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Christmas Calligraphy and Gift Tag Workshop

January 11, 2024

The last workshop of 2023, our Christmas Calligraphy and Gift Tag Workshop, happened in late November at KMC Armstrong Cafe in Salcedo Village, Makati. Such a lovely place to gather!

With Christmas songs playing in the speakers, we went through the basics of pointed pen calligraphy, wrote lowercase and uppercase letters and connected letters to form words (or in this case, names). Apart from calligraphy, I also demonstrated how to make holiday gift tags using dried botanicals. We had a botanical ‘buffet’ for all participants to decorate their tags—with names written in calligraphy of course!

I’d like to thank everyone who joined me in this class, as well as our partner venue KMC Solutions, for hosting our calligraphy workshop at the KMC Armstrong Cafe. Scroll down below for photos of our workshop!

If you’d like to join the next calligraphy workshop, the details are here. Otherwise, you can register your interest for first dibs when the next date is confirmed.

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