So you can enjoy the month of June, and have all your cards at the ready, consider getting them now. Want a deal? How about 15% off…if you order by May 31st. Code is listed below.
June can be such a busy month. Especially if you have kids school age. This blog post features cards from Canadian stationery brand called Selah Paper.
Let’s applaud loudly for all the teachers, school, music and coaches out there. They are worthy. My fav teacher card from Selah Paper is the one above, but there are many others to choose from.
Do you know a soon-to-be graduate? Snag a graduation card now and then you can focus on gowns, balloons and parties. Don’t forget to take lots of photos.
Father’s Day is June 21st. This might be a sad day for you or for someone you know. As soon as I saw this card – there are other ‘remembering’ cards too – I had to get it. I’ve never seen a card like this before. So thoughtful.
I hope you love these cards as much as me. Feel free to use code: ritewhileucan (all lowercase) by May 31st to save 15%. Then sit back and watch June unfold and mark the special days with joy and calm.
A big thank you to Sarah of Selah Paper for allowing me to use her product photos and for sharing this discount code with us for all the cards you need in June.
p.s. If you are invited to weddings, baby showers this summer there are great cards for those occasions as well. PLUS….did I mention stickers?! Yes, there are stickers!!
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Hi Barb,
Though I am left-handed, I am pleased to report that none of my teachers tried to make me switch hands. Only one thought my paper should be tilted in a different direction (to match the image you posted!) and rotated it for me. When she walked away I tilted it back to where it was and she never mentioned it again.
I loved learning cursive and took it a bit further with calligraphy.
Thanks for the post, always interesting!
Hi there Christine, happy to hear you actually had ‘freedom to write’ when learning cursive.I love that you pursued it beyond and took up calligraphy. I’ve yet to do this….but some day soon.Thanks for reading along and sharing in my love of pen to paper.
Yes Barb, twice! In the first school, I was taught The Palmer Method and learned to use a fountain pen. I transferred schools at 5th grade and learned a much different method which used a ball point pen shaped much like the one in the illustration – no cap to contain the leaky ink. We were graded for penmanship and needless to say, my grades from 5-8 were not good!
Several points come to mind from those later years with Zaner-Bloser.
We were never to grip the pen, but hold it loosely enough that Sister Mary ___ could easily remove it when she crept up from behind! Feet had to be flat on the floor, tough if you were short ;).
And, the bottom corner of the paper was to point to your middle.
Thankfully, we did not have all the direction of your booklet nor the testing!
Fun post! Thanks Barb.
Hi there Elaine, I can certainly relate to the challenge of having feet flat on the floor if one was shorter…that would have been me for sure. Thanks for sharing your experience learning cursive. Your handwriting is certainly beautiful! 🙂
Yes Barb, I sure did. As a matter of fact it was one of my first traumas in school. In grade 4 I remember the teacher asking us to make sure that our letters were only a quarter of the way between the two blue lines on our sheets, and I thought that was strange and it would be too small to read. But I tried hard to comply. The result of all of my efforts was to get my very first grade below a B, which bothered me for years because it seems so unfair. The comment was that I was writing too small. 🙂 I love these vintage instructions for handwriting and it is hilarious that they say to write with freedom and then have so many requirements for correct handwriting haha. Another wonderful post thanks Barb
Ahhh, the memories we have of our younger years in school; pleasant and some traumatic. Clearly you were a stellar student Ramona, I’m sure your handwriting today would pass with A++ 🙂