GRCooper

Rita, you are a very loved and beloved wife, mother, gramma, human. Sending my sincere appreciation to your husband, John, for commissioning this lovely hand lettered, painted, stitched and bound handmade booklet for your 70th birthday. Each aspect of this project made me smile and lose all track of time from being in the flow of the creative making process.

I absolutely love creative projects like this. Making and creating brings me so much joy, but add hand lettering 10 years worth of poems into a made from scratch booklet? I’m in. Every-time, yea please!

Thank you again to a special friend, , for connecting me with her uncle to create this for him and his Rita. So much gratitude 💛

With Spring right around the corner, it has me so excited to be around blooming flowers, awakening gardens, and that glorious sunshine!

This project was such a wonderful ray of bright sunshine in my life last year. It came to a group of us for the Friends Garden on East Main Street her in Columbus.

Thank you to Monica for the creative opportunity and to collaborate with such lovely humans— . I am very grateful and excited to see what brightness comes this spring and summer!

Hand lettered signage for in the downtown. Mad skilled penwomanship by yours truely. Ya girl, Grace!

I love using my natural “font” whenever possible, but rarely do I write vertically—that becomes its own challenge with the sizing, kerning and legibility. But, I am very grateful for creative projects like this one to add to my growing collection of art expertise!