Bembo-licious

The Stationery Show kicked off today, but I don't yet have photographs or energy enough to recap quite yet. In the meantime, I wanted to share a link sent to me by a Boston bookbinder and fellow Letterpress Guild member Cynthia. I hope you all enjoy this as much as I did.

www.bemboszoo.com

Spring has sprung!

Although our current busy-ness hasn't allowed me much spare time for blogging, I do read far too many daily blogs for my own good. Usually over lunch. One of my favorites for great handmade finds is Poppytalk.

This month we were invited to participate in Poppytalk Handmade, an offshoot of the blog. The online marketplace is something of a monthly craft fair, bringing together crafters from all over to share their wares with YOU! This month they are showcasing countless beautiful spring things to brighten the dreariest of winter days.

In their own words:

Poppytalk Handmade is a monthly online street market curated by Poppytalk to showcase, buy and sell handmade goods of emerging design talent from around the world.

Time to think spring!

Around the Globe and back

Click *here* to see what wonder awaited me upon my return from Italy ...

Hot off the... electrons?

Decor8, one of the design blogs I read daily (and Boston-based to boot!), has posted about Albertine Press! Click here to read all about it. Thanks, Holly!

How sweet it is!

It's official - the gurus of great finds in city living at Daily Candy have blessed us with a "sugar coated" write up in today's Boston edition! I read my "candy" everyday, even for cities I no longer live in, so it's a real "treat" to be featured.





Click on the article to link to the full write up (including local stores).

For those who have never heard of Daily Candy (gasp!), here's a bit about them in their own words:

DailyCandy, a free daily e-mail newsletter and website, is the insider’s guide to what’s hot, new, and undiscovered — from fashion and style to gadgets and travel. As useful as it is entertaining, it’s like getting an e-mail from your clever, unpredictable, and totally in-the-know best friend. The one who knows about secret beauty treatments, must-have jeans, hot new restaurants — and always shares the scoop.

D is for Dad

A call from Mara at Boutique Fabulous asking for Father's Day cards inspired me to create a limited edition piece in the same style as our Mother's Day card.

So here it is (and don't you just love the little plants?!) :



If you're in the Boston area, pop into Boutique Fabulous in Inman Square, Blue Cloud Gallery in Somerville, or Magpie in Davis Square to pick up one of these hand-typeset little beaut's. Available with either khaki or chartreuse envelopes.

Not in Boston? Not to worry - we have officially launched our Etsy shop (albertinepress.etsy.com) where you can buy this card online and have it arrive at your doorstep in a matter of days.

It's only two weeks until Father's Day - don't be a slacker!

(but if you are, you can get cards even on dad's day itself by visiting us at the Printing Arts Fair
in North Andover).

Secret Codes

After much hemming and hawing I've finally redesigned the website (I wanted to go sleek, chic and with some serious cheek). Okay, rhyming aside, web-geek friends have convinced me of the virtues of CSS (cascading style sheets) as opposed to bulky tabular html, and in hopes of a more streamlined site I've decided to take a bite out of the CSS apple.

Now, I'm a fairly proficient hand-coder (for non-webdesign people that means I write out the code for my website in text edit with no help from dreamweaver or any other webdesign software), so I figure, sure, I can learn this CSS stuff, right?

Right...

The concepts and theories I understand, but spending late evenings (after long days of printing and general business-ing) trying to make things look "just so" has me exhausted and totally flummuxed, and less convinced than ever that this is the perfect solution to all of my problems.

So, here are some snapshots of the site (as composed in InDesign) as I would love it to be. Yes, I can make this with tables, etc., but I'm still willing to give this accessibility/flexibility thing a chance. If there are any CSS whizzes out there who'd be interested in a little one-on-one tutorial, or perhaps a little barter for your expertise (letterpress printed business cards, anyone?), please please please: save me.



The home page. Left column a mini "Hot off the Press" with all the latest news.



The page highlighting the greeting card designs.



And of course, most importantly, where you can find our fabulous wares!

The rest of the pages are also "designed", but I don't want to give away everything before it's done.

I'm sure it goes without saying that all designs above are (c) 2007 Albertine Press. Steal the site and I'll hunt you down and sic upon you very very bad things.