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Real Wedding: Mexico Destination Wedding with Grit and Grace & Abby Jiu
We are so excited to be featured in Martha Stewart Weddings for our client's beautiful destination wedding in Mexico. We had the privilege to work on the envelopes, place cards and escort cards, and were honored to be apart of their elegant wedding and special day!...
Holiday Gift Guide
The holidays are in full swing here at Laura Hooper Calligraphy! Calligraphy starter kits and supplies are shipping out daily, so be sure to get your orders in by December 17th to ensure that they make it under your tree by Christmas. This is such a fun time of year...
Small Business Saturday Pop Up Shop
Save the date to get a jump start on your shopping for holiday, calligraphy and all occasion gifts, candles, entertaining supplies and more. Please help up spread the word and share with friends, we can’t wait to see you in Old Town! xo Laura
How to Hold Your Calligraphy Pen {video!}
One of the questions we hear a lot from beginners learning calligraphy is how to hold your pen correctly. The way that you hold your pen will make a big difference in both how your calligraphy looks, as well as how your hand feels doing it. Check out this video to see...
How to Teach your Wedding Clients to Format their Lists
As a wedding calligrapher, it can be a real time saver to be sure your clients are formatting their mailing address lists in a way that you are best able to use it while you’re working on their order. It also helps your clients, too, because it’s possible that they...
Frustrated with bleeding ink? Here’s the #1 way to fix the problem.
So often we hear from aspiring calligraphers who are trying their best and yet disappointed their work doesn’t look as good as they think it should. Often the case is that you might see your one calligrapher using a certain ink {ahem, Sumi, for example} and another...
5 Steps to Mastering Calligraphy
Have you ever asked yourself, “How long until I’m good at calligraphy? It’s certainly a fair question. I asked this question many times in the beginning when I longed to be more advanced. I compared myself to other calligraphers and thought I’d never measure up to...
Learn Calligraphy with our Calligraphy Starter Kit
Ask any calligrapher...we widely agree that practicing calligraphy can be calming, relaxing and deeply therapeutic once you get into a rhythm. But, how do you even get to that point? It sounds nice, doesn’t it? Maybe you’ve tried taking up calligraphy on your own...
Stationery vs. Stationary
How do we say this nicely without sounding harsh?? We see this common mistake all the time and never know how to nicely point it out. You know when someone has food in their teeth, and you are SO tempted to say something, but you don’t? That’s how we feel every time...
How to do calligraphy: The complete beginner’s guide to modern pointed pen calligraphy
Let’s call it like it is: calligraphy is a beautiful art, but it can be quite overwhelming when you first dive in to learning. There are so many supplies – it’s like a whole new language. Oblique pens? Nibs? Ink bleeds & blobs? Mixing ink? Alphabet Exemplars? How...
