new letterpress print - you are my forever sort of friend

We've also got one more additional new letterpress print fresh off the press: "You are my forever sort of friend". This stunning print features custom hand lettering and is letterpressed with a whole lot of love in pretty mint green ink.  Now available on our online shop for $24.95 while stocks last. 

And for a limited time only, we are offering a package deal on both of our new letterpress prints - you can buy a double pack of our "You are my happy thought" and our "You are my forever sort of friend" for the reduced price of $39.95. Available here in our online shop!

Happy weekend!!

new letterpress print - you are my happy thought

Hello!! It has been a bit quiet from us of late as it has been most busy busy here in the studio! But today we wanted to let you know about a gorgeous new letterpress print now available in our online shop!

Our "You are my happy thought" print features beautiful hand lettering and a wonderful deep impression in lovely sunshine yellow ink - sure to bring a smile to anyone's face!

These prints are an Open Edition and have been hand printed on an antique  printing press on 100% cotton rag archival paper and printed the beautifully old fashioned way. Each print measures 8.5x11” and has been designed to suit frame made for a 8x10” photograph.

Available in our online store for $24.95 while stocks last!

we are hiring!

We've got a position now open in our busy Bowral, NSW studio for a production assistant to join our busy letterpress team one day a week! This role is suited to some one who is super crafty, good with their hands and most of all a letterpress and stationery lover! Sound like you? All the info is available here.

(Position has now been filled).

Brisbane Finders Keepers this weekend!

Brisbane Friends! We are headed back your sunny way!!

This weekend is the ever amazing Finders Keepers markets at the Old Museum, and we will be headed back to our home town - with a crazy 348 kilos of letterpress loveliness! We are most looking forward to a little visit to our old home town and a catch up with all our lovely brisbane friends! We've got lots of new stationery goodies up for grabs, so please do come say hello!

Saturday 6th and Sunday 7th July

10am to 4pm

The Old Museum

Cnr Bowen Bridge Road and Gregory Terrace, Herston

Entry: $2 - kids under $12 free

Parking available at the RNA show grounds - 400m walk.

More info available here.

Sydney Finders Keepers this weekend!

Here in the studio (in fact both studios!) we are super excited as this weekend is the ever amazing Sydney Finders Keepers! The Brisbane girls will be flying down, so not only are we having a bespoke reunion, we are celebrating as this event Sydney Finders Keepers has a brand new amazing venue at Australian Technology Park, and is now three times the size! 

We are so excited, we have been working on lots of new and wonderful stationery items for our supersized stall, and we are just a bit excited as this event also sees not only a whole new batch of debut designers, but also food trucks and a farmers lane to keep us well fed during this event!

Also behind the scenes we have been working on one other new and exciting project - and for the first time, this Finders Keepers, Bespoke Letterpress is curating The Sweet Little Posy Shop! We have combined our love of flowers, with our love of stationery and our love of all things sweet and vintage to produce a sweet little pop up posy shop with affordably priced floral posys made especially just for you! 

Sydney Finders Keepers

Australian Technology Park
 **NEW VENUE**

Exhibition Hall,

Locomotive Street
Eveleigh


(Entry via Henderson Road)

Friday 31st May from 6pm - 10pm

Saturday 1st June from 10am - 5pm

$2 entry fee

You can find out all the details over here, as well as the stallholder line up, music line up and food truck and farmers lane stallholders here!

Please do pop by and come say hello, its going to be such an amazing event!!!

20% off storewide sale!

Exciting news from us today! Until the end of April we are having a 20% off storewide online sale! Valid across our entire range of stationery, including our whole new range of letterpress loveliness (view here) simply enter the code 20off during check out to receive 20% off your order. You can read more about our sale here on todays newsletter (you too can sign up for our newsletters here on our website).

Much love and happy shopping!

Valid until midnight 30th April 2013. Excludes custom and wholesale orders.

behind the red door

Hello friends, goodness me, its been quite a while between blog posts. This year has just been speeding by and we can't seem to keep up!

In January we made the big move from our home and studio in Brisbane, and 2 containers, 2 cars and a truck full of presses later we ended up at our new abode here in the Southern Highlands. It sure has been quite the adventure! The print studio is now housed in a 3 bedroom double brick cottage which we are slowly converting over into a fully functioning print shop & studio. We are based on just on 1 acre of lovely country land, and our house is down the back seperated from the studio. Although, before we could even move into the studio we had to make some pretty big changes - the first being we needed a big enough hole to get the presses inside of the building!

After some pretty stressful days - it seems that knocking into a main structural wall of a 90 year old brick building isn't for the light hearted - coupled with the slowest builder ever, we ended up with a great big hole in which the presses could be ever so gently placed through!

After some quite frightful moments with our presses lifting and heaving them with cranes and forklifts, we eventually got them on their way into the studio. (A very big thank you for my ever patient dad!).

And finally, they were safely placed into their new locations - a four of them. We had big concerns about our 90 year old Baltic Pine floors coping with the weight of 6 tonnes worth of presses - but thank fully they survived to live another day!

We then were on a mission to get our big hole all closed back up again - I found the above french doors for a bargain price of $88 on ebay. Although they were not quite as pretty as the above photo - they were covered in My Little Pony Stickers and a frightful shade of dirty cream - but after much loving they are now looking like they have always been there. We had to convince the builder to make and install the glass transom above the doors and are so happy that we persevered as it allows so much more light into the studio! We also installed some new lights and gave the studio a new touch of paint (one again, thanks parents!!).Recently we added a hit of red to our front door (many thanks to my little sister for her red choosing assistance!) and our little country studio is slowly starting to take shape! We have still got quite a bit of work to be done - but we have been giving a few sneak peaks over on our instagram, so please do come follow us - we seem to be much better instragramers then bloggers these days (poor blog, please don't take it personally).So while the studio has been taking shape, we have still been as busy as ever! Recently we launched a whole heap of new stationery products (you can find them here), we have been working with some amazing wedding clients, and our little team has continued to grow with 2 new wonderful team members who we will introduce you to shortly!Our Brisbane team still continues to do all their amazing work up in Queensland and I am so in love (is that strange?) and thankful for their amazing job and efforts - they have helped so much in the transition to opening up our second southern studio and they do such an amazing job up in Sunny Brisbane. They are beyond incredible, I could gush all day, such love.So from our new/old studio in Bowral - Hello!! How have you all been?xox

Melbourne Finders Keepers this weekend!

Hello friends! Its been a long time between blog posts here - we have so many wonderful things to share with you, but amongst all the busyness of the studio, finding time to blog is always the hardest thing to do. I promise we will try harder!!

We did however want to let you know that this Friday night and Saturday is the amazing Finders Keepers markets at the Royal Exhibition Building and we will be there with all our letterpress loveliness once again. Please do pop by and say hello and be the first to see many of our new letterpress goodies!

The Finders Keepers
Royal Exhibition Building
9 Nicholson Street, Carlton
Friday 5th April 6pm to 10pm
Saturday 6th April 10am to 5pm

You can find out more information and view the amazing list of over 200 stallholders here!