Happy Birthday to the BigHelpfulBrother. He's 75 today. Neither of us can wrap our heads around this decade. He and his wife have moved into a retirement community that has some pretty interesting things going on. I was visiting one day and saw a stack of envelopes - 3 packs of 50. I've officially retired from addressing envelopes for clients - but I figured that it wouldn't hurt to ask if they would like me to address the envelopes for them. They were for an event for the residents - to be hand delivered - so they only needed names - no addresses. And since the envelopes were an aqua/tealish color - I thought they'd look really nice addressed in white.
It was not a tight deadline - so I thought it would be a good test of my skills - to find out if I was still able to address 130 envelopes. And here's the part where things could have gone off the rails. I decided to address them using nibs and gouache. I pulled out the gouache and found a big chunky broad edge nib. I figured a bold name would look best since there was no address.
I had some brand new Tape nibs and I don't remember where the Mitchell's are - so I did some practice with the Tape nib and it was fun - so I started on the envelopes.
Can you hear the ominous music in the background........
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