10 point bodoni

i wish the wayzgoose event was every month.

it was a blast.

i was so happy to drag my parents along.
all three of us were drooling over everything we saw.
{letterpress and block printing are such a beautiful art}

my dad even tried to convince the letterpress guys to sell us some equipment.
it didn't work out.
yet.

i thought it was really neat that the kids from UPS were screen printing material for free.
they did such a good job!

i brought some red bulk material and got red on red.
it looks great!
i still have no clue what i'm going to do with it though!

it was especially cool to see this design being sold on t-shirts at sonja later in the week!
gotta love the local support in tacoma!

i bought a ton of little gems in the form of greeting cards and posters
but my all time best purchase ever
was this..

i have admired old letterpress letters from afar for a very long time.
they are normally so stinking expensive even being near them costs you!

you can imagine my excitement when i saw a table with multiple sets for $10!
bodoni also happens to be one of my favorite typefaces (i know.. nerd!)
there were 2 or 3 italic and this little 10 point guy.
i almost cried.

i'm kicking myself for not buying all of them.
the type is pretty small and they do need to be cleaned up a bit...
but it's worth it!

you can tell they were well loved before i came along,
and you better believe i am planning on loving them just as much!
i have some projects in mind!!

remember this teeny tiny canvas i'm so in love with?

i bought 8 more.

maybe i should have tacoma's tiniest letterpress show when i'm done with them?
awesome.

okay, enough slacking.
back to sewing!

xo,meggers

regan design.

we're making some t-shirts...

like, soon.

i'm not even sure where we're planning on selling them yet,
but we'll get to that.
locally? online? yes, both?
input?

i wanted to share a couple designs that i started.
as always, they are in raw form and may or may not be what we end up printing.

but nonetheless...
i should have some of rory's designs up in a few days when we get around to talking about anything other than fart jokes.
{we can't help it}
we are not the poster children for maturity.

i'm not quite sure who let us be in charge of running a business together,
but sometimes i wonder how we even dress ourselves in the morning.
xo,meggers

oops!

i guess i took a little blog vacation.

not intentional, of course.

my mind has been twisted and wrapped around so many 'to-do's' i can't remember what i'm supposed to be doing.

i've found it very meditative to start drawing everyday.
i used to do it all the time, but sometimes life can get in the way.
i think i'll use some of these to get back into watercolor painting.
i found some really awesome paintings floating around the internet and i got inspired.
i haven't used this medium in a very, very long time.
and even then it was for various art classes and not because i wanted to be using them.
they're difficult!
{not unlike me}

i'm just going to dive in.
what's the worst that could happen, right?

my indieTACOMA project is moving along!
it's all happening so fast and with relative ease,
but i'm not as scared or frantic about it as i thought i would be.

wait until i set the date of the first show and have to go through all the vendor applications.
i'll probably be singing a different tune. :)

i took a couple shots of the venue where the craft show will be.
quality is low because of the silly iphone camera, but you get the picture.

looking toward the back of the speakeasy

from the stairs to the front of the venue.
this space is great.
open and airy with tons of natural light.
if all goes well we'll probably be using half of the upper section for vendors as well.
my initial goal was 25 artist, but it may be possible to fit more than 30.
that would be pretty neat.

actually, this is all pretty neat.

xo,meggers

dreams, goals and ice cream

i have big plans for myself and i'm pretty excited about them.

guess who already has a side project even though she hasn't finished her priority projects yet??

i've had this collaborative side project (regan design.) in the works for months now with one of the most talented artists i know. we have created so many amazing designs together, but have yet to make anything of them. our goal was, is and always will be t-shirts. I love the idea of wearable art, but haven't had access to a screen printing setup until now.

i. am. thrilled.
and you will be too. i pinky swear.

xo,meggers

ps- i started making some hair accessories for my first series! these are not even the beginning of what is happening here in my little studio.
it's madness!