 1 min read. 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. And it was really neat to get to hand-write all of those. It really is an art. Comments will be approved before showing up. So the last question is, what do you think people should really know about calligraphy and writing pretty that they may not already know? So I guess Well, I'm not sure that I would even call myself into famous, I've got 100,000 or so followers on Instagram, which really isn't much compared to a lot of people, and I think as far as people paying attention to what I do, it's nice for me because they mostly just pay attention to the art and calligraphy aspect. But really, since I'm not on social media a lot, I haven't connected with a ton of people that I really should connect with, and those are the people that just come to mind, but there are many, many more who create gorgeous things that are worth mentioning. Now, I realized the problem was they were too flexible, which means that the tines of the Nib were just a little finicky, and if I would have been better at calligraphy and known I was doing I could have used them, but I wasn't, and I didn't. I have a website called The Postmans Knock, which is about art, but also a lot about calligraphy, and I think it's just a place that people go to find tutorials and to learn new techniques, and it's really exploded over the past few years. I think that's right. It was pretty cool with my website because I was hugely inspired by Molly Suber Thorpes book, Modern Calligraphy, and I loved that book. This is actually the closest you can get to a metropolis if you're from Western Kansas, so it's a good compromise for us because my family is there, we can drive there and see them or we can hop on the bus just outside the house actually, and go to the airport and go to Lima, which is where our non-family is from, and we live here in Boulder for the geographical reasons, but also because my husband does this PhD here in aerospace engineering, and I guess we just kind of got used to the lifestyle. And it was one of the reasons I got into calligraphy, and then she reached out to me, she's reached out to me twice now to review her books, which is so neat because when I started, I was a nobody and I wouldn't have been on her radar at all but now she's asking me to review her books. So I studied English and got out of college with this English degree What do you do with an English degree? Just anybody who knows about calligraphy knows about The Postmans Knock, which has been really neat. Really, it's been pretty awesome. It didn't take much effort. 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. 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. So yeah, it's opened up a lot of really cool doors for me. That would be something. 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. 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. Creative Classes at The Paper Seahorse for Mindfulness and Creativity. 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. 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. 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. So I tried the Nikko G and I tried the pens, and I realized the Nikko was great for beginners. 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. So I think that calligraphy and handwriting has become hugely popular, and I think that it is in direct response to all of the technology that we're surrounded by, and I'm not going to sit here and tell you that technology is bad and we need to get back to our roots and just communicate via analog, but I do think that technology can be very overwhelming, it's really tough to be plugged in all the time, so it would be really easy for people, for example, to open up a Google Doc and keep a diary there, but I think that it is hugely more satisfying to open up your tangible notebook, hand letter, keep a bullet journal, keep a regular journal or sketchbook. 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. Lindsey Bugbee:Yeah, okay. 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. 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. So we'll see where it goes. My husband is Carlos Hernn. Who goes by Hernn Because Carlos is a pretty common name. 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. You have to really think about what you're writing. I'm not sure. There have been other people, just a lot of people that need, whether it's physically or mentally, to get their mind off of these issues they'll create calligraphy and it makes them feel good, and they'll send me these emails saying thank you because you know this is something that really sort of saved my life. So, okay, you have a lot of people that pay attention to what you do. 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 mean, because if you would have asked me in 2011, well 2012, I guess is when I officially started, what is this business about, I would say, Yeah, I'm just going to make custom wedding envelopes. What's going through your mind? So yeah, I think that technology is amazing and it makes our lives better, yada yada,.. but it can certainly be overwhelming and it's very fast. 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. Do you feel like you are helping to create some good in the world? Sure. 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 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. I would say that calligraphy looks very intimidating. Lindsey Bugbee: I would call them learners. 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. And it's not the easiest thing in the world to do. 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). So I think that that makes the medium and the message that much more special because it takes effort, and for me to take the time to make something like that, not only is it 15 minutes to make that envelope, but it's hours and hours and hours of practice before that, to be able to make that envelope, so I think it's something really special. 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, that's actually kind of an interesting question because we think about that a lot, being a couple where I'm from the United States and my husband's from Peru, which is a disadvantage country, my audience is largely women, but specifically women that are in their 30s to 60s, they have some disposable income because they can create calligraphy, so that's interesting to ponder because my in-laws in Peru never really saw the postman knock as a valid business because to them it was, you're trying to meet your basic needs. 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 17, so I'm going, Oh yeah, that's a good point. I'm Lindsey Bugbee. 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've gotten a few of those. I'd like to share that. Why do you think that people are gravitating towards writing by hand? 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. Who are some of the other calligraphers that you admire? So I think it's just been a really good way for me to find my people. I'm getting pretty nerdy about this, so anyway, it's just been interesting to see that domino effect: I made the recommendation of them on my blog, and I said, Hey, you beginners should try using this nib, and after that, I noticed that both in books and online, either credited to The Postmans Knock website or not, all the calligraphy teachers say, Start with an Nikko G its the best beginners nib. Oh man, I havent looked at Google Analytics in a while.

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