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Wedding Calligraphy & Stationery Timeline

You’re engaged, congratulations! Now what? The first steps most couples take once they are engaged, after soaking up the “just engaged” glow together and then letting their friends and family know the good news, are thinking about the venue, date, photographer and...

Online Calligraphy Courses – Beginner & Beyond

When we first offered our starter kit for at-home learning with proper tools and down-to-earth instruction, our goal was to help as many people as possible learn the art of modern pointed-pen calligraphy. Six years later, with the addition of our online courses and...

Holiday Pumpkins, Ornaments & Dècor Have Arrived in the LHC Shop!

Why wait to be festive? Fall has officially arrived and and we are so excited to announce our personalized holiday line for 2019! As always, we have our signature pumpkins for your porch, mantle or wherever you'd like to display them! Our favorite Christmas ornaments...

Real Wedding: A Beautiful Home Wedding with Karson Butler Events & Abby Jiu

I was so excited when I learned we'd be working with Karson Butler on this wedding for Kassandra and Alex. The groom's family is my neighbor and we've worked on not one, but two weddings with them now. I enjoyed providing some sweet love quotes I hand-lettered, which...

Real Wedding: Intimate Elopement at the D.C. War Memorial with Tell Chronicles Photography

When Lorena came to us to custom design the invitation suite for her and Nesta’s intimate elopement, they were just two months out from their wedding day. She knew just what she wanted - romantic, airy...deckled edges. The catch? They only needed about 10 sets and...

Calligraphy Learning: Calligraphy Practice Plan vs. Beyond Beginner Guide

One of the most common questions we hear from students once they learn how to use the tools of pointed-pen calligraphy is, “what’s next?” You’ve got the basics for how everything works, but aren’t quite sure how to most quickly improve. We offer two next-step options...

Calligraphy Tutorial Roundup: What’s New On Patreon

We have been loving the response to our video tutorials now exclusively featured on Patreon. It is motivating to hear how helpful they have been, and we are excited to continue creating educational content for our Patrons. In addition to the videos we release two to...

Real Wedding: A Citrus Inspired D.C. Wedding with Grit & Grace and Adam Barnes

Orange you glad you came? What an amazing escort card installation executed by the Grit & Grace team - shout out to the wonderful planners & designers that we get to work with for our clients! Their creativity and ideas simply go above & beyond & it's...

Real Wedding: An Outdoor Pattern Play with Cheers Darling DC and Lisa Ziesing for Abby Jiu

We are so excited for our client's elegant wedding to be featured in Washingtonian Weddings! We had the privilege of doing the wedding envelopes in our gold ink and citadel script. Cheers Darling Events and the entire vendor team did an outstanding job on this event....

Patreon: Meet Your Newest Calligraphy Resource

We have big news! We are excited to also share that we have joined Patreon where you will be able to watch all of our new, exclusive video content going forward. We are kicking things off with a much requested tutorial on the Phantom Liner, and we've got even more...

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