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Post by Miss Ida on Jan 9, 2008 14:02:49 GMT -5
Thanks Cosmo!
I am (barely) holding up.
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Jan 9, 2008 14:14:20 GMT -5
I am so very sorry for your loss. ...
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Post by Miss Ida on Jan 9, 2008 16:50:17 GMT -5
thank you very much Steph
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Post by LadyGeremia on Jan 9, 2008 18:55:08 GMT -5
Oh Miss Ida, I'm so sorry to hear about your grandmother. Please accept my deepest sympathy. My prayers are with you and your family.
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Post by LadyGeremia on Jan 9, 2008 18:56:53 GMT -5
Lady Melissa, I'm sorry you were unable to reach my email address. I'm not sure why it was unavailable, I have had several people tell me that the past couple of days. It seems to be up and running now. I think I have figured out how to "PM", so I'll send you one. I'd love to be your pen pal. Thank you so much for inviting me.
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Post by Goblin, esq. on Jan 9, 2008 21:30:27 GMT -5
I am very sorry to hear about your grandmother, Miss Ida. I also lost my grandmother last year.
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Post by Miss Ida on Jan 10, 2008 10:42:44 GMT -5
thank you very much, we went though her stuff today and I got her jewellery box with a letter stating it was her wish that I was the one to inherent it. I miss her so much she and I were like peas and carrots
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Post by Mme de Beaufort on Jan 10, 2008 11:22:14 GMT -5
That's so sweet that she left you her treasures. I'm sure you will value them and hold onto them with love.
I'm so sorry she's gone. I never had a grandmother growing up, but I can imagine if you were so close, how there must be a huge void now.
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Post by Miss Ida on Jan 10, 2008 13:14:23 GMT -5
That's so sweet that she left you her treasures. I'm sure you will value them and hold onto them with love. I'm so sorry she's gone. I never had a grandmother growing up, but I can imagine if you were so close, how there must be a huge void now. yes. I have her cross, which I will wear these next days..
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ladymelissa
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Caught somewhere between sense and sensibility
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Post by ladymelissa on Jan 12, 2008 0:32:32 GMT -5
Oh Lady Ida -
I am so sorry to hear about your loss! Losing people you love is unbearable. The things she left you sound wonderful. They will symbolically provide a great way of carrying her with you, close to your heart. My thoughts and prayers are with you and your family.
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Post by Miss Ida on Jan 12, 2008 13:33:04 GMT -5
thank you so much Lady Melissa,
It really helps having such friends as you all here
big hug to you all!
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Post by cosmoblue on Oct 21, 2008 3:07:25 GMT -5
I have been lurking/researching fragrance forums lately and I found this and thought it was a cool idea:
Another fun way to scent your letters is to add fragrance to your ink. If you haven't tried writing with an ink (fountain) pen, now you have a great incentive. Simply add a couple drops of your favorite essential oil or oil blend to each milliliter of ink (that's about 30 drops per ounce). When the letter is folded and sealed, the scent will intensify in the envelope. Why not use different fragrances for different occasions? The scent of your holiday letter to Aunt Edna doesn't have to be the same scent you use for your love sonnet to your honey. With just a little homework and experimentation, you can find oils - or concoct blends - appropriate for all your written correspondence. Start with a fragrance that you enjoy wearing, it will remind the sender of you. Then consider the emotional effects of various oils - some will uplift and strengthen (perfect for a condolence), others will calm and nurture (a get well, perhaps). Many are romantic (Cleopatra preferred jasmine). Now, if we could only figure out how to send scented e-mail!
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Post by MyLadyDedlock on Jan 1, 2009 1:17:12 GMT -5
A little late in the game, since this thread has been going for quite some time - you can find inexpensive nibs and pens at - Aaron Brothers Art & Framing or an art supply store, along with ink, etc. Target has some good thick stationary, its plain, but good quality. If you're leaking and streaking, try a different size of nib, that seems to help. Have fun! As someone else said the Victorial Trading Company has some neat stuff www.victoriantradingco.com/
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Post by Goblin, esq. on Jan 21, 2009 18:44:31 GMT -5
I have an idea of finding some pictures of period handwriting (in my case, probably scans of Royal Navy letters or victualling documents), printing them out, and tracing over them with pen and ink to get a feel for how they wrote. I just now came across this image of a letter by Miss Austen herself: digital.library.upenn.edu/women/hill/austen/p230f.gifI found it while looking at a page for a computer font based on Jane Austen's handwriting. www.pia-frauss.de/fonts/ja.htm
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 19, 2010 18:54:17 GMT -5
I am determined to write much better and have decided to start practicing. I am going o need to buy a decent pen. Does anyone write letters by hand regularly? I write on a fairly regular basis, and practice is the key to a clean hand. Well... Practice AND good paper. Nothing ruins a perfectly lovely letter like poor quality paper. I have pricked nibs and splashed ink upon all manner of the cheaply made stuff. I have a great deal of samples of my handywork available to view in my journal, if you please.
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Post by lastbloom on Apr 28, 2010 21:05:52 GMT -5
What a neat thread!
I was taught penmanship by the Sisters of Jesus and Mary in school. Sadly, I have been told that many public schools in CA at least do not even teach cursive or connected writing at all, believing it to be a waste of time. Several of my contemporaries can't even read cursive, let alone write it, having never been taught!
I am out of practice now, but in college I wrote reams of letters. While I was living abroad, I wrote daily and mailed a thick envelope off every week. My handwriting isn't perfect or even very neat, but it is always an intensely personal thing both to physically write and to read something that has been handwritten. There is a sense of the writer's body in motion and a much greater feeling of connection between writer and reader.
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Post by artemisiajolie on Apr 29, 2010 0:11:50 GMT -5
I am floored that schools are abandoning cursive lessons to our children! I remember very well how terrible my 4th grade teacher thought my cursive was; it is only marginally better today. I am however, teaching myself calligraphy, and hope that that influences my daily writing. I had numerous friends that I wrote long letters to when I was young, and it was always exciting to get a letter in return. Email just does not hold the same enchantment.
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