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The best gifts are handmade!

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The Happy Ever Crafter

Hi, I'm Becca Courtice, a modern calligrapher and instructor from Ottawa, Ontario — I'm here to teach you everything I know! 👋

Happy February Reader!

I hope you're doing well. I've been recovering this week but feeling more normal and getting back to work. Still working on finalizing the instructor list for Workshop Week - it has been SO much fun meeting with new instructors. The lineup this year is going to be 🔥🔥

This week's new YouTube video was inspired by my three-year-old: a Fancy Nancy inspired Valentine's Day chocolate box.

Enjoy! 😊

– Becca


Fancy Nancy Inspired Valentine


Valentine’s Day is coming up, and I truly believe it might be the craftiest holiday of them all.

It's meant to be handmade. The cards. The gifts. The extra-ness of it all.

So why not combine two classic Valentine’s things... a box of chocolates and a handmade Valentine... into one big craft?

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What I've Been Up To This Week...


This is kinda an embarrassing one to show, to be honest, because omg-I-have-no-idea-what-I'm-doing! 😂

Long story short, this merino wool sleep sack was so generously gifted to us before we had Kenna (actually, by a previous Workshop Week instructor, Tamer!)

And it has literally been on the body of one of my children every single night for the last 3 years – first, Kenna wore it, then when she grew out of it, it started to fit Brooke. And she's been wearing it ever since.

But... it's starting to show it's age. It's got multiple holes and stains and pulls from being so well loved.

So this week when I saw this video come across my feed about visible mending, I was like... yup. That's the solution. Lemme try that.

And although I totally coulda done something cuter with appliqué and made a cute little animal or fruit or something, I really wanted to try this technique.

I think over time, as I patch more holes on this sleep sack and add more colours, it'll turn out adorably! (I just gotta work on keeping my lines straight, lol!)

AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, YOUR WEEKLY DAD JOKE!

They’re making a movie about clocks…
It’s about time!

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The Happy Ever Crafter

Hi, I'm Becca Courtice, a modern calligrapher and instructor from Ottawa, Ontario — I'm here to teach you everything I know! 👋