I love this Minimal Black Heart print by the big harumph! Made with hand-pulled linoleum cut — love the texture and interesting pattern. Makes me want to work on some linoleum prints… :)

Time is flying and flying with a new baby without much sleep… Can’t believe November is almost over! I hope you all had a nice thanksgiving holiday… We drove up to Massachusetts and had a wonderful thanksgiving with our family. Managed to travel with a baby, too!

Last Sunday, it was such a warm nice day (it’s been really warm! No complaints there.) and so I went to Brooklyn Bridge park with Mili. Sigh, this view. Never ever gets old. The scenery is changing to winter-like… and look what we found — a heart-shaped yellow leaf underneath the Manhattan Bridge :)

We visited Provincetown while we were in Cape (fun place!) and found this art on a street trash can. Made me smile and yes, we had some yummy lobster rolls :)

Happy Monday :) Hope you had a great weekend… I wanted to start the week with these cute bunch of rainbow love by KraKra Craft — makes me happy just looking at them! <3

It says “If you wish, hearts can be attached on a cotton string to dangle around or be assembled into mobile or alike.” — this will be the cutest little decoration for my little one…

It’ll be 3 years in January since I started this blog and I am launching a new letterpress company, Heartfish Press (have you signed up our mailing list yet?) then, too, so I think I’d like to stay focus on design inspirations even more next year… will have a fresh new look, new weekly posts etc. I can’t wait for you to see!

((Live What You Love 2011 Special Edition is on its way…))

We are driving up today to Cape Cod, Massachusetts to celebrate the new year’s day with our lovely friends :) Wishing you a very happy and exciting New Year… May 2011 be filled with joy, love and creativity!

I will see you all next Monday — that’ll be in 2011! Happy New Year :)

Inspired by the lace heart, I created a polymer plate.

Hot off the press:

Lace Heart Letterpress Print in Black:

Lace Heart Letterpress Print in pink:

Cute hearts on your lovely wall <3

p.s I am leaving town in 2 weeks for about a month — please shop accordingly! :)

You might know already that I am obsessed with heart-shape… so this street stopped me immediately! <3

It was then navigating you to the subway entrance…

I hope this makes you smile for the rainy grey day (at least in NY)… :)

Off to letterpress studio today… see you all tomorrow!

Scenes from the studio…

The first color printed… without the heart.

Now, place the linoleum heart in the right place…

Adjust the placement and the height of the linoleum by placing papers on the bottom…

and there! Makes me smile every time :)

and here is the final product: Live What You Love Special Edition in Gray with Red Heart

To enter, please leave a comment on this post and tell me your favorite color combination — 2 colors, please — by midnight EDT on Monday, May 17th and I will pick a winner and announce one next week!

You can be anywhere in the world, I will ship it to anywhere if you win :) Also, if you tweet about it (@hijirik) or if you mention about it on your blog, that gets you more entries — make sure to tell me by leaving another messages so I can count that, too! GOOD LUCK!! A big HEART to you all!! <3<3<3

I’m going to my letterpress studio again today, printing something very sweet…

See you all tomorrow! Have a great day :)