Monday, April 14, 2025

FEB from Janet and Christy - Getty-Dubay


Two more valentine themed envelopes. I am only 12 days ahead on getting my blog posts prepared - and have a few too many irons in the fire. Let's see how many posts I can crank out in a half hour.

Around the first of the month someone left a comment and described that kitten stamp as *creepy.* I, too, think it's leaning towards creepy - although I'm sure the artist was going for *cute.* It reminds me of the big-eye-Keene people from the 60s. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing.

I wonder what the least liked stamp of all time was. I should delete that question because the likability of stamps is so subjective. 



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These two ladies (Barbara Getty and Inga Dubay) launched an effort to promote italic penmanship as an alternative to Zaner-Bloser. The company is still around and you may find tons of info on the website. I wish they had been able to sweep the nation - but - they started in Portland - and I think it's pretty hard to sweep the US with something that isn't  wildly interesting to probably 95% of the population.

If you are part of the 5% - dive in:   https://handwritingsuccess.com/about/

Through that website - I found another group that's very interesting if you are curious about penmanship on 5 continents 

Primarium is a pioneering educational project by TypeTogether which studied the methods of Latin script-based handwriting instruction for primary school children, spanning five continents and about one-quarter of the world.





 

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