Designer Spotlight: The Lettered Olive

I've been pouring through our new album from The Lettered Olive - a couture paper company based out of Charleston, South Carolina and New York City. It's just absolutely amazing. The designs range from ornate and intricate to fresh and modern and everything in between. Whitney and I fell in love with The Lettered Olive when we met the lovely ladies at the NSS and got a peek at their gorgeous wedding album.

The big, beautiful album features over 18 stunning designs - all completely and truly customizable. Choose from a full library of detailing options from incredible, lace-like belly bands, punchy edge painting, and dozens of patterned backings and envelopes liners to a large collection of fonts and broad palate of colors. The options are endless and it's a joy to mix and match elements to create the absolute perfect invitation for each client.

One of the things I really love about this book is how they included photos of a wedding/party of similar aesthetic with each design. Seeing how the design, color and tone of a wedding or event can translate into an amazing, crafted invitations or vice versa really is truly inspiring.

As if I needed any more reason to love this company, The Lettered Olive honors a serious commitment to the environment. They print on 100% tree-free cotton paper using a wind-powered letterpress. All the inks are vegetable and/or VOC (volatile organic compound) based and they use only low VOC and citrus-based solvents to clean the presses. Pretty rad, right?

Take a peek at some of their amazing designs below. Bu,t I have to say, nothing beats coming in to see the real deal in person with all the bells and whistles. The Lettered Olive pieces are seriously beautiful and the book is a treat to look through.

(all photos courtesy of The Lettered Olive)

And...

We're back!!! Turns out it wasn't the hard-drive that was giving the pretty computer problems; it was corrupt memory. Many thanks to the geniuses at the Apple store(s) for getting the girl back up and running. Hooray!!

Now back to pretty things.

Sick Baby.

Bad news bears at Gus & Ruby Letterpress today; well it's not really that bad actually. We are temporarily running an old timey no-technology (err - no credit card machine) shop as our beloved 20" iMac "Baby" has decided she needs a new hard-drive. This is slightly preposterous as Baby is only 4 weeks old; I'm hesitant to speculate, but those of you who have stopped by for a visit will know that we have our computer (which houses as our credit card processing system) in the corner of our cash wrap. You would think I would have learned this by now - but I'm pretty sure Baby wasn't happy about this situation. After all, no one puts baby in a corner.

Right?

Well in any case - we're totally still open today! Come on down!! It's just that we're cash and check only for this little time, but we're trudging through and making the best of the current set-up. As I type, Whitney is en-route to the Apple store in Danvers, MA (holler Danvahhhhhs!) with the little computer to see what we can have fixed. Fingers crossed it is fixable within the day.

I hope. I wish. I beg. I plead with the computer gods!

Sorry to all our wonderful customers and clients for any inconvenience this may cause today. We're working our hardest to have CC processing back up tomorrow.

New products daily!

Just put some Girl of All Work out on the shelves. Super cute fabric covered magnets and pins. Who doesn't need stylish push pins? Also included are adorable little books to hold business cards, address books, page flags and telegram postcards that look just like the vintage ones!

First Weekend and a little PR

Hello hello! It's been a busy and amazing couple of days for us here at Gus & Ruby Letterpress. We're slowly settling into a rhythm at the store and are making oodles of lists to help us prioritize all of the things we need to tackle in the coming weeks (and months and years!).

Among the many incredible and wonderous things that we've experienced over the last few days (not to mention months), our Grand Opening party was the bees knees. So many wonderful people came out to support us and check out the store for the first time.

Before we get to fun party pictures - check out our sweet 15 seconds of fame on NATIONAL TV (our 2nd, yes 2nd, TV interview)!! Woot woot!!

http://www.foxnews.com/video2/video08.html?maven_referralObject=8059207&maven_referralPlaylistId=&sRevUrl=http://www.foxnews.com/specialreport/

Now - on to party pictures. As always, we were absolutely blessed to have Emilie of Emilie Inc. Photography there to celebrate with us and to take some absolutely amazing photos. Have we mentioned how much we love her? Because we just totally love her.

Pretty little storefront with lovely flowers courtesy of Mrs. Thelma Lyon.

Inside shots.

A sunny, cozy nook to meet with brides, new parents and party people and dream up perfect invitations and announcements.

Sweet treats to kick off a sweet beginning. Congdon's donuts (our fave!) and delish lemon-y G and R sugar cookies from Popover's On The Square.

We got to catch-up with dear, dear friends.

And hang with some pretty rad (and adorbs) kiddos!

We were just so jazzed to get to meet some new friends and share our excitement about the store.

Being nerdy.
Party goers spilling onto the street. It was a great night.

Best Wishes!

Just wanted to take a moment and wish Leanne and Bruce, our good friends and clients, all the best today as they tie the knot! We love you guys and wish you a lifetime of happiness!

{photo found here}

More shop pics

{Photos courtesy of Emilie, Inc.}

Busy first couple of days! Here are a few more product shots from the store. Thanks, Emilie!!! Make sure you check our new website if you haven't already: gusandruby.com