i'm in love....

i was perusing some letterpress sites and came across this:

the adana 8x5 platen press
photo from caslon

and fell HARD. i want, no, NEED this press. it's only 33 pounds and full of awesome.

i sent an email to the company, inquiring about price. keep your fingers crossed for me.

business card printing

my press (which i've decided to name chester, after years of deliberation) had his maiden press run at his new home (the garage). chester & i had a couple of trying moments...but worked through them & basically rocked printing business cards. here's some (iphone) pics..

i originally planned to print only on stardream cover in aquamarine

but found some other stardream paper in vista (top) & aqua lagoon (middle) from previous business card press runs and decided to print them all

here's the first run in blue - i chose a brighter blue than i originally planned..

i had the printing plates made by boxcar press - who have awesome support & are very helpful

the stack of paper ready to go for press run 2

oooo pretty plum purple...

sweet!

printing went very well and i really enjoyed being able to print in our garage. i'm super excited about the new business cards and will post pictures once they are cut. they will take a few days to dry. i was also happy with how the ink colors came out on the three papers i used.

today is the big day...macbook pro is coming!

press is home

saturday morning, i woke up in a bad mood. like oober bad. i got up late, which meant that i was going to work late, had to stay there longer, then had all this other crap to get done, which meant i wouldn't start printing my business cards until the evening, when i wanted to get them done during the day. then i would have to go to my parents house, move a ton of stuff just to get to my press, clean up, set up...etc. obviously i was very grumpy. i complained to husband then left for work.

so what did the best husband in the world do?

he jumped into action! he rented a trailer, talked to our friend & my dad, drove over to my parents house & together they loaded my 1000 pound press on to the trailer. half an hour later...


my press is in our garage, unloaded & ready to start printing. how awesome is that??

my hubby is SO thoughtful :) it's reasons like this that make me so happy we got married. he's my favorite :)