Just breezing through at the end of a long, busy, productive and satisfying weekend to share one of the many projects going on, and just a few of the many photos ready to come your way! In what seems like a past life, I sold private tours of Morocco, and Moroccan patterns seem to […]
Category archives: letterpress
Everything in its place
July 13, 2008, 8:01 pm
I know you all probably have the impression that we sit around here with our feet up, sipping fancy summer drinks and grilling on the roof…but I swear we do some work, too!
This last week has been a particularly busy one, putting together a lot of letterpress quotes for printing projects, working on some new […]
Canopies of clearness
July 5, 2008, 5:42 pm
Despite the seemingly constant drizzle, we’ve managed to have a pretty wonderful time of things over this long weekend…a little grilling (which I think made Matt ready to move to the suburbs, just for a yard), some very healthy rooftop plants that are a sure sign it’s nearly mid-July, and fireworks all around!
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I am my mother’s daughter…
July 3, 2008, 2:55 pm
Lately, I don’t even find myself making excuses for all the mornings and evenings of folding and trimming and sewing. I just love it a little too much and that’s just how it’s gonna be.
Today was a welcome day off which, right in line with my track record, ended up being one of the […]
To carry within us an orchard
June 22, 2008, 8:11 pm
We ended up with a welcome day to ourselves on Friday, since we had both taken the day off, thinking we’d head to Iowa for a wedding. Between the incredible flooding and damage being dealt with in Cedar Rapids and the ungodly expensive plane tickets, we nixed those plans. Instead, we headed up […]
Hands that are never still
June 19, 2008, 9:06 pm
Needless to say, it has been one busy week around here! Tomorrow, we’re taking a much needed break and heading out of town, just for the day, to the Dia:Beacon.
In the meantime, the other set of invites, RSVPs, direction cards & envelopes I just finished up!
These are all done […]
So purely and lushly new
June 18, 2008, 10:26 pm
You did say you wanted to see lots of pictures, right?
The truly gorgeous cherry tree that climbs higher than our building and is - despite the best efforts of the old abandoned, dilapidated building behind ours - thriving and producing some pretty beautiful fruit, not to mention some stunning summer colors.
And […]
Perking along
June 16, 2008, 7:10 am
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! […]
Just another Tuesday night…
June 10, 2008, 10:32 pm
Printing bridal shower invites on a Vandercook
RSVP cards and envelopes on C&P Pilot
Looking, Walking, Being
Denise Levertov
“The World is not something to look at, it is something to be in.”
- Mark Rudman
I look and look.
Looking’s a way of being: one becomes,
sometimes, a pair of eyes walking.
Walking wherever looking takes one.
The eyes
dig and […]
All that exceeds us
June 8, 2008, 9:46 pm
My feet hurt, my hands hurt, but my head is very, very happy. Before this productive little weekend even started, one major change happened in our little lives that - while terrifying - is wildly exciting. For a while now, my time has been pushed to the edges, as far as my books […]