Already! Today’s weather is gorgeous but we’ve been in and out of a heat wave recently, it’s been rough. Printing these seasonal leaf invitations this week made me excited for the weather in a few months. This wedding up in Boston will surely capture autumn in all its glory.
Archive for June, 2008
dreaming of autumn
Posted in Brooklyn, Letterpress Wedding, Plants / Nature, tagged moontree letterpress on June 19, 2008 | 2 Comments »
renegade: part three
Posted in Brooklyn, Crafts, Letterpress, tagged moontree letterpress, renegade craft fair on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The last part of my recycling effort has been printing on all the random scraps I’ve accumulated these past months (and years!). I’ve also been pulling out some old plates and inking them up again. This has been a fun experiment, and a great excuse to clean off my shelves.
If you’re at the Renegade [...]
renegade: part two
Posted in Brooklyn, Crafts, Letterpress, tagged moontree letterpress, renegade craft fair on June 10, 2008 | 6 Comments »
My second round of upcycling old overprints involves simply trimming them down into cool bookmarkers. I always try to keep some of these handy as an alternative to using bills and junk mail to mark the pages of whatever book I’m reading. I’m selling these for a song, it’ll just be nice [...]
renegade: part one
Posted in Crafts, Letterpress, tagged moontree letterpress, renegade craft fair on June 8, 2008 | 10 Comments »
I’m so excited about next weekend’s Renegade Craft Fair here in Brooklyn. As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve always dreamed of cleaning out all my old sample boxes and re-purposing some old materials. And it’s finally happening! I’ll be working all week on creating new stuff from old stuff, and will post items [...]
avant-garde moontree
Posted in Letterpress, Pretty Mistakes, Studio Life, tagged moontree letterpress, renegade craft fair on June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
When I’m setting up plates and ink, I often use the same card stock pieces over and over until the registration seems almost right – it saves a lot of paper and sometimes produces nice abstract images. I recently printed a series of butterfly images on a wedding invitation set, and after I was [...]
