Sea Creatures Weekly Planner

The Details:

• 8 fill-in months and 28 fill-in weeks
• Cover is letterpress printed in blue ink with original illustration on 100# blue paper
• 64 100% recycled pages, opens flat
• Sewn stitched binding on the left in coordinating thread
• 4.25” x 8” with two rounded corners
• Packaged in a clear cello sleeve
• Front page lists Moon names & phases + ruler
• Pocket on inside back cover with 2 calendar years reference included
• 3 dotted grid pages in the back
• Made in the USA

The Maker:

Kathryn Hunter began Blackbird Letterpress in 2003, after she bought a Chandler & Price 8x12 letterpress. Since she couldn't move the 1100lb press into her apartment, her friends, Pudd & Leigh Anne, came to the rescue by offering their back room as a printshop. Pudd & Kathryn flew up to to the Windy city and loaded a couple tons of type and cabinets and other goodies out of a basement into a moving truck, and drove it back to Bayou Country. A collection of vintage printers' cuts came from a long time printer in New Iberia, Louisiana. The printshop grew up little by little in that back room from 2003-2007 until it was bursting the seams. Blackbird then worked out of a mural-clad building in Baton Rouge from 2007-2016, which they shared with a cool metalworking business and two frisky guard dogs. The printshop moved in Fall of 2016 and has expanded in space and equipment. They use the original C&P 8x12, along with a Vandercook SP15, C&P 10x15, and 2 Heidelberg Windmills. and have 2 new frisky guard dogs. You can see them by searching Instagram for #heartbuttjunior and #avathegirlscout.