Get-A-Letter Kits are Awesome

I know that I'm the one who makes them, but still, I think the get-a-letter kits are great. I spend so much time making them, it's like I'm actually putting together a cool package to send to a friend. So I think the people who buy them are getting something really special. Something almost exactly like an exciting letter from a friend!

P.S. I always write a personal note to everyone who buys something. So technically, you ARE getting a letter. And I'm pretty friendly, in my own antisocial way.

Gocco Workshops from Half Empty Press

Hello Portland Friends:

Did you know I'm quitting my full-time job on June 14th to spend the summer having fun and spending more time on art? As part of this, I'll be offering more than my usual quota of Print Gocco classes. Print Gocco is a magical, amazing, simple printmaking method using a Japanese-designed machine that creates mini silkscreens AND acts as a tiny printing press. It's tons of fun and many of my cards are made with this method.

I'm doing Gocco workshop at Muse Art & Design on Hawthorne on Sunday, June 15th, if anyone's interested or has a friend who wants to go...it's $35, 2 hours, limited to six participants, and everyone gets to make their own Gocco screen. It's going to be cool, especially because it's three blocks from my house. And another 2-hour Basic Gocco workshop at the IPRC later on this summer...it looks like it will be Wednesday, June 25th, in the evening--$20 IPRC members, $30 non-members. Both of them also have an $8 materials fee.

Be there?

Orders sent out:

This week I mailed out postcard orders to Talya and Carolyn...and also a trade to Uleen!

Orders!

Sent out this week:

Wholesale order to MixtGoods...all the free PIF cards I gave away...and a burning bridge card for Carolyn!

I'm reprinting "Sorry Isn't Good Enough".

And I'd love for the weather to stay warm so the seeds I planted in my backyard will come up! There's a good chance I'll be building myself a studio out there fairly soon so I can move my letterpress out of the dining room. Won't that be great?

Favorite Shops and More Orders Sent Out!

I want to recognize a few shops I've discovered lately and REALLY like. These are other card shops and they've got great stuff! Check them out:

afavorite.etsy.com has letterpress and gocco cards, and her cards are well designed, well printed, clever, and leaning towards wry humor...

jeanfrancisbean.etsy.com is where I got my awesome 80's Valentines this year. Combining favorite song lyrics, a style that takes you back to the painful days of elementary school Valentine's day, and direct red-white-and-black graphics, these Valentines are some of the best I've ever seen.

paperstories.etsy.com It doesn't get much better than this--classically beautiful letterpressed cards with the cruel words you wish you'd said. So perfect!

And of course there's MY shop, halfempty.etsy.com...I have to say, I really like my own designs!

Orders sent out today:

Danielle's burning bridge postcards, and a big wholesale order for mixtgoods.com, which is one of the places you can buy my cards!

More orders sent out!

In the mail today:

Ashley's "poop" card;

Liz's airplanes safer sex sack;

Katrin's cards;

and Mary's tragically overdue sperm cell.

The Gocco workshop at the IPRC was a great success--people brought perfect designs in this time! I loved the "Some Bunny Loves You" cards made by Amy...maybe if we're lucky she'll list some in her shop! I'm leading another Print Gocco Basics workshop there on March 2nd, Sunday, from 5:30 to 7:30 PM. I think there are still a couple spaces left in that class...so sign up!

Orders sent out:

a sweet baby-blue Giant Sperm Cell was mailed to Liska today.

Also, Gillian will be leading two workshops at the IPRC on Sunday, February 3rd. Youth Bookbinding (ages 8-18) will be from 3-5PM and costs $5-$10; Print Gocco Basics is from 5:30-7:30 and is $20 plus a materials fee. Sign up now!