The Boys Screen Printing Vroom Shirts

There are some things about screen printing that I don't like doing. The whole emulsion, burning of the screen, and overall setup aspect of it is not something I feel comfortable doing. But, there IS something about pressing that ink onto the screen, lifting up that screen to see that fresh ink shinning on the paper that just simply feels GOOD!

Last weekend we went over to Hobo Press to get some new Vroom tees printed for Tembo®. After Adam – the professional – printed all the shirts for the shop, the boys got to do some screen printing themselves. I had packed some blank shirts from their closet, so that they would have a choice. Little did I know, Owen was going to end up printing everyone of them with 'Vroom' "Can I just do one more?" He was hooked on the feeling of screen printing.
I should've known.

Letterpress Business Card

I'm so excited to have Hobo Press right here in Winter Garden. A couple of days ago I received my letterpress business cards and I couldn't be happier with the way they look. This printing process can really make something simple feel really special. The picture above shows Adam at Hobo Press while printing these cards.

Update on Tuesday, January 31, 2012 at 9:13AM by Zig & Zag

It's exciting to see our cards showcased on the French Paper Blog, and The Orlando Egotist.

Book of School Projects

My husband's an artist, so a couple of years ago I decided to put together a little book with pictures of his artwork. Our three year old saw it a few months ago and said "Where's mine?" Hmmm... that's right you're a little artist too. Throughout the year he had been bringing home lots of projects from school. They would hang on the fridge until the next pieces would come in. The older pieces would move to a pile in the cabinet. He's only 3, and he was bringing at least one piece a day. We have years of this ahead of us. I can't possibly keep every piece of paper he touches so I decided to take his advise and do a book for him. I scanned some pieces and took pictures of others. I kept the format simple, white background in all pages, showing one piece per page. The beginning of the book shows a picture of him at school and some of his classmates with their names. At the end I have his graduation picture with his teachers and a scan of the ribbon given to him that day.

The book was printed by Blurb, a service anyone can use. It turned out great and came pretty quick. I decided on the square format with the image wrap hardcover. It took a few hours to do all that scanning and photographs but now I have a neat archive of his artwork for the year. (I'm thinking I'll still hang on to a few originals though :))

Update on Wednesday, January 23, 2013 at 11:39AM by Zig & Zag

Here are some additional pages of the book for those of you that wanted to see more. The page with the green background is the one where I left blank space. I cut out some original handprints, and glued them in there.

There are a few call outs in the book like "Valentine's Day," etc. I kept them simple, since it's all about his work, not mine.

I love to see the interest in the book. If you have a comment or question please go ahead and leave it here. Thanks!