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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: Studio

{ holiday open studio hours }

It’s ba-ack! Our third annual series of Holiday Open Studio hours! We’ve enjoyed our open studio hours so much last year. It rained down cats and dogs on both Fridays but so many of you came out from the community anyway to see our shop and presses and it was invigorating to connect directly with...

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holiday open studio… { part two }

Well, last Friday we had Open Studio, and it was a lot of fun… so we’re doing it again this Friday! =) Here’s our Holiday 2010 hours… Friday, December 17, 1 pm – 5 pm {Open Studio} and possible Monday, December 2o (to be determined if you still need gifts and cards!)… I’ll let you...

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{ holiday open studio hours }

So, it’s been a crazy busy December for us! How is yours coming along? We have had a lot of inquiries about buying our product locally (yay!), and while we have some cards in Made in Chico and a bit in Magna Carta, it is by no means exhaustive. So, we’ve set up a few...

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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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keeping it real.

Hello there, folks! Is it Friday already? This week has flown by in a flash – and a blurry one at that.  So much going on here, (good) deadlines keeping our adrenaline up and our stress levels high.  I often get comments about how glamorous/happy our life seems here on this blog.  Blog-life across the...

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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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