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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.


Tag Archives: Interior Decorating

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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a flea { market } in your ear.

Well, I finally finished sorting and wrangling with the 200+ photos I took of our trip to the Alameda Flea Market this August (it’s held on the first Sunday of each month).  I’ve been wanting to go to it for some time now (having been bitten by the flea market, ahem, *flea* when we went...

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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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around the house: the nursery.

Once upon a time, I started blogging bits about our home decor and remodel.  I showed you a few rooms from our home:  the living room (in several seasons), the kitchen (and its remodel), the outside, and most recently, our guest and master bath remodels. But we do have other spaces I haven’t shown you...

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guest bathroom reveal!!

It’s here, it’s here! It’s been demoed, remodeled, styled, primped and photographed – it’s d-o-n-e.  Ladies and Gentlemen, I’d like to introduce to you our new guest bathroom. (happy dance, happy dance!) Let’s start with a bit of review… we embarked on the “both bathrooms” remodel (our phase two) in January.  Remember this original inspiration...

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master bathroom { before }

Here are the “before” pictures of our master bath!  Actually, they’re almost during pictures, because the tile removal had started and all of the towels etc had been cleared out when I thought “Oh no, I’ve never photographed this bathroom before, and it’s almost gone!!” So, I snapped a few pics in a hurry while...

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