Wedding Wednesdays - Let them eat cake

In an effort to post more regularly, and not always having new work or interesting letterpress tidbits to share, I thought I'd diverge a little. I work with a lot of brides and grooms (though mostly brides) and thus a lot of wedding details are discussed, sometimes to help work out invitation ideas, and sometimes because I just love talking about weddings. I thought I'd take the alliterative approach and dedicate Wednesdays to sharing different wedding-related goodies.



Today I want to introduce Erin Gardner of Wild Orchid Baking Company. She worked as a pasty chef in Boston, and later New Hampshire, before starting her own custom baking company. Her cakes are not only beautiful, they're delicious (I've been eating her pastries for years). These days she specializes in realistic, hand-made flowers, but if you can dream it, she can make it.



And don't forget she is also the creator of the Chocolate Albertine, featured at our very first Paper & Chocolate celebration.



If you're interested in seeing more of her work, visit the Wild Orchid blog.

The colors of summer

I took a look at the ink mixing table the other day and noticed something of a trend - lots of orange and blue. Maybe it's the summer sun meets the sea, or the heat and the rain, but it seems we've been printing oodles of the pair recently.

Just take a look at our color test papers:



Finished pieces featuring the colors of summer coming soon.

Beach mosaics

We've been doing a lot of traveling lately (thus the slow posting) and enjoying many beaches here and abroad. Not one to sit idle (even on vacation) I spend my beach days creating mosaics from the natural detritus of the sea.



This first unfinished piece was begun on the beach in Falconara, Italy.



From there we moved (mid-mosaic) to the gorgeous Portonovo, a beach nestled by forested mountains. It's a rock beach, which changed the plan and we went with a bullseye-like exploration of the different stone colors.



Perhaps the most successful project of the Italy trip was our second project back in Falconara. Marisa & I built a little cityscape. My favorites were the barnacle-covered shells.



Lately, Jacob and I were up in Maine (Wells). The sand was hard and only stones to be found. But they were delightful "chips" of flattened stones. This spiral (inspired by the many snails on the beach) was soon washed away by the tide.

I wonder if anyone else "discovered" the other mosaics?

The Beat goes on

Come out to Davis Square on July 19th to see us and about 100 other art vendors. The fest begins the night before with bicycle parades, musicians, dancers, green-living booths and much, much more.

For more details on performances around the square and more details on ArtBeat Somerville, click here.

Meet George Jetson

Yesterday I had a meeting with a client - nothing extraordinary in that.

Except this client was in Italy.



By the grace of my brand new iMac and iChat, I was able to freely video-conference with Marisa and Gianluca about their wedding invitations, hold up color swatches for consideration, and wrap up the. All this, from the comfort of our chairs, a quarter way round the world.

As Becka said, "We're the Jetsons!"

Damn straight.