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Hello Friends! It is again Inspiration Tuesday- where I share the things I am inspired by, here they are for this week: Handwritten signs Nolan Pelletier cat illustrations (I only have one!) Pinterest, have you been there? I could spend days looking! http://pinterest.com/thepcpress/ My family: Charlotte, Gemma and Mr. McCoy Moodboards VW vans, I really want the new ones: http://www.ultimatecarblog.com/volkswagen-is-preparing-a-new-van/ Beautiful Calligraphy Lovely numbers What inspires you?  

Howdy friends! Hope you had a fantastic weekend. Mine seemed to fly-by with lots of events, friends, fun and of course, letterpress! I thought I'd start today with a little Woodtype Overload/History lesson. About two weeks ago I showed up at the annual Midwest Printer's Fair and scored some fantastic woodtype. I still need to clean it up and and sort a few things but I thought I'd show you some of the faces I purchased. I was able to get a little woodtype san serif set (yes!) so now I can do more mini things in woodtype, a superfab Slab...

  Would you like to see more of this? [gallery] This week I had the pleasure of meeting with two couples about custom wedding projects and today, friday I will be down at Dornink participating in ArtStop showcasing wedding designs, come on down and see this fabulous letterpress wedding cake and more! As usual I'll be down at the East Village Bazaar on Sunday noon to 4 pm (supposed to be nice weather!) For more information: http://www.artstopinfo.org/ http://www.dornink.com/

  Some big, possibly exciting developments came about today…have I hooked you yet? Well I might have a better sense of things in about a month and half (no, I'm not expecting!) so stayed tuned! I've been so busy printing lately that the blog has not been updated as much but I know I will get back to keep things in tip top shape in about another week. So here is what I wore on Wednesday… since it is starting to cool off, I figured I better get in the last of the light weight clothing. Amazingly the cropped jeans...

  havenpoolsandpatios is taking it on the road this Friday and Saturday! We're headed for double-the-pleasure in Mt. Pleasant Iowa! My brother, sister-in-law and their fantastic kids live there so we have a long overdue visit/hang time planned with them AND the Midwest & Great Northern Printers Fair happens to be going on there as well, plus a home University of Iowa football game with awesome Iowa City friends (I know, an old photo of stanzi-the-mansi)! It doesn't get much better than this folks! I'm always hoping to pick up some awesome woodtype at the printer's fair, but...