Yes, you heard it right. I am giving away this new SMILE letterpress print in yellow that I just printed! “SMILE” is absolutely one of my favorite words and the gray ones got all sold out so I decided to print more… in yellow this time!

It is in 5×7 inches, letterpressed by hand using vintage wood type blocks on 110lb, 100% cotton Lettra Pearl White paper with soy-based yellow ink – means it’s very eco-friendly! Limited to only 60 prints.

Here are some behind-the-scene photos…

Adjusting its placement and the impression.

Wood type all set, yellow ink set, and ready to print.

Hot off the press…

and here is the final product!

((the dachshund is from DAXDACHS in Ginza Tokyo and the little jewelry box is from Suga Jewelry.))

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To enter, please leave a comment in this post telling us “what makes you smile” by midnight EST on Monday, February 22nd and I will pick a winner and announce one on Tuesday, February 23rd (my birthday!). You can be anywhere in the world, I will ship it to anywhere :) Also, if you tweet about it or if you mention about it on your blog, that gets you more entries — make sure to tell me by leaving another messages so I can count that, too! You have today, this weekend and Monday so hurry!

GOOD LUCK and BIG SMILE to all of you!!!

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Just a quick shop update announcement… more Live What You Love posters are in! Please grab them as they are very limited in quantities… (it takes so long to print each one.)

Pink:

Yellow:

Black:

I hope your weekend will be filled with LOVE! :) Happy Friday!

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Yesterday was my first day of printing in 2010! I must admit… I had missed it so much! So happy that I get to print again :)

Keep that Valentine’s Day is right around the corner (can you believe it?) in mind, I printed 4 more letterpress Alphabet Greeting cards — all LOVE themed! I really enjoyed printing them and here are some behind the scene photos…

I decided to print all in red, one of my favorite colors and the color of love…
Setting wood type blocks and the polymer plates 2 at a time:

Checking impressions and adjusting placements:

Put red ink and…

print away.

2nd set — setting wood type blocks and the plates in the same position from the 1st set, but since the letters are in different width, adjusting a little here…

and print them away.

2nd color — I hand-mixed nice chocolate brown :)

Adjusting the placements… very important…

looking good :)

printing printing printing!

and here are the final products:

V is for Valentine:

L is for LOVE:

(I wanna frame this one — all the alphabet card is frame-able in US standard 5×7 frame — FYI)

X is for XOXO:

Lots of nice wood type texture on letter X.

I is for I Heart You:

I hope you like them! :)

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Inspired by my “thank you for shopping” cards I printed before (they are all gone…!) I printed “SMILE” mini prints for everyone in the world to share. It is absolutely one of my favorite words and just having the word around is actually really nice and makes me smile every time I see it :) so here it is… smile :)

On Vandercook Press:

Hot off the press:

and here is the final product. Available here.

Shown in a white 5×7 frame with friend in a nut and NYC stamps.

Hope you like it! Have a lovely smiley day!

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I know I have so many pillows already (apparently not enough!), but I want this LOVE Pillow by Nesta Home so badly…

“These pillows are hand stamped with antique text printing blocks” — I knew so! Looks so great and special, I am adding this to my wish list for sure… :)

I have a huge printing job to do today, I will see you all tomorrow! Have a lovely day :)

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Good morning! Hope you had a nice weekend… oh my god, New York City is already filled with holiday stuff, it’s crazy! And thanksgiving is already right here this week… eek soo fast!

Just wanted to let you know that I listed some more letterpress goodies to my etsy shop… yes, it’s for the holidays! :)

If you are planning to gift some papergoods, books, magazines, prints etc. to your loved ones this holiday, I printed something perfect and easy — paper bags to do the wrapping!

Yes, I used wood types to make it really special :)

Type setting — started with same spacing. I LOVE white on kraft paper so I used white ink.

and realized that the letter A and Y for the “holidays” can be tighter…

so adjust the spacing…

better!

and here are the final products…

Happy Holidays! Kraft Paper Bag (set of 5):

Now, the second one… “JOY” — I think it’s one of my favorite holiday words!

Again, started with same spacing and realized that the letter O and Y can be tighter…

Adjust the spacing…

Better!

Printing away…

and here they are. JOY Kraft Paper Bag (set of 5):

*I will have some kind of holiday offer to my blog readers this week so stay tuned!!

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It was time to print more Live What You Love posters! I printed total of 6 colors in this batch and they are available right here at my etsy shop :)

But as usual, I wanted to share some pictures from the studio…

Type setting — look how beautiful the wood type blocks are! I am in love every time…

on Vandercook press:

Adjusting the placement of the letters — I love the overlapping part, I wanna make art by using this technique next time…

And here are the posters! Each poster is very limited in quantity… as this is really a lot of work…

Yellow:

Grey:

Red:

See the texture from the wood types?

Black (I never printed it in black so this is new!):

Brown (new as well):

It actually looks great with hard wood floor and brown furniture around the house.

and last but not least, Royal blue (this is new, too):

Thank you always for looking! :)

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I love this Red Wine Letterpress Print by Lot 9 Press. A mixture of wood types and metal types is so great and this will make a great art by the wine bar area or in a wine room/cellar (oh, how I wish I had one), don’t you think?

Love each typeface, too. Texture of the letterpress is just priceless.

Available here.

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Whew. I’m so happy to announce that the Holiday Alphabet Greeting Cards are available now at my etsy shop! I have been printing these here and there for a while and finally finished all 6 different cards, I’m so excited! I know holidays are still a little bit ahead of us, but trust me, it will sneak up on you and next thing you know, you’ll be shopping for last minute… (like me, every year) so please shop accordingly :) These are limited in quantities, too.

I took so many pictures while I was printing each card as usual and here are some glimpse of it. It took a while, but I printed them with all my love, I hope these bring everyone a nice and warm holiday season…

And here is the each of the finished Alphabet Greeting Card… I made them as festive as they can be… :)

J is for Joy:

P is for Peace:

It is in metallic gold.

N is for Noel:

R is for Rejoice:

This is in metallic blue — I love this color.

W is for Warm Wishes:

Y is for Year 2010!:

A set of all 6 cards are available, too!

Thank you for looking as always! xoxo

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Lindsay from Lindsay Wilson Photography wanted a custom print that means a lot to her and her husband for their paper anniversary as a part of her gifts to him. ((I printed a special print for our second anniversary as a “cotton” gift — because I always work with cotton paper — it can go either way!!)) I always get so happy and honored to be able to create a special print that means so much to someone. This print was no exception. I had so much fun printing and I was so happy to print this for them!

Adjusting placement and impression with my printout — always helps…

I love the blind printed impression, so pretty always.

So turned out that I didn’t have enough letter “E” so decided to print without the first word… Typesetting, inking and…

printing the three words first.

Now, typeset the word “HERE” to where it’s supposed to, take out the words that were printed and lock them with furniture.

Print on top of the first print…

and here is the final print!

Congratulation, Lindsay and her husband, for their 1st year anniversary!! I was so honored to create this, thank you so much!

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