Category Archives: calendars

2011 calendar sneak peek + a little Shaker wisdom

I’m drawing up a storm these days, just got a big new shipment of paper for album and journal pages, new letterpress projects are in the works, I can’t sew up books fast enough, and I’ll have a couple of collaborative projects to show off in the next few weeks. May is off to a

Spring in Brooklyn

There’s no denying it; spring is here! Charlotte and I just dropped off an order of springy albums, journals, and cards to Lion in the Sun in Park Slope yesterday, and in between working on books and someone doing an awfully good job of learning to use her vocal cords, we’ve been getting out and

More on illuminated manuscripts + Walton Ford

I know I just wrote about the fantastic illuminated manuscript exhibit at The Met last week, but my mind is still on the incredible work in that show. I’ve been poring over the accompanying book (which my mom & dad were sweet enough to get me!) an the museum’s blog for the show, and I’m

Sunshine. Finally.

For a long while there, I felt like I couldn’t stop writing about the grayness and the general down-ness of the weather. And, here we are! The sun has been shining brightly for 3 days straight, we’ve made it to the park and botanic garden several times, and all this warmth this week is the

It’s that time of year!

I don’t know exactly what it is about this time of year, but time manages to speed up even more than usual…and we already have a newborn, so we’re approaching warp speed here! Since most of my Christmas shopping and making began this weekend and needs to be done tomorrow (almost everything’s handmade or homemade