Happy New Year! Illumination, Printmaking, Notary...Oh, my!

I am doing three things this year to enhance my calligraphy offerings...becoming a notary, taking a printmaking workshop, and taking an illumination class.  I will be taking my illumination class from Susie-Melissa Cherry of Calligraphic Arts, and I will take my printmaking workshop with Jessica Trevizo at Oil and Cotton.  Stay tuned for an announcement concerning my notary status some time this spring.

I will be teaching Intro to Calligraphy at Oil and Cotton next week...Thursday morning, January 10 from 10a-12:30p and Friday night, January 11 from 6:30p-9p. Resolve to have beautiful handwriting this year! Click here to sign up!

Happy New Year!



Oh! and don't forget to pick up your Year of the Snake calendars at Oil and Cotton...only $12.50.  

Get Ready for the New Year...Year of the Snake!

The 2013 Year of the Snake calendars are now available at Oil and Cotton...swing by and get some for great teachers' and co-workers' gifts or terrific stocking stuffers...only $12.50!

Also, be sure to click here and sign up the Intro to Calligraphy workshop (January 10 from 10a-12:30p or January 11 from 6:30p-9p).  Sign up before you have to put in on you New Year's Resolution list. Wishing you Happy Holidays and a Joyful New Year!

Year of the Snake Calendar this weekend and 'Django Unchained' Christmas Day...

Be sure to get out to the Christmas Art Market and Open House happening this Saturday, November 15, from 11a-4p.  Gretchen Goetz, Scott Winterrowd, Brian Jones, Erik Tosten, Gillan Bradshaw-Smith, Stephanie Sanoja, Rachel Deering, Annie Bryd Goetz, Karen Smith, Vincent Villatrance, and me, Andrea Estrada will be selling items in the market. 

You can get one of my 2013 Year of the Snake calendars there and get your name entered in the drawing for two movie passes to see Django Unchained at the Magnolia Theatre Christmas day with the purchase of the calendar...you don't have to be present to win.  I got the chance to be an extra in Django...and I am a huge Tarantino fan, so I will be having a viewing party at the Magnolia that night (Tuesday, December 25).  See you Saturday!
                 
                   
                   

Saturday Holiday Cards Workshop at Oil and Cotton

This Saturday, December 1, 2012 from 1:30-3p at Oil and Cotton learn how to layout and print your own cards in my Intro to Calligraphy/ Holiday Greetings workshop.  I will mainly cover layout and printing set-up, but I will also briefly cover Italic handwriting and envelope addressing.  Sign up here before the class fills up.  See you soon!

Upcoming workshop in December

Busy week!...Three workshops at Oil and Cotton between last Thursday and today, and a FB post on the Museum of Bad Art page of a painting that I never thought I would see again...look closely and you can see the good calligraphy on the bad painting.

Stayed tuned for more info about my upcoming workshop Holiday Cards at Oil and Cotton on December 1st.

Beat the holiday rush....

Well, the Cursive Envelopes workshop at Oil and Cotton is about a week away (November 8 at 10a and November 9 at 6:30p).  Sign-up is going nicely...so sign up before the calligraphy workshops fill up!

I will cover how to beautifully address envelopes.  I will also cover project layout in order to help generate some handmade gift ideas.  See you next week at Oil and Cotton!

Don't forget I can address your holiday cards, holiday invites, save-the-dates, wedding invites, and more for you...but please don't miss the class.

Get ready for the holiday season...

Thanksgiving is just four weeks away!  Prime-time to send out holiday cards is the day after Thanksgiving.  Many wedding invitations and save-the-date cards also go out during this time of year. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to address those envelopes yourself with beautiful calligraphy?  Wouldn't it also be nice to be able to write out place cards, tags, cards, or handmade gifts? You can learn how by taking my next workshop at Oil and Cotton, Cursive Envelopes...November 8 (10a-12:30p) or November 9 (6:30-9p).  Click here and sign up!