Being that I’m on an apparent blog strike, I haven’t shared a number of things. We have a lot of catching up to do, you and I. For now though, on my anniversary with my baby boy aka his first birthday, I thought I’d share one of the many things I haven’t shown on here – his birth announcements. Now that he’s a year old, I think I have to stop using having a “newborn” as an excuse to [...]

2012 was a BIG year.  There were some huge, earth-shattering moments. It was the Year of the Dragon, after all. It was also a small year, because it feels like it lasted about 5 minutes. The first 6 months were spent furiously working in the studio and preparing for Asher’s arrival, with an ever growing watermelon under my shirt. The last 6 months were spent navigating the world of parenting, squeezing printing into any nook and cranny of the [...]

Pleased to announce that Mink Letterpress is featured in the current issue of Country Living Magazine as a part of the Pitch Your Product special! Over a year ago, we went down to Atlanta to introduce Mink Letterpress to some Country Living editors, along with a bunch of other talented craftspeople and entrepreneurs. Out of the hundreds of applicants, we were chosen as one of the winners for our recipe cards and recipe box monogramming service!

I’m very excited share my 2013 calendar! Each month features a different wild bird egg. Each little flat drawing from my sketchbook comes to life with letterpress – the color, texture, and impression gained in the printing process adds so much. Each is a two color print – one plate for the color and texture, and one for the details and shape. I had fun playing with the inking and packing in the first ink run. For a [...]

Alex dreamed up a little holiday sweater card for this year’s season, check it out! They’re available in three different colors of paper, white, green and grey, and various ink colors. For sale on etsy.        

It’s been a while since the Ladies of Letterpress Conference in Asheville, so I figured it might be time to share a little bit about it. The conference kicked off on Thursday with a tour of Asheville print shops, and we were the first stop on the tour. It was awesome and humbling to have so many printers in the studio. We made sure that the studio was in ship shape, and cleared away the cobwebs that had settled [...]

Some new recipe cards with a floral motif are up in the etsy shop. They’re printed in three shades of purple, and are perfect for sharing your favorite recipes or gifting a bunch of them to a loved one or bride to be.  

My husband, Alex, is a man of many talents. He makes beautiful pottery and beautiful babies, he’s a handyman who built a functional and gorgeous studio with his bare hands, he cooks delicious food, and he makes digital collages of 80′s A list celebrities eating snacks in a manner that is always sloppy and often sexy. Of all of his interests, it is his passion for snacking celebrities that inspired his first letterpress greeting card. So here he is [...]

Meet Asher Bruce Lissenden, love of my life and future (unpaid) employee of Mink Letterpress. Born June 11, 2012 at 5:09 am. 8 lbs. 14 oz. 21 inches. I knew when I wrote my first blogpost comparing childbirth to moving my new press that I’d one day have to eat my words. So here it is: 11 days overdue and 58 hours of labor later, I officially retract my previous statement suggesting that childbirth and press relocation are [...]

Wow – what a spring! When I quit my day job in late October, my goal for 2012 was to secure and complete 12 wedding jobs in 2012. Here we are, 5 months in, and I’ve got 17 2012 weddings under my belt. Since I’m taking some time off in anticipation of our baby’s birth (4 days overdue now!), the spring felt like the time to push and do as much work as possible while I had the [...]

I met Melanie on the first day of pre-school. She has been like a sister to me ever since. In our world, its normal for people to grow apart. Maybe Melanie and I haven’t because we’ve been a part of every stage of each other’s development thus have a deep understanding of each other. Maybe we’re simply soulmates fated to have found each other at a young age (we were also born in the same hospital by the same doctor [...]

The folks at Southern Weddings Magazine asked Asheville Event Company to be their Asheville experts and Mink Letterpress to design a tote bag for their Southern Hospitality feature. For this feature, they ask their expert to pick items that represent the town to pack into a tote bag to give to wedding guests. Coincidently, Asheville Event Co chose Sweet Betty Bee’s Honey to include in the tote – and my brother Erik Minkin did the awesome logo design [...]