I’m pleased to announce three more stores that carry my letterpress products!  Derby Farm Flowers & Gardens (Arlington, MA), The Curatorium (Providence, RI), and Inkwell Modern Handmade Boutique (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada) all have an assortment of note cards, prints & gift sets.  They’re all wonderful stores, so if you happen to be near one of them definitely drop in!

For my full list of retail carriers, click here.

If you’re a retailer and you’re interested in my wholesale information, send me an email and I’ll send it your way.

Big news!  My letterpress items can now be found at On Centre (Jamaica Plain, MA), Clementine (Middlebury, VT), and Rare Device (San Francisco)!  I’m so pleased and proud to work with these stores and they’re all fantastic – make sure you stop by them if you live nearby.

More stores to be announced next week!  If you’re a retail store and would like my wholesale information, send me a quick email and I’ll get it right over to you.

After being inspired by these images of pears & kraft paper from OSBP, I decided to design my holiday card for my clients, vendors, and colleagues with pears on branches printed in gold & fig inks and paired with, of course… a kraft brown envelope.  I am so very lucky to work with friendly and talented people on a daily basis, and wanted to wish them well during the holidays and thank them for the opportunity to work with them.  It took me a while to draw out all the pears just the way I wanted them, but I was pleased with the final results.

You never know when a photo will inspire your next project!

{for more of my letterpress work, check out my Flickr}

This past weekend the temperature hit 60.  In Boston.  In January – EARLY January.  This is not only odd, it’s completely bizarre.  January in New England usually starts with biting cold and the worst of the snowstorms, and thus far we’ve had basically no snow (except for a random storm in October and 2 dustings).  So what did I do on this sunny, glorious day?  I went to a cemetery with my dear friend.  I know, I know, I thought it was funny idea too, but it was really lovely.

We went to the Forest Hills Cemetery in Boston.  Open since 1848, it’s a beautifully laid out “garden cemetery” with trees, a pond, different sculptures and secret places.  A mix of gravestones, markers and mausoleums, it was actually really enjoyable to walk and explore.  It was so quiet, especially for being in the middle of the city, and the feeling of the area is really is peaceful.

If you’re in the Boston area, make sure you stop by for a walk on a nice day.  It had a similiar feel to the Arboretum and is definitely worth a visit.

{images shown via my iPhone}

I meant to post yesterday and the day ran away with me… I apologize.  I think this will be my last post for 2011; I have quite a few projects to wrap up, a class syllabus to prepare, and book keeping and studio organization to do – along with 5-6 types of cookies to bake, a Christmas Eve turkey to roast, a Christmas Day quiche to whip up, a Hanukkah dinner to host for my husband’s family, and hopefully some good down time relaxing in between with family and friends.

I’m looking forward to sharing more of my projects, ideas, goals, and inspirations with you all in this space next year… 2012, can you believe it?  I’ll see you all again on January 2nd.  Have a very merry holiday season!

{for more of my at home images, check out my Flickr}

I recently was asked to be filmed & photographed by photojournalist grad student, Sarah Mongeau-Birkett.  She needed to make a short video based on someone’s work and their process, and contacted me after finding me when I showed my work at SoWa.  Here’s the finished piece!  She did a great job and was awesome to hang out with early on a Friday morning (she was such a trooper at got up at 4:30 am to be able to make a train down to Providence!).

Sarah take gorgeous photographs and blogs frequently; for more of her work, check out her blog here.

Just popping in to let you know I’m back from my brief hiatus.  I’m fighting a cold and have a pile of work to get to, but wanted to share this photo of one of our cheese plates from Thanksgiving.  We had 8 different types of cheese and the designer in me couldn’t resist but make little signs for each of them.

I almost made additional signs for the desserts, but had to say no since I wasn’t even close to finishing my baking.  First things, first – the desserts themselves!

Hope you all had a wonderful holiday last week!
- Colleen

{image shown via my iPhone}

Hello all!  Just a quick post today to say have a really lovely Thanksgiving this week.  If you aren’t in the US and don’t celebrate, have a wonderful week just the same.

And, psst… this Friday, November 25th through the 28th, you can get 15% off your order in my online shop when you enter “THANKS15″ at checkout.

Let the holiday season begin!  See you all here back on the 28th.
- Colleen

{image shown via my Flickr}

I’ve done it. I’ve finally taken the plunge and joined Pinterest. I’ve gotten a slew of invites over the last year or so and was very consciously holding out. It’s just one more thing you have to maintain and update (when I already feel maxed out at times), and knowing me and being honest… a distraction from getting work done during the day.

I just started so it’s still very sparse, but you’re welcome to follow me and help me build more boards. And now my view on it has flipped and I thought “why haven’t I done this sooner?!” – I keep a folder of inspiration on my computer which is getting overloaded with files, so much that it’s becoming hard to go through.  I could’ve done the same thing I already do, but keep it all organized and saved on Pinterest a lot sooner.  Onward and upward, I guess!

{image shown from my Pinterest}

Wow, it’s Friday already?  This weekend I have a few parties and get togethers with friends and family, but I’m planning on spending all day Saturday inside, in my pj’s, baking with the apples I still have (which is a lot!), and having a fire in the fireplace.  It snowed here last night (which is sort of early for us, but it was just a dusting) and it made me really excited to have a fire to sit next to.  I’m planning on trying Katy’s Rustic Apple French Toast and the Apple Cider Doughnuts, and maybe make a loaf of multigrain bread while I’m at it.  I’m so excited!  I cannot remember the last time I spent an entire day in my pj’s and not working.

What are your plans this weekend?  Whatever it is, have a relaxing, cozy one!
- Colleen

{image shown belongs to Katy Elliot}