Monthly Archives: June 2009

Printing new cards, postcards, and journal covers, day one

Letterpress printed journal covers for perfect bound journals - these three are just a start…there are many more! Reverse side of natural history illustration postcards Bee natural history illustration postcard, printed from a plate created from one of my drawings in brown ink on a heavy-duty kraft brown stock Detail of new packaging I printed

Sunshine & an octopus!

Excuse me, but is that the sun out there? And blue sky? Could someone please remind me how I’m supposed to behave? Our fire escape Morning Glories And…let the work begin! I just got my new plate order from Boxcar and it’s an exciting one! Good thing, because I really loaded the plates up this

Happy Father’s Day…a day late!

My mom and dad and me, 1982ish in Omaha Some of you know my dad and some of you don’t. He’s one of my best friends and I would say we’ve been that close for oh, well, a little over 29 years at this point. I’m sure he agrees. It occurred to me that there

Cherries!

(I promised myself the title of this post would not have the word “grey” in it.) Come on, Brooklyn! Really, all this grey? It won’t end! There’s a little sun today…in between an awful lot of clouds…and there was a nice hour at the end of the day yesterday when the sun popped out, but

Shooting star binding, planning, and outside inspiration

Despite yet another grey week, I’ve powered through and been as productive as I can be, and made piles and piles of new albums, drawings, and designs. I’ve somehow kept myself busy enough that I’m just now getting around to sharing them! This is a brand new binding that I tried out this week. It’s