letterpress excitement

At open studio on Monday, I did a test print of my bird lino block. I mostly wanted to see how much more linoleum-gouging I had to do, but it was great to see it turn into something real: Rather than spend my time in class scraping, we decided I should start printing the text. I’m doing a calendar page, ...

tong and the pizza tree

Reasons Milwaukee was way more awesome than anyone might expect: We were there with Chris, Meg, Missy, Joe, Wendy, and Amelia. We all got rooms at the Hyatt downtown for $40. Thanks, Priceline! The flight took 50 minutes and put me over the 25,000 mile marker on Delta. Matt and I now both have enough miles for another domestic roundtrip. ...

zombie mummies! 2

Happy birthday to Matt! It’s such a big day, he even posted on his blog. Whoa. Those are the birthday cards he got from his parents and mine. Do you think they’ve been consulting? I’m kind of freaked out by the possibility. I pre-bowled earlier this week so that we could go out to dinner tonight instead. We have reservations ...

seahorses! 2

I’ll just type this quickly while waiting for SQL Server to install on one machine, and Visual SourceSafe to install on another. (AAAAAAGH!!!!) Yesterday, I ordered seeds for our garden: beets, soybeans (aka edamame), corn, kale, radish, a bunch of lettuce, spinach, amaranth, pole beans, and swiss chard. Everything else will be purchased in plant-form, because I’m no good at ...