I’m getting to the end of a long day, at the end of a busy week, that has been a really serious push into full-time self-employment and, it turns out…I’ve got some serious work going on!
I had a custom guestbook to complete that included a letterpress printed, personalized cover page, a great opportunity to get my press inked up for the first time! The guestbook called for a faint baby blue, so I mixed up a pale, lovely cornflower blue and ran the guestbook cover, plus a small stack of flat notecards with “thanks” across the bottom right corner.
Mixing up pale cornflower blue, the press all inked up in blue, looking down on the rollers coming up over the plate to the ink disc
That’s me, working away; a fun cucumber green that I mixed up for the other half of the “thanks” cards; the press all inked up with cucumber
I haven’t cut sleep out of my schedule altogether, but it’s definitely a temptation I’m trying my best to resist these days! Matt’s warning me up and down about burning out, but I’m just enjoying everything so much I don’t want to stop. I’m sure being so brazen will come back to bite me at some point, but I really am loving all of this and can’t wait to sink my teeth into all the ideas that are still just notes, waiting to be realized.
Here are today’s finished letterpress products…pictures of the books will just have to wait till later, and I’ll have them all on Etsy soon!
Happy weekend!
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