Christmas calligraphy sets for your creative fingers!

We KNOW your fingers want to be happy this Christmas, and we have the perfect gift for them! Here’s everything you need to know about our Christmas calligraphy kit! Shhh…. we’ll even encourage you to open this ‘to-me-love-from-me’ gift early, so you can write your gift tags, make beautiful handwritten cards and have your Christmas …

Photographer credit Marion Botella Photography

Non fuddy-duddy family tree inspiration!

Does anyone even still say fuddy-duddy? I’m really hoping you know what I mean… but I reckon you’ll get it when I say family trees can be quite…. boring? Maybe you’ve been searching already, and you’ve come across a bunch of dodgy illustrated family trees on Etsy, or a load of calligraphy websites with really …

Spark joy!

There’s nothing quite like seeing a massive grin on your mum’s face, is there? (Oh, apart from when she gets the giggles so bad she can’t speak for three minutes – that’s amazing…) We think we might have just the thing to paste that huge smile on your mum’s face this Christmas. Or, four things! …

Family tree gifts everyone can afford!

Christmas gifting is an art form; you save your pennies, you shop around, you find amazing little businesses and you match the recipient with the maker and BOOM! You’ve got a brilliant little gift match for someone. Well bloody done you, you little star! It’s nice to avoid tech gifting! The internet would have us …

Calligraphy kits – a comparison guide

I’ve been selling curated calligraphy kits for a decade, and over the years they’ve been tweaked and perfected, with new additions added to our calligraphy set collection! I now have five calligraphy sets available to buy, all perfect as an introduction to modern calligraphy. The newest is a Christmas calligraphy set, which I’ve been using …

Happy customer – calligrapher review

The loveliest email landed in my inbox, after Françoise’s mum’s 80th birthday party last week! With just a week to create something really special, Françoise commissioned me to write several calligraphy pieces for her event. Using emerald green G.F. Smith paper and Winsor & Newton gold gouache, I wrote calligraphy place names for all the …