Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook yard duck and just find a special

and just find a special spot to enjoy it as such

I'm not habitually drawn to Adirondack folk art twig furniture

a "Prayer Leaflet" from the Blessed Martin Guild

I think this drawing is FANTASTIC

Charming Demonstrations and Lamentations: Earlyish Century Penmanship Practice Notebook yard duck and just find a specialAnother old penmanship notebook, because I can't pass them by, and find them all interesting in different ways. This early one, with thick handmade paper cover, is all about the repetition of single words over and over again the outcome of which I find quite satisfying, formally and conceptually, especially when the word is, say "runninghand"! (Runninghand is a style of penmanship emerging in the late 1700s. in which letters are slanted and the words