We have had quite a week of it here with the letterpress! Ill not lie, its been somewhat disastrous! Andrew had to get down and dirty (if you’ll excuse the expression) in order to fix her, but thankfully she’s back up & running…just in time to complete a fabulous bespoke order! (I can’t share it with you just yet, but I will do soon!) When I say dirty, he really was, honestly! I looked away for a second, turned back, and he was literally covered in grease and oil from top to toe! My washing has quadrupled since we have started letterpressing!!!
So, we have had such a busy few weeks, that we decided to take a day off! (Shock horror!) And headed to Oxford for the day. We are big fans of Oxford, especially for the shopping, but this weekend, we decided to take the day to just explore, and pretty much just wandered around aimlessly! It was bliss! (Especially the scrummy lunch we had at Jamie’s Italian! We highly recommend it!) I thought we would share some of the pics with you…I do apologise, there appears to be an Andrew in some of my shots! Poser!
We had such a lovely day wandering around, and decided to carry on the fun to Sunday…so we had abit of a baking day, and made this AMAZING focaccia! It was soooo good! And we planned a BBQ! But, as sods law would have it, it was sunny all day, then as soon as Andrew went to warm up the BBQ, the heavens opened! It may have put me off, but Andrew was determined, and decided to go ahead and BBQ…just with a brolly, instead of a glass of Pimms!!! (Was worth it though, it was an amazing din dins!)
(Sorry about the dodgy photo…funnily enough I stayed indoors, so had to take the pic through a window!)
OK, I’m going through all the pics I have taken over the last few months, and cannot believe that I am only posting this now, but…back in June, Andrews gorgeous niece Olivia was Christened, (Uncle Andrew is godfather!) so at the end of April, we put together some lovely invitations. We went through a few options, and then decided to go with something that combined not only the lovely, pretty bows, but also a gorgeous pic of lovely Olivia.
Everyone loved them. And Olivia looked gorgeous! (Uncle Andrew didn’t scrub up too bad either! 
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One of the many orders we have competed in the last few weeks is a stunning, monochrome wedding invitation suite. Natalia is one of my favourite designs in the collection, but I love it even more in the gate fold layout…and I think it looks amazing when you put it together with guest information cards, envelopes, and RSVP cards. I think these pics are beauties!
Another beautiful order we have finished up, is some lovely on the day paper accessories from the Fiorella design…and Tracey & Laura are one of the nicest couples we have worked with. Apparently their day went like a dream, and all the guests LOVED the stationery we put together for them!
First of all…where have the last few months gone??? We are so sorry we have been abit flakey pastry for the last 10 weeks or so, but have literally been run off our feet making all of you beautiful people some gorgeous stationery! Its no excuse we know, but rest assured we are back on the case, and ready to keep you all up to date with the fabulous bits we have been getting up to!
So, first things first…our beautiful letterpress is finally fully up & running! Formerly known as Hendrick, he has been renamed as Helga (a she!) After quite some trial & tribulation, we realised that whenever the letterpress was having an off moment, we had been referring to it as Hendrick! So to overcome this, we renamed her-and so far, all is well! Isn’t she a beauty??? (Andrew certainly thinks so…I don’t seem to get a look in now she is around! 
So, after some practicing, we were handed our first order, which as first shots go, was HEUGE! A run of 450 orders of service! But they were a little more than your average 4 page jobbies…these were 12 pages, plus covers! We spent some time getting the plates perfect and ready for printing…aren’t they pretty?
Once all the printing was done & dusted, then came the task of collating all the pages, and then securing them together. Now we didn’t expect this to be a quick, easy job, but we had a system in place, (as always!) and thought, foolishly, it would be a fun, teamwork required job! Unfortunately our equipment decided otherwise! (Isnt that always the way?!) So, we had to do abit of DIY, and throw together our own, homemade, booklet maker! I know, it looks abit sloppy, but it got the job done, and we ended up with these beautiful booklets! Not too shoddy eh?
Once all the printing was done & dusted, then came the task of collating all the pages, and then securing them together. Now we didn’t expect this to be a quick, easy job, but we had a system in place, (as always!) and thought, foolishly, it would be a fun, teamwork required job! Unfortunately our equipment decided otherwise! (Isnt that always the way?!) So, we had to do abit of DIY, and throw together our own, homemade, booklet maker! I know, it looks abit sloppy, but it got the job done, and we ended up with these beautiful booklets! Not too shoddy eh?
