It started with magenta and gold

I just finished a vintage stamp project with a client who was after stamps in gold and magenta, and that integrated Black Heritage stamps in these colors. I know that vintage postage on wedding invitations is nothing new. Stamps can really pull an invitation together, and make it match and look pretty. But vintage postage can also tell a little story.

Each envelope had a combination of state birds, the statue of liberty (which say "liberty for all"), Harriet Tubman, Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King, Jr., W.C. Handy (talk about magenta-- one of the prettiest stamps around) and tropical flowers. Some also included stamps commemorating our nation's capitol. I just adored assembling each envelope, and each conveyed a sense of history.

The other sweet part of this job is how many of the invitees lived on the same street. I addressed envelope after envelope to residents of one street who lived one house down from the next. It was so lovely to think about such a tight knit community making their way to this special celebration.

Happy Penguin

Identity work for happy penguin press. Can't wait to see the new site!

Cards from the Land of Enchantment

A save the date postcard featuring a Santa Fe streamlined train.
The paper texture of these cards was sublime.

Gray Days

A winter-y charcoal envelope.

Sibling Gift

A ex libris bookplate-- a sweet birthday gift from a brother to a sister.

Evidence of The 700...

A snippet from the 700 envelope project.
They were white, 9 x 12 with script extending almost to both edges.

Hello again.

Thank you for sticking with me dear readers. I appreciate your patience and forgiveness. In the past two weeks I've addressed 700 envelopes for a noted fashion house. I've also completed work for a very exciting and project that I can't wait to tell you all about in a few months. There are some wonderful collaborations afoot. And also, my hard drive died.

On the first project: I have never addressed this many envelopes at one time, but it turned out to be meditative and fun. I'll share a photo soon. The recipients were...ummm...well, they were all remarkable and accomplished people and it was exciting to know that my work would make its way to their mailbox and hopefully brighten their day. Some days my schedule was slightly ridiculous -- going to Bay Ridge to interview octogenarian ballroom dancers and then coming home to calligraph envelopes addressed to cultural icons. But each involves writing in very different ways, using different parts of my brain. And I'm so grateful that I can do both.

Snow/Moss

Yes, that's right. That's my calligraphy above Kate Moss's head. A bit of my work from a recent corporate identity campaign.

Website Update

I've added some new fall samples to the website. I'm complete smitten with oversized envelopes like the one pictured above. I've found a great source for gigantic envelopes (like 20" x 24"). I love the idea of putting a very small invite in a very gigantic envelope.
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Snow Trade

I received an email not long ago from a client inquiring about escort cards. She said they would be on "vintage ledger paper." I said "tell me more about the materials you are using!" What resulted was a pretty incredible trade. I did the escort cards (pictured above). And Phyllis sent me boxes of her wonderful wedding decorations, including these amazing chalkboards, to use at my wedding. I'm pretty sure I got the better end of the deal. You can see more of Phyllis and Dan's beautiful wedding, photographed by Sarah K. Chen, over at Once Wed.

Hello Again

Coco Paperie's incredibly kind post inspired me to get back on the saddle and start posting again. A little update for my readers: this past month has been the busiest of my life, between getting married in New Mexico and relocating (during the week) to New York for graduate school. I appreciate you sticking with me. I can't promise daily posts, but I'm aiming for a weekly digest of electronic ephemera, probably on Sunday or Monday. Most of all - happy fall!

Bicycle envelopes

Another great one...

Envelopes that break my heart all over the floor

I found these envelopes celebrating the American Bicentennial. Each one honors a different aspect of...well, what makes America great? I get inexplicably emotional when I look at these envelopes-- something about living in a country that once honored the American Craftsman, Farmer and Homemaker on correspondence...it's too much.

August Favorite: Greta Garbo

It is hard to choose favorite stamps. I have many. So I'm going to try to choose a favorite each month. These Greta Garbo stamps are just stunning. Aside from the the striking image, these stamps are textured-- they are engraved. I've never felt another stamp like it.

Summer brights

There have been some wonderful, bright colors this season. Here: vibrant teal.

Stamps: Birds & Animals

I recently started offering a vintage postage service . I will track down wonderful old stamps for Neither Snow customers to adorn their correspondence. My most recent haul includes the state bird stamps and an assortment of wonderful animals.

Black & yellow

Recent order: I love the look of black ink on this rusty yellow envelope.

Personalized Stationery

A letterpress artist recently got in touch about personalized stationery. I can't wait to see how these turn out when printed!

Sup at Frankie's 457

I just finished a fun menu for a couple hosting their reception at Frankie's 457 in Brooklyn. As much as I love working with paper there's something satisfying about scanning as well.

I was pleased to learn more about the US Postal Service Motto's origin...and to think I actually read Herodotus in college and missed this entirely. The image of horse and man is especially sweet...

	It is said that as many days as there are in the whole journey, so many are the men and horses that stand along the road, each horse and man at the interval of a day’s journey; and these are stayed neither by snow nor rain nor heat nor darkness from accomplishing their appointed course with all speed.
	HERODOTUS, Herodotus, trans. A.D. Godley, vol. 4, book 8, verse 98, pp. 96–97 (1924).