The year is moving quickly and we have been busy creating many exciting projects!

Here is a sneak peak of a couple of our favorites:

Working with Ron Steinman and the talented staff at Quarto has been an eye-opener.
Ron brought us a sensitive, human and humble approach to the war in Vietnam entitled The Soldiers' Story, where we had the opportunity to design and illustrate with over 550 images from the National Archives in Maryland.  Publication will be October, 2015.

​A beautiful new origami gift-kit is due to be published soon, Traditional Japanese Origami, with Nick Robinson's folds and artwork and 80 gorgeous papers. This original gift package will be ready for Fall 2015 crafting fun and holiday gift-giving. The package comes with two elastic ties that collect and hold the instruction book and 4 envelopes of beautiful patterned origami folding papers.

Though moving quickly, 2014 is a great year. We are expanding on the two food kits on-line (Home-Baked Bread and Gourmet Pizza Made Easy), with Dessert Party. This new kit brings a sweet addition to our easy, step-by-step cooking kits and comes with a cupcake stand, a cake-pop stand, cookie cutters, piping bags and tips, and cupcake papers; the kit is filled with ideas and excitement for every level baker. Another project on our agenda is the Creative Gift Wrapping kit, including a book with step-by-step instructions for every kind of present, 7 patterns of wrapping paper, 3 ribbon spools and gift tags.  The book illustrates how to beautifully wrap your gifts and presents, no matter how large or small. And finally, our origami series is expanding too! We are creating several products for both beginning and advance flyers of paper planes, and have a new set of Origami Kimono Patterns, 250 sheets, for Sterling Publishing . These are just a few of the many items that we have in store for this exciting year. 

Hope you all had a happy new year! I know that with the New Year, we all have new resolutions that we want to keep. I believe that for most people one of their main resolutions is to eat healthy. What's a better way to keep track of what you eat than by making the food you eat from scratch? This kit has easy-to-make recipes that can help you manage calories and carbs, and control the salt and sugar to your preference. Home Baked Bread is the perfect kit for you to start off the New Year! This kit has it all! It includes a serving board, four loaf pans, a pastry brush, a dough-rising cloth, and a recipe book that has easy, step by step instructions for baking over 90 different types of bread.

Just this past holiday season, a friend of mine told me that she had just made the Focaccia from the Home-Baked Bread recipe book. She served it during a dinner party and everyone loved it.

You can wow your family and friends with fresh-baked bread or you can buy it as a gift for others. For those who are just learning to bake as well as those experienced in the kitchen, you'll find that the book lists the ease of creation, time allotment and yield of finished units for every recipe. And what's even better is that right now on Barnes and Noble it is on sale! So before they run out go and get yourself the Home-Baked Bread and start baking!
Here is the link for the kit on the Barnes and Noble website.

This morning on T.V. the message I heard was "Three gifts for the holidays, something you want, something you need and something to read."  With Hourglass Press, you get something you need, something you want and something to read all in one! Each of our book-based kits comes packed with crafts and/or creative materials to be an artist in the kitchen or the craft table.  Home-Baked Bread teaches you easy to make/easy to bake recipes so that your friends will think you are professional. Together with Gourmet Pizza Made Easy, kitchen tools were never more beautifully packaged. And boys and girls alike will thrill to Amazing Paper Planes, which comes with a runway to land the planes on! Happy Holidays from Hourglass Press.  We hope to see you again in 2014!! 

We had so much fun and a great response at this Fair. People were great and we really appreciate getting to know our customers in order to make better products. We are in the middle of remaking some of our products for a worldwide publisher and greatly benefited from the viewers response to packaging and product content. Thank you for all of those who came by and gave us your feedback.
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Gourmet Pizza Made Easy
Origami 200 Papers and Kimono Patterns
Fabulous Shoes
Henna Art

We had a great time at the American Book Packagers Association 2nd Annual Speed Dating Fall Event! We met many new publishers (new to us, but long in the publishing industry….), and we re-kindled spirits with other publishers who we are developing projects with. The Speed-Dating event gives a packager the chance to present new concepts and ideas to a targeted audience, be they the gems of a manuscript idea or a finished concept in a completed gift box.  With 15 minutes to introduce yourself, your book+ idea and make plans for lunch after Frankfurt, it was just the right amount of time to become acquainted with Baker & Taylor, Dover-Adult, Quirk, Race Point, Readerlink, Rizzoli, Silver Dolphin, St. Martins, Thunder Bay, and Watson-Guptil (only a few of the publishing participants!), all of which proved fascinating and provocative.  We have a lot of work ahead of us, following up with all the great concepts that were flowing in the room that night!  What an honor to attend this terrific event.

We had a great time at BEA 2012, a ‘coming out’ party of sorts, visiting with so many colleagues and friends! A big thank you to everyone who stopped by the Hourglass Press booth, it was wonderful to spend time with you all: authors, artists, illustrators, publishers, collaborators, agents, friends, new relationships, long-lost pals. What a fantastic time indeed!

Origami Paper, by Rob Wall, was a hit.  This boxed set holds 200 stunning paper squares of Kimono patterns and jewel-toned solids, and the instruction sheet folds into a Samurai Helmet. Fabulous Shoes, 20 Paper Creations to Make and Adore, by Francine LaSala and Heather Drake, launched at Mothers’ Day and continues to ignite many a shoe-dream afterward.  Everyone agreed that after hours of digital devotion, we all want to get together with each other and eat or celebrate, and Hourglass Press’ products on cooking and  crafting were ‘on pointe’ and top-shelf.  It was quite wonderful feedback to receive, we are humbled.  Thanks again!

Welcome to Hourglass Press, where we produce top-quality, book-centric products for publishers, direct-brand customers, foundations, museums and individuals.

After many years of producing illustrated work I have learned that each contributor on the project must have the necessary time, creative space and flexibility to bring their best creative work to life. These diverse partners use different work-flows from each other and I am constantly amazed with the outcome of these integrated relationships, or more simply, how beautiful products come into being.

With fine attention to minute detail, quality goods are the determined goal at Hourglass Press, and we deliver products that yield positive returns year after year.