Fontaholic Falls Off the Wagon

From what you can see on the left, I dropped off the wagon and bought a new font. This time, it is a Halloween-specific font from Scriptorium. It's not a typical font, it's a font where the characters are graphics, often called a "dingbat". They make for great graphic elements if you can't draw (like me). Scriptorium is run by Dave Nale and his response time astounds me. I'm a member of their Font Club and it's great to get a new font frequently, especially fonts as beautiful and 'handmade'.

Chinese Chop!

I've decided to order a personalized Chinese chop for my artwork and website and other fun stuff. I've wanted one ever since seeing an artist make one for LeVar Burton on Reading Rainbow. A chop is a stamp, made out of marble or soapstone, that is dipped in red ink and applied as a signature to artwork or official documents. I've started looking at possible suppliers:

• Supply Curve offers a nicely packaged chop, but I'd like to have the letters in ink instead of the whitespace around it.
• Good Orient offers very inexpensive chop deals, but I'm hesitant because there are no examples of the seals. Perhaps, I will look them up when ordering a gift for someone.
• elegant art international has some beautiful looking seals and I have contacted the artist about ordering a chop.. or two.. or three from him based on some questions I have.
• China Bookstore is located in Boston and I sent an email with questions and more information about ordering chops from them.

Hopefully someone will contact me soon about ordering a chop. It would be very nice to get some in time for the holiday season: I'll get Ella one as well.