You know you're a calligrapher when...

[Moya]

This thread is lighting up my dreary weekend!  I want to fling my arms around everyone. "JUST LIKE MEEEE"

• When your best friend gives you an ugly goose feather with a ballpoint pen glued into the end ... just to troll you (and then gives you a real present!)
• Every art tool you see you immediately start thinking if it can be used for calligraphy!

[Lori M]

Great thread! Along with many of the others already mentioned, when:

• Your children ask you to please leave notes in writing that they can actually read
• You start explaining the difference between Copperplate and Spencerian to poor unsuspecting non-calligraphers
• You find yourself sketching out Copperplate letters -- and you don't have a writing implement in your hand
• You plan your husband's next 4-week work sabbatical around IAMPETH

[Estefa]

Wonderful thread !

– You see something calligraphic / handwritten in a movie and get annoyed that you have no chance to analyze it thouroughly because they don't show it long enough …

[ernie_tan]

Lori, when I first started learning copperplate, I could not identify the difference between copperplate and spencerian.

Mine is:
- my colleague touching the mail address on the envolope making sure it is not printed and the postman asked whether it was typed or written.

[Faeleia]

When your cheerfully nicknamed "Maddy" refers to Madarasz and not Maddona or 'ma-donalds' 

[Moya]

Oh, I've got one (*blush*)

... when you get out of the shower, sort some things out on your desk, then go to moisturise your face ... but the things that you sorted were jars of ink ... and they were messy ... and your face is just a tiny bit blue ...

I will not be posting pictures of that one on Instagram, thank you!!

[elsa.d]

When 90% of your dreams are about calligraphy.

True story.

[joi]

when your "calligraphy" friends have become your actual friends...and you see these in Target and think "oh Natascha would love these i should send them to her..."  but then you remember that she lives across the globe...but it doesn't feel like it because you "talk" to her everyday!

[Briana]

when your "calligraphy" friends are your actual friends...

My boyfriend knows who many of you are by your usernames because I'm always showing him stuff... *sheepish face here*

[Meredith S]

when your "calligraphy" friends are your actual friends...and you see these in Target and think "oh Natascha would love these i should send them to her..."  but then you remember that she lives across the globe...but it doesn't feel like it because you "talk" to her everyday!

All of these are great, but this one is my favorite. The feels

[AmyNeub]

- you think you won a medal when you made it through a reem of the pricey copy paper.

- your clothes are thrown haphazardly into your dresser/closet, but your nibs are nice, organized and labeled neatly in a plastic container.

- you would rather do calligraphy than make something to eat, but have to stop when your significant other is quietly staring at you waiting for dinner.

- you worry more about running out of ink, then if you have enough food to cook dinner.

- when looking at houses to buy, you worry more about studio space then how spacious the bathrooms are.

- you spend +$100 on a piece of wood (pen holder)

[Moya]

when your "calligraphy" friends are your actual friends...

My "real life" friends keep asking who all these people on my instagram are, and I'm like "as far as they're concerned, who are YOU!??"

"real life," pfhfffft, how can these people understand the peace and joy that comes from getting a capital M juuuust right? I know who my REAL friends are

[patweecia]

am joining in the fun! 

you know you're a calligrapher when...

- your teeny weeny room is now like a mini office supply store or a mini art store because of all the hoarding you just did
- your daydream includes swirling up your fingers in the air as if you are writing letters
- the first (and sometimes, the only) thing you see in every consumer product or signboard or whatever is how they did the type, or its flourishes
- if 1/4 of your phone's photo album consist of random design pictures with swirls and flourishes, thinking that someday you might be able to add them in your calligraphy
- you squeal like a kid when your husband brings home notebooks of different sorts as your practice pad (that's the only thing he can give me that he's sure i would use...he doesn't know a thing about pens)
- you feel like you are in a candyland when you're in an art store


oh, and moya, post that picture!   

[Linda Y.]

- you squeal like a kid when your husband brings home notebooks of different sorts as your practice pad

Now THAT is love <333

[tintenfuchs]

when your "calligraphy" friends are your actual friends...and you see these in Target and think "oh Natascha would love these i should send them to her..."  but then you remember that she lives across the globe...but it doesn't feel like it because you "talk" to her everyday!

Oh Joi, that is so, so sweet of you to think of me *tears up*
(And you're right of course )

My boyfriend knows who many of you are by your usernames because I'm always showing him stuff... *sheepish face here*

Mine too! I always tell him about what you guys are up to he thinks we're a pretty crazy bunch