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Adventures in American Penmanship: A Weekend With Michael Sull
On November 30th to December 2nd 2018, The Paper Seahorse brings master penman Michael Sull to Tampa for four intensive workshops on Cursive Handwriting, Creating Your Artistic Signature, Introduction to Spencerian Script, and Decorative Flourishing. The workshops will start with...
Possibilities in Penmanship Weekend with Master Penman Michael Sull
For one glorious weekend in February, we were lucky to host master penman Michael Sull for four incredible workshops and a fundraising lecture. Nearly 50 people learned about the history of handwriting in America, the founding of the American spirit...
Fancy Feelings: How Flourishes Give Writing an Artistic and Personal Touch
So much of the joy in handwriting is the personal touch we get to express when putting pen to paper - not just line by line, or word by word, but even down to every letter. When you see a...
Tools To Help You Write Cursive
Writing in cursive is a skill that some of us take for granted. It is a skill some of us have never known and it is a shame. Handwriting is beautiful because it is unique to you. There are so...
The Paper Seahorse I Love Cursive Contest: Winners Announced
Happy National Handwriting Day 2021! Today we celebrate penmanship and specifically cursive writing. Cursive used to be the norm and recently it has been taken out of schools and so there are some people who cannot even read cursive! It...
Your Signature is the Most Personal Form of Self Expression
One personal keepsake we can carry with us, no matter how digitized and computerized our world becomes, is our signature.
The Story of Spencerian Script
Platt Rogers Spencer introduced his "Spencerian" system of handwriting, it revolutionized American correspondence and communication in ways that still pervade our culture today.
4th of July, Celebrating America's Makers
If you follow this blog space, you know by now we love exquisite, niche foreign things. Desk accessories made in Japan...German fountain pens...French paper. Italian glue that smells like almonds! But there is a different specialness to the products made...
Adventures in American Penmanship: Why Spencerian Calligraphy is Important
In February 2018, The Paper Seahorse brings master penman Michael Sull to Tampa for four intensive workshops on handwriting, Introduction to Spencerian Script, Off-Hand Flourishing, and Ornamental Penmanship (Advanced Spencerian). The workshops are arranged in order of increasing complexity and...
Remembering our Individuality in the Digital World
When I first learned how to write my name at the ripe age of three, I wrote it on everything: books, furniture, walls, VHS cases, anything that my tiny three-year-old hands could find. Any of us who remember our earliest...
A Father's Day Gift Guide: Stationery Style
Yes, we celebrate Father's Day just as much as we do Mother's Day and Easter and Hanukkah at The Paper Seahorse. Things can get pretty frilly and früffy around here, between paper flower and tea cup candle classes, but you'd...
Why Handwriting Matters
Technology companies and their ecosystems are rushing toward the complete digitization of our society, with innovations like virtual reality and artificial intelligence, mobile shopping, and digital correspondence. Gadgets get smaller and less expensive with each iteration, and we are attached...
End Of Year Recap: Our Best 9 of 2018
2018 - what a year. So many adventures we had, and so many people we have to thank. These were our best 9 for our End of Year recap at The Paper Seahorse.
Everything to Look Forward To on Small Business Saturday
It's that time of year again. In the midst of all the Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Hanukkah hubbub, small businesses like us celebrate our favorite day: Small Business Saturday! We could go on and on about how important it is to...
The Importance of Handwriting in a Digital Age
Happy National Handwriting Day! Every year on January 23rd, analog lovers across the country come together to celebrate writing on National Handwriting Day. This special day brings to mind a question for those who haven’t yet fully come to appreciate...
Handwritten Letters on National Handwriting Day
National Handwriting Day is a day for celebrating all things handwritten. To get in the spirit, we announced a special Handwriting Contest on social media: Write one good deed you have planned for 2019, snail mail it to our South Howard studio, and the winner receives a copy of Michael Sull's American Cursive Handwriting Textbook. The response blew us away.
The Paper Seahorse 2018 Holiday Gift Guide
From tools for your special writer, to crafts for kids, to gifts on a budget, we've got your holiday shopping covered this year with our 2018 Holiday Gift Guide. These are creative and thoughtful gifts made easy.
The Paper Seahorse Celebrates 10 Years: Spreading Sunshine Since 2014
How do you know where you are going until you know where you have been? Well, its been ten whole years since we started this journey into all things paper and pen. We started as a stationery shop that created...