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Hello friends! Over the past three years I had been doing a lot of soul searching on if I should stay at my full-time assistant professor position or be at home more with my daughters. I went back and forth over three years. I had such trouble deciding because I really loved what I did…I liked teaching, seeing students grow and develop over the years. My student evaluations were good and I was getting positive feedback from my colleagues. But in the end— this past spring— with the birth of my second daughter Gemma I realized I just couldn't do...

As promised I thought I would share with you some shots around my home letterpress studio. Some of the things that you see is the Press, I print on a Vandercook SP-15 a 750 lb. press. It has been moved twice and hoping never again…as you can see not an easy thing to move. I mix the various ink colors by hand, lock-up the type on the press using "furniture" (the pieces of wood you see in the shelf) and print from metal and woodtype. I also have things like checking the heights of the rollers and making sure the...

Hello friends! Something you may or may not know about Andy and I is that when we were first married we had the option (in 1999 after undergrad) to either go to Austin, Texas or Chicago, Illinois. My mom grew up in Chicago and my Dad grew up on a farm in North Central Illinois so of course…we picked Austin, Texas (much to the dismay of our families). We ready for adventure and we fell in love with Austin when we had our "first real job interviews." We had a fantastic time exploring the town, finding wonderful friends, good careers...

Hello readers! Last week the press was a busy girl inking and changing colors left and right! Here is a job I was working on for a vintage scooter club in Detroit. In August they will have their scooter rally this year's theme is: Motor City Shakedown 7 so I printed a custom print/poster for them. I'll have a few for sale on etsy as well…check it out! I'd love to have a vintage scooter, something probably like this:How about you? Are you into scooters or classic cars? I'd love to know!

Hello friends, I don't know about you, but this week has been crazy! The hubby was out of town on the coast all week and finally got home late last night…boy did we miss him! The upside to him being gone was that I had some really productive days this week with printing. I'll be highlighting some of the new work I produced this week and giving you a photo tour of the studio on the blog next week.We're headed to a baseball game tonight with friends, my good friend Brooke from KC is coming up so we're gonna let...