My printing partner / mom lives in Atlanta most of the time, but one week out of the month she comes to live and work with us. This has been the key to me not feeling overwhelmed, creatively frustrated, or unproductive. I design, ship orders, photograph products, and return emails during the weeks when she’s not here. When she arrives for a production week we try to hit the ground running. She and I have a pretty organized printing schedule, and we each take turns between spending time with the girls and printing new designs. It’s certainly not traditional and there is a lot of start and stop, but my girls get to be a part of what we’re creating, we get to eat all of our meals together, and somehow in the end it all works and we meet our deadlines. These pictures are from one of our production weeks together. This season we are taking a step back from our old work and putting a whole new line of stationery together. The line will feature a few designs from past calendars that we want to see in a new context, but there is a lot of new work we are releasing as well. Pushing ourselves to really focus on the cohesiveness of the line as a whole has been more challenging than I thought, but it’s so exciting. This work feels more personal as we’re really trying to bring our own vision of simple beauty to life on paper.
