Book Launch at Ravine Vineyard, St David's, Ontario

Pantry Press Editions, along with Ravine Vineyard, and Olson Foods celebrated the launch of Sourdough: A Recipe For Life with author and baker Erin Turcke.

Weighing in at 72 pages our demure little book is packed with the tools needed to proceed with the care and feeding of the sourdough culture and the baking of very toothsome and delicious bread.

Erin Turcke, centre, with crusty side-kicks and fellow bakers, Chris, Heni and Lanny holding their signed copies.

Erin baked bread, lots of bread for the book launch.

Pantry Press Edition principal, Julie Gibb, at the sales table. Buy a book, get a loaf of sourdough for free!

Christian Morrison, Pantry Press Editions mascot, playing with other people's food.

But is it ART?

Really excellent Etsy customer, Nikbee from London, England sent us this photo of how he transported his "Eat Your Peas" poster to its new home.

Our New Web Site www.pantrypress.com

We've put up the website! It looks like it's working, though on my computer it bounces around a bit, can't figure that out. Ooof!

Please drop by and take a look. We'd love your feedback too. The address again is pantrypress.com our new domain. Thanks!

We have one of 103 award winning designs

HOW magazine has awarded us a merit for our PEACE poster from last December's annual customer appreciation event. If you're not on our mailing list, that's a physical mailing list, send us your address and we'll add you. You never know when you're going to get another award-winning design from us, in the mail. Bring your copy of October's HOW Magazine by the studio and we'll sign it for you.

pantrypress.com that's DOT COM is LIVE

Yeah, we know it's only an "under construction" page but you can email us and link to this blog from there. Listen, our web designer is an under-paid, over-qualified, middle-aged dude who'd rather be running the letterpress, so we get what we pay for. If you can, try clicking through to the site and let us know if the page looks okay on your browser.

News and a wee update!

Hey, I know I use the word "Wee" a lot. Just try to imagine I'm writing everything with a Scottish accent.

News: We got a great write up in Saturday's (August 22, 2009) National Post newspaper. Nathalie Atkinson, a toronto-based writer, encourages readers to "Pick up a pen and exercise your cursive skills on stationery." To that end, Julie and I are considering how to approach personal stationery again. We used to offer personal stationery, with a limited palette of colours, motifs and papers but maybe it was too soon in the history of Pantry Press, we just didn't get the orders. Now though, with our new suppliers of eco-friendly paper and envelopes as well as old standards like Lalo and Clairfontaine from France, maybe we can begin to offer affordable and appealing products to our customers. We think we'd still limit the designs and formats (including paper, colours and designs) but try to offer a quick and easy way for you to purchase smaller quantities of high quality and environmentally friendly letterpress stationery for your correspondence.

Wee Update: We're also working slavishly on our new website, and have also come into ownership of the domain www.pantrypress.com and we plan to go live by early September with the new site. We'll announce it here too.

Easing into summer at the studio

Had to share a shot of the studio today! The sun was out and the warm breeze made me a bit sleepy, ran inside for a shot of espresso and back to work. I love the oval dot below the light fixture, it made me think about Adobe Illustrator.