old meets new

Hello there - I took a little blog break to refresh and renew, but I'm back to regular posting again.
And tomorrow I'll be here with my Blog It Forward inspiration post.

I'm so interested in the outcome of the therellbetypos project. On February 4, Harley Peddie launched "the world's first crowd sourced letterpress project" using twitter submissions as copy for a letterpress book. I've been noticing more and more letterpress projects inspired by 21st century themes, like twitter and texting. One of my favorite recent examples is the print series In Other Words by Patrycja Zywert. Using letterpress and silkscreen, she looked at the descriptive limits of LOL, BTW, IMO and OMG with interesting typographic results.

sunday picture: beloved work apron

My apron served me well this week keeping me paste-free while I taught bookbinding and ink-free while printing and filming at the press.

a little creative experiment

printing sunshine from Richenda Brim on Vimeo.

A little fun in the studio with my camera, but still so much to learn.
I think there'll be more of this going on.

beyond paper cranes

"The process of making is the point of it. The object looks good if the process felt good."

- quote and image from the documentary Between the Folds

This recommendation is a tad frustrating because I found out about this documentary from one of the inspiration posts by sfgirlbybay's blog it forward group, but I can't remember which blog it was. *sigh* If I remember I will let you know, but my sincere thanks to that blogger because this is a wonderful film. There are some nice thoughts about process that I think apply to every art and craft. And some really awe-inspiring work.

sunshine!

 

Sunshine now available in my shop.

a little wear can be a beautiful thing

 

This is my piece for a letterpress coaster swap coordinated by Cat at Visual Chemist. I want this to be a year of collaboration and connection in the letterpress and bookarts communities and a swap felt like a good way to start off. My coaster design was part of an experiment masking off a shape on press furniture. It took a couple tries before I settled on parchment paper as an appropriate masking material. I'm happy with how these turned out. I like the strong outline of ink. And I especially like the scars.

I'm looking forward to my package of coasters! And thanks to Cat for handling the swap.

 

This week's picture is a screengrab of the February 11 Etsy Finds column. On a coffee break I took a look at my store statistics and found a surprising number of hits - in one morning I had more visits than I had in the entire last month. Then I found out my Books print (bottom left) was in a library-themed Etsy Finds email. I had been working on ways to advertise my shop more. And I also just put it out to the universe, turned it over, made a wish: bring buyers to my shop. Sometimes even I cringe at my cheesy-dreamy nature, but sometimes the universe answers. So, I say, make a wish. Ask the universe for help and you never know what may happen. 

Oh, and make sure you tag, tag, tag all the items in your Etsy shop. ;)