Jolly Green's Keys to the Lincoln

One of Paul and I's geocaches is being featured on the geocaching website! This is one of a series Paul and I created pertaining to Jolly Green - as in the Jolly Green Giant. Seems as though Jolly Green is constantly dropping or leaving things all over the mountains here. This is Jolly Green's Keys to the Lincoln. My Dad drew the pattern for the key and Paul cut it out, I crafted and painted and made the buttons on the key fob - which is actually part of a dog carrier we found at Unclaimed Baggage. We also have a flexi straw (that's about 10 feet long) , a button (which is a table top) , a toothbrush, a watch, safety glasses, a micro, a pico and several others. Here's the geocaching album for all the Jolly Greens.

Paul's trying to take a bite out of the newest one that was published a few days ago - Jolly Green's Surprise for Sprout

Letterpress & Geocaching

Letterpress and Geocaching? Be still my heart! Paul found a geocoin for me today that is a printer's geocoin! Preston was pretty excited, so we took several photos of the coin with him and posted them on the geocaching website.

Triple S Letterpress by the way is the name I landed on for my "business" name. All of that is still very much in the planning stages. And I have to kind of laugh when I say business since there's no way I'm actually going to make any real money off of this - but I do have a sampling of cards for sale at Redstreake Gallery in Cowan, TN (Mrs. J. Redstreake Geary is a Superwoman! - and has poured her heart into her gallery - she does phenomenal art work and my cards are in good company). I have high hopes for a little Triple S Letterpress online store in the near future with original and retro letterpress designs.

Here's a few photo's of some birthday cards I worked on. This was the 1st run. I made the cards 3 color, meaning I ran the cards through the press three different times - 4 actually with the scoring to fold them. I slowly changed the ink color (yellow through dark purple) on press throughout the 1st run since there was so much ink coverage with 1-5/8" wooden letters. The second and third runs were with much smaller fonts and dingbats so I was only able to shift the colors a couple of times on both of those runs. Then the 8.5 x 11" sheets were cut in half to make two A-2 sized cards. And finally one more press run to score them with a matrix.


Here's a sneak peak at Brina Bat and Gray Bat's Travel Bug Hotel - which is where the geocoin will be placed tomorrow. If you're in Huntsville - and geocache at all I highly recommend visiting. Cachers are really enjoying it.