Filed under: BirdDog Press, Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution, Inspirations | Tags: Feedsacks
Realizing that many folks have questions regarding my vintage feedsack fabric obsession, … Who gave you feedsack fever? What is the Daily Feedsack all about? Where can I join the Feedsack of the Month Club? When were feedsacks used? Why did they make them out of patterned fabric? and many more. I decided to put a lot of the answers in one place. Once and for all. Available for all to read anytime with a link –What is a Feedsack?– in the upper lefthand corner of my blog. If you have a question that is not answered, please let me know!
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Design, Inspirations | Tags: alphabet, letters, montessori, reading, typography
C is really taking notice of letters these days. Letters, sounds, words, reading, uppercase, lowercase, reading, writing – it is a LOT to take in now that I’m immersed in it. I am noticing with C that he really recognizes letters by their pure shape. He will mistake a U for a C – and really if you look at it sideways … it is! or W for M, L for 7, A for V, u for n, 2 for Z … I am fascinated by the way children learn, especially my own. Do all children see letters this way? How do you keep this ability to see things in their purest form and still function in society to read & write? Some days I would love to see the letters for what they really are. To not have too much meaning, sound, label or correct/incorrect attached to them, ahhhh, but then a lot of that is the beauty – typography, books, language …
Apartment Therapy’s Ohdeedoh blog recently posted this Montessori alphabet and received some really interesting comments on the subject of teaching the alphabet to children.
I have received so many inquiries and notes of encouragement over this eBay thing, I just had to follow up after a little more research. This makes me even more annoyed with the whole thing. I just went to leave feedback on the most recent item I purchased on eBay, another feedsack, and this time took much closer notice of the details. Now, I did learn what “DSR” stands for – Detailed Seller Rating – and that little blue box next to the stars explains that this rating is Anonymous and you should be honest, so first of all how did this other seller block me when she didn’t know where the rating came from? And I guarantee you I didn’t leave less than 4 stars which is “Accurate” whereas 5 stars would be “Very Accurate” – I still don’t see how that is negative. In fact, here is how my positive rating reads in my feedback history: “excellent addition to my collection!” with the little green plus sign
And hers to me: “Smooth Transaction~Highly Recommend ~ Thank you!” with the little green plus sign
Grrr! okay. I’m over it now, but I still don’t really understand it.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Letterpress | Tags: greeting card, valentine, Valentine's Day, vintage wood type
Get your Hugs & Kisses vintage wood type style with this special edition Valentine Card – now in our online shoppe! These XXX’s and OOO’s are XL – a large 6.5″ Square card means BIG LOVE!
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Letterpress | Tags: architecture, erik bonnett, portfolio
Over the holiday, I had the pleasure of working on a quick rush job for an architecture school acceptance portfolio. Erik wanted to make a high-end magazine style portfolio, saddle-stitched with full-color inner pages and a letterpress cover. He liked the idea of the letters pressing into the paper to illustrate the title’s meaning. Since I wasn’t around to see the whole thing put together, he sent me these photos today. Erik, I wish you all the best in your architecture school endeavors.
Filed under: Craft Biz, Handmade Revolution, Mama Monday | Tags: Soule Mama, The Creative Family
Got this book for myself quite a while back and haven’t made the time for the ideas that line it’s pages yet. That is not reflective of my enthusiasm for it. I have read the SouleMama blog for quite some time and just made a pact with my neighbor/mama friend to do some projects out of this book with our boys. Maybe I’ll get lucky and receive her other book, Handmade Home for my birthday this spring, hint. hint.
Filed under: Feedsacks, Handmade Revolution, Life, Tangents | Tags: eBay, feedsack
one little, two little, three little feedsack auctions on eBay. yippee! and sadly, the above isn’t one of them. I want it really badly, but the seller {whom i’ve bought from before, paid promptly & gave positive feedback to} says that she won’t sell to me b/c I somehow lowered her “DSR ratings” – what does that even mean? She actually said I “punished” her. Why would I do that? I just want to buy an old piece of fabric! Bizarre. Anyway, If someone wants to buy this and then turn around and sell it to me, I’m a guaranteed customer.
… and that’s all i have to say today. MUST get caught up on design and custom projects … the year is off to a dynamic start!!
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Letterpress | Tags: Birdwood Press, broadside, lead type, poetry, Tom Parson, typography, wood type
My piece for a collaborative project that I contributed at the request of Gail of Birdwood Press honoring the poetry of my letterpress mentor, Tom Parson {a poet, kind soul & typophile} – Just for him, I hand-set 8 lines of tiny 9pt Bodoni, which first had to be sorted into a type case. In case you’re wondering, it took a LONG time. But letter by letter, I learned the layout of a traditional California Job Case. Hopefully, Tom will be proud. Choosing a poem titled Whipoorwill, because it conjures wonderful imagery and sounds from my southern upbringing, I combined a trio of color and a tri-fecta of photopolymer, lead type and {my favorite} wood type. I owe a lot to Tom and still have a ton to learn from him. He is truly an original and I appreciate him to the core.
Filed under: BirdDog Press, Friends, Letterpress | Tags: coaster, color, letterpress swap, Love & Letterpress, valentine
And that color-scheme in action … I love printing the BirdDog logo in mirror image. xx. This is a little sneak peek of the coaster I finished printing today for a valentine Love & Letterpress swap.
