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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.


Tag Archives: project

halloween 2012: a fire crew.

Hope you had a fun (and safe) Halloween yesterday! Here in Chico it rained cats and dogs, and we only had a few brave trick-or-treaters. It’s madness with three boys I tell you – madness. The very fact that they are all dressed in costume and standing in the same photo is in itself a...

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a rosemary wreath.

It’s wreath time again! This is my fourth annual fall diy wreath project, can you believe it? Either I’m getting old, or the blog is. All the wreaths I have made so far have fallen under three stipulations: it must be easy, it must be natural, and it must be free. Easy, as in a...

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instagr.am { the month of june }

Ugh. So behind on the blog. And is it possible to be “behind” on life? Life has run away with me and I’m busy playing catch up. Let’s start with the easy. An instagram round up of June. In June I was so busy I actually barely took any instagram photos, if you can believe...

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an ombré booth.

It’s that time of the year again!! The grand National Stationery Show Extravaganza!! Time to see if all our hard work will pay off – we’ll see. I’m sure excited about the things we’ve made this year! Kicking off the show, again, is our little booth. Remember the booth building tale from last year? Well,...

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side yard: gravel to garden.

Well, I’ve held out on you long enough – it’s time to share a little spring project we did in our side yard! Um, actually, more like a complete overhaul. Some planning and elbow grease took it from useless and gray… To this… a charming raised-bed vegetable garden paradise. I am SO happy with how...

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a little egg fun.

We did it! We may be staying up late every night and running around like chickens-with-our-heads-cut-off in prep for the National Stationery Show, but we still eked out time for a little egg decorating with the boys. It’s the small things. We started with these farm fresh eggs (plus a few white ones from the...

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