Boards by Jess

Baby blue wavy place cards hand written for a gorgeous baby shower celebrating a twin mumma to be 👶🏼🍼🤎

No round up from me but just a huge ✨ thank you! ✨

2025 has brought a whole new meaning to work. Becoming a mum has shifted our little world in the best way, and I feel incredibly grateful to have a business I love that I hope will continue to provide for our little man.

This year has been filled with weddings, windows, signage, live events, engraving and calligraphy — all while growing our tiny human! Thank you to every single customer for supporting me through it all. For the first time my work now has a purpose that’s not just for myself.

I’ll be entering 2026 still on maternity, hoping to find a rhythm that lets me be present as a mum while selectively continuing the work that I love ❤️

Sending love, health and the happiest wishes for 2026. ✨

Getting in the festive spirit with the team at Jo Malone at Fenwick Canterbury 🎅🏼✨ Thank you for having me back!

M + M 🩷🪩✨ …from earlier this summer at 🌞
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Story time 🕰️☃️ …thank you to for having me again this Christmas and supporting small artists like me at such a special time for our family ❤️✨

Pumpkin tables names painted for Mel & Camden who celebrated their wedding at yesterday 🍂🎃 …bringing all the autumnal wedding vibes!

Throwback to this summer engraving for PRADA at Heathrow Airport 🫶🏼 Meeting lots of lovely happy customers off in their travels ✈️

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Nothing quite simply satisfying as gold ink calligraphy ✨ …my style seems to ever evolve with nib & ink. Any other calligraphers find this? 😍

I saw this post from today and it totally inspired me to do the same. It’s WILD looking back through my feed - I remember each one of these years so clearly and how they were defined by new ideas, projects, what felt like breakthroughs, experiments, trials etc.

If anyone ever feels in a sense of doubt, I recommend doing the same to see how far you’ve come. I am completely self taught and took up a chalkboard hobby post university because I missed being creative. And here I am, about to step into parenthood with a business I’ve built hoping I can continue to have freedom and make it work! 🫣

Here’s a little narrative of each year:

2018 – Graduated from Brunel with a Journalism degree. In between waitressing and applying for TV jobs, I thought it’d be fun to learn how to write chalkboards… (little did I know) 🫣😆 who remembers the Christmas plaques!?

2019 – Freelancing at ITV by day, but more and more local people were trusting me with creative projects by night. My obsession started! The year I launched my first ever ‘Christmas collection’ (I used to love doing these so much!)

2020 – Lockdown meant experimenting with materials, ideas and techniques. I built my first ever website (thanks to hours of Shopify youtube videos) and made hundreds of handmade cards to help people stay connected. Who remembers these!?

2021 – Post-Covid boom! I balanced two jobs between London & Kent, worked on 100+ weddings, gave my brand a refresh, and made loads of cards. My love for window illustration also began 🫶🏼

2022 – The year of burn OUT. I did some pretty cool things, began teaching, worked on another 100+ weddings and created some pretty fun Christmas windows but this was the year I had to make changes.

2023 – A year of NEW: I discovered sign painting (and loved it), started workshops teaching hundreds of people, and landed my first in-store/brand gigs.

2024 – The hardest year, losing my beautiful Mum. But also the most eye-opening—learning to step back, protect my balance, and trust that work would be okay.

2025 – A year of pregnancy and planning. Continuing to grow with new brands and live events, while always staying rooted in what built my business.

How long have you been around!? 🙌🏼🤍

In store calligraphy earlier this month at ✨ Personalising pieces with initials and carriers with messages 🤍

Thank you to ✍🏼