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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: All About Me

in which i turn thirty.

I actually hadn’t planned to do a post on this (have the master bath details and also a pretty wedding suite we just printed all lined up and ready to go).  But how often does one change decades?  Not too many times – I’ve only done it twice so far (my thirtieth birthday being tomorrow,...

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{ crazy eight. }

It’s our anniversary.  Eight years ago today we ran through a shower of birdseed and into a waiting car.  (And yes, birdseed does hurt, especially if it gets in an eye. I’d advise confetti or something softer.)  As we ran to the vehicle that day and drove away, starting our life together – let’s face...

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have a lovely weekend…

It’s Friday – where has the week gone?  Oh yeah, late night printing, collating, mailing.  The holidays are in full swing – which is great! I’m sure MOST of you have already done this… but if you haven’t, wouldn’t this be the perfect weekend to trim the tree?  We get a real tree from Lassen...

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Giving thanks.

Happy Thanksgiving.  I have so many, many things to be thankful for this year. And always.  I’ve been trying to use this entire month to reflect and purposefully think of specific blessings and privileges in my life. There are general blessings… freedom, my goodness!  And I want to remember those who are enslaved.  Family, a...

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{ in memory of. }

I’m sure most of you already have done this, but I wanted to pause for a moment on this fine Veterans Day and reflect. Wars.  None of us like them, they aren’t always necessary, and they are difficult to parse.  And yet, think of how many times we look back on history and are very,...

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the silver {envelope} lining.

It’s Friday, isn’t it?  I’ve got to tell you, last night at 11:30 pm, working on a job that hit snag after snag after snag, I wasn’t sure I was going to make it to Friday. But here I am, alive and well!  A bit tired because we stayed up till three am getting the...

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