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hello there.

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: Studio

a new rug.

I scraped together all of my pennies, waited six months for the rug to be on sale, used a coupon from Lonny Mag on top of all of that – and tada!  A new rug in the shop.  Indoor/outdoor no less, so no more staining! What do you think?

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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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{ holiday } open house.

Howdy, folks.  We’re still here!  As in… not dead, moved out of country, and no, we haven’t quit letterpress. Not yet, anyway. I mention this because I did get a couple of concerned messages (even my parents noticed!!) with the blog having been a bit more, um, silent over the past two weeks. Nope, we...

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tick, tock, homemade clock.

Well, you might have taken the letterpress studio tour a little while back, but since that time we have managed to put up a little pizazz on our walls that I wanted to share with you.  We made a clock – a custom type clock. Not a type of clock, but a clock made of...

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our letterpress studio.

Happy Friday, friends!  Here is the promised mini-tour of the Wild Ink Press studio. Yay! So excited to share it with you!  Let’s start with the outside, shall we?  Our letterpress studio is a little two-story building detached from our house, located in the backyard.  It has its own driveway/street entrance (usually this is our...

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{ a whole new… fridge. }

Lots of busy design going on here today, so this will be a pretty short post. Dipping my toe into the DIY explanation world here, I thought I would start with something pretty simple. A fridge. A worn out, in-your-garage, second-storage-for-parties sort of fridge. Well, maybe some of you have a fridge like this as...

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