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The Ultimate New Year’s Resolutions Guide + Printable Goal List

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The Ultimate New Year’s Resolutions Guide + Printable Goal List | The Postman's Knock

This week is my very favorite week of the year. I start looking forward to it around the beginning of December, when the old year starts to wrap up and the new year draws close! The reason for the excitement? New Year’s resolutions! I know that for some people, resolutions are a cliché. Every year, though, I enjoy making a goal list, and always do my best to complete it! Today, I will discuss some tips and inspiration for coming up with goals that stick, and provide you with a free printable goal list.
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How to Learn + Create Modern Calligraphy: A YouTube Video

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How to Learn + Create Modern Calligraphy | The Postman's Knock

For several months now, I have intended to make a short video tutorial over how to learn and create modern calligraphy. There were plenty of days when I should have filmed the tutorial, but I kept putting it off. I mean, I wanted the video to be perfect: engaging, inspirational, and informative! I knew it should include a worksheet, and I hoped to spend a lot of time editing the video. Calligraphy is my thing, the activity I love to do, and I needed to reflect that with the quality and thoughtfulness of the How to Learn and Create Modern Calligraphy video!
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Introducing the Calligraphy Medallions Worksheet: Birds & Botanicals Edition

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Introducing the Calligraphy Medallions Worksheet: Birds & Botanicals Edition | The Postman's Knock

Have you ever heard of calligraphy medallions? I hadn’t until early last year, when I came across a mesmerizing video on Instagram. In it, a calligrapher used a series of strokes to create an impressive circular work of art. I immediately had to make one myself! One medallion evolved into several, which culminated in a calligraphy medallions worksheet!
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Nine Halloween Paper Projects

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Frida Kahlo Halloween Art - Includes Printable | The Postman's Knock

Halloween has always been my favorite holiday because … candy. It also offers the opportunity to make some playfully macabre creative projects (while you eat the candy)! Today’s blog post outlines my seven favorite Halloween paper projects on the TPK site. You can start making them now so the holiday doesn’t sneak up on you!

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“Sugar Skull” Cat Halloween Printables

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"Sugar Skull" Cat Halloween Printables | The Postman's Knock

I love how embellished sugar skulls have seeped over from Día de los Muertos into Halloween decor and costumes. It’s hard not to admire a colorful sugar skull design! With that in mind, I wanted this year’s set of Halloween printables to call back to the sugar skull tradition. The subject of the illustration featured in the printables is a cat — an animal long associated with Halloween — and a sugar skull-inspired design!
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About the Not Your Average Calligraphy Drills: Spooky Edition Packet

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Halloween has always been very big in my family. We love decorating the house with the macabre (I’ve got my Frida Kahlo skull on display) and — more importantly — getting to decorate ourselves! It’s freeing to step out of your comfort zone and be a little bit silly.
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7 Ways You Can Use Printables to Make Life Easier

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Illustrated Lace Butterfly Card Tutorial | The Postman's Knock

If there’s one electronic item that I absolutely love, it’s my printer. Printers can make many projects cheaper and a lot more convenient! I take advantage of printables all the time for both important utilizations and not-so-important utilizations, and today I wanted to make a list to give you ideas for how to use printables, too.
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The Letter Writer’s Complete Resource: A Guide for Writing Letters

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The Letter Writer's Complete Resource: A Guide for Writing Letters | The Postman's Knock

I don’t know about you, but my interest in calligraphy and hand-lettering actually stemmed from a love of writing letters. As a young child, it amazed me that something I created could end up anywhere I wanted it to! I still get a thrill when I send off a letter or open my mailbox and see that I’ve received something.
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Elegant Printable Watercolor Cards + a Freebie

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Elegant Printable Watercolor Cards + a Freebie | The Postman's Knock

This precious painting of an elephant, a mouse, and a tiger is available in the Printable Watercolor Cards Packet.

I used to snub printables because “back in the day”, you could always tell when something was printed on a home printer. Telltale ink streaks, flimsy paper, and lackluster colors always gave it away! Now, though, printers have come a long way. Not only are they cheap, but many produce high-quality pieces.
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Artistic DIY Key Tag Labels Tutorial (Includes Free Printable)

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Artistic DIY Key Tag Labels Tutorial | The Postman's Knock

We have a huge problem in our house with loose keys. I have no idea where they all come from, but keys abound! I’ve tried making simple DIY key tag labels for them in the past, but the paper couldn’t stand the test of time. Today, I’d like to show you the creative solution that I came up with for that!
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