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Thanks for being here. We're glad to meet you! Please come in and see the studio and office. We've been at this location (our 2nd) since August 2003. The shop was built by Daviess County Metal and the inside finished by Sheryl's dad, Ken "Woody" Woodhouse and husband, Brian Keese.

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Take a seat and have some tea.We can look at invitation samples and talk about your special occasion!

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Let's head into the studio and see where your paper is made! A good friend and interior designer, Olivia Snyder, helped organize the new work space into separate areas for our dry tasks like sewing and tying ribbons, and for the very wet job of making your paper.

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This is the raw material that your paper is made from--junk mail, used colored office paper and grocery bags. We recycle colored paper so that we do not have to use any additional dyes. Here's Kris sorting a shipment of paper to be recycled from T.I.S. Publishing.

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The used paper is first shredded. The more old shades we mix together to get the new color, the more interesting your handmade paper will be. Here's Kris organizing bags of paper after it has been shredded at Stonebelt, an organization that gives jobs to adults with developmental disabilities.

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Using one of our hollander beaters, the shredded paper is proccessed with water into a pulp the consistency of oatmeal. Calcium carbonate is also added to provide an alkaline reserve. (See us celebrating the arrival of our second hollander.)

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8 months out of the year, the majority of the water used in making your paper is recycled from the studio's dehumidifiers and air conditioner. Brian rigged up the plumbing so that water pulled from the air conditioner is stored in containers, then accessed from spiggots located at the hollander beater and papermaking stations. Go Brian!

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Pulp, water and inclusions of flowers, etc. are mixed in a tub, and your paper is formed on a screen, called a mould and deckle. New sheets are couched on felt and put in a press to squeeze out excess water. . and there's always a lot of it!

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After the wet press, your paper is transferred to a screen shelf on one of our three drying racks. In the spring and fall when neither the heat nor air conditioner is on in the studio, it takes as long as 2 days for your paper to dry.

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After it has dried, your paper is returned to a second press for the better part of a day.

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It is then cut, folded and sewn in the dry area of the studio into your invitations and stationery. . a long process, but we think you'd agree that the results are well worth the effort!

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Your invitations' final stop is our shipping area where your order is boxed and prepared for delivery to you! We are shipping out more paper and invitations every day, so it's a good thing that the coffee is close at hand.

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Thanks for taking this tour of the Twisted Limb studio and for visiting us today.

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