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#52originalroughdrAftbooks
Come follow along with me as I make a book a week and post them on Instagram! Each week I’ll post a drawn, painted, scribbled, printed, collaged, doodled, sewn on, altered book I’ve made the week before. This time I am not making thttps://www.instagram.com/eisroughdraft/he book forms, I’m only going to design the covers. A little different for me, a strictly 2D challenge. I figured I would be drawing anyway, why … Continue reading
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new books are happening
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custom books in the studio
Hi y’all. The holidays are upon us and I am working feverishly to keep up. Here is a pretty one I just did for a lovely customer on etsy. She wanted a book for her sister Bruna. These are the covers I finished painting…And happy belated thanksgiving by the way. I’ve been so busy I haven’t had nearly enough time to talk about all my crushes, and let me tell … Continue reading
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a few small good things.
hello there! Every year as autumn hits the east coast, it seems my world tends to speed up in huge degrees. School starts, volunteer stuff increases, holiday prep work for books goes into full blast, you name it. So in an effort to write something, here are a few amazingly good small things I’ve been working on these days.
ONE: I wrote a guest post for Poppytalk blog which went up … Continue reading
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it takes a village (part II of what i did on my summer vacation)
The summer started off with me buying copious amounts of paper, board and glue while also trying to line up interns and helpers. I knew most of my juniors would be busy with internships so luckily as fate would have it, Sara Lenton, graduating senior + foodie extraordinaire (shown below amidst the 12 boxes she packed full of 2,000 tree books), came into my life and asked to be an … Continue reading
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what I did on my summer vacation
Happy first weeks of school y’all. This means summer is over. I really did have the best summer. I look back and I think wow, I can’t believe it’s over and I can’t believe I got to spend it with so many amazing people making art. If every summer could be this way, I couldn’t ask for anything more. To review, this summer I made an order of 2,500 handmade … Continue reading
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new books at anthropologie this autumn.
Well the day has come. roughdrAftbooks have been spotted out in the world, once again with the help of good ole anthropologie who is including them as part of the autumn stationery assortment which is found online and in stores across the country starting, er —right now. These books are the product of a long hot summer of making right here in philadelphia with a lot of help from friends, … Continue reading
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cleaning up shop.
Hey there, we’re cleaning up shop this weekend, the etsy shop that is. Check out new and improved images of the books all thanks to the ever talented ms siobahn over at dollface studios. And starting Monday we’ll be participating in the Back to School Market over on Poppytalk!
Until Monday, have a great weekend and check out some of the new images on etsy and below!
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fly’s 5th anniversary, free books and fun!
Well guess who is on the always awesome, Fly blog this week? Yes why that would be me! Fly is turning 5 this June, so to celebrate the blog’s creator decided to “highlight amazing ladies doing fly things in media, fashion, art and design.” And I was lucky enough to be one of them. (Thank you Andrea!)
Check out the feature on yours truly here, and then be sure to go … Continue reading
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love.
Happy Martin Luther King Day everybody. This is an oldie but a goodie but I thought it was an appropriate sentiment for the day.. take care of each other! xo
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