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Welcome to the world, little Parker! My baby had a baby! Welcome to the posse wee grandson. Momentous for many reasons, this birth announcement commission from my daughter (no charge) takes me full circle in my career. Initially designing the birth announcement for my son, Noel, in 1990 (press-type, pre-computer!), then following soon after with …

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I’m swimming in young love. Granted, I’m the furthest thing from “young” but was thrilled to have been commissioned to create custom designed wedding invitation suites for two wonderful young couples. Amazed by the detail and thoughtfulness required these days (my age is showing), I was eager to capture their every wish so that my …

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I was thrust back in time the other day when I spied a very familiar ceramic tableau featured in a travel piece by USA Today. The years fell away, and I was suddenly a naive graduate student of design and architecture, with a side gig at a Lincoln Park retail store created in the mode …

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  Being one of Oprah’s Favorite Things is a hard act to follow. But Melissa is up to the challenge. Wood is a graduate of Cornell College in Iowa, where she majored in English Lit, Art & History. Having zero career trajectory in mind, she took courses that made her happy. She did not explain this system …

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