Calendar Roundup

 

 

The start of the New Year brings about one of my favorite activities – hanging the calendar wall in my home office. For the past three years I have purchased, traded for, and been given an entire wall of calendars. And every month I’m excited to flip the page and reveal new artwork. This year I thought it would be nice to show you the beauties I have hanging – some of which are still for sale!

1. Oddball Press 
2. 42 Pressed 
3. Paisley Tree Press 
4. Carving My Initials & Pistachio Press
5. Ink + Wit 
6. Pistachio Press
7. Linda & Harriett 
8. Seesaw Letterpress 
9. May Day Studio
10. Albertine Press 
11. Laura Macchia 
12. Lori Hutchinson 
13. Genesee Printing & Book Arts Center 

Dexter posters

 

I just came across these amazing Dexter posters designed by Ty Mattson. They're three-color screenprints on black paper and they're totally amazing. I can't believe how well they capture each season (although I'm only caught up through season two). I talked Jake into letting me buy Season 1! Possibly the most awesome part of this is that Ty created these, posted about them on his blog, and the next day the producers of the show came knocking. You can buy them on the Showtime website.

Animal Sleep Stories

I had the pleasure of meeting Daria Tessler of Animal Sleep Stories when I was in NYC last month.  She makes some super cute and incredibly well printed screen prints and drawings.  These were two that we bought (the top one went to a very sweet curyly-haired boy for Christmas).

Pre-order

The calendar is coming along well! Here is a detail shot of the month of May. We will only have 200 limited edition calendars. The size is 4.25" wide by 11" tall. The calendar is printed on Crane's Lettra paper in fluorescent white, which is 100% cotton and makes a beautiful impression! Each piece is hand printed on a Vandercook printing press.

Pre-order a calendar (or two) right here.

Total slacker

Arrrg. So it appears that I've been quite a lame blogger lately. But, this is only due to the fact that we've been pretty busy around here...

We've repainted the bedroom. Again. Finally. For the last time! I love the new blue {very soothing} and I made the curtains from fabric from a recent Ikea trip. Gone forever is the green apple paint and the wicked-old pink curtains. That green had been an overcompensation from the avocado green I had painted the bedroom when we moved into the house. Third time's the charm!

Apple picking {my first time} for Kelly's birthday, followed by ice cream and Mexican food.

We also had a very fun Sunday a few weeks ago. We met my dad in Geneseo for lunch and then went Geocaching in Letchworth Park. This is the first time we've gone where I've actually found the cache. The other times the cache was missing or we gave up!

She had always preferred plaid.

It's been a while since I posted any of my work. This is a screen-print that I finished at the beginning of the summer and finally got around to scanning. Although work has been slow around here, I'm pretty sure that this is the new direction my work is going to take {using patterns as more than wallpaper to create "landscapes" and continuing with silhouettes}.

I'm looking for artists who use landscape as a base for their work {and a bit non-traditionally}, so please send interesting links my way!

great decorator

Congratulations to my dear friend Abbey for making it into Domino's decorating contest slide show! That's awesome news...her living room is definitely worth it.

Trash Luxe

I was really excited to stumble upon Trash Luxe {via designTURF, which is also a nice site}. The work in the exhibition showcases designers who make furniture and jewelry from used materials. I absolutely hate waste and have an incredibly strong desire to "rescue" furniture and other trash on the roadside, to Jake's dismay. I even have a hard time throwing out scraps of paper that could still be used, but will most likely just sit in a box for the next five years. It's great to see designers who have the same obsessiveness that I seem to. I'm particularly drawn to the work of Karen Ryan {above} and Stuart Haygarth {below}.

Home sweet home

I finally finished stripping the wallpaper in our entryway and repainting. It's amazing that such a small space could take so much work {5 hours to strip wallpaper and 3 hours to paint!}. I have to say I'm really pleased, though. It brightens up the experience of coming home.

I'm also greeted by two very happy pups when I come home!

Wallpaper

I just got the new Blueprint and fell in love with their feature on wallpaper. I've been a closet fan of wallpaper for quite some time, probably due to my love of pattern. I especially enjoy all of the new contemporary patterns that are floating around {Nama Rococo is shown below}.


The flip side of this, however, is that right now I'm in the process of stripping some horrible wallpaper in my house. We were able to strip the first few rooms without any problems, but one tiny area in our entry way is taking forever! Lindsay, thankfully, is trying to keep me going. Hope to finish it tomorrow morning and paint before Jake comes home on Sunday {he better notice!}.

Bathroom Decor

I've been trying to figure out what to hang in our bathroom for almost two years and I finally found something...my collection of plastic Burwood hobnail baskets and vases. I started with only one vase and have now ended up with groupings of vases {not pictured due to bad lighting}, small baskets, and the big basket. Now I just need to get some airplants {below} for the large basket and we'll be all set!

Weekend fun

I had a great weekend , some of which consisted of thrifting and cookouts. This is another embroidered piece to add to my collection, which is happily hanging in our sun porch. I actually got it for free {with some other purchases} at a great garage sale in Amber's neighborhood.

Yummy cake and lemonade from Amber's awesome cookout. Not only was the food great, but we also got to play bocce ball, badminton, Wii, and Guitar Hero.

Luke, Marni, and Amber chilling out on the deck.

Lindsay found us an awesome new desk for the office {the white one}. Now we can finally get rid of the old metal Walmart special and work more productively!

And I couldn't resist showing you all how great Cassie and Pancake are getting along! They love to nibble on each other's ears...so sweet!

***Stay tuned for guest-blogging by Marni about our incredible visit to the Tree Peony Festival at Linwood Gardens.

Productivity

I had a very productive day. Marni traded me work-time at our houses. We painted her garage doors and then tackled my sun porch. We cleaned out all of my clutter {well, moved it to the attic} and rearranged the furniture. Check out this awesome table that I found on the street last summer...the enamel is in pristine condition!


I also hung a few garage sale finds. They really make the room.