A teeny tiny sunroom in Boston to a utility garage...it's been an adventure!
It's been a journey. Flutter Letterpress used to be named Blush Design Studio and started way back when in a small city outside of Boston, June 2009, with a busy career girl, a husband who put up with all her antics, a great-dane named Atticus, and a wedding present that would change everyones life...
I speak of Gable to my friends as if my husband and I adopted a bouncing baby boy, but the reality is that Gable is 61 years old and requires more love and attention than my never-house-trained Great Dane, Atticus; okay, he's a little house trained now- Gable, that is. Gable, named after Clark Gable, is a Chandler & Price platen letterpress machine, cast in pure iron and weighs nearly 1300lbs. He’s certainly no bouncing boy- more like a stationary god. I was given Gable as a wedding present from my Husband {yeah, really...}, who knew more about my love and passion for a creative outlet than anyone else in this world. What a silly man, because in late 2010, I got an itch and rescued another press. What I thought was a Chandler & Price 10x15 {this refers to the size of the middle portion of the press, the platen or the printable area}, turned out to be an incredible 12x18 bohemouth and quite literally 3 times the size of Gable. We've named him Beau, and he'll be making his paper debut in the printing studio in early 2014.
It should come as a surprise to no one that property is very expensive in Boston, MA and when we could ONLY spare a small little sunroom for my printing studio, I jumped at the idea. It was small. Like 10ft square kind of small. But we made do. And by 'made do' I mean that we had to crane Gable into his spot through a window of the sunroom...only after having to triple reinforce the flooing in there. Woof.
Today, my print studio is a utility garage built onto our new home in North Raleigh, North Carolina. We love it here- it's home for us, and where my husband and I met so many, many, (many) years ago.
A little more about me: I am just a girl named Liz. Just a girl who happens to love paper. I'm from MD, FL, NC, GA and currently reside in NC with my husband, pup, and daughter, Isabella {Bells for short, or Trouble Maker, or Boo, or Silly Girl when the moment strikes}. My taste is somewhat vintage with a dabble of rock and roll-- my husband would call it 'gypsy,' and I must have fresh flowers around me. I have a background in marketing from UNC and have worked in the corporate world of software sales {it's fascinating!}. When I'm not printing, you can find me playing outside with my husband and beautiful baby girl, cooking, updating our new home in North Carolina, and running outside with Atticus the prancing dane. Really, he prances.
