3. to make easier or less difficult; contribute to; facilitate
source: dictionary.com
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Help
Recently, I've become interested in hand lettering. There's something incredibly beautiful about how others have taken the time to take ordinary words and creatively elevate them. Many have wrote about how nice it is to receive a letter in an era of text messaging and email and I feel like hand lettering is letter writing's artist cousin. When I decided to give it a shot, I realized how hard it was to actually line everything up, making it look even and clean. I found a fantastic tutorial on the blog "A Pair and a Spare" The blogger does a great job explaining how to space everything out, get the right angle, even how to pick materials. I've really enjoyed playing with typography and can see so many uses for it in future projects.
The basis for this project was born out of a series of discussions and random pinterest pins. My week started by lazily searching around pinterest while drinking my coffee. I came across one of those "faith in humanity restored" pins and made the mistake of not only clicking on it to read the whole story, but also searching for more. Later that week I had a wonderful discussion with a coworker about the importance of serving others. Combining these two moments encouraged me to choose a subject that would be a help to others. I am a firm believer that small, random acts of kindness can completely change someone's day for the better. I would also like to believe that these moments can encourage the recipient to pay it forward. So I decided to embrace the surprise coffee movement that is happening so often. I hope that by not only having the surprise of a free coffee, but also a little hand lettered message would cause someone to see the beauty and excitement waiting that particular day.
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