One color down, one to go! Last night was a printing marathon of the latest batch of invitations, which I’m printing on Crane’s Lettra in ecru with a combination of a gorgeous copper ink for the text and fuchsia for the floral decorative elements. Copper is done, fuchsia later in the week! Also finished up a few extras of the invite for the shower on pearl white Lettra in pale green and chocolate brown inks for the same wedding.

This is sure to be yet another busy week! My perspective is in good shape, though, with all of the big-picture-outside-world updates heading our way from my family in Iowa. Everyone’s safe, but the extent of the flooding is unbelievable and it’s certainly been surreal to wake up in Brooklyn to NPR coverage of flood status in Cedar Rapids every morning.

On a slightly more humorous, but totally characteristic note, everyone can rest assured that the bulk of the collection of the Cedar Rapids Museum of Art that was in storage is safe! My mom, dad, and sister - on a tear to help out somehow - called the facilities manager of the museum who is a friend of our family and went down to the museum on Friday and helped carry art out of the basement and to the second floor for safe keeping. Rumor has it that my mom was so focused on one painting in particular that she was carrying that she may have tripped up a step or two on her way to the second floor…which I guess brings the total injuries incurred in Cedar Rapids during the flood to, well, one.