The most memorable day of your life should be your wedding day. When we are moving on to the "new normal" of 2022 as a result of the pandemic, you might be feeling a little overwhelmed by restricted borders, stay-at-home orders, and safety precautions. Intimate and charming, micro wedding settings offer safe environment for your guests while making your day no less special than any traditional wedding. Elegant small wedding packages are being designed by wedding vendors to match every bride's fantasy and belows are some calligraphy ideas you can use to beautify your dream wedding. 

Engraving have open many possibilities for customization. One of my favourite item to engrave are liquor bottles.  They are beginner friendly (large surface areas), predictable outcome (mostly glass bottles) and almost foul-proof when you understand the basics of engraving. There are many ways to do it but this is how I used an ancient technique to practice my placement. I freehand my draft when I do not have the tools to create the image transfer but this beginner friendly technique will let you have an accurate preview of your lettering on the object before engraving. 

Calligraphy Engraving is becoming the hottest trend for customizing modern calligraphy and hand lettering business in the recent years. Due to the impact of pandemic, people are now seeking to support small business more than ever. If you are looking to start offer calligraphy engraving for your business, you will find this post very informative and resourceful for you to get started. 

We are approaching the end of 2020 and I know everyone is eager for 2021. In 2020, we made so many changes with every personal and business decisions. We laughed, we cried, we stayed home, we went back to nature and after all. we found ourselves in the most hopeless year. Let's review my personal adventures and business growth in 2020 and what changed for A Grateful Note in 2021.

“Lockdown” is the word that no one wants to hear anymore in 2020. The first lockdown in my province of Ontario has affected mental and physical health of many people at all age group. Among the activities you can learn or perform in your home like Marie-Kondo ‘ing your apartment or write a blog (like me!), learning Modern Brush Pen Calligraphy is one way to keep you healthy during these uncertain time of lockdown.