Ready!

The wood spools are now ready with 5mm cotton ribbons and available in the shop. They are quite charming in their 2 inches tall spools and easy to photograph in this warm light of early fall. For extensive wrapping and packaging, the same 5mm ribbon is available in large spools of 400 meters, let me know if you would like to receive the wholesale catalogue. I hope you will enjoy them!

Wood spools

I'm working on a new product for the fall that started with some wood spools, but they were too light or too new to look the way I wanted them to be. So I decided to dye them with some black tea I bought years ago in the Souk of Aleppo, Syria. I like the result and I will soon finish what I have in mind. Lots of memories from the time spent in that ancient city, I needed to pull out some photos from the trip. More news to come on the new product and enjoy the first day of fall. It is sunny and warm here today, but I know it won't last for long....

Brides Magazine ~press

Cotton ribbon on the wedding cake? I like the idea of this rustic cake with the Natural ribbon on burlap. Thank you Brides!
and more photos of our collaboration at Moontree Letterpress, this morning. The books prototype arrived! I look forward to this weekend, I hope it is a good one for all!

Leaf and Straw Books, part two

The third cover of the books arrived freshly printed from Moontree Letterpress and I quickly worked on binding the first copies of our prototype. Then, ready to ship some of the books back to her for photo shoot. The story will continue, until our limited edition will be photographed, all the copies bound and soon in our shops. Along the hand-bound books, we are working on a small run of 2012 calendars, that I'm very excited about. A preview can be seen here, but until then, back to work!

Children stamps

Working on a custom order this time, I went though lots of vintage stamps and selected some lovely ones as a little tribute to children. My favorite: white dots on light blue, Danmark 1954! and yours?

Back to school

It has been a busy summer, mostly working, really, and I find myself planning for the fall already. Since school started, three days ago and it has been raining ever since, summer seems already gone. And my little one managed to start first grade with a broken arm, in a cast! While I wait for the sun to come back, I found these photos of the two playing with boxes in my studio a few weeks ago. They were actually elaborating a possible halloween costume as a postal parcel. Something very appropriate in our studio life!And happy birthday Nada`, today she turns eleven!

Mare

Feeling summer is passing by way too quickly, remembering a day spent at Marblehead. Need to go back, maybe this weekend? please summer don't end so fast!