Bellavance Ink Typewriter Stickers

~ ljlaurajoy


I sent Jesse at Bellavance Ink a photo of
my precioussssss
aka my Royal Quiet De Luxe
and asked if he would consider creating a typewriter design.

He very kindly agreed, and just look at what a beautiful job he’s done with it! Spot on, down to the narrow placement of the rolls that help me deal with my narrow bird paper.

My baby…all grown up and in sticker form…*sniff*

The official typewriter of Charlottesville Poem Store can live on your water bottle, your laptop, your car, or wherever reputable stickers live.

I’m so thrilled to have these stickers available for purchase at the farmer’s market, and here on my site soon.

Three Months

~ ljlaurajoy


I’ve been writing poems at the market for three months.

Things are a little different from when I first started. I sit under a tent to keep myself and my machine out of the sun. I write a little faster and more freely, guess that comes with practice and experience. I have floating frames for sale, and Mystery Poems, and some other literary odds and ends.

My favorite change: I have repeat customers now, people who return again and again for poems to mark special occasions.

I’ll be at the Farmer’s Market at Ix every Saturday for the foreseeable future (except I’ll be at the Crozet Arts and Crafts Festival the first weekend of October). I love the market managers and fellow vendors at Farmer’s Market at Ix, and have made many good friends there these past 90-ish days.

If you’re in Charlottesville on a Saturday morning and have an urgent poetry need, stop by and see me.

Laura

That Thing They Say About the Third Time

~ ljlaurajoy

image of a young girl wearing a round lapel pin depicting the face of an owl
Our third Saturday writing poems at the market is in the books! So many poems, so little time, and we found ourselves reluctantly turning away customers as we wrote our last lines of the morning.

We wrote about cellular health, bats, anniversaries, and lovers. And during a brief pause in the action, we sold an owl pin to a very sweet customer.

This was the first truly hot market day of the season and we barely survived without a tent, so it’s time to invest in some shade for sure. New and improved Charlottesville Poem Store digs are on their way!

See you soon,
L&J

Saturday market

~ ljlaurajoy

Woman dressed in a 1940’s style retro black dress with white pola dots, sitting down at a small table that holds a Royal Quiet de Luxe typewriter, a case containing lapel pins for sale, and a box containing vintage art plates for sale.
We spent a Saturday morning at the farmer’s market writing poems for market-goers. It was a gorgeous morning, chilly to start but we warmed up quickly after the sun crested the top of the tree line.

Our first-ever market customer was…a poet. There is no better way to kick off a business venture than with our brain’s immediate baptism in imposter syndrome neurochemicals.

Her time at the market was short, as she had a nature walk to attend, so when she returned a few minutes after providing her prompt I suggested that she finish the poem with me.

Oh, she loved the idea, so she sat at the Royal, took up after my first three stanzas, and closed ‘er out. Here she is reading the poem; this is for you, Nora, out walking among the trees.