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Hop over to my Etsy shop today for an exciting new listing: custom rubber stamps!
Inspired by my recent commission for my friend Olivia, I decided to make these available for all! Olivia came to me a few weeks ago in need of 3 wedding gifts. I carved out stamps for each couple, then Chris made these super fabulous redwood toppers for the rubber. exciting…
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Tags: block printing, Etsy, stamp, wedding
Well, I’m back from my trip to Boulder. Such a different world there: street performers, crowded restaurants, jam-packed yoga classes, flat residential neighborhoods with blocks and blocks of houses, bike-friendly everything, and flowers!
While it was fun, I’m happy to be home to my simple, quiet life in Tahoe Pines and thus finished this simple Lake Tahoe stamp today. You can’t tell in the photo, but the lake is printed in a pearlescent blue so it shimmers. I plan to get these in some tourist spots for visitors to have a homemade postcard souvenir option. Note: lake is not to scale!
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Tags: block printing, Lake Tahoe, postcard, stamp
the crafting continues
A new commission came my way last week, and *poof* I’m all jazzed up on block printing again. Here’s a shot of a piece I did a bit back for Chris and Mayumi at Moonshine Ink. Their logo was just crying to be inked! Stay tuned for the revealed commission (3 wedding gifts) as well as a new Tahoe stamp I’ve been working on…
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Tags: block printing, craft, linkedin, stamp
daisy
I love my grandma! …and these shots by Chad and Tina of the Long Farewell, a photography biz based in Atlanta. They came out to grandma’s garden when I was in town last month and captured gobbles of shots. Here are some of my favorites:
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moonshine ink, april edition
I am in love with the work of Natalia Williams, the featured artist in my current DiStill Life column in April’s Moonshine Ink. Using dried flowers, sand and other elements of nature alongside traditional collaging material (newspaper, magazines), Natalia creates such textural works of art. Check out my story on stands now, page 53. Here’s some more of her work since it couldn’t all make the print version:
Also don’t miss my picks in this edition:
-Beth Ingalls’ column defending our right to line-dry
-Not Your Average Dog Walk by Eric Wallis… a look into the sport of skijoring
-The feature on Kings Beach homebrewer Kevin Drake
-Seth Lightcap’s recap of the G.N.A.R. game—I was wondering what happened there
-And Tim Hauserman’s Growing Up in Tahoe column
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Tags: artist profile, collage, linkedin, Moonshine Ink
This week’s postcard was purchased especially for my mom, who always says I don’t live close enough. I was visiting her last week in Georgia, and thanks to a recommendation from Chad and Tina of The Long Farewell, I popped into Young Blood Gallery and Boutique in Atlanta’s Virginia Highlands neighborhood. I not only purchased this card there but also a robot coffee mug and yeti t-shirt for Chris (check out some of the goods and their hand-stamped bags below). Young Blood will definitely be on my must-go list (along with Yoforia) whenever I’m in Atlanta from hence forth; they had dinosaur shirts and everything!
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Tags: Atlanta, dinosaur, postcard, robot
tahoe quarterly, home issue
Oh happy day… rarely do I work a project as long as I do with Tahoe Quarterly‘s annual Mountain Home issue. It started last May, when we TQ editors were rounding up applications for the magazine’s annual awards. We then toured finalists through the end of summer and wrote, edited and fact checked content to finally bring you what’s hitting newsstands right now.
I am particularly amped for this edition since it marks the first time our Outstanding award has gone to a full-time residence, a 2,000 square foot one at that (see photo below). I wrote the feature story, so be sure to check it out.
Also written by me in the issue are: an arts profile on Truckee’s Mountain Forge; a home design story on the most whimsical home in Tahoe, the Hardy residence in Incline Village; the TQ Market section on ways to lighten up your decor; and Home Award profiles on a Martis Peak barn, a stunning Olympic Heights remodel and an Incline Village cottage.
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Tags: linkedin, Tahoe Quarterly
for jackie
I broke out the blocks again for a little carving thanks to a commission from my friend Jackie. She requested a stamp of her initials so I made a set of all three letters, then a larger “j.” Pretty fun…
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Tags: block printing, initials
I’m not sure what this creature is exactly… perhaps a baby polar bear, but it reminds me of the new little pup that’s now calling my house her home. Check out Fern’s likeness below.
DATE: February 23, 2010
FROM: Brno, Czech Republic
SENDER: “Mountainer” from Postcrossing
Plus a Fern montage since I know you people can’t get enough puppy.
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Tags: fern, postcard, shiba inu
