Finally Friday!

This week has gone by so fast! I am NOT complaining. My birthday was unexpectedly amazing and tomorrow night I'll be hitting the Haight Street bars for a little post-birthday celebration.

Here's a little peek at how I spent day #1 of my 26th year.


My former boyfriend Spencer swooped me up from the office and we headed to North Beach for a drink and some amazing Istrian Italian food. Istria is the little nub that sticks out between Italy and Greece!

The food was devoured too fast to take pictures, but here's Spence-






And here's the AMAZING dessert they brought me. It's called panna cotta which means cooked cream in Italian. It tasted like a cross between creme brûlée and vanilla ice cream, but swimming in raspberry sauce! I died.




After dinner we drove through Russian Hill and were treated to some amazing views.







At the top of the Telegraph Hill we stopped by Coit Tower to commune with the tourists. Coit Tower is an art deco style monument built in 1933 by Lillie Coit, a rabble rousing socialite, to commemorate the volunteer fire fighters of San Francisco. The inside of the building is covered in murals funded by the Public Works of Art Project, part of FDR's New Deal.

We didn't get to go inside, but here's some pics with Christopher Columbus in Pioneer Park!










Back at home there was cake and ice cream to be had with good friends, who also presented with me with a bottle of my good buddy, JD :)








I hope the rest of 26 is this good!

Finally Friday

Good morning blog-land!  I'm so excited it's

!!!

This morning I'm feeling particularly motivated after last night's super productive letterpress session.  In a mere three hours I pumped out the first color in a new edition of 16 prints.

Behold!

An antique letterpress ornament of an adorable German weather house is pressed onto a 5x7 sheet of hand torn Rives BFK cotton rag printmaking paper.

 

The picture above shows the image block locked up into a Vandercook proofing press.

It's alive!!!

Here's a detail of what the printed image looks like.  So excited I mixed the exact shade of green I envisioned!  Sorry for the crap photo quality... iphone, ya know...

All I need to do to finish this edition is decide what the type should say.  What would you like to see written there?  Home Sweet German Weather House?  Probably not, but I'm sure I'll come up with something soon enough because I want to get these babies in the shop ASAP!

The boyfriend is going to be with his family in Santa Cruz this weekend for Easter.   Being Jewish with nary a care for pastel colored eggs and chocolate bunnies, I personally will be locking myself in my studio for the next two days.  My decision to officially announce my shop opening as this Monday was in part done to force me to get my act together!  Luckily I already have most of my pictures edited which can truly be the most difficult part.  

I'd love to hear what your goals are for the weekend, if not stuffing yourself with Easter spoils :)

Happy Friday, all!