I am in the process of designing a logo, I need a font that has a handwritten style yet still quite sharp can any body help me out with some ideas, I am able to manipulate the font in illustrator but need some fonts that i can start to play with. any advice would be great! (see example)

Lavanderia  Suggérée par pilaster 

If your only after ideas, not an ID, how about Lavanderia. It has lots of swashes and alternates to build on in Illustrator, and best of all it's priced on an 'honesty box' model, so won't break the bank.

Thanks for that good suggestion I will check it out, seem like a nice website to, I haven't seen it before. Thanks

I can also suggest this ones for you:

http://sudtipos.com/fonts/123
http://sudtipos.com/fonts/2

You can download the test pdf's in both cases to have a look at, very inspiring.