Bella Figura is looking for a creative, inspired, stationery-loving individual to join our team as a blog intern. We are looking for someone with passion, incredible writing skills and the ability to contribute approximately 3 to 4 blog posts a week. This is a six month unpaid internship offering an unparalleled opportunity to gain an intimate working knowledge of a cool letterpress shop, our Bella Figura stationery line and our sister company, Smock. You’ll work closely with and have the opportunity to be mentored by our blog editor and get awesome experience researching, prepping, and writing for blogs with national readership.

Candidates can live anywhere in the world, but a reliable internet connection and access to email is a must. For more information please email press@bellafigura.com with your resume, a brief description of why you’d like to work with us, a writing sample, and a short list of your favorite blogs and why you love them. We can’t wait to hear from you!

As 2010 quickly approaches, we wanted to take a moment to wish everyone a very happy New Year! Thank you for making 2009 such a fabulous year for all of us at Bella Figura – it has been a pleasure celebrating with you and we look forward to many more happy occasions in 2010. We’re also thrilled to introduce our 2010 collection, created exclusively for us by some of the nation’s most talented and sought after designers and artists. Starting next week, we’ll be sharing lots of details about our new designs and our designers, but for now here is a little peek at just a few of the new letterpress wedding invitation designs that have us so very excited for 2010.

In celebration of 2009, check out some of our favorite customizations of letterpress wedding invitation designs we printed in 2009:

Majorca letterpress save the dates with grommets
Yellow and gray square Dewdrop letterpress wedding invitations
Cartoccio letterpress baby announcements
Pool and pale gray Buttonpom letterpress wedding invitations
My wedding invitations – Keswick in pale gray and mediterranean
Pink and papaya Somersby letterpress wedding invitations
Custom skyline letterpress wedding invitations
Deveril red letterpress wedding invitations

Bella Figura is excited to launch our summer sample sale, starting today, to benefit American Forests, an environmental organization near and dear to our hearts. Now through August 31, 2009, all samples of our letterpress invitations will be just $1 with all proceeds going to American Forests.

American Forests works to protect, restore and enhance our trees and forests, with every dollar donated going to plant a tree. Your purchase of our letterpress invitation samples will translate into trees that are planted for the benefit of the environment and generations to come! You can read more about American Forests on their website. You can view all of our letterpress invitation designs and order samples online – happy sample shopping!

Bella Figura has just become part of Style Me Pretty’s Little Black Book. Hooray! In SMP’s words, “The Little Black Book shows off the most innovative and chic wedding professionals on the planet” and we couldn’t agree more. It’s an excellent and very curated list of the best wedding vendors nationwide and internationally. Michelle, the gatekeeper for the Little Black Book, mentioned she receives over 300 emails a day, many from vendors requesting a spot in the LBB, so we’re just thrilled to be included in this important wedding resource.

Below is a photo montage we made for SMP, featuring some of our favorite letterpress things of late. (pictured, from top left going clockwise: Amici letterpress wedding invitation; our letterpress ink books included with sample orders; a custom international letterpress invitation; Festoon; the Estrella coaster; Deveril; Avant edge painting; the Fieno letterpress reply card; and in the center, us hard at work letterpress printing)

We’ve been a big fan of Frolic’s blog for awhile — beautiful and dreamy photography and lots of inspiration for weddings & life & design. So we were blown away when we heard that Chelsea, Frolic’s editor, is starting to donate 5% of their sponsor fees to charity. Way to go!!! Imagine if all small (and large) businesses did the same….how could the world not get better? (Photos above, spotted by Frolic: on the left, a Gabrielle Revere photograph from Bust magazine, inspired by Twin Peaks. On the right, photo by Cherry Blossom Girl). (By the way, check out Frolic’s sweet post about Bella Figura’s new site, and see Frolic’s favorite BF invitation designs here)

It’s official, our 2009 website is here! We’ve overhauled everything on our website and also improved many of our policies and customizations. We will usher in 2009 with a quicker turnaround time, new color-accurate liners, new self-sealing pocketfolds, better pricing on letterpress printing, and (best of all) over forty new letterpress invitation designs!

We hope that you like all the changes, and welcome any feedback you might have. Go ahead and leave comments on this blog post if you have any thoughts, and please let us know if you discover any problems while browsing our site.

The fun doesn’t stop here, either: we have more improvements coming to the website by Spring, 2009, most notably the ability to place and track your custom printing orders online. At this very moment, are your precious letterpress invitations on a printing press or their edges being hand-painted? You’ll never be left guessing again!

So thanks for visiting, we hope you love the new site, and we look forward to hearing your thoughts. Happy holidays!