This blog is moving house!

Our blog is moving to it's new home.  We've been busy busy busy and we've just launched our new website. We're happy with it, and although there will be some inevitable tweaking, it's so nice have all of our pages and galleries and information in one place - finally!  Our letterpress studio, tucked up high in the hills of Northern NSW is purring away each day, creating hand-made objects and products of beauty and use. This really is the main focus of our work place, making beautiful things that have a place in each and every home, things of usefulness and pleasure. As well as printing custom design jobs, we produce a range of hand-printed and assembled letterpress products such as notebooks and gift cards. Our new range of notebooks are coming together this week, they are inspired by the hues of Japan and it's breathtaking textiles;  it's exciting watching every aspect of their design materialising before us. We hand-print our gift cards also, and one by one our designs are rolling of the press and into our online stores and bricks and mortar stockists.  I can't tell you how great it is to be creating everyday and doing precisely what we love.

So from this moment on, all of our blog posts will be published directly from our new website.  It's the spot to visit if you're curious about who we are, where we are and what we do.  We'll be posting about our most recent print jobs, our inspiring clients and the business of making (or trying to make) a living from a creative life.  We will bring you links to people who inspire us in our everyday creative practices, artists who blow our minds, designers who we admire, friends who are toiling away at their own beautiful creative lives and some fine sites and blogs to visit.

We would love you to visit our new online "home" where you can explore our work, find links to our stores and stockists or find info about up and coming workshops. If you do visit be sure to say hi, you can leave a comment on the blog or drop us a note via the contacts page.  We'd love to hear from you.

Market Drunk!

I get a little market "drunk" just before a nice big Artisan market.  The excitement and anticipation is all a bit much and I feverishly work towards getting ready.  It's not only the making that happens prior to  cool events such as these, it's designing the packaging, printing it up and then actually housing the work in it's labels and stickers and wraps. It's having all the little flyers and leaflets ready, doing the blog posts ( which is just trying to get people to be as stupidly excited as you are), the Facebook reminders and the careful wrapping of all of those precious handmade goods you've taken so long to produce.


But the best thing about the markets is the people you get to meet, the conversations you get to have and the connections made between maker and customer.  It's such a rare and wonderful thing to get some insight into where the ideas and inspiration comes from for a little notebook, or some in-depth info about a skill or technique used to make your brand new hand-made journal.


Of course there is the money you hope to make, the interest you hope to get from retailers, the pictures you hope will be taken by bloggers but I always finish a busy market day comforted by the smiles that came from people holding what I make, the stories of who will be receiving a new letterpress notebook and sometimes the drawings made in the book during lunch and proudly bought back to my stall for "show and tell"....that's the best.


xoxo


See you all at the Tweed Art Gallery Artisan Market this Saturday the 23rd of June.....

The Sew and Tell Market, Bangalow 2012  images courtesy of Noah Barron

The Sew and Tell Market, Bangalow 2012  images courtesy of Noah Barron