Ace Camp - Tif Fussell - dottie angel dearies 2

As Tif would say - "a peachy workshop, indeed".

A little thrifting after the most extraordinarily long taxi ride through downtown Seattle at rush hour on Friday to the largest thrift store I have ever seen in my life followed by two days of crafting and sewing. Thank you so much, Tif and thank you dearies 2 for coming from all over the U.S., Canada and even Holland.

These photos are images taken by Lisa Call. I'll have mine up soon but am on my way to Morocco this very minute.

While I'm on the road - April 2012

I thought I'd share a few discoveries.

age-old tree

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders." - Edward Abbey


One touch of nature makes the whole world kin - John Muir

"bigBANG studio is the working space of painter Lily Stockman, presently of Brooklyn, recently of Jaipur and formerly of Joshua Tree. bigBANG is devoted to painting, cooking, capering & occasional trespassing."


Erst-wyle - Elisse Newey teaches genealogy courses.

Rhubarb in the garden - There is something lovely about it...and Joanne, the author and her photos and stories and creations in Wales, UK. It's gentle. Joanne also has a tumblr. (4 images below are her own - the 4th one is of her brother leaving for Australia. It kind of slays me with emotion)


I'll be brief here because I'm leaving for Morocco tomorrow and to say I'm not packed is the least of it. Yesterday evening I got back from Seattle and the Ace Camp with Tif and the dearies 2. It was really great - vintage fabric everywhere...as you can imagine. Everywhere. Thank you SO much, Tif - to be around you is a joy. Mary and I did a little shopping on the way home and had a tad of a laughing fit in a thrift store where a man was playing music and we thought he was going to do some "beat" poetry and said words like "Universe", "The Earth", "Oh, those 4 letter words, those 4 letter words"...and he went on and on and then he started singing. It was odd (and nice) that someone would be singing in a thrift store and we were tired thus causing one of those don't look at the other person, can't really laugh about this, can't look at the other person or I'll burst out laughing and it's not appropriate, can't laugh in here because we don't want to be rude to the man playing his music, kind of things.

a few more before I go...

Spain Daily is a pictoral blog with great daily photos of life in Spain.


Wilder Quarterly - I know I've mentioned it before. This is just a reminder as it's quite great for those of you who like the farm to table kind of life.

This post from dottie angel (Tif) also slayed me with emotion - 10 reasons to love used dog.

You should think of going to this if you live in Vancouver - it's a collaborative food project between Marche St. George and Butter on the Endive - that is, if you like great food and a fabulous atmosphere.

Angela searches the world wide web - December 10, 2011

Tumblr - BKFST (or Breakfast) by Diana Moss who authors one of my fav blogs: Miss Moss + Catherine Green of another fav-o blog: Wolf Eyebrows.

...and good morning to Saturday and Angela searches the world wide web!

lorena*arance/Island Menu/Sheronster/Always With Butter (I included the recipe here because the Blueberry Dutch Pancakes looked so darn good I think I'm going to make them this morning.)

Sheena over at The Little Red House baked up some cookies - Snowballs. She has a cute blog with some pretty great photos.
I found some crochet snowflakes that I thought quite nice.

Itchin' Stitchin' / The Philadelphia Studio

I loved that dottie angel is sharing "peachy" tutorials in her series - "12 Days of Joyfulness"


Day One - "A Terribly Nice Table Runner"


Day Two - "Happy Hangers of Joyfullness"


Head over to her website as it's sure to bring you joy. Right here.

Remember a while ago I posted a Kickstarter video called Put the "School" back in Art School Girl that Amy Rowan - AKA Art School Girl created to help fund the Ace Camp in Sweden with Camilla Engman. She is just about ready to send out the package for all those who contributed - check out the awesomeness that Amy has created. So proud of you, Amy! - and SO very happy you had a great experience in Sweden. Amy explains the meaning behind her hand inked print over here.

image: Susan Kropp
image: Joe Dawson

Post of the week goes to The Jealous Curator because that is where I first discovered the work of Maria Aparicio Puentes. Good find, Danielle!


Artist of the week - Mixed media + etched work by Mekhala Bahl.


Ok...I'm sneaking in another tumblr - These Tings Take Time - (could not for the life of me find photo credits...if you are the photographer and want taken down please let me know...)


Photo of the week - or rather, photos...

Edouard Boubat


and

from Sheena - The Little Red House - her photo of her daughter.


...and that does it for another week.

Amy Rice, dottie angel and the case of the printed map poster.

Well, Tif (dottie angel) tweeted and I checked out Hubert and in her post I noticed just a tad of a poster. I googled a bit of the phrase to see if I could find the artist and finally tweeted Tif and she sent me the info.


This morning I saw the poster again on the UPPERCASE blog. (Tif holding said poster at The Creative Connection - photo credit: Janine)


The one I really want so happens to have the similar saying as Tif's but a background map of Western Canada. (I didn't want to post it but you can see it here)

You can find out more about Amy Rice and her work and check out her other art delights and posters in a few spots - here + here.


...and by the way - You can meet Tif tommorrow in Seattle and she will sign your book for you. (Did you know you get a special little envelope with each book? I may have told you this.)


Here are the deets.

You are invited! Here's your chance to meet dottie angel.

photo above scooped from Jessie's facebook page credit: Jessie Senese

LOOK! A photo of all the "dearies" in the Seattle Ace Camp last year in Tif's book.


Look for your little lucky bunny inside the glassine envelope of dottie angel goodies that comes with each book.

The stories of dottie angel are also right here.