New in the Shop.

Since taking the class on Letterpress & Bookbinding, I've been making softcover books like it's my job, so I decided to actually make it my job and list a couple in the shop.

There are two in there now and I will hopefully be able to add a few more within the next month or two.  This particular form of bookbinding is so relaxing that I find myself picking it up right before bedtime.  Of course, James always gives me the crazy look,* followed by, "are you seriously going to make a book right now?"  By this time, he should have figured out my abnormal nocturnal habits... It's not out of the ordinary for me to start cleaning our apartment after 10pm, I tend to start craft projects after 9pm (that poppy watercolor was started at 9pm), and I will often pay bills and tend to our finances close to midnight.  I've been a night-owl ever since I was a toddler, so I guess he'd better get used to it!**

* The "crazy look" is what I frequently receive when I'm in a fit of mania...


** And now that Smashing Pumpkins song, "We Only Come out at Night" is stuck in my head...  It should really be my anthem.

2010 Photographic Calendar

As I mentioned a week ago (or so), I've been working on a top secret project for the past two months and finally found a camera (although it's not a great one) to snap some crappy photos of it!!  Yay!  So, without further ado, here's a couple shots of the 2010 Calendar I made with a friend of mine and the images in it.  You can find it listed in my Etsy shop if you're interested in purchasing one, or two, or a bunch: 

 

Onyx & Alabaster's 2010 limited edition photographic calendar is a collaboration between Ally & her friend Kathryn, which includes some of their favorite photographs from 2009.

Limited edition of 75.

Calendars are 6 x 11" printed on 80# smooth card stock in antique gray. Each calendar is punched with two holes at the top with cotton Bianco e Nero twine for hanging, and the pages are perforated for easy month changes.

The calendars were printed on a professional quality laser printer and lovingly cut, pasted, and assembled by hand.

If you use the code "Get a New Camera" in the notes to seller section, you will receive a whopping discount of $4 off the sale price, which will be refunded via paypal. 

Sneak Peek

While I haven't exactly been the most active blogger recently (ha!  what an understatement), I haven't just been sitting around the entire time doing nothing.  I have been working on a project with a very good friend of mine that I'm just about ready to share with everyone.  I'm far, far behind on the project (what's new?), but still feel that all this work should not be left unnoticed.  I'm really excited about the results, so here's a peek at something I've been working on, rather diligently I might add, for the past few weeks:

Hopefully, my broken camera will magically turn itself into a brand new DSLR, or begin to work again, so I can take some photos of this project!!

Updated Project.

So, I made a few adjustments to the project I posted here.

Here are the insides (excuse the crap photos... took these this morning before work):

the front cover.


actual invitation... i'm thinking of changing the wording... slightly.


map & directions...


rsvp postcard... it's perforated, so you can just rip it out and send it (with a stamp, of course).


back of the postcard


i added a back page so that when the rsvp is gone, you'll see pretty damask instead of plain green.

I made a couple more envelope labels. The greens don't really match up as much as I had wanted them to, but I kind of like that there's a contrast.

I'm just about ready to put them in the shop... I don't know why I'm hesitating. Oh wait, probably because these photos blow. Right, that's it.

I hope people will buy them.

A New Project.

This is what I did Saturday night when I couldn't sleep:

The quality of the pictures is horrendous! I apologize, and will take some better ones later this week (or tonight -- who knows). I took these as I was running out the door for work this morning, because I realized that I actually have some of my own work to post (I have been busy, I just haven't documented my work photographically)!!!

I've decided to start an invitation line, so I guess we'll see how that goes...