Playing with logo and Stationary

For the first letterhead I'm working with the fossil photo from the ammonite exhibit at the museum - it's the image I clipped for the "M" in the logo.  Can't see the address information but it's along the bottom of the 

stationary. 

For the next letterhead I'm playing with a repeated inverse pattern of the "M".  I can't decide whether to put it along the bottom of the letter or stacked along the side.  We'll see.

Wanted a simple scrolling at the left top of the letterhead. Then I put the logo and address at the bottom.  This is my least favorite - had the idea that the back page would have a scroll pattern in either a different color (brownish gray with ivory scrolling) or a very, very subtle ivory scrolling that is a slight difference in color.  Like a watermark. 

I wanted to do a background pattern with the logo.  My inspiration was an envelope from Sam Flax that looked very 1700s.  This is not looking like that at all.  Still working on it - want it to feel organic.

This one is the outline of a frame.  I tried for simple lines but think it's not quite there. 

One other design was to use a watermark on the stationary.  The JPEG is showing the area outside the letterhead where I played with the swirls in the "M" - it's not showing the watermark because it's so light.  Didn't look too good so I stopped.

SKETCHES STARTED