I need to come up with a word to describe ideas that were tried that are less pleasing than other ideas in the series. The mission for 2026 was to choose one style and then try a bunch of different tools. How well did I adhere to my plan?
It should have surprised no-one that I fell off the wagon with those 8 script envelopes that I did when Morgan's envelope arrived.
Prior to Morgan's envelope, I had a plan to do some suns and coordinate them with orphan stamps. I had these two stamps and it seemed like a good idea. I started the envelopes in the middle of December and figured it would be easy to fill in the names and addresses.
I did four different ones - prior to doing these - that I liked a lot. I was not happy with these - but, if I started re-doing envelopes until I liked every single one of them - I would be at my desk all day every day.
The style I chose for January is something that somebody called Celtic. I have no idea if that's a good name. I was also going to try runes - but they are 100% straight lines - so this one drew me in with its random curvy strokes.
Here is a fun link to something called Celtic rune - LINK to a font I can't imagine having fun with this. Or can I? That's an interesting challenge - to take something that is off-putting and figure out a way to make it likable.
A Google search for *Celtic runes* yields a wonderful rabbit hole. But, I have not found a name for whatever the style is that I chose for January. More tomorrow.
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Eventually I found. my exemplar - and it was called - New Celtic - but, I can't post it because I can't find the origin. Maybe I will..... at a later date.
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