Next Tiny’s brought in some lunch where we enjoyed great meat sandwiches. If you have not had their mint lemonade, I don’t know what they put in it but I think I drank about 3 glasses. I needed to fuel up for the next section which was calligraphy which I really needed to listen to. Whitney led this session where all of the supplies including paper, ink, nubs, pen holder and some calligraphy samples were at our table in the cutest little wood basket. We started on the basics of holding the pen, how to put the nubs on and where to get all of the good supplies. Next, was opening the ink and how to dip properly. I then spent a while just practicing with the motion and holding the pen. It is quite different from holding a regular pen or pencil, but was not as hard as I thought it would be. The one item I found was interesting and is going to take a lot more practice for me was putting more pressure when you are coming down from a letter and less pressure on the pen when you are writing in an upward motion. Whitney was able to come walk around and help us on a one-to-one basis. By the end of it I was able to learn how to connect letters and write little sayings that will come in handy on notecards. There is still a lot of practice I need to do because my handwriting is also known as scribbles, but practice makes perfect!