{"id":223,"date":"2014-02-13T14:14:28","date_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/?p=223"},"modified":"2014-02-13T14:14:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-13T20:14:28","slug":"by-hand-grocery-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/?p=223","title":{"rendered":"By Hand: Grocery Lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post, I talked about my love of <a title=\"I *heart*\u00a0sketchnotes\" href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/2013\/12\/13\/i-heart-sketchnotes\/\">sketchnotes and visual note taking<\/a>. I am like, OB-sessed with practicing my handwriting every chance I get. I found handwritten grocery lists to be a great way of exercising these skills, and have collected some that I&#8217;ve done in the past few months for you below.<\/p>\n<p>For each list, I tried to practice a different visual element each time: using images in place of words; writing text in all-caps or all lower-case; cursive\/scroll print; block letters; bullets; and frames\/containers (frames and containers are shapes that surround a word\/words in your notes).\u00a0You can learn more about sketchnote practice in Sunni Brown&#8217;s\u00a0<a title=\"Check out Sunni's Training\" href=\"http:\/\/sunnibrown.com\/visualtraining\">super-helpful-webinar-series-on-visual note taking<\/a>\u00a0or in <a title=\"Sketchnotes 101\" href=\"http:\/\/www.core77.com\/blog\/sketchnotes\/sketchnotes_101_the_basics_of_visual_note-taking_19678.asp\" target=\"_blank\">this post by Craighton Berman<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_252\" style=\"width: 293px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121401.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-252   \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121401.jpg?w=283\" width=\"283\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-252\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote; text and icons practice.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_251\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111407.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-251\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-251 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111407.jpg?w=292\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-251\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery sketchnote; practicing all-caps, alignment, and bullet points.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_250\" style=\"width: 301px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111406.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-250 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111406.jpg?w=291\" width=\"291\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-250\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote practice of various &#8220;typefaces&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_249\" style=\"width: 179px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111405.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-249 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111405.jpg?w=169\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote study of various &#8220;typefaces&#8221;; this one&#8217;s a little lazy :-)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_248\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-248 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111404.jpg?w=234\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-248\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery sketchnote; practicing handwritten fonts and some icon doodles.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_247\" style=\"width: 304px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111404_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-247\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-247 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111404_2.jpg?w=294\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-247\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote study of various &#8220;typefaces&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_255\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121404.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-255 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121404.jpg?w=297\" width=\"297\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-255\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote; text and icons practice.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_254\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-254 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121403.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-254\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote; practicing text styles and containers (i.e., enclosing words in shapes to emphasis them).<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_253\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-253 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121402.jpg?w=287\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-253\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote practice of various &#8220;typefaces&#8221;.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_245\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111402.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-245 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111402.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-245\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote using (mostly) images\/icons to capture the needed grocery items.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_246\" style=\"width: 302px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111403.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-246 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01111403.jpg?w=292\" width=\"292\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote study of various &#8220;typefaces&#8221;, plus an icon drawn by my hubby.<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_256\" style=\"width: 297px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121405.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-256\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-256 \" title=\"Grocery List Sketchnote\" alt=\"Sketchnote of grocery list items\" src=\"https:\/\/yamairah.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/01121405.jpg?w=287\" width=\"287\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-256\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grocery list sketchnote; practicing containers (i.e., enclosing words in shapes to emphasis them).<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Now that I\u2019ve discovered the <a title=\"AnyListApp\" href=\"http:\/\/www.anylistapp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">AnyList app<\/a>, I&#8217;m no longer handwriting my grocery lists (if you&#8217;re a list-maker, you seriously need to check out that app!) but I definitely plan on continuing to practice sketchnotes :-)!<\/p>\n<address><em>How do you practice your sketchnote skills? Let me know in the comments below!<\/em><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a recent post, I talked about my love of sketchnotes and visual note taking. I am like, OB-sessed with practicing my handwriting every chance I get. 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