This afternoon

Love my children busy hands, sorting and going through the huge box of vintage stamps. While they are helping to take the stamps out of the old glassine envelopes, they are choosing their favorites for their collection: insects, butterflies and international flags. Have you ever seen so many vintage stamps all together? I need them for a big order of sets that will take me the all summer to complete! wish me luck.....

Summer wedding

I saw this wedding the other day and loved the way they used the cotton ribbons to tie the reply cards and the lovely photography by Kate Headley.

Pikku ribbons for summer

Since this day, I was looking to have a moment to take some photos of the new colors ribbons, that Pikku and I designed for the summer. As tomorrow is the last day of school here in Brookline and my work hours will be completely upside down for the next few weeks, I decided to better hurry and complete this project. The new Pikku ribbons are now available in the shop and I enjoyed taking some photos of the behind the scene table, while I was cutting and arranging the ribbons for the photo shoot. And, I noticed, this is the first time my old zig zag scissors got photographed. The fall winter collection is here. Tell me what you think and happy beginning of summer!

The 8th annual Printing Arts Fair

I wish the Printing Art Fair was more well attended as the Museum and the demonstrations on all day are so interesting. So this is a wish for the future, to better advertise the event. Though the day for us vendors was a bit slow, I still loved the smell of ink, seeing friends, and get my hands wet by making paper after such a long time......

Thread, paper and scissors

Binding Castelvetro for an order, during a warm, sunny day!

A day printing

I had the plates made for a long time for a studio carta note cards, and finally found the time to print them on the table top. Two colors run, gray and red, made on my little Kelsey press, standing on a stool to have a better view. So now I have some personalized cards to include with each order to go along with the invoice. Today I will work more on the round corners and then they are all ready. Planning for the Printing Art fair this Sunday June 19th at the Museum of Printing, this is where I bought most of my letterpress equipments and I'm sure more is for sale. If you enjoy printing and papermaking demonstrations and meet some vendors, come to visit, this is the right place, see more of my posts from the previous years at this link!

Via Aerea Cotton Twine

I spent all day getting completely distracted with Pinterest and the new possibility of saving the images I see on the screen and having a way to remembering them and saving where they come from. I'm sure I will add a lot more in the next few days. Brilliant idea in my opinion. + spent the rest of the time taking some photos of the new Via Aerea Cotton Twine now available in set of two spools in the shop. This offer is valid until July 5th! I hope you will enjoy it and they will inspire you for some great air mail projects!

At Squam Lake and Art Fair

Back from a lovely weekend in the NH forest. Just realized it has been the fifth time I do the Squam Art Fair and I always find some exciting reasons to be back every time. Love the trees, the moist in the air, the water streams and the sound of the forest. This time our favorite was to see the otter falling asleep. The Art Fair, is always quick, busy and colorful. The new Pikku Ribbons sold as hot cakes: I learned this American expression years ago and it always makes me laugh! Loved to see Jill, Maya and Lizzy and meeting charming Ysolda from Scotland! Thank you for everyone that came and stop by at our table. My daughter, now 10, was a great help and I'm pretty sure you will see her again learning the trade!

Work in progress

I'm cutting the new Pikku Ribbons to bring with me at Squam. They look so pretty hanging from the blue chair over the rug, I quickly took some photos. More info on our collaboration soon, meanwhile a quick preview and back to work!