Favorite Finds – Local To Us
Thursday, February 18th, 2010
ast month we were scouring the world wide web for a new letterpress company to bring in as part of our “Out-of-Towners” collection. (If you didn’t know, the Out-of-Towners are a constantly rotating crew of small studio stationers from outside of Oregon. We add them into our usual local letterpress lines for variety and to keep you wondering what you’ll see next.) You can imagine our surprise when we stumbled across the super cool Oddball Press in our very own Ohio. When we lived there, the closest thing to letterpress was the seal on your birth certificate from the notary public. My how things change!
We received our order this week and along with the awesome cards that came (click here to see our favorite one), we also got two black and white prints that present a fantastical view of the ABCs and 123s. So intricately awesome, we recommend you come by yourselves and see them up close. We had our neighbors down at Luke’s Frame Shop put one of each design in a simple black frame to help show them off. Nice, huh?
eriously. Who doesn’t love a locket? Perfect for friends or lovers. Traditional yet trendy, sentimental but not sticky sweet. Fill them with faces from the past or current crushes. We just can’t think of one good reason NOT to own a locket. Perhaps you already do. If not, you may want to peruse the new collection from our gal Jesseca of Paper Treasure. Here are just a few: