the lobster

With the help of a friend I finally have a decent screen burned.  I pulled my first prints last night and was less than thrilled with my rusty screen printing skills.  Thank god my studio mate also teaches screen printing!  By 1:00AM I completed my first lobster toy model.   Some things were great, some things were not so great.  I'm hoping tonight I can iron out the malfunctions and have the final product completed.  At least the studio pit-bulls got to enjoy the reject lobster.

Dolly with the reject lobster

color scheme

I've finally settled on a color scheme for my ... business?  I don't know what the right word for it is, especially since I haven't sold anything yet.  But nevertheless I have a color scheme and that's exciting.

white, dusty aqua, mustard yellow and gray!

My nerdy love for color combination means I spent days perusing magazines, old sketch books, photographs and design websites to figure out what I was looking for.  Yellow and gray is my absolute favorite color combo but I wanted to get a softer vintage/antique feel.  So I added the aqua and white!  I'm half-way through printing my business cards with these colors.

My studio mates have printed beautiful invitations for the opening of their shop, Pistachio Press, letterpress + local.  November 4th, don't forget!

And of course what would a Beeswax and Horse Hair post be without a picture of my studio mascot, Harper.  She got to play with her best friend Dolly last night.  

Harper and Dolly

introducing... harper!

our first cuddle session

I am completely in love with this wrinkly girl.  About 2 weeks ago my rescue group sent me a picture of a little gray and white pit that was staying in a Kentucky shelter.  I didn't have to think twice about taking her.  I picked her up on Saturday - she is so tiny!  My heart was beating like crazy when she was handed to me for the first time.  And I kid you not, a little tear squeezed out when she looked at me with her clear little eyes and gave me a kiss on the cheek.

chillin' in the kitchen

She came with the name Ferrari (ew...) but has recently acquired the much cuter name of Harper.  I'm still working on her elaborate full name, I think Cotton will be in there somewhere.  She's slept curled up under my left arm for the past three nights and has accompanied me just about everywhere.  She still needs another set of shots before she can start to tear up the public parks but that will happen soon enough!

Tonight she's going to help me work on a goal from last week, these map drawings!  She's joining me at the studio where she will meet the infamous Casey, Pancake Sue, and Dolly.  Hopefully they will be besties!

And yes, she's technically a foster dog.  No... I do not plan on giving her up.