New things and new ideas are coming fast and furiously these days. As promised, pictures of the new letterpress cards in fun and springy green and turquoise inks (a few of which are already up on Etsy)!

I did a set of custom flat cards for the (still relatively) new baby of good friends, as well as some basic thank you and happy birthday cards in a few different fonts that are simple, elegant, and a lot of fun!:

I’ve also finished the first album using that beautiful, intricate blue and gold floral patterned Japanese paper (up on Etsy now!):

In the next few days I’ll have plenty more pictures of the ongoing leather portfolios and hopefully a new small book or two using the leather and a simple decorative stitching technique I’ve been working on.

For now, a passage from “First Gestures” by Julia Kasdorf…

“Living, we cover vast territories;
imagine your life drawn on a map-
a scribble on the town where you grew up,
each bus trip traced between school
and home, or a clean line across the sea
to a place you flew once. Think of the time
and things we accumulate, all the while growing
more conscious of losing and leaving. Aging,
our bodies collect wrinkles and scars
for each place the world would not give
under our weight. Our thoughts get laced
with strange aches, sweet as the final chord
that hangs in a guitar’s blond torso.”