Happy New Year to all my blog readers. I wanted to share my most recent collaboration with you. It’s a benefit calendar to help the city of Amsterdam, New York. As many of you may or may not know. I grew up in Gloversville, New York. About 20 minutes from Amsterdam. I lived in Amsterdam for several years and still have many family members who live there. So needless to say, I love this city! I was shocked when I saw the flood damage first hand and wanted to do something to help out….and here it is. It took several months, but I am glad to say that the calendar is finally finished and ready to adorn your wall. This calendar is a photographic collaboration of several Urban Decay images of Amsterdam. All of the proceeds of this calendar will be donated to the Montgomery Chamber 2011 flood relief fund and the Amsterdam Urban Renewal Agency. Please take a look and think about others that are less fortunate than you are. Things can always be worse. It feels awesome to give! Start the New Year off right and buy this calendar HERE!!!
Here is an example of some of the damage from the storm water surges…
To help donate, purchase calendar HERE!
Hey all you crazy Black Friday shoppers!!! Paisley Tree Press will be at the Real Food Co-op on “Green Friday” or (Black Friday…whichever you prefer) from 10 am to 7pm. Come and get holiday cards, 2012 calendars, unique coasters and much more for everyone on your list. We hope to see you there!
…so this is about how much snow we got…a dusting. the schools closed in anticipation of 8 to 10 inches and the snow never stuck to the roads. i’m so glad i canceled all my driving around that I needed to do. well at least the kids had fun right?
image by alibubba.
i think one of the smartest things i have ever done was to join a crop share. i am a member of the roxbury farm community supported agriculture farm in kinderhook, new york. i love it! all of the produce is organic and grown locally just a few miles from my home. they also offer a fruit share every week and organic meats from time to time. it’s a great way to help the environment and to support your local community. to find a csa crop share near you click here.
instead of working all weekend long like i normally do, i decided to not be such a jerk and surprised my kids by taking them to the kindercrafter fair on saturday. we all had some yummy addictive kettle corn
fresh squeezed lemonade
wow that’s sour!
ewan found some of his friends and hung out on the cannon in the square
ewan and cameron got along great
they jumped around
and around
ewan cried when the time limit on the bouncy bounce expired
but he got over it when he got to sit in a real firetruck!
but then cried again when i asked him to sit on the front bumper with his sister….check out the dirty look from cam…
ewan kept grabbing his friend maddy and walking her around
they were so cute!
what a day! what did you do this weekend?
…nothing is more enjoyable than hanging out with ewan and blowing some bubbles
…the stationery show was a lot of fun. i really enjoyed walking around and seeing all the booths…especially letterpress shops! Some letterpress vendors seemed a little nervous when i told them i was a letterpress printer…?? i don’t know what that was about..maybe they thought i was there to spawn an evil plan to steal their designs or maybe they thought i was there to size up the competition and cackle an evil laugh!? Seriously, i’m just looking at your beautiful work….so eventually i stopped introducing myself. it’s too bad though…i really wanted to make some new contacts within the industry. we are such a rare group of artist and printers and we should be able to communicate with each other more and be friends…i seriously need to give my regular friends a break from listening to my shop talk all the time.
the highlight of my trip BY FAR was meeting everyone over at the smock booth!! i was afraid to say hello. i was little intimidated because I have been a huge admirer of Bella Figura for years!! they are the reason i fell in love with letterpress in the first place and gave up my accounting career. i read their blog and know all kinds of things about them but they have no idea who i am…so i felt as though i was meeting super rock stars! ….but Debbie is so open and sweet she came right up to me and shook my hand. Debbie and Harold are the nicest people on the planet. they were really fun to chat with. it was super cool meeting Kathy and Anthony too…. after so many phone conversations over the years it was great to put a face to the voice. they were all so kind and helpful and I think I finally met the letterpress printing friends I have been looking for! i can’t wait to go up to Syracuse and visit their shop….and maybe the hubby and I can do something fun and check out the finger lakes and maybe a winery or two.
… i just had to share this “catskill wedding” with you via 
