Wood Racquet Tennis Classic

One of the best experiences while interning at Baumvision was helping set up their annual Wood Racquet Tennis Classic Tournament. The proceeds from this all day event are donated to The Hoag Cancer Center in Newport Beach. This event starts early at 8am and goes until dusk, so RSVP to enjoy a great day of dressing up in your favorite vintage tennis gear and watching the tournament while raising money for cancer research.

Yay!

The press was delivered today!!
Lucky my dad has a weird work schedule and today was his day off so he was able to be there and let the guy in. This of course left me being a nervous wreck today because I wanted to be there to make sure it was set facing the right way, with enough room for me to get behind it and most of all that it wasn't damaged.

I'm going to visit this Saturday for my dad's birthday dinner so I'll take pictures then of the press in it's new home!

tomorrow!

edit: It didn't go smoothly and now it's not being picked up/delivered until tomorrow...maybe.
Sigh, I took a day off for nothing. A huge thank you to my parents and sister doing a lot to get the space ready for me. I owe them a nice dessert night the next time they come visit me in LA.

The move for the press is happening a lot faster than I had anticipated. It's being picked up and delivered tomorrow! I'm heading over to my parents tonight to clear the area it needs to go in and to be there already for the morning/afternoon delivery. Ah! I'm excited and nervous that it all goes smoothly.

I did get to go print on it this past Saturday. I practiced with an old polymer plate Jenny had and printed on both really nice cotton stock and stardream stock. I didn't save any of those because they really were just practice prints, I noticed though I would feel more comfortable working on a step stool..so there's one thing to keep an eye out for. I haven't even had a chance to photograph the goodies I brought home (free ink, furniture etc.) guess I'll do it all tomorrow along with moving in the press at my parents!

In other news, Karl & I saw radiohead last night and I'm still in dreamy-swoon land from the set. It was my 4th time seeing them but wow are they still really fantastic...

ok more tomorrow!

hmmm...

I wish blogger had the option like livejournal does to reply to individual comments!
Do you all check off the "send me follow up comments" option when you leave a comment? just curious.

Either way, thank you all so much for all the congrats about the new press. Hopefully I'll get to print something for you seeing that as of right now the only people that read this regularly are friends.

My goal for now is to start small and really get used to the process of printing. I've read all too often about someone starting etsy shops etc., with printing and then running into a problem with a press and then having to worry about filling orders. I don't want to put myself through that kind of stress (right away haha)

Thanks for reading friends!

misprinted type

Eduardo Recife of misprinted type has updated his site! This is great news as I think his typefaces and collages are fantastic. The updates include 6 new fonts available for purchase, 1 free font you can download, 2 new photoshop brushes, 1 eps vector pack & a ton of new collage work you can check out. The image above is an example of how he uses one of his new fonts called Le King.

Chandler & Price 10x15

I've been holding out with this news because I wanted to finalize some details... I bought a large floor model letterpress printing press! Yes...before I even got my Craftsmen Imperial tabletop press up and running that I posted about here. I'll tell you what, this was just a really great opportunity that I couldn't pass up.

On a Monday morning a few weeks ago I saw an ad over on BriarPress for an 8x12 Chandler & Price in Hermosa Beach in excellent condition and for a great price that had been posted the day before. I called anyway regardless of thinking that for sure it would be spoken for already. Actually I called my parents first to ask if they would be ok with me having it at there house (they were!) The 8x12 press was taken already BUT the seller, an amazing lady named Jenny, had another one. A bigger one that she was willing to sell for the same price as the 8x12! I pretty much was set on buying it but wanted to go see it in action first.

I went to check out the press after letterpress class so Brenda & Danni were able to come with me to the warehouse. Turns out Jenny is the letterpress printer for all letterpress things at Papyrus! I had just gotten this beautiful letterpress card for a friends wedding so it was so exciting to see thousands of prints of it. She was nice enough to show us the working of her studio, samples, mock ups etc. and believe you me all three of us geeked out when she asked "Do you guys want to see the glitter room??" The room where they hand glitter any glittered elements on the cards, so cool! The deal was finalized for the press to be picked up before Oct. 1 and to only add to Jenny's coolness she offered to let me come by and do some printing on the press with her supervision to get a feel for it and also answer any questions that may come up. I will be heading over there to do that this Saturday.

I'm so excited for this you have no idea. I've already been researching which fonts I want to get from M&H type foundry. I will take some pictures this weekend but here are some (thanks danni) from when we went to see if the first time around.

please excuse the sleepy eyes/no makeup! you can see how big the press is in this one...

last day of letterpress class

Sadly our four week class finished this past Saturday. I'm really glad I got to print on the other press this time so I could see the difference in setups, feeding the press and all that. I'm somewhat short on time to blog so I'll just post the photos!

Setting up the type on the vandercook to be locked up

another angle of me setting up the type with my teacher watching from the side
feeding the paper to print on the vandercook

My Thank You cards!

Danni took a nice closeup of a card so you can see how the impression looks. Like I mentioned before we couldn't do deep impressions in the class but this is what's called a kiss impression.

danni, me & brenda in front of the Chandler & Price press
yay letterpress!