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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.


Category Archives: Before and After

a hex upon you.

The bathroom remodel(s) continue.  And continue.  On and on and on. I’d love to say we’re in the home stretch – but I don’t think we are yet!  I keep remembering the old formula:  great quality, great price, speedy delivery – pick any two.  So true!  We have definitely chosen the former two in that...

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master bathroom { before }

Here are the “before” pictures of our master bath!  Actually, they’re almost during pictures, because the tile removal had started and all of the towels etc had been cleared out when I thought “Oh no, I’ve never photographed this bathroom before, and it’s almost gone!!” So, I snapped a few pics in a hurry while...

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kitchen remodel: the cabinets

We’re halfway through kitchen remodel week – and we’ve reached …the cabinets.  Cue dramatic music. Grab yourself a latte and have a seat.
Painting the kitchen cabinets myself was probably my most successful DIY ever.  It was also definitely the longest, most time consuming, heart-wrenching, drag-out-dirty project I’ve ever done.  And so worth it.  I...

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kitchen remodel: choices.

Now that you’ve seen the before and after, let’s talk about how we got there.  We didn’t use an interior designer, or a kitchen designer or any such thing.  The kitchen is a mix of online inspiration, the best deals we could find, and a few splurges on certain things that mattered.
Originally, I thought I...

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kitchen remodel: before and after

Our kitchen remodel.  This time last year, we were in the thick of it.  The kitchen part of our overall remodel wasn’t actually planned, it just sort of happened in that snowball-y fashion that things sometimes do.  First, it was the floors.  We wanted to change the white carpet/tile combo (which dissected the living room...

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sneak peek… kitchen edition.

In keeping with the anniversary month of our remodel last year, I thought I would give you a little look at what our kitchen looked like on October 1, 2008…
I was going to show you a small glimpse of the after (which I’ll bring out tomorrow, I promise!! with lots of cool durings!! ) but...

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