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Well, whaddya wanna know?  Here's the plain and simple truth:  My name is Rebekah Tennis and I love design.  I love paper, the way it feels, its weight and texture.  I love extra special touches on little things: homemade tags on gift-wrap, old stamps on an envelope, and twine on nearly everything.

My husband, business partner and all-around solid rock Matt would probably tell you that he likes tools - lots of 'em, finding the perfect way to do something, taking things apart, and precision in everything. 

So you might as well have guessed by now... we are the perfect match for an old letterpress studio. Together we farm rice and have a small but adorable two-year old son, Cameron.  This keeps us fairly busy, but whenever we have a spare moment, we crank up our 102 year old Chandler and Price platen press and pull some prints. 

There's more, oh yes, there IS more - but that's what this blog is for.  Take a look around, get to know us, our great town of Chico, California and our beautiful presses.


Author Archives: rebekah

the end of summer {2010}

I just realized I’d been blogging for a year when I went to save images for this post and found I already had a set labeled “labor day weekend.”  Happy birthday to this little blog, the forerunner of our website and a fun way to show you the behind the scenes on letterpress and our...

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today I love…

Minimalism. Simplicity. Clarity. Brevity. Black and white with crisp block text – it doesn’t get much more minimal than that. Cards printed for designer Grant Gibson (whose work is amazing, check it out) earlier this summer. What’s inspiring you today?

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{ farmer’s market. }

This post could be subtitled “In which I gush on and on in praise of local produce.” Just so you know what you are getting into ahead of time. Some of you may recall (and some of you may not, that’s okay too) that we are trying to eat local and seasonal produce entirely this...

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upper park: { a summer love story }

A little photo essay for your Monday. Cameron explores Upper Bidwell Park, Summer 2010. Shall we go fishing? The end of the road (and beginning of the trail). Creek walking. Creek swimming. Hiking. Happiness.Have you gone exploring yet this summer? P.S. Apologies are to be made for an overuse of Photoshop filters in these images....

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there’s a flea on the hair on the wart on the frog…

Okay, enough cheesy flea quotes. Cameron loves that song though, almost as much as Matt does. We left the first Alameda flea market post yesterday with you dangling at lunch time. Back in the game now, you won’t want to miss the junk (i.e. rubbish, odds and ends, jumble, unwanted goods, castoffs, general) that can...

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a flea { market } in your ear.

Well, I finally finished sorting and wrangling with the 200+ photos I took of our trip to the Alameda Flea Market this August (it’s held on the first Sunday of each month).  I’ve been wanting to go to it for some time now (having been bitten by the flea market, ahem, *flea* when we went...

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