 Well, hello friends and welcome back to my channel. I am still a little froggy from my flu, but I am in recovery mode So that is excellent. So sorry for the funny voice, but last week. I actually Received this I purchased it on Amazon. I will leave a link for you guys down below But Cindy Gunter Baldo who is llama letters here on YouTube and Instagram I will leave her links down below. You guys should follow her. She is Amazing. She published a book This is all about cute hand lettering. She is a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful letter-er. I do not possess these skills whatsoever But this is actually a book that is all about how to like, you know letter yourself Which I thought was really cool The book is a little bit smaller than I was kind of anticipating But look how thick it is like Cindy girl. You got girth. I love it Yeah, so I don't know if it's available on any other place than Amazon, but I'm so excited it just came out So anyway, I wanted to do a little flip through with you guys because I had shared I think on my Instagram stories that it was coming in the mail and a lot of you said I want to flip through. I don't know if I want to buy it. I want another flip I want to flip through of it. So I figured before I muck it all up because it's kind of what I want to do today I just wanted to page through it so you guys can see what you're getting and Yeah, I haven't really opened this yet. So it's very Virginal you guys so it's called sorry about the little glare right here like I can't I Can't film not here. It's really irritating, but whatever. We're gonna get over it. I'm not a professional Y'all. So this is called cute hand lettering for journals planners and more Let's see here. These are so cute and I just love her lettering. It's so so nice I am not one that really likes hand-drawn like stickers for my planner like I'm a big planner person, but Cindy's lettering and doodles just oh They get me they get me so good. So it has a table of contents, which is kind of cool So you kind of know where you are So here's some information about Cindy and if you don't know a ton about Cindy You should actually listen to her podcast and if I can find that like some sort of link I will put it down below for you guys. She's got an amazing podcast talks about I don't know It's just talks about a lot of things in the planner community. It's called the uncurated life so she does really talk about the non pretty side of Social media and the planner world and like how different things collide in that way. So Yeah, I really enjoy it. Sometimes she has guests. Sometimes she just kind of rambles by herself or has a topic to talk about Which is really cool. So Anyway, okay, so chapter one just start that is the hardest part. Isn't that right? Chapter two is all about your handwriting Chapter three through five is lettering styles Chapter six is a lettering in journals and then chapter seven. What do I do next? All right, so here is chapter one I'm just gonna like flip through these are really fast if you want to pause the video You're more than welcome to because I really don't want this video to be like two hours long because it totally would She talks about daily practice to have some tips and you know do your daily practices. Oh Pens yes, I need to talk about pens. I don't know what kind of pen I'm gonna want to use but Yeah talking about your tip size Color, how heavy is your hand? I know she talks about that a lot in some of her lettering videos on YouTube And then other tools see pencils erasers ruler practice paper lots of different things and then a lettering is it Targon jargon. Oh jargon. Sorry It's a J not a T like what shows a lot of how to you know do different types of things Who take your handwriting temperature? Oh I want to write on this. Okay, but I'm gonna wait until the video is over like I said I want it to stay pretty um and Maybe I'll make it more pretty with my Chicken scratchings. Oh and on this page. It says write that entire alphabet in uppercase and lowercase in your regular writing Don't try to write fancy you want a snapshot of what your writing is like at this moment in time And then you can put a date. Oh, that's really cool But this would be even cool if you wanted to like have your you know writing improve and stuff, too It's just like a fun thing to do. It's like this is like an adult activity book Which I love chapter 2 is all about your handwriting So so basic printing And then you know more exercise pages. I love that there's so many Exercise pages cool basic cursive strokes Building cursive letters Cool. I don't know. I'm really liking this. Okay. Hold on this video is gonna be really long. So let me start flippin Don't know All about the cursive and then about big impact small impact m changes big impact I'm sorry. I can't talk right now because I'm very excited about this clearly and I've been on a lot of lot of cold medicine recently All right, so simple hand lettering Very cool Well, these are fun with like a little Curlies on them This is neat I'm just really excited to start playing in this book and I I don't know I think this would just be like a fun little like weekend book to play around with and to Just do something different, you know I I am a person that if I'm not good at something I don't want to do it and I I'm sure there's other people out there that feel the same way and lettering is one of those things and I've watched many of Cindy's videos But she says it's all practice like you just you gotta keep going with it And you got to keep practicing at like no one's gonna be good at this right away Um, so anyways, I feel like this would be like a good little like you know just every weekend just come and play with it for a little while and just you know get better over time and You challenge yourself to do something a little bit different that you you know don't don't normally do but I love that there's all these different styles and You know like, you know, there's just like one in front of the other which is really cool I Don't know. I just really really like these I'm gonna be very very excited to start Making this my own So we've got numbers and symbols Let's see here. Let's advance. Ooh. Oh, I like those. Oh, I like Florishes is what they're called. I like a flourish. All right. I'm just gonna keep going Oh, you can like decorate the letters with like little things That's really cool. Oh That's cute Like a little bunny rabbit So yeah, lots of places for practice, which I'm very excited about plus you can always like grab a notebook or something That's handy, too You know if you fill up all your pages, but this is just like great You know reference material to really understand how to do this. So I'm very very excited Yay. All right. So this is it. Sorry. I wanted to flip through it really quickly for you guys I don't want to give away every single secret that Cindy has divulged in her new book But again, I will leave an Amazon link. I highly encourage you guys to get this If you want to learn how to do some cute hand lettering for yourself I hope you enjoyed the flip through if you did make sure to give it a thumbs up If you're free to subscribe and also make sure to follow Cindy on all of her socials down below I hope you all are having a wonderful day and I will see you all in the next video. Bye guys Well folks it's time to kick it old school