lost and found

Two of kB's favorite people are moving to Scotland this fall. kB likes them so much that we helped them pack up their things. They have a lot of things. But, among all of the things for boxes (not dump-runs) were artifacts of Tom & Steph's first sonic collaborations with fun handmade liner-note-art-books.

Check it out!

Ears for New Years, our January release!

Jesse Davis and the Magic Wings of Heaven excerpt of a story by Tom DeBeauchamp

maybe the beginnings of Steph's grad school work: looped voice!

track list, CD-art

CUPID WAS STUPIDER THAN ME & YOUPITER, aptly themed for a February release.

track list

A track by the infamous Vagabond Sex Garage and The Clitoral Hood. Yes, we called ourselves that.

a recipe!

one of our favorite risottos!

 

Everything is a little more special when it's homemade ... this is what we did before grad school! Who knows, we might pick it up again after ...

-Steph & Tom

lost and found

When kittyBOOGER was a more humble publication studio, we made one-of-a-kind handmade books to mail off to distant friends and family, as a reminder that we were thinking of them.

I just came across the first one penned with a kB signature up here in Burlington, VT ...

-Steph

the secret of our inspiration

When I first met Tom, he was trying to impress me, he had all those big ideas we have in our early twenties that we hardly realize or wait until our almost thirties to 'make it happen' ... he had a publishing company, and I was smitten.

Six-and-a-half-years later we are publishing! But, we had some helpful stepping stones along the way.

Tom took letterpress classes at PRATT (Seattle) and made some beautiful prints.

He made a great friend, Lisa Hasegawa, a letterpress printer, book artist and teacher. We had some fun dates with her; making books, playing with stamps, learning bindings. And through Lisa, Tom has had the privilege of being a part of her post card exchange, and my studio is filled with beautiful postcards ...

Now Tom is learning the art of Japanese woodblock printing, and made a chapbook, The Florida Room in his recent Hybrid Poetry class.

There is so much that has inspired us to make kittyBOOGER happen, and January 1st, 2011, we decided that we needed to do it. Though it has been a slow process, we are so excited for kittyBOOGER twenty-twelve to come out! And we can't wait to share it with you.


-Steph

Kitty BOOGER, the logo

When I imagined Kitty BOOGER, I imagined this little Southern kitten, all done-up in bows and bonnet, that was embroidered on the child-sized sun hat that I wore when I was too young for English. I don't recall ever wearing the hat. I might have seen a couple old, discolored photos of me in the hat. But I was obsessed with the image, and thankfully the hat still lives, safely, moth-free in a cedar chest, where all the other memories must live.


-Steph