SYCAMORE STREET PRESS
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At the end of the day, life is beautiful. Even when it sucks, it’s still beautiful. This belief is the cornerstone behind The Bright Side Project, and the reason even on our gloomiest days Miss B. and I try to focus on the positive–even if that means another person has to show it to us before we can see it. (Nope, we’re not perfect.)
Eva and Kirk Jorgenson of Sycamore Street Press share this same philosophy, only Eva Jorgenson took that ideology, designed around it, and ran it through a vintage letterpress. The La Vie en Rose Letterpress Poster is the result. This poster features a hand drawn illustration pressed into 100 % cotton paper made from remnants of the cotton industry. Also, it’s beautiful. And what better way to remind yourself that life is a bed of roses (despite the thorns) than with something just as lovely?
Sycamore Street Press is giving away one La Vie en Rose Letterpress Poster to one lucky winner. In order to win, please answer the following question by Thursday, July 30, 2009.
When in your life have you felt you were living “la vie en rose” ( which roughly translates into “seeing the world through rose-tinted glasses”)?
Please start checking the winner’s box on Wednesday, August 5, 2009. Good Luck!
hmm…probably the whole first year of my relationship with my husband when we were three hours apart. Everyone was filled with doubt and skepticism about what they felt wasn’t really a relationship, but for a full year we traded the 3 hour trip every weekend to be able to see one another. Looking back, it seems ridiculously difficult and arduous, but at the time, I just did it, and thought nothing of it, even though gas was nearly $5/gal.
I spent a year in Oxford, England, doing my master’s degree, and absolutely loved it. I felt as though I were living in a fairy tale the whole time…my own personal, true fairy tale. Totally fantastic.
For the past 27 years. And I’m 27 years old. :) Life still holds a crazy magical quality about it. Every day is an opportunity for a new adventure. I still believe in the good in everyone, and have been fortunate to have never been proven otherwise. I still believe in the strength and beauty of love, of soulmates, and hopeless romantics. There’s beauty and a silver lining everywhere… I hope to never lose my rose tinted glasses.
i wish more often. i take life too seriously. i would have to say back in college. i was more care-free.
One time I really remember viewing ma vie en rose was when I went to India this past winter break. I go every other year, but this past trip we went to the holiest city in India, Varanasi, and I just experienced so much spirituality juxtapositioned with such horrible poverty that I realized how lucky I was to live the life I did, to have the opportunities that I do and be as blessed as I am. Even as a child, the site of such extreme destitution would leave me sobbing and with the feeling that I needed to do something to change this part of world that so many people don’t even know exists, this underbelly of a third-world country, but it wasn’t until I saw these people who were dealt such a low hand in life believing so firmly in their gods that I truly revised the way I saw the world and began to see en rose comme le Francais : )
My first year out of school and working. I had money, a car, lots of free time and good friends. So few worries back then.
Every time someone loves my design work! It’s so full filling to see your hard work and creativity being put to good use. It reminds me why I design; to bring people joy. (And lucky me, I get it in return!)
when i was in love. life was thrilling, heart-stopping, and magnificent.
when i finally quit a “secure” job to follow my dreams.
When I was falling in love with my husband. The whole world was a bed of roses!
twice: each time I go to Paris to visit my friend and we spend time in the street and going to exhibition etc.
when i was in Turkey for four months and exuded creativity and travel in a place where i could hardly understand anything that was said.
Right now. If we don’t choose to live ‘la vie en rose’ right now and every single day, when will we?
When I finally learned to fully embrace myself – faults and all. It was only through learning to love myself that I could finally love life with the zest I do now.
I saw the world through rose-colored glasses on a hot summer night, long ago, while visiting my grandparents house. I had been sent in to take my bath before going to bed. The windows in the bathroom were open and I could hear of the sweetest voices in the world talking on the back porch… Mom, Dad, Grandma, and Grandpa. That memory remains with me to this day. Or perhaps visiting my other grandparents, and sleeping in Grandma’s lumpy old feather bed, listening to the train as it rumbled down the track in front of her house and feeling the shake. Good times. Great grandparents. I was blessed.
When we were living in New York City as newly weds. I was so in love with my husband & falling in love with our new city – I didn’t even notice that it was dirty or smelled bad sometimes or was crowded or expensive. I just loved everything about it.
When I had my first born. I was in this little new baby bubble that now feels like rose colored glasses. It was hard, it was exhausting, but it was beautiful. When I think of it, I’ve had rose-colored glasses three wonderful times now.
Following my engagement – what a magical moment! It truly has opened my eyes to life’s precious moments, both big and small! My fiance has brought so much happiness and joy to my life and I’m sincerely thankful to share the rest of my life with him as he brings out the best in me and my surroundings:)
Four year relationship, four weeks before the wedding, his “girlfriend/hootchie” shows up at the door, I actually invited her in for coffee, listens for about 4 minutes and it only took me an hour to cancel the whole wedding……was packed and moved out before he got home from work. They had been “dating” for 2 years….I had no idea…..