The HCC Bar-Hop Tickets
We designed and printed a small custom run of beautiful letterpress tickets for The Hot Chocolate Club Bar-Hop that is going on tonight. They were lots of fun to make and turned out wonderfully!
Letterpress Class #2
We will be having another letterpress class this month, so if you are interested, please call or come in to reserve your spot! The class is limited to six so that everyone can get enough hands-on time with the beautiful letterpresses. These classes are really a great deal because not only do you learn the basic skills of letterpress, but you will also go home with 50 beautiful cards that you personally printed and scored. Considering that letterpress cards cost anywhere from $2-5 on etsy, you will come out of this class having made money! Plus, breakfast is provided along with a marvelous custom apron crafted by Lady Danburry! Here are the details:
Introduction to Letterpress Class
When: March 27, 2010 at 10am
Cost: $100 ($75 w/student i.d.)
Where: Rowley Press @ 39 W 200 N, Provo, UT 84601
Amount of Fun: Tons
The Hot Chocolate Club | HC Bar-Hop
This month The Hot Chocolate Club is having a special treat! We are working with local businesses to set up a Hot Chocolate Pub Crawl, or for the Americans, a Hot Chocolate Bar Hop. This is the drink-hot-chocolate-till-you-die event of the year! We are quite excited about the great businesses that we are hoping to get on board and know that there will be some great hot chocolate to drink your sorrows away with!
We will bestow the much coveted Hot Chocolate Club Award upon one of the participating businesses who excels in the craft of Hot Chocolate. The winner will be chosen by the Democratic Process. Well, people will choose, but they will use the Democratic Process in its most endearing form — voting.
The HC Bar-Hop will start at Rowley Press and from there we will carpool from establishment-to-establishment. We will need designated drivers to shuttle those who may have had a bit too much of Grandpa’s Old Hot Chocolate.
When: 6:00PM Wednesday, March 24th
Where: Rowley Press at 39 W 200 N, Provo, UT 84601
Why: Hot Chocolate (some of the businesses have claimed that it will be the best we have ever had… really?)
For more information, check out our Facebook Event.
**If you have any ideas for Provo/Orem businesses that should be included in the Hop, please comment below! We have some great places that we are working with, but are sure you can think of some more!**
Essays are Exciting
Essays are perfect for our generation’s short attention span. And the wonderful website, Quotidiana, is the perfect website for essays. They have some of my favorites on their website and plenty that I don’t know so that I can explore. All of the essays are in the public-domain, so they can be printed and distributed without any government employee kicking in your door. You can also get most of these essays from Project Gutenberg, but the user interface on the Quotidiana website is much more friendly and beautiful (nice typography). On their “Most Popular” essays sidebar, they have two from one of my favorites, G. K. Chesterton. I especially love his On Lying in Bed essay. Give it a try and I would imagine you will be happy you did.
Stanley & Sons | Aprons and Bags
Printing can be messy, so aprons are surely the perfect remedy. I talked to Lady Danbury and we designed some perfect printing aprons that she custom-crafted for Rowley Press, here locally. I don’t have photos of her beautiful aprons just yet, but I will post about them as soon as I do. If you aren’t able to take advantage of Lady Danburry’s work due to proximity problems, you should check out these beauties over at Stanley & Sons, a company that is run by Chris Grodzki; the grandson of an old-time apron and bag craftsman. I love the leather straps that seem to accent the denims and waxed canvases so well. The photos on their site are just to act as a reference as each piece they create is cusom-made to order. My favorite apron of theirs is the handsome lad pictured above.
& Wanderlust">Bespoke Globes & Wanderlust
I love traveling and live with an acute case of wanderlust almost every day. These handmade globes from Bellerby & Co may be just the thing I need to cure my wandering tendencies. I can just picture myself sitting in my study imagining all of the wonderful places that have been hand-layed on to the plaster sphere and then lovingly painted. Perhaps that would not be the best thing for wanderlust, but it would be enjoyable nonetheless.
Drew Danburry CD Release
Drew Danburry’s new album, Goodnight Gary, came out on February 9 and it is wonderful! Sure, Drew is one of my best friends and an amazing guy, but his music has truly been increasing exponentially in listening goodness! His music has come a long way since his “White Chocolate” days (sorry Drew). His thoughtful & poetic lyrics, catchy melodies, and positive energy will have you rocking in no time. Be sure to listen to the words in these carefully crafted tunes, because these songs aren’t just for tapping your feet. Check out his website for information and tons of free downloads (I’m talking about whole albums, not just a song or two.)
Here are some links to get you where you need to go:
Roller Mania
Rollers might not be the most exciting topic to many people, but they surely are an essential component of a good letterpress. They can make the difference between a beautifully inked impression and muddled, sloppy, printing frustrations. Recently I purchased new rollers for Rowley Press’s Chandler & Price Old Style Letterpress, aka The Scholar. I happened to be down by the factory where they were made, so I stopped by to say hello and to check out their operation. More after the jump…
Hot Chocolate+Art+Stroll=fun!
The first Revival meeting of The Hot Chocolate Club was a great success! It is so great to be surrounded by so many fun people united by Chocolate in its excited form! We had a training by Ashley Mae Hoiland, Hot Chocolate Haikus, marvelous music by Katie Brandeburg, delicious Hot Chocolates, and lots and lots of talking to people! We will be having another meeting of The Hot Chocolate Club coming up on Wednesday, February 17, from 8-10pm. If you missed the last one, be sure to come out to this one and have a great night with great people! More photos after the juuuuummmp…
