This weekend’s Stationery Saturday is super-sized in several ways. We’re offering not one but two different stationery products for personalization. AND we’ll be joined by Barry Rubin of Ink: the Pen Store, who will be selling an assortment of fine writing instruments. AND all calendars and datebooks will be on sale, 15% off regular price. As usual, coffee and homemade cookies will be available for all visitors (this week’s cookies come from the kitchen of a State Fair Blue Ribbon-winning baker!!!). We’re pretty sure that if you could attend just one Stationery Saturday in your life, this is THE ONE.

What’s on the press? Holiday photo cards, mostly. We’ve created three different designs using selections from our collection of vintage lead type and decorative boarders. Each flat 5 by 7-inch card has a space for you to mount a 3.5 by 5-inch photograph (we recommend ordering them from National Camera Exchange, our favorite local picture printer). There’s a holly jolly red design for those with the Christmas spirit; another printed in aqua blue ink with a Happy New Year message; and a third card, printed in lime green ink, wishing receivers a non-denominational “merry happy december whatever”. You choose the design you like (or a combination of 2), and the massage you’d like imprinted at the bottom of the card (we’re imagining stuff like “From the Smiths” or “Adam & Eve, 2010″). All are printed on bright white shimmering card stock, and available with various colorful envelopes. Not in the market for holiday cards? Shopping for gifts instead? We’ll also have luscious cotton card stock on hand, to imprint with the name phrase of your choice. These little folded cards are the picture of classic elegance – petite Bernhard Modern lettering pressed into the front panel of a 3.5 by 5-inch folded card, paired with your choice of white or colored envelopes. They’re small enough to stuff in a stocking, and they make great post-holiday thank-you notes as well. Whether you want you want photo cards or folded notes, can watch as we set the type and print your cards, do some pen-shopping and coffee-drinking while we make the magic happen, or split after you place your order and pick up the finished cards next week. It’s up to you!

You can read more about this Saturday’s plans, and get the full scoop on Stationery Saturdays, by visiting the Stationery Saturday page.

Want to spread the word about all this fun? RSVP to the event listing on the Lunalux facebook page, and invite all your stationery-addicted pals to check it out.

We’re also happy to be offer on-line ordering for far-away fans. The Lunalux shop at feltandwire.com, in addition to showcasing some of our favorite greeting cards, also includes listings for all of this weekend’s personalizable products.

Stationery Saturdays have been such a hit lately, we’ve added a couple extra dates to our December schedule. This week, we’re mixing things up with Stationery Saturday: The Wednesday Edition! We’ll be creating print-to-order monogram note-cards on Wednesday December 1, from 5:00 to 9:00p.m. Though it’s on a weeknight rather than a weekend, it’s the usual drill: pop into our Loring Park studio to view the options in person and place your order. You can enjoy coffee and homemade cookies while we print your personalized stationery, or make plans to pick up at a later date. The cost if just $29 for 10 cards (additional cards are just $2 each). For this special Wednesday event, we’re dipping into our collection of vintage lead monograms. There will be three designs to choose from, and three paper options. Monograms will be letterpress-printed with black ink on 4.25×5.5-inch folded cards. And while you’re in the shop, take a look at our fantastic selection of holiday cards. All boxed holiday cards will be on sale during this event – 15% off regular price. For more details, plus information about upcoming Stationery Saturday dates and designs, take a look at our Stationery Saturday page.

We’ve never printed anything like this for Stationery Saturday before: long narrow stationery sheets that fold in thirds to fit into colorful little 4bar envelopes. They’re big enough to feed through your computer printer (perfect for a sophisticated holiday letter or party invitation), but still a good size for a hand-written thank-you note. We love the bright, joyful designs, the unique format, and the modern sans serif lettering we’re using for the imprint. Here’s how this works: November 20, 11a.m.-6p.m., we’re offering personalized letterpress-printed stationery at very affordable prices ($29 for 10, $39 for 15, or $49 for 20 sheets & envelopes). Four pre-printed designs will be available: magenta rosette, orange fleurs, goldenrod tiles, or purple thistle. Customers get the name or phrase of their choice (maximum of 25 characters/spaces) imprinted with vintage sans serif lead type, in pale gray ink, just below the icon. We’ll package your personalized stationery with coordinating envelopes and a letterpress-printed tag. Ideal for gifting! You can watch and/or shop while we do the printing (wait times vary from 15 minutes to 2 hours, depending on how busy we are), or place your order, enjoy a cookie and a browse in the shoppe, then pick up your finished stationery at a later date. It’s up to you.

If you’re loving these designs but can’t visit our studio on November 20, you can order online. We’ve added this weekend’s choices to the Lunalux shop at Felt & Wire – all four designs are available here, along with loads of our other greeting cards.

If you’re the Facebook type, you can RSVP via the Stationery Saturday event listing on the Lunalux Facebook page. We’ve really been working the FB lately, and would love it if you’d help us spread the word.

We’re also planning THREE Stationery Saturday events for the month of December (including “Stationery Saturday, the Wednesday Edition” on the first of December) and we’re planning some really fun stuff for each event, including outside vendors and discounts on select products. You’ll find details about this weekend’s event, and other upcoming Stationery Saturdays, on the Stationery Saturday page.

We finally have an online shop! Now Lunalux fans near and far can get their letterpress-loving paws on our stuff via the Felt & Wire Shop, a curated online marketplace full of design-driven cards and gifts. Like everything around here, our Felt & Wire shop is a work in progress; we try to add a few new things every day, so there’s an ever-growing selection. Today’s milestone: all of our ready-made holiday cards are now online (including two new creations, shown below). All Chickenboys are  present and accounted for, as are many other customer favorites, such as the Fortune Folio, the Irreverent Series, and the Bacon-Eating Contest card. Thank-you notes, call-me cards, scratch pads and posters are on the short list of Products to Add Soon. We’ve even posted our Stationery Saturday designs there in the last couple months, allowing our friends to order personalized stationery from afar. Next time you need a little Lunalux fix, we hope you’ll check us out at feltandwireshop.com/seller/lunalux.

We’ve flirted with other online marketplaces in recent years, but they all felt too cluttered and anything-goes. When we found the Felt & Wire Shop, it seemed a perfect fit. The site is run by the fine folks at Mohawk paper (they make Strathmore Writing, one of our go-to stocks for greeting cards, stationery & invitations), and we love that there’s a tight focus on stationery and other paper-based goods. It’s truly an honor to be included! If you’re a fan of ours, or just a stationery geek in general, you’re sure to flip out over all the creative products for sale, from gritty wood-type posters to polished calendars and hand-bound journals. We try not to spend too much time clicking around over here, lest we spend all of our allowance in one place!

It’s Stationery Saturday time again. And you know what that means: personalized stationery letterpress-printed while you wait, for just $29.00. This Saturday, September 11, we’re offering note cards featuring four handsome motifs: a Minnesota silhouette, a Minneapolis stamp, a St. Paul stamp, and three stars. We’ll print the name or phrase of your choice (25 characters and spaces, max) in red ink using a newly acquired font of vintage Huxley Vertical lead type. These buckslips (that’s a 3.875×9.25-inch flat card that fits into a standard business-size envelope) are printed on 100# natural white Strathmore Pastelle felt-finish cover – it’s a hefty stock, feels very substantial, and takes the letterpress impression very nicely. Finished cards will be paired with matching deckle-edge envelopes, and packaged with ribbon and a letterpress-printed Lunalux tag. All the names/phrases on the cards shown here were chosen by our fans – we had a contest on the Lunalux facebook page, and the winners’ ideas were used to print samples. You can visit our Stationery Saturday page to read more about the event, see a list of other upcoming dates, and view photos of past Stationery Saturday designs. Or use the event listing on facebook to RSVP and tell all your paper-lovin’ friends about it too. Stationery Saturday runs 11a.m.-6p.m.; we’ll also have coffee and homemade cookies to share all day. We’re excited to hang out with all y’all!

For folks who are dying to get their paws on some of these limited edition cards, but geography or their schedule doesn’t permit them to visit our studio on the 11th of September, we now have a way for you to order Stationery Saturday cards online. Just visit the new Lunalux shop at feltandwireshop.com, a curated stationery marketplace, where you can view product listings for all four designs, and order your favorite. This is a new experiment for us, so we hope someone will try it out and we hope it goes smoothly!