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All buttoned up! frenchpaper.com

I visited the the recently updated and relaunched website for one of my favorite mills - French Paper. I have to say that I really loved the old site - fabulous design but sometimes you just need a change. Charles S. Anderson Design Co. did all the work. Some cool new features including browsing by color and size of envelope. While there browsing through the site, I ordered up some Pop Ink 1" buttons. Got'em on Friday. Super sweet. $20 bucks for all 72 of them. Came in a cute plastic jar. Thanks, Jerry, Brian and Charles!

Steal Like @austinkleon! Nooner with @aigaaustin & @adfedaustin

I've been following Austin author, Austin Kleon on twitter for a while. Living his book tour life through tweets and his blog as he steals across America. Steal Like an Artist, his latest book is now on the New York Time's best seller list. I was so pleased to see his tweet this month that his book tour had finally landed in his hometown here in Austin at Book People. I grabbed the kiddo and headed to see his talk and get a copy signed for her. Rather than reading from his book, he took us on a journey with him through slides and a full circle of his life as an author. Really good stuff. If you haven't visited his blog, it's great and he really shares his creative life there. Austin, thanks for inspiring me and the little one.  If you missed him, I hear on June 27th, there will be a joint event "nooner" at the Alamo Drafthouse with AIGAAustin and Adfed. It will be a treat to see and hear him again.

Holey Mojito! Great Label!

It was Friday. I was finishing my last visit of the day to the Gehring Co. design shop. They'd been telling me about a new venture they were working on. Thom and Jared needed paper samples for packaging and labeling. They had been messing around with some transclucent stock from Reich Paper, CT in Orange and Leaf Green that I dropped to them earlier along with some Wausau Coated adhesive stock. I have to say the bottle was great looking stuff. And I do love the minty goodness of a Mojito. Super bonus - they let me take a bottle home! So this Father's Day weekend - we J&T Mojito'd it. I have to say, quite delicious. The directions said to add a splash of soda but I did a bit more than a splash and added a bit more rum. The mint I usually had to muddle was right in there and tasted "oh so fresh!". Can't wait to see it on the shelves of my fine beverage barn.