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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: I heart…

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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{ hicks brothers }

Where do letterpresses go to die?  Is there some misty, hidden elephant graveyard that swallows up the iron bones of the old beast presses, secreting them for all eternity?  Um, not really.  Most old presses get dumped in scrap metal yards, stirred together ingloriously with other pieces of sad forgotten things. Unless… they are lucky...

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bits and pieces.

This could also be titled “random things happening in the studio that probably aren’t important enough for their own post but that I wanted to share with you anyway” however, I was afraid it just might not fit in the blog header. I know you’ve all seen the studio tour (on here and a huge...

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{ things i love. }

Pattern and Texture.  They go together like Peanut Butter and Jelly, Laurel and Hardy, Milk and Cookies.  At least in my book they do!! Which is why I sincerely enjoy the simple pleasure of customizing one of our invites, the pinstripe in this case, to meet the clients desired pattern… and texture.  And the pinstripe...

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{ i heart chico, ca }

Well, I do. It’s Friday which means the weekend!!  And for those of you who aren’t entrenched waist deep in rice spring work, you may have it off (how lovely!).  Go outside and enjoy the fine May weather we are having!! My stats tell me that a fair portion of my readers do live in...

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