Kind of quiet over here, I know. I’m figuring out how to direct this site to keep it present. In the meantime, here are some pics of our pup, Maizie the Pyremute.

So I had a major letterpress setback about six weeks ago when a crucial piece of my press blew to smithereens. It was really just three smithereens but that was enough to halt Valentine’s Day card production. I am going out on a limb to suggest that you may have never seen a mistreated roller [...]

Cheers to a sustainable season! With shopping options like Etsy Earth.com we can keep the spirit of the holidays green. Etsy Earth is an online boutique–a collection of Etsy shops with a serious commitment to handmade, environmentally-friendly products that never include artificial additives, synthetic preservatives, harmful pesticides or toxic chemicals. I must offer up  full [...]

And another gifting favorite…my talented friend Gabby hand crafts these exquisite baubles from her home studio in Telluride, CO. You can see the full collection at agabby.com.

Friends and family have been very generous with their time, efforts and gifts lately. This has made me think about offering up skills and belongings that we each have but don’t necessarily know that they could be very useful to someone else. For instance, our family brought these peaches from Utah where they grown in [...]

Every town should use this system. I saw these bikes in Portland, Maine.

We have a new kitten named Ernest Evans. As you can see, Ernie was a big help on the studio project.

The original idea was to build a small sauna in our backyard. It ended up as a letterpress studio for moi. Earlier this summer my husband and his brothers disassembled a small barn from his family’s property in Utah and brought the treasured old barn wood to our yard in Montana. The plan was to [...]

I know back-to-school is a necessity but right now I’m more concerned with back-to-summer (easy for me to say when I don’t have classes to attend or kids to load onto a school bus.) I want to put the entire summer season in a capsule to keep for myself and to share with everyone. It [...]

My sunflowers have suffered a bit this summer with the unusually cool temps and extra rain. It was fun to watch this one find its own sideways journey.