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...
Gala. Ever since I was little I have loved the sound of that word. It seems larger than life, starting great words like “galaxy” and exotic words like “galapagos”. Look at the definition: Gala n. A festive occasion, especially a lavish social event or entertainment. Sounds fabulous, right? Mostly, it makes me think of a...
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...
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...
Well, an opening wouldn’t be an opening without people coming to it, and we were blessed to have some wonderful, high-quality folks at the launch of Wild Ink Press. Thanks go in large part to my in-laws, Lance and Audrey, who are community pillars and very well-known and liked everywhere. Our event was on the...
