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A warm golden manor house among silvery snowflakes, to wish your nearest and dearest a merry little Christmas… letterpress printed on thick folded cards made from 100% reclaimed cotton.
I got so busy with printing and turkeys and family (not all at once!) that I forgot to post these! You can find them in the Sweet [...]

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I’ve been printing so much this week, I’m in letterpress heaven!  Exhibit A:  a golden candle-lit Christmas tree and a holiday-red “noël”, just off the press and available in the Sweet Olive Press online store in boxed sets, and soon on Etsy.
More coming! Much more…

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Working on the railroad

I knew trains used to be cooler than they are today. Look at this fabulous shot of a linotype in operation on a railway press car in 1913!
Um, molten lead on a bumpy railway? The pot did have a cover, but I wouldn’t be putting my hand up for the job…
{Photo by Brown Photo Co., [...]

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Not spooky at all

Happy Halloween from Owl and the Forest Fairy Princess, and from Sweet Olive Press!
(Owl is testing the forcible entry approach to trick-or-treating. At 17 months he gets a pass; next year not so much.)
 
 

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One thing I’ve noticed since moving from Australia to the United States is that over here the downhill dash to the end of the year starts much, much earlier.
If you’re so inclined, you can start fretting about Halloween costumes in late September and be in full panic by mid-October. The last week of October is [...]

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Printing wisdom from my four-year-old:
“We don’t lick the letterpress,” she says, “because it would taste yuck.”

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Getaway

I had planned a weekend at the press… but since it was all “do-anytime” work, we decided to go to Florida instead.
It was lovely.

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I’m so excited to show you the very first limited edition art prints from Sweet Olive Press!

“Life Can Be Fun” is a four-colour print (read: four separate trips through the press!) inspired by Australian women’s magazines of the 1950s, and is the first in a series of works on this theme. I’ve been working on [...]

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We have a winner in our first Sweet Olive Press letterpress giveaway!
To ensure a completely random draw, all Sweet Olive Press newsletter subscribers who signed up before the Friday midnight deadline were entered into a Random List Generator which shuffled the names and assigned numbers to each one. Next, those numbers were entered into an [...]

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At last, I’ve forced myself to sit still long enough to get an email newsletter system sorted out!  Now you can sign up for monthly(ish – depending how ambitious I get) email news with updates on Sweet Olive Press, brand-new letterpress stationery designs and special offers just for subscribers.
Also just for subscribers – the chance [...]

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