 We are here for all those moments that help people communicate what they're going through or make you feel appreciated or in the business of spreading good vibes. My name is Liz Mottie Cook and I am the owner and artist behind Lionheart Prince. I studied advertising in college and I graduated in 2008 which is like the worst year for anyone to get a job ever because everybody was getting canned. So I ended up working a lot of random part-time jobs and I worked at a paper source eventually and I loved every bit of it. I loved unpacking all the cards from independent card lines and turning over each one and like this is just somebody doing this out of their house like I could totally do that. Pretty soon I was picking up hand lettering like within six months and that's when the kind of look shifted. Every time I got on a flight I would letter the name the city or state where I was heading and then just have the time with my tray table down to draw it and then post it when I got to the gate. So drew a little piece on the plane that says New Orleans once you know where it's hard to leave her. It was just kind of like how I was feeling in the moment but it was the first time that I posted something and it seemed to resonate with people and within a few minutes a local t-shirt company had seen it and licensed it. The royalties from that piece allowed me to go study typography and design in Italy with some of my design heroes. All of our cards are also hand lettered even though it takes a lot longer to get things out into the world I think that it makes us stand out. When everything's digital analog just seems to mean more. We make all of our cards here so we print on really beautiful cotton paper and these machines are super old. Our Vander Cook is a 325G and that's a big deal if you're a letterpress nerd because it's a really large press area so we can print up to 24 by 24 art prints. When I found these presses on eBay in Jackson, Mississippi finding two for the price of one three hours up the highway was amazing I'd never seen that before because these things are like 2,000 pounds each and sometimes the freight on moving these things are as much as the machinery themselves. So since October I've been running them and it's been the most gratifying experience maybe of my entire professional career feeling completely in control of the entire production line. I never want to move them again so we signed it a five year lease would be option to renew for ten and I don't plan on going anywhere.