Living History Farms - Des Moines, Iowa

Founded in 1970, we are a 500-acre, outdoor museum that recreates history and lifestyles in four time periods – the 1700 Ioway Indians, the 1850 pioneers, the townspeople of 1875 and 1900 farmers. Historical interpreters dressed in period clothing complete the daily routines of each time period – caring for animals, cooking, blacksmithing, gardening, and much more. The story of 20th century agriculture is explored through an exhibit of crops, displays and interactive activities. - statement from their website.

My family and I visited a few weeks ago and while the family was excited about other exhibits - I was dying to visit their working print shop! I shot some photos of my two favorite presses there - the Chandler and Price and the Lightning Jobber. They print all of the correspondence for the museum there is the print shop. Super cool!

If you are into printing - this is definitely a great stop!

CUSTOM - Baby Shower Invitation

GIRAFFE (A7)
AS PICTURED
Ink: Khaki & Chocolate
Type: Century Gothic & Worstveld Sling
Paper: Cranes Lettra Pearl

The red for the other announcement is still not ready for printing so I did some others instead. This is a custom baby announcement that is available in any of our in-house ink/envelope colors. Wording can also be changed to meet your needs. Isn't this giraffe adorable! Please forgive my images - still working on learning to photograph this type of product!

Letterpress Baby Shower II

Still working on them! Got ready to print tonight and realized I did not have the red I needed so I had to mix it up. After mixing the ink becomes a little too thin to print so I will be holding out on them for about 24 hours. I would like to print something else tonight though.

Letterpress Baby Shower

Sick or not, I just had to print today! I only got one color printed of a two color job but I thought someone might find the process interesting.

A plate is made for each color printed in each design. A full run is done in one color, then the press is completely cleaned and then the next color is run and so on. This pre-printed baby announcement is a two color job so I printed the pool color today and tomorrow I will finish up with the red.

The digital image is how the invitation will look once all of the colors are printed. Some pieces look quite funny when in the middle of a job. This one looks pretty good even without the second color but the red should really make this piece pop.

Paired with a red envelope this design is really fun for girl or boy!

Our Shop is NOW OPEN

We have opened! Today I added some new inventory to our shop! Check out our beautiful greeting cards in singles, 3 packs and 6 packs here on ETSY!