Maybe I am just really out of shape but after a day hanging out with the lovely arounna and learning how to letterpress I could really feel it in my left arm and abdominal muscles the next day. DId you know you can burn between 200 and 300 calories an hour using a press. What a beautiful, functional workout that could be especially if you have wonderful company like arounna, john, liam and piper. You might get an extra bit of exercise dodging those carpet cheerios ( oh I know piper it is environmental art). Jokes aside I loved working with the beautiful papers, inks and of course the press. It was magic seeing my covered stone images pressed into the surface of the paper. Time just flew by and I did some blind pressing with type and then used a mossy green ( looks more yellow in these photographs, sorry) and then a blood red. I made folded cards ( although they aren't yet folded) , post cards, thank you notes and my favorite the tags.
I realized last week that I had missed celebrating my 2nd blog birthday on January 11th. So today I am making up for that by offering a giveaway. Leave a comment under this post and on January 31st at midnight I will choose a winner of an assortment of resurrectionfern letterpress paper goods, a crochet covered sea stone and I will even throw into the mix a few special surprises.
Congratulations, I´ve vote for your blog, you´re sensational. Thanks for being here. I´m spanish but I follow you every day.
Posted by: Ana Tenorio | January 25, 2010 at 10:02 AM
Happy bloganniversary, dear friend ! I've told you enough times (I think) how I love coming here each day, and how much you are inspirational to me, and to hundreds, thousands people probably ! THANK YOU. For being you, for being true, and for sharing with us.
Please can you add my name to this absolutely delicious giveaway, I can NOT miss that !
xoxoxo big hugs
Posted by: Sonia | January 25, 2010 at 10:04 AM
How very lovely. Every morning when I turn on my computer, I check your blog for my daily dose of inspiration, awe and nostalgia. As a Newf who has lived in Montreal for nearly 20 years I am totally smitten with your rock art. I have been carting back suitcases full of them, collected by my 3 daughters for years, but have only ever gotten around to admiring them in bowls and piles around our house.
I did try your doily snow-flakes up in the laurentians. My daughters thought they made beautiful snow-fort windows.
Thanks again for your calm inspiration.
Kate
Posted by: Kate Herzberg | January 25, 2010 at 10:08 AM
You are so lucky to learn how to letterpress. I love what you were able to create.
Posted by: michele (maryland) | January 25, 2010 at 10:13 AM
Lovely! Letterpress is on my list of techniques to learn. Maybe I'd exercise more if it involved a beautiful finished product like this!
Posted by: Lauren | January 25, 2010 at 10:14 AM
i would like to work on a letter press, but getting some of your stuff would be just as magical i think!
Posted by: Jessie Hansen | January 25, 2010 at 10:15 AM
It's always so calming to come to your site (I visit through Google reader). Exploring your world is like going on a small vacation.
I love your new stationary...just beautiful!
Posted by: sukigirl | January 25, 2010 at 10:16 AM
yes! you had me at letterpress workout (i don't do well in sedentary jobs), and then i was thinking, you have such a great design aesthetic and then i saw the give-a-way, woot! you're at the top of my list of dream teachers someday...
Posted by: Michelle Shopped | January 25, 2010 at 10:19 AM
Beautiful cards!!
Happy blog birthday. :)
Posted by: Laura F | January 25, 2010 at 10:29 AM
happy blog birthday, margie! her's to many more.
Posted by: becky | January 25, 2010 at 10:32 AM
Thanks for your inspiring blog and beautiful images... always brightens my day
Posted by: Jennifer | January 25, 2010 at 10:36 AM
As usual your work turned out beautifully! Now you have me wanting to try letterpressing...!
Posted by: Amanda | January 25, 2010 at 10:37 AM
Congratulations on your anniversary!
Posted by: mj | January 25, 2010 at 10:38 AM
Swoon! I love these!!
I meant to tell you that my 9-yr-old daughter made some frozen art after being inspired by me telling her about your wreaths. I didn't show her your pics until the next day because we got busy and I forgot!
Here in east Texas we rarely get a freezing night(or long enough to freeze something solid anyway). We have a night or two coming up that will be in the mid-20s so she's thinking up her next frozen project.(pics on my blog if you want to see what she did).
Molly
Posted by: molly | January 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM
I agree! Letterpress printing is truly a great core workout and perfect for toning up arms. I miss it so. Could you mention how you made the block prints of your stones? Is it a special process, like polymer plates or ??
Happy 2nd birthday to your lovely blog. It makes my day to read it. Though I am in tough competition, and I wish everyone could win your giveaway, I would be especially ecstatic to be selected! Though I would've left this comment anyways. <3 & xx
=mew=
Have a wonderful week!
Posted by: Mary Ellen | January 25, 2010 at 10:46 AM
I love letterpress. I see endless possibilities for you Margie.
Posted by: Dale Smith | January 25, 2010 at 10:52 AM
A good friend of mine just sent me your way and ive absolutly fallen in love with your work. Its all lovely!
Posted by: Carrie D | January 25, 2010 at 11:18 AM
Love your covered stones prints, almost as much as the covered stones ! All of your work has such cohesion---a unified vision. Thanks for the eye candy.
Posted by: Cyth | January 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM
i love reading your blog!
i've been admiring your stones and wished i could of made it to the craft fair last month, but alas, i live in GA...
maybe i'll get lucky and win one...i have a home ready and waiting....found a sparrow's tiny nest in a honeysuckle bush and waited til it was occupant left and went back to retrieve it....would look complete with one of your small stone treasures nestled in it...
your blog celebrated a birthday milestone, so did i on saturday...
*fingers crossed*
shannon
Posted by: shannon | January 25, 2010 at 11:59 AM
happy anniversary
your blog is a pleasure for the eye and a real inspiration. Thank you !
Posted by: CatherineinFrance | January 25, 2010 at 12:00 PM
Wow - the stones translate so beautifully to print! The detail is really amazing; I can remember using lace for its intricacy in the print-making studio in college - but the hand-crochet is really something special. Very nice work!
Posted by: chelsea | January 25, 2010 at 01:15 PM
i am at a stuck & frustrated point in my life where my mind is easily prone to discouragement and disillusionment. your blog is a daily reminder to me of all things beautiful and possible in myself and this world. thank you thank you thank you.
Posted by: alyson two eagles | January 25, 2010 at 01:36 PM
oh i just love your art and your blog! i would LOVE to be entered in the giveaway....thanks!
Posted by: kim | January 25, 2010 at 01:39 PM
I am so pleased to have found your blog recently, I am inspired by your sense of nature and creativity in all its forms. Thanks for sharing and for the giveaway!
Posted by: Tracy | January 25, 2010 at 02:34 PM
I don't know anything about letterpress...how did you make the molds of your covered stones? This unique design is really what makes your prints so special.
Posted by: Holly Rabalais | January 25, 2010 at 02:35 PM
Margie, Your letter press is so beautiful. Sounds like you really enjoyed yourself. What a meditative activity to help you through this time in your life. Be well and thank you so much for having such a generous give away!
Posted by: Lovely World | January 25, 2010 at 03:06 PM
Sounds like a perfect day! And a beautiful outcome, too. Thank you for sharing the experience.
Posted by: Bele | January 25, 2010 at 03:11 PM
beautiful letterpress, what a delicious combination of media and images
Posted by: Meliors | January 25, 2010 at 03:14 PM
What an awesome giveaway!
You have such an inspiring blog and I love visiting each day. Happy Blogaversary!
Posted by: Ashley Lee | January 25, 2010 at 03:17 PM
It is very nice of you to do a giveaway. Your work is beautiful, the patterns of your stones works so well in letterpress!
Posted by: alice | January 25, 2010 at 03:46 PM
Really great that you can have the stones' images on paper too. Have fun!
Michele
Posted by: Michele Merges Martens | January 25, 2010 at 03:48 PM
Well, happy bloggy birthday!
Posted by: Satsuki | January 25, 2010 at 04:19 PM
How could anyone resist such a lovely offer??? Beautiful work...
Posted by: Jackie Wight | January 25, 2010 at 04:41 PM
Happy Blog Birthday! Oh how I wish I could come play! I love letterpress stationary and it looks like so much fun. Have a great week.
Posted by: Jeannie | January 25, 2010 at 04:48 PM
loving it all. who carved the rock stamps you used in the press?
Posted by: Melissa R | January 25, 2010 at 05:25 PM
thank you so much for the space you occupy in my life.
I too am jealous that you had the opportunity to work on a letterpress!
Posted by: Jackie | January 25, 2010 at 05:34 PM
I love your covered stones (in fact my bday is coming up and hopefully my husband was listening and got me one!) Your cards are just as beautiful. Congratulations on your second blog Birthday!
Posted by: Karen | January 25, 2010 at 06:23 PM
Thanks for the give away! I only stumbled across your blog yesterday and it looks good so far (apart from seeing the WTFWJD in one of your photos for this post. :-(. )
i do look forward to reading more though! X
Posted by: Aqeela | January 25, 2010 at 06:44 PM
Congratulations on the aniversary!
(The truth is that... I hope I win! I love what you do.)
Posted by: Julie Alvarez | January 25, 2010 at 07:50 PM
thanks margie for the lovely post - I didn't realize how much you printed. so great to see you and happy blog anniversary!!xo
Posted by: arounna | January 25, 2010 at 08:07 PM
I love and appreciate your blog so much! It provides me with a feeling of peace and inspiration! Thank you!
HAPPY BLOG BIRTHDAY!
Posted by: Jessica J. | January 25, 2010 at 08:20 PM
what a great combination - print and crochet - looking forward to many more "blog anniversaries" !!
Posted by: Paula | January 25, 2010 at 09:03 PM
Hi there! Your space here has become a favorite haunt of mine. I love the snails and snow and stones and quiet. And I would really really love to welcome these beautiful pieces of resurrection fern into my home (which I happen to share with a letterpress fanatic!). Thank you for putting this lovely assemblage together!
Posted by: Dorothy M. | January 25, 2010 at 09:06 PM
Beyond beautiful!!! Count me in :)
Posted by: Geninne | January 25, 2010 at 09:21 PM
These are so beautiful. My husband has a letterpress shop in San Francisco, so I can easily imagine your beautiful images printed with that distinctive letterpress texture. Thanks for sharing...
Posted by: Justine Costerouse | January 25, 2010 at 10:08 PM
ooh i would love a cute little crochet rock :)
Posted by: patti | January 25, 2010 at 11:01 PM
Happy blog birthday!! Your prints look so divine :) K
Posted by: Kylie | January 25, 2010 at 11:39 PM
I very much enjoy the crochet coated stones you created and utilize in so many parts of your creations. Your photography is always good and occasionally breathtaking. Keep up the fun!
Posted by: Susan | January 26, 2010 at 12:41 AM
Happy Birthday,
I look forward to your blog like nothing else in my day. It is a beautiful little treasure.
Thank You!
Posted by: Eileen Lyons | January 26, 2010 at 05:44 AM
I felt my heart give a few extra beats when I saw your stones printed on letterpress. I can't even express how perfect they are--and how wonderful that they can be produced in unlimited quantities!!! I hope you are planning to sell them in your Etsy shop. Please put my name on the list!
Posted by: Patricia | January 26, 2010 at 07:23 AM