I CHOOSE YOU. I have had these three simple words on my mind for months now. Uppercase Magazine inspired me to pick up a pen and play around with hand lettering the words, which was so much fun. Those professional hand letterers make it look so easy, but I think I’d have to practice for years to achieve their effortless look. Then I played around in Illustrator, with fonts and colours and shapes, and printed one to hang on my office cork board. I’m a visual person, so that’s what I do when words won’t leave my mind. What do you do?
This one is my favourite. Two separate fonts overlapping to create something more dynamic than either font on its own, yet still retaining their own unique character. Kind of like relationships, don’t you think? And do you see how the two o’s merge to create the infinity circle? That’s my favorite part.
Speaking of my favourite things… this is my eighteenth Valentine’s Day with Jason! It’s hard to believe that I’ve known Jason for 21 years! We met at a friend’s church youth group when I was only 14. He was twenty, sarcastic, fun loving, and one of the youth leaders. (I know! The scandal of it all!) I told my junior high girlfriends that this was the man I was going to marry, but that he just didn’t know it yet. And he didn’t. But I knew, and I knew he’d figure it out eventually. He finally asked me out when I was 17. And the rest, as they say, is history. We’ve been married for nearly 15 years now, and I would choose him again in a heartbeat.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
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I love these Rosa! Thanks for the inspiration – and Happy Valentines!
Happy V Day to you to Heather!
please please please post a photo of you and jason when you were first dating!
Haha! I can almost guarantee that won’t be happening.
I love both of these, but that infinity loop is pretty awesome! What a great story about meeting your husband – congrats on so many v-days together!
Thanks Lisa.
Love your story!
That’s so perfect, Rosa! I love that you shared that story with us
Happy Valentine’s Day to you!!
xo Sheila
love the story! love your confidence in it all! ha!
ADORABLE!
Happy Valentines Day Rosa!!!! Love your work and so this means we’ll see you in Uppercase??? Awesome. Have a great weekend.
Thanks Tracey, you too! No, I’m not going to be in Uppercase (yet, lol)… I was just meaning that Janine’s post inspired me to play around with calligraphy pens.
What a sweet story! lovely…
LOVE your love story…it’s one of my favs! Hope you had a fabulous Valentine’s Day! =)
I love stories where one person secretly makes up their mind to marry the other person! Congratulations on so many happy years of valentines.
I love your “I choose you.” And I totally get what you mean by needing to work things out–for me, I have to write it down.
This is such a beautiful post. Gorgeous hand lettering, Rosa. Totally blown away!
Love both, the hand lettering and the gorgeous print with the infinity circle, nice touch, Rosa!!
That looks fantastic! My husband does this kind of thing all the time….must be a graphic designer thing
Now, as for your story….it really couldn’t be any sweeter. I hope you two had a beautiful Valentine’s Day!