"I'm a sucker for a good love story," she joked. We recently added two new wedding designers to our product line."įinigan meets and consults with wedding clients. "We have regulars that rely on us to help them with their stationery and paper needs," Swaffield said. The owners believe it is the blend of their custom printing work and unique retail offerings that are making the business the success it is. "We have four and sometimes five or more appointments a day with couples coming in to order their wedding invitations. "This is typically our busiest time of the year," Swaffield said. While some businesses are now in the slow winter season, that's not the case with Gus & Ruby Letterpress. It's really fun to do the windows, and I know it is a customer draw." "Many want to buy the items we make ourselves for displays. "People will come in just to see what we have inside and ask us about our window displays," Finigan said. One notable characteristic of Gus & Ruby Letterpress is its unique and creative window displays. "We have so much more foot traffic and a lot more business, too. "This move has been wonderful for us," Swaffield said. Gus & Ruby Letterpress has been on Congress Street for just seven months since moving from lower Market Street. When Eddy listened to Swaffield describing the third generation of printers that is her family business, and using an 1896 press, the television segment was born. "My husband, A.K., was replenishing our stack of business cards when Tiffany Eddy, the host of 'Chronicle,' stopped by to talk."Įddy, who shares a love of stationery, met Whitney and learned more about the business. Gus & Ruby Letterpress had a display booth on site and was contributing customized stationery as an auction item. On the first weekend in January, WMUR held its annual Winter Fest in Waterville Valley to benefit AbilityPlus, a group of volunteers that offers ski lessons and aid to people with physical and/or mental disabilities. "We're very excited about the upcoming broadcast and increased visibility of our business," Swaffield said. 10, WMUR-TV's "New Hampshire Chronicle" will feature Samantha Finigan and Whitney Swaffield, owners of Gus & Ruby Letterpress. Photo credits for style board, created on Dessy –Ĭlockwise from top left: Kari Herer Photography | Studio Mela | Pantone | Petite Collage | O’Brien & Schridde | Kari Herer Photography | private nursery found via kenziepoo | Serena & Lily | private nursery found via kenziepoo.PORTSMOUTH - On Thursday night, Feb. Thank you so so much, Samantha and Whitney for this incredible give away! To enter, be sure to comment over at the Gus & Ruby blog and stop back here on Monday to find out if you are the lucky winner! Just because you don’t have a bun in the oven doesn’t mean you can’t dream up a super fab nursery or birth announcement! We’re so excited to see what you come up with! Oh, also, if you aren’t preggo, we’d be happy to do a set of custom baby shower invites for family or friends, instead. We’ll then have a super official out-of-a-hat drawing to pick the name of the lucky winner to be announced here on The Sweetest Occasion on Monday, May 24th. In fact, in honor of Mother’s Day a couple of weeks ago, we’re going to give away a set of 50 custom letterpress birth announcements to one lucky reader! To enter, all you have to do is leave a comment on our blog in which you describe your dream nursery or source of inspiration for a birth announcement by 8:00pm EST on Friday, May 21st. See this one here? Can someone please have a baby just like the little one in the top left corner and design her a sweet little nursery nest? Please? We’ll make fabulous birth announcements for you if you do. I have a bad habit of creating inspiration boards for fantasy projects. But, Whitney and I, well we could snuggle babies all day long and have an arsenal of fabulous designs in our back pocket for those sweet baby projects that come our way. Ruby is a bit of baby herself and Gus is wary (at best) of people his size. Ruby is a natural mother and Gus just can’t get enough of children. But, one celebratory event that we just can’t stop dreaming up designs for is the birth of a new baby.īirth announcements are pretty much our favorite things ever. Today I am excited to announce that they are here with an AMAZING giveaway!Īt Gus & Ruby Letterpress, we love creating paper goodies for all things celebratory – weddings, anniversaries, family reunions, backyard shindigs, bat mitzvahs, solstice soirees, you name it - we love ’em. Hold onto your seats, because today’s guest bloggers are none other than the fabulous ladies behind Gus & Ruby Letterpress – Samantha and Whitney! In a darling shop in Portsmouth, NH named after their beloved dogs Gus and Ruby, Whitney and Sam offer a carefully curated selection of stationery and paper goods in addition to creating stunning custom letterpress designs for clients.
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