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- to the lighthouseApril 14 2008
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Last weekend, a trip back in time to the Saugerties Lighthouse. A lovely Sunday of beautiful sights, new friends, and the most delicious buckwheat pancakes.
- along the wayApril 14 2008
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We saw this great fence when we were driving around upstate New York. Love it! Elsewhere: bookplates, Meet Your Printmaker, and I’m adding Alphabet City to my wishlist.
- very skinny exercise bookletsApril 3 2008
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Because we (like most other people) love looking at vintage things, we couldn’t resist rolling up our sleeves, digging through some really dusty books for ideas, and adding some old school flair to the shop.
Here are the results: three very skinny exercise booklets, each filled with 25 blank pages of sugarcane paper. The pastel paper covers are printed with our original designs pairing vintage images with sage quotes from The Science of Culture (a stuffy book on etiquette from1923). Each set comes wrapped in a recycled kraft paper package. Available now in our store.
Working on these new designs yesterday afternoon was a really welcome break from the big three-(now four)-month-long project I’m still up to my shoulders in. Somewhere in the midst of this, we are also working on the spring/summer collection of our signature photo-cover journals. Please do continue to check back in during the coming months to see what new things we are adding to Five and a Half!
- april firstApril 1 2008
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Lots of things to see: the third issue of Design for Mankind’s e-zine Inspiration (filled with gorgeous studio shots), we picked up The Acme Novelty Date Book Volume One over the weekend and I couldn’t stop looking at it, and there are so many mouth-watering sketchbook excerpts over at Book by It’s Cover.
- the jar of wisdomMarch 27 2008
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I’ve had this glass jar sitting on my shelf since December. I set it up for the DWR Modernmart event back then and had it on my table for passerbys. What’s inside? Little paper fortunes, pieces of wisdom, well wishes. Whoever stuck their hand in the jar pulled out a nice saying, and a few lucky people ended up with a gift bag filled with Five and a Half goodies to take home.
I’d like to reenact the jar of wishes online, for all you who couldn’t be there to draw from the real jar of wisdom. Only this time, it requires a bit of participation on your end. And yes, there are gift bags involved!
Interested? Here’s what to do:
Write in the comments section of this post your own original well-wish or piece of wisdom. (Include your name, e-mail and website.)
From the submissions we get, we’ll choose our favorite 3, who will each receive a gift bag (including a journal and some other Five and a Half goods). Also, Shawn will hand-letter those 3 sayings into notecards (with each credited to its author of course) which will be printed and mailed to all of you who participate (we’ll ask for all your mailing addresses when the cards are ready, don’t put your mailing addy in the comments section for
