National Handwriting Day
Friday, January 23, 2009 at 07:17AM Today is National Handwriting Day! Yippee!
National Handwriting Day is an opportunity to reintroduce yourself to a pen or pencil and a piece of paper. In this day of computers, more and more information, notes, and letters are sent back and forth via a keyboard and cyberspace.
According to the Writing Instrument Manufacturers Association (WIMA) website "The purpose of National Handwriting Day is to alert the public to the importance of handwriting. According to WIMA, National Handwriting Day is a chance for all of us to re-explore the purity and power of handwriting."
Today is the day to reveal your handwriting to the blogosphere! My challenge to you is this: write a brief note to your readers by hand, scan it and upload it to your blog. If you leave the link in the comments of this post, I will post it here.
I'll be adding an image of my own handwriting later today (this borrowing a computer stuff is for the birds!!).
I hope you'll participate and invite your readers to participate as well!
Signing off until I can get my hands on another computer. . .
Kim from Hiraeth
Ann, from Whatever Things, was the first to get her handwriting posted to her blog. Thanks for playing, Anne!
You can see my chicken scratch here.
Rebecca shows us "How not to Write." I think her handwriting is very legible, don't you?
Kim from the Upward Call shares her very neat and tidy handwriting.
So does her hubby, Buggy. He shares some good advice in a very nice hand.
My dear friend, Dorothy, has her sample posted now. You've got to go read what she's thinking. . .
Lisa from Lisa Writes shows us her very cheery handwriting and tells us about a new skill.
It's really fun seeing everyone's hand writing style! Keep 'em coming!
Ellen, the Happy Wonderer, wandered in and posted her sample. She's another neat and tidy writer!
Check out Carla's penmanship! She's GOOD!
Scott, the Crusty Curmudgeon, used a real fountain pen and a beautiful ink to write his sample.
My friend Kate, from regainingparadise, (Australia!) takes advantage of the difference in the time zones to sneak hers in on the 23rd!
Jen arrived a little later to the party, but that didn't stop her!
Eija, from Clay in His Hands, demonstrates her prodigious photography skills as well as the challenges of being a 'lefty.'
Reader Comments (13)
You are quick on the uptake! I just posted that and came over here to give you my link and you beat me to it.
Here's mine, Kim.
http://fieldstonecottage.blogspot.com/2009/01/national-handwriting-day.html
I see that Carla's posted one, too.
http://carlarolfe.blogspot.com/2009/01/national-handwriting-day.html
I wonder when that double a at the end of my name got there and how long I've been commenting as rebeccaa without noticing.
I hadn't noticed either!
Awww! Wish I'd joined in! That looks so fun.
Oh! Hang on! It's still National Handwriting Day for you even though it's the 24th here...I'm gonna play!....
Good!
Done!
http://regainingparadise.wordpress.com/2009/01/24/national-handwriting-day/
SO fun!
Thanks, Kim.
I love everyone elses entries. What a great fun day. Just PERFECT for YOU, Kim. :)
It's still before midnight; got room for one more?
http://mcclare.blogspot.com/2009/01/national-what.html
This was such a good idea and so fun!
I'm late, as usual.
http://joythruchrist.blogspot.com/2009/01/for-kim.html
Just saw this today - and I'm not even American, so kind of outside the "national" part :D - but I did it anyway. Here's mine:
http://eija.writeouts.com/?p=412
This was fun, it's interesting to see handwriting, I think it expresses personality to some extent-just wish mine was more neat.
Also this one:
National Handwriting Day