Kirsten Lawrence

‘Twas a glorious trifecta last night around 2:30 am: -45F + lunar eclipse + aurora 💕

Growing up, using Alaska time was something only the post office did and Hyder mostly followed Pacific Time. I wonder with BC’s change to permanent standard time how the Hyderite’s perception and usage of time will change.

I also warn others about making sure outdoor grills aren’t walled in by snow because that can also be a killer and one some don’t think about because it’s outside. It’s good to think about these things because it could be life-saving. 💕

Thank you for the warning (I am 100% thankful for that). We’re very aware. Batteries are fresh in the CO detector and a window is cracked.

Propane isn’t flowing this morning (because propane don’t flow at fifty below), but I hear the camp stove going. Coffee is that important, and my husband is 100% on it 🤣💕

A white notecard that says in letterpressed neon orange ink, love lives here with us.

This morning has us at -40 degrees; since I can’t stay in bed forever, I’m printing to keep warm. These will go in the shop eventually. In the meantime, I’m at least not freezing (but I haven’t gone out to the unheated outhouse yet, so freezing is likely coming) 🥶🙃💕

#letterpress #alaska

I ordered The Flavor Bible, it came, and I can’t believe I didn’t know about this book. Yay! and thank you (doing a sautéed asparagus with basil-heavy leftover pesto as I type) 💕

A blurred-focus night photograph in winter of the aurora borealis and Orion.

Until I was 30, I was incredibly nearsighted. Without glasses or contacts, everything around me was just big, fuzzy blobs; sometimes I miss that lack of definition. My 𝘶𝘯𝘰𝘣𝘴𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘥 𝘈𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘬𝘢 series is a bit of a throwback to how I used to see the world. This image is from the other night 💕

Never. Never ever ever. 💕💕💕

We’ve been doing a fair amount of tater tots lately: tater tots with curry sauce, tater tots with bbq sauce, tater tots with cheese, plain tater tots, tater tot omelettes…. always worth it 💕

A pic showing my painting station where I’m trying to paint a little bit of neon yellow that’s been thinned with linseed oil into areas of a letterpress print where I don’t feel the letters printed legibly enough.

Filling in the letters-didn’t-quite-print-enough areas with a bit of neon yellow thinned with linseed oil. Truth be told, I’m just making it up as I go (in #letterpress as in life) 💕

She’s making great choices 💕

A black-and-white medium format image of two sunflowers (one out of focus in the foreground, the other in focus in the background) with the words ‘you are my heart’ printed beneath in bright blue.

This was always going to happen: messy, exuberant printing on darkroom-printed medium-format film images. Let love rule, in my little corner of Alaska and everywhere 💕

Photo taken in 2019 (Reno, Nevada), printed in 2020 (Reno, Nevada), and printed on in 2026 (Kenny Lake, Alaska).

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There’s a moose laying down at the far end of our side of the pond. I’ve never seen a moose laying down before and it’s very cool. The light is fading so now it just looks like a black lump in the snow. (I still get excited to be able to see moose from the kitchen) 💕

A letterpress print that says, established trap line, in neon red

When the husband asks me to make him a sign 🤣

I’m going to try out the sample 3-pack of yupo paper for the final prints, which excites me because I haven’t been sure how to use it. It’s a plastic paper that will hopefully hold up outside in sun, rain, snow, and fifty below 💕

#letterpress #alaska

A real photo postcard looking towards the Stewart, British Columbia, Canada, main street from a wooden bridge crossing Rainey Creek. Above the bridge hangs a sign that says, Stewart, 20 miles per hour. To the photographers back, the road continues 3 kilometers to Hyder, Alaska.

My latest Stewart, BC postcard acquisition is a good one because it shows a wooden bridge over Rainey Creek (now it’s asphalt with a culvert, but in the same spot) and a 20 mph sign from Canada’s pre-metric times. This view is coming from the Hyder, AK side 💕

A letterpress print that states in light blue in the background, you are a blessing; and in bronze in the foreground, I love you more than love.

I have to laugh at myself a little because I have a lot of love I seem to need to print out. This one is very much for my husband to whom I am always saying these two things 💕

#lettterpress

A photograph of a moose walking behind a flank of brush

A cow and calf were out traversing the pond complex a few moments ago. I love it when the moose make an appearance 💕

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My ‘daily prints’ exhibition in Juneau made the front page of our local paper this week. #letterpress in Alaska exists 💕💕

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A letterpress print that says, My heart is where the magic lives.

Your heart is where magic lives too 💕

#letterpress

A letterpress print that reads, I am always connected to my heart.

So far, my 2026 printing has been revolving around love (I’m only five prints in, so that could change). Also, I’m using an out-of-the-package, untrimmed-by-me, letter-size, index-card-weight paper that I’m really digging 💕

#letterpress

We were clouded over last night and this morning and I feel that a totally appropriate response to missing a stellar aurora show is to just dance it out 💕

Mixing it up with a little KEXP this morning; so far it’s been Re-Flex and The Power Station and I’m 100% here for that 💕

My latest (nonprinting) obsession is listening to KCRW’s Vintage24 station. It’s all rebroadcast music programming from their analog days and is a needed departure from the nonstop onslaught of current events 💕

A letterpress print that states, ‘be a sunday kind of love’.

Today’s print is pretty straightforward. I’m not adding anything more 💕

#letterpress

A text message from my mom to me briefly discussing her volunteer work making doggie booties for the 1974 Iditarod.

I told my mom that my husband thinks she’s a secret survivalist and she texted me back saying that one of the influencing events for that was sewing doggie booties for the 1974 Iditarod 💕

(She’s not secret about it; she is a woman who likes to be full-on prepared for emergencies and disasters 💕)

I have used 6x9” envelopes to send folded letterpress items (sometimes just done on printer paper). That envelope size (non-rigid) is the largest that still requires only one regular stamp which makes it a size I love very much. And it feels a bit sturdier to me than a #10 envelope. 💕

Yay! That’s fabulous. Congrats 💕

This is very much the truth 💕

I really, really, really want to print but it’s +23F outside right now and I can hear birds chirping. Even the intense desire to put ink on paper can’t make me stay inside today. Oh, it’s so glorious. The way-below-zero temps aren’t over, but right now I will celebrate 💕