We've been so busy this Spring with wedding invitations, note cards and designing and printing our new items that we've neglected the blog for a while. Now that our Spring line is finished, we're finally getting a chance to show what we've been working on. We're particularly excited about our journals. We printed 6 cover designs on beautiful Fabriano paper and had them perfect bound at a bindery around the corner from our studio in Brooklyn. It is a little more expensive to produce things here in New York City but we like to be able to support other local manufacturing businesses and the quality is so nice when someone is making and checking each piece by hand.  Here are some images of the new books.

I love traditional still life paintings with rich and moody colors. Our newest line of cards is inspired by this admiration. We've taken vintage etchings and experimented with coloring details of the pictures (having a five year old daughter, I spend a fair amount of time coloring in pictures...). We settled on a pairing of ultra bright ink for the detail painting and then darker grays for the overlaying images. We're always looking to link our love of 19th Century everything with 21st Century style.

We're always trying to develop stationery that appeals to men (or that will appeal to women who are shopping for gifts for men).  Don't guys have to send thank you notes too?  We've given everyone we know more stationery than they probably know what to do with, but we think these cards would be nice for all the guys who do not have sets of Sesame Letterpress note cards yet!  (Available online at Sesame Letterpress Stationery Sets)(photos by Jen Causey)

We love old books and essays on the etiquette of letter writing. Here is one of our favorite quotes:"To be a really good correspondent is truly an art, perhaps first of all a gift, to be cultivated and developed. One may in spite of every effort still fall short of that goal, but it is always possible to give pleasure by a simple written note or letter, couched in good English and written on stationery that is not only correct but indicative of personal taste."

Being stationers, we think everyone should have a nice box of personal stationery on hand and if the box itself is pretty, we're more inspired to use the cards inside!

We have a library of hundreds of images we pull from when designing stationery. We're finally compiling them into one catalog or "specimen book" (to use a proper printer's term) so clients can view our collection to select an image for their own stationery. It is always fun to see what people choose to print on their personal note cards.  These are some of our favorite designs.

We're in love with tissue-lined envelopes right now!  The delicate textures and bright colors add a really nice dimension to simple white envelopes.  We're working on a new line of note cards to compliment the lined envelopes, because we can't just make and sell plain envelopes (or can we...?).  Here are a couple photos of the designs we have at the moment.  We're packing these as sets of 50 in our new deluxe gift boxes.  We think the hearts cards or the tandem bike cards would make particularly nice Valentine's Day gifts!

Here is a shot of some of our latest personal stationery projects.

Our custom letterpress printed notecards are a beautiful, unique gift for colleagues, friends, and family. Personalize one of our designs to create an elegant and fun gift.

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