This Open Studios invitation is one of only two that were hand-set in lead type. Subsequent ones were printed from photopolymer plates. It also bears the distinction of first announcing the name "Painted Tongue Press."

The type, a complete font of Park Avenue, had just been purchased from the son of the late Jim Epps, a gentleman who collected type supplies for many years with the intent of spending many long, happy hours in his studio after retirement. Sadly, he passed away before attaining this goal. He had accumulated a large mass of supplies, and many bay area printers now work with the pieces of his studio.

It was due to this recent acquisition of her first set of lead type, that Vanderheiden created and announced her press name. She did not print Open Studio invitations on her own letterpress until 2002. This set was printed at Quelquefois Press, owned by her mentor, Mary Laird.

These were also her first forays into the medium of solar etching. She used four of her drawings to create the images on the plates. Bike Melánge was a reference to the "88 Renditions of an Old Green Bike" that was in progress at the time. "Attic Room" corresponded to a group of oil paintings that were later abandoned. "Tomaselli's" was a travel drawing made at a delicious café in Salzburg. "The Sybil of Cumae" is an illustration of the opening lines to T.S. Eliot's poem, The Waste Land.