Tangie's Blog

Art Unraveled 2011 in a Few Words!

Wow! We just got back from Art Unraveled yesterday and it sure was amazing! I wish we could have stayed until Tuesday---but maybe next year ;)! We took some very incredible classes, I was so impressed with most of them! I met some new and wonderful friends and just had an all around great time. Dave loved his classes too, and I'm SO excited to see what he creates with his new mad skills!

I took:

• Visual Ammunition for the Art Addict with Davide Modler & Eric Scott
• Dooles Unleashed with Traci Bautista (with my sister, mom and friend Cami)
• Altered Imagery with Karen Michel (with my mom!)
• With one Pallette with Pam Carriker
• Everything about Pens with Kelly Kilmer (with my mom and Samantha!)

Dave took:

• Strange Angels with Michael deMeng
• Window Sampler by Daniel Essig
• Through the Looking Glass with Michael deMeng
• Closure Sampler by Daniel Essig
• Tree Book by Daniel Essig

The on Saturday they have the most OUTSTANDING, AMAZING shopping you've ever seen! If you've never been you must go next year! (You can go to the shopping day without attending the rest of of the retreat, but really you should do both ;))

Here is just a quickie snapshot of the class projects we came home with...you never finish in class so now we have all this stuff to work on ;) maybe we'll have a family night based around them so we can get them done!

I came home with 4 started journals and 3 started altered imagery paintings!

You can look through the "looking glass" on this box Dave made and it's lit from the inside with flickering led candles and their is a scene in there! It's SO COOL! I'm going to have him make me some Halloween ones!

Here is a different view of his "strange angel" (it's not finished yet!) it goes on a really cool faux painted wood board that is still packed so I didn't get a picture of it!

And a little tidbit of the shopping we did! It's a good thing I took our budget in cash---that way we knew we were done when it was gone--I could have spent a thousand bucks if I had had it!!!!  LOL

I need to find Samantha's journal too, when she gets home today I'll have her get it for me so I can take some pictures of the cute little journal she made in our pens class. I LOVE to see her art journaling it makes my heart go all a pitter!

xoxox ~tangie

My Fifteen Minutes of Fame...

I can't believe I haven't blogged about this before, but it really truly is a goal of mine to start blogging more (why, is it so hard?). I was recently featured in Somerset Digital Magazine! Wow! It was such an honor and a privilege....and to top it off I honestly and truly think this has been the best edition of Somerset Digital Studios yet! Stampington sure knows how to put on a class act. The cover is DIVINELY gorgeous.

Here is my feature article, it's four pages! Still can't believe it!

and to top it all off this is the magazine I chose to put a full color page ad if for the Art Journal Caravan (the fact that they were in the same magazine was totally a coincidence)

I hope you have a great rest of the weekend, I'm off to work on my art journal today. I FINALLY managed to get the studio put back together after the trip to Las Vegas, and I can't wait to go play in there!

xoxo

 

Packing Away and Catching Up!

An almost impossible task for me to "be still" I've tried to TRULY rest today, no packing, no working (trying to not even think about it...LOL...well I did try). I played in my art journal instead which has been sadly neglected as of late what with trying to get ready to move!

 

I also had an amazing week last week! Amy came down to visit and even stayed at my house for a few nights because we had so many things jam packed in and planned (usually she stays at her sister's)! First up was Michael Buble! (You should go check out Amy's blog she TOUCHED the man! Woot lucky girl...ROFL isn't funny how we put people up on pedestals like that?) OH and Naturally 7 is touring with him...two words..WOW. WOW. (they were INCREDIBLE)

Then of course we went to see the visually stunning Alice in Wonderland together (I'd seen it before OF COURSE but I had to make sure she got to see it too! LOVE the movie--the story--eh--what can you expect from Tim Burton? LOL)

 

The we capped off the weekend wit dinner at buca di beppo with Leesh and Stacers!! I SO LOVE my friends and feel so blessed!!!

Halloween Swap and Happy Birthday Mantha!

I did my first "ever" swap! It was hosted by Joli Paquet and I must say these could be quite addicting!

Here is what I sent my swap partner Jamie!

 

And here is a little peek at what Jamie sent me! I'm sorry Jamie the pictures do it no justice! She sent me some amazing treats! (ATC watercolor paper, Vintage Apron, Vintage Dress, Flowers from her Montana Garden, Doilies, Candy, Paper Pumpkins and so much more!)

And a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Samantha!
It's number 12!

Yesterday she had 2 friends over to make "Halloween Graham Cracker Houses" they had a blast!

 

And this morning she woke up to a yard full of STARS! Turning 12 is a huge deal in our church, it's when you move from being with the younger kids to the "Young Women" so all the 12 year old girls decorated our yard, she was so thrilled!

Give your little ones an extra "squeeze" today! Before you can blink they'll be on the front door step turning 12.

HAPPY HALLOWEEN EVERYONE!

A face . . .

Only a mother could love?

My daughter and I found this delightful little soul at Ross this past week. How could I leave him to fend for himself in such a place? Plus they gave me 10% off as an adoption bonus because his poor little pumpkin is looking a bit wilty. My dd is quite honestly a bit creeped out by him.

Poor misunderstood little soul that he is, I love him.

1 Month and Counting!

Journal Fest is in exactly a month from today!
I can't believe it!
www.teeshamoore.com

I'm so excited to be able to take classes from Ty & Marcia Schultz

Anahata Katkin

Roxanne Padgett!

These images were taken from the respective artist's blog and all credit for their amazing work goes to them!

Counting down the seconds........

I think I've blogged about this before and a whole lot more!

I was just recently talking to someone who had never heard of Pandora.com. I'm always so shocked, it's so much a part of my life I can't remember what it was like before :D! You gotta check it out if you never have before! It plays your favorite songs all day long although My dear hubby and I find it hysterical that jack johnson finds his way on to every single station (pretty darn close anyway!!). I guess that makes him an all around great artist?
Go Jack Go.

(ha ha I'm sitting here laughing because if I would have thought about it I would have posted about pandora just to have a picture of Jack on my blog but seriously the above statement came free flowing with no premeditation I swear!)

Today I picked up Samantha from school and we went and picked up some essentials for summer. you know... like paislee pixee stix (aka fabulous glitter in really cute tubes you can't help but get every color).


and some of my favorite magazines.
   

Then it was dinner with Nana at Pei Wei's!


And then.....we stopped by Paradise Bakery to get Molly some chippers! (She's had a hard day! I hope she blogs about it...Tim sort of had a biking accident and sort of broke his arm in three places and sort of tore the ligaments in the other. Good thing he had a helmet on! It cracked in 4 places!)

*sigh* heaven. heaven on earth.

 my sweet hubby has agreed i need my studio back. but there is no extra room in this house, so we've decided to convert the "pit of despair" into some semblance of a studio for me. (The "pit of despair" is a loving name with reference to "The Princess Bride"--in the house we are in for the time being-- it's a "sunken" pit. literally. with fireplace and carpeted wall to wall benches *oh the sweet 70's architecture*...since we don't sit around the fire singing Kumbaya every night it's very wasted space!) this will be the biggest challenge ever to make it my own!

Look at the divine inspiration I found.





 

amazing studio pics by {tiffanyjane}


basket of finery {andrea singerella}



photo tree {andrea singerella}






all from Beth Quinn's Studio {bethquinndesigns}

and so much more, but this will do for the present.

Vintage Vagabond Market and Soiree

WOW! I can't believe I didn't post about this in my post earlier today! We went to the Vintage Market last night that I talked about on my blog a week or so ago! We had the time of our lives, it was GORGEOUS, we got to go on two home tours of the most amazing houses ever! We got to look through so many artist's booths! It was truly amazing. We all dressed up in our "Vintage Bohemian Glamor" it was so enchanting to see 100's of ladies dressed up in all their finery!



Look what I splurged on, I've been wanting one of Beth's necklaces so very badly for so long and I bought this one at the Market! I went to her blog today and apparently it was quite the topic of conversation! I'm SO glad I got it! The doll does scare some a bit but she holds a certain calling to me, as if she is whispering her secrets. The charm attached at the bottom (which you can't see) says "She followed her heart". (Photo by Beth Quinn)



Next year I hope everyone will come, it was magical.

Spring Cleaning Part Two

I woke up with a bee in my bonnet today (apparently)
and cleaned for almost 8 hours straight, you know all those tiny cracks where dust bunnies hold thier annual meetings?


Cleaned out cupboards, drawers, closets oh and unpacked about 12 boxes of books on my new Ikea book cases!

Hooray!