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DIY Letterpress Wedding Invitation details

May 31, 2013

In October I talked about the potential I saw in the lifestyle crafts letterpress, and I was right. We ended up letterpressing the invitations and RSVP cards. We knew there might be some other pieces we’d want to include but they were secondary. We set up a digital RSVP system…
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DIY Letterpress Wedding Invitations

May 25, 2013

When I last posted something substantial it was…October. Clearly I’m still bad at the internet. In my defense, we’ve been busy! We did a lot of wedding related projects, got married, and had our honeymoon. Professionally, I decided to leave my full time job to freelance full time! It’s…
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My cheap letterpress first impression (ha!)

October 13, 2012


After pricing out a bunch of letterpress options I decided having our invitations printed elsewhere wouldn’t fit in the budget. I’ve done letterpress and various forms of printmaking in the past – as has Mal – so we decided to order a cheap “letterpress” and give it a shot. The…
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Baby Sophisticate

I couldn’t get a great picture but I finally finished this baby sweater (pattern here) – 5 months after starting it. It was my first sweater, and I don’t know why it took me so long! All in all it was probably under 10 hours of work –…
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Evolution of a logo and Save the Date

August 29, 2012

It’s hard to work with other designers, especially when you’re marrying one (and maybe you happen to be a control freak). When we got engaged more than one friend told us “well whatever you do it will be very well designed.” PRESSURE. Early on we decided the save the dates…
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