one of my favorite side benefits from taking melissa esplin's i still love calligraphycourse this summer was falling back in love with no. 2 pencils. i like to call it my pencil renaissance. ok that's super nerdy, pretend i never said that. butttt i spent a lot of time getting comfortable with the letters just using pencil before i switched to the ink, and besides the fact that i am way better at pencil calligraphy than ink calligraphy, it was also just fun to work with a freshly-sharpened pencil. i happened to win sam's giveaway for 6 pencils from the big harumph back in july, so i got to have my own joe fox-kathleen kelly moment with my bouquet of newly-sharpened pencils. i'm debating adding this princess bride-inspired set to the renaissance (there i go again)as well. how can i resist?!
