The wonderful Suitcase Series from uppercase presents the lives of artists and designers in book form, first with camilla engman, and now the fabulous dottie angel — crafter extraordinaire! Dottie Angel is the second in the series published by UPPERCASE — image-based books, full of artwork, beautiful photographs and artifacts from where the artists live and work... 
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okay, i think most of us all know and love dottie angel, aka tif fussell. i think her home tour here on sfgirlbybay was one of the all-time favorites. if you don’t yet know of tif, she is a misplaced Brit living in suburbian seattle, a blogger and a crafter of recycled vintage goodness. and, now tif is teaching a craft workshop at angela ritchie’s ace camps! tif... 
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i’ve been a huge fan of molly wizenberg of the fab food blog orangette forever, and when i read her book, ‘a homemade life’ i became an even bigger fan. she’s so candid and forthcoming in what is a cookbook, but also a book full of wonderfully well-told stories involving each of the recipes. so i wrote molly, and asked if i might share with you a little... 
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okay, so i know i’m a little late to the game, and i’ve had this book on my shelf for a while now, but i am simply loving molly wizenberg’s a homemade life! i’ve been reading all this rather deep and mysterious fiction lately, so to dive into molly’s book is like finding the dark clouds have lifted! i adore the personal, and candid way molly writes,... 
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I just love the aesthetic of Ace Hotels. Clean, streamlined and sleek, not overly fussy, just simply elegant. I mean what’s worse than a hotel trying to look all posh and doing a really mediocre job of it? Either you are a posh hotel, or who are we kidding, you’re a motel. It’s like airline food – why try and be all fancy-pants and serve some kind of... 
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