is the enterprise of Anne Connell (sole prop., factotum, utility player, and dogsbody), an erstwhile painter and collagist who, owing to forces beyond her control and the vicissitudes of existence, has turned her creative energies to designing stuff. ❡ She has exceptionally high standards for her work, and guarantees that the only sort of intelligence that will ever be involved in its creation is the human sort (to wit, her own). She designs the sort of cards she'd be delighted to receive: cards that will appeal to the discerning sensibilities of those who appreciate wit, skill, and the idiosyncratic. ❡ Anne lives in Portland, Oregon, having fetched up there toward the end of the last century. She shares her space with a Pekingese mix named Pippa, and with her personal dinosaurs Guy & Clement, a bonded pair of feral budgies.