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Hello Friends, Today, fourteen years ago in Des Moines, Iowa on January 2nd, 1999, I married my wonderful husband Andy. As with most love stories, I was young and in love with this boy (since 7th grade!) and on that snowy, REALLY SNOWY DAY we were married with lots of friends and family– 375 folks braved the terrible roads to celebrate with us (and then we headed to the balmy Cayman Islands!) Recently Andy and I have been thinking we need to have big anniversary party again soon so we can have all of the wonderful friends and family who...

[caption id="attachment_1982" align="alignnone" width="220"] Tom Petty Print[/caption] I made this print for my sister out of woodtype, metal type and metal ornamental elements…she loved it. Frame from Target. #targetdoesitagain

Hi friends, wanted to catch you up on a fun partnership. I've been printing and creating new products for the The Locally Grown Clothing Co. I've created new notecards and coasters you can see them here: http://locallygrownclothing.com/shop/category/accessories/ also they will be featured in People Magazine's Holiday gift guide on newsstands soon (look for George Strait on the cover). [caption id="attachment_1972" align="alignnone" width="242"] Locally Grown Chickens[/caption] [caption id="attachment_1973" align="alignnone" width="213"] Locally Grown Rooster Coasters[/caption]

Hello friends, today I thought I'd show you one of my artist books… WITAJ POLSKA! Hello Poland! WITAJ AMERICA! Hello America! My current book arts work has involved working in a “designer as reporter” approach, developing my own graphic commentary and response to current events. I continue to be interested in exploring the relationship between representation of information and increasing the expressive quality of text and image in current events. I continue to explore book arts work that seeks to answer the questions such as, what happens to the fleeting news information in a more permanent form? How does the...

Hello friends how are you? As always, the week just flew on by…kicked out a few digital design jobs and filled orders this week. I'm looking forward to a full and fun weekend, how about you? Tonight hoping to just hang on the screened-in porch and catching up with my man (he was gone all week traveling!) Saturday is the Homecoming game at U of Iowa against the Golden Gophs of UMinn. This will be my first football game of the season…Iowa City and George's here we come! (we go to George's Buffet– I know, hilarious name for a bar,...