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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 three-year old son, Cameron, and a chubby one year old, Lance.  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…

daytrippin’: vina & new clairvaux.

One of the things Matt and I have always loved to do together is take day trips. When we lived in Sacramento one of our favorites was to drive up to Sutter Creek and meander back home, driving through Dry Town and stopping at the Davis Ranch in Sloughhouse, truly a lovely little bit of...

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{ gifts to take to parties }

I’ve gotten a couple email requests to do some gift guides (which I’ve never done before) and I thought I would take a shot at one.  Now any of you who know me well do know that I loooove giving gifts and thinking of the perfect gift for that one person. The problem is, people...

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peter, peter, pumpkin eater.

In the world of cake vs. pie (one of the most serious debates of our time), I come down firmly on the pie side. Pie is to dessert what Grace Kelly was to fashion: timeless and elegant. If you doubt my affinity toward pie, you can look at previous posts: apple, cherry, ricotta, shepherd’s (x...

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letterpress: a photo essay

As a last little element of our window display at Magna Carta this week, I thought I’d share with you the black and white photos we hung on the left wall to tell the story of our printing visually. I like to think of it as Letterpress in Seven Photos or Less. Enjoy! Now you...

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{ chico love. }

Today I just wanted to share with you a couple of cards we designed lately as a little tribute to our awesome hometown of Chico, CA. If you read this blog regularly, by now you probably know we love where we live! One of the tough things we face with letterpress in a small town,...

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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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