{"id":11241,"date":"2012-05-21T22:36:41","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T06:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/?p=11241"},"modified":"2012-05-22T08:30:32","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T16:30:32","slug":"peachy-spiffy-and-not-at-all-pants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/21\/peachy-spiffy-and-not-at-all-pants\/","title":{"rendered":"peachy, spiffy, and not at all pants*"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yes, that is exactly<\/em> how you start talking after you’ve spent a lovely, inspiring, creative day with Tif Fussell {aka Dottie Angel<\/a>}<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sigh. <\/em>What an amazing day we had at GIRL CRUSH Seattle this past Saturday, and it all started right here:<\/p>\n

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I had never been to Assemble Gallery<\/a> in Seattle before this weekend, and I absolutely loved it! Emily and Andie, the lovely ladies behind Assemble, were amazing and made sure that everything was just right! It was beyond perfect for an art workshop & tea party… so airy, so pretty, and filled with artwork, design objects, & stacks of gorgeous books… including Uppercase Magazine<\/a>! Thank you so much to Janine from Uppercase for giving each of us the latest issue<\/a>… so peachy {as Tif would say!}<\/em> <\/em>Once we had everything in just the right spot, it was time to say hello…<\/p>\n

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What an amazing<\/em> group of women. Lots of locals, and a few that weren’t so local. People came from LA, Boston, and Vancouver! We spent the morning talking… and talking, and talking. I was completely in awe of the transparency, and willingness to share. Tif’s story of her creative journey was so inspiring, and I was totally caught up in the reasons each of the women gave for being there. Painters, photographers, writers, performers, knitters. What we had in common was a passion to create… not to mention a few niggly doubts about what\/how we create that have been slowing us down… well, no more!<\/p>\n

I have a set of artist block crushing exercises that we spend the morning working through, and I am quite sure that all of us came away from them slightly changed. {There are already a few posts out there if you’d like to see what I mean… Here<\/a>, here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.}<\/em> We laughed, we cried, and so of course, by mid-afternoon we all desperately needed this:<\/p>\n

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So good! We had a lovely lunch catered by Macrina Bakery<\/a>, followed by an afternoon of Dottie Angel inspired deer-adorned treats by Trophy Cupcakes<\/a>… and our vintage teacups were constantly filled by the generous folks next door at Caffe Vita<\/a>! Again, I am totally overwhelmed by the generosity that went into making this event happen.<\/p>\n

So, after I finished my insanely delicious cupcake, it was time to lick the butter-cream icing off of Bambi’s hooves, and get to work!<\/p>\n

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Oh my word – I could have snipped, and glued, and painted until midnight! After a morning filled with amazing conversation, things went very quiet, very quickly. We listened to La Vie en Rose,<\/em> and collaged like there was no tomorrow. It was heaven… and just like that it was over. I have to say, I felt a little sad to say goodbye to all of the beautiful women who I now call “friend”… oh well, at least we have Twitter!<\/p>\n

Thank you so much to everyone<\/em> involved in GIRL CRUSH Seattle… and to my lovely friend Tif ~ you truly are peachy, spiffy, and not at all ‘pants’ xo<\/p>\n

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ps. GIRL CRUSH Portland<\/a> is only a few weeks away… if you’d like to come and spend a creative Saturday with me and Lisa Golightly {aka Kiki & Polly} <\/a>you can sign up right here!<\/a> If you’re thinking about it, please do come… we can’t make these events happen without you!<\/em><\/p>\n

*Pants<\/strong>: adjective; British slang. Not good; total crap; nonsense; rubbish; bad; used quite a bit by the lovely Tif Fussell!<\/em><\/p>\n

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These photographs were all taken by the ladies at the event… what talent! Thanks to Andie<\/a>, Sandra<\/a>, and Melanie<\/a> xo<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, that is exactly how you start talking after you’ve spent a lovely, inspiring, creative day with Tif Fussell {aka Dottie Angel} Sigh. What an amazing day we had at GIRL CRUSH Seattle this past Saturday, and it all started right here: I had never been to Assemble Gallery in Seattle before this weekend, and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11241"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11268,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11241\/revisions\/11268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thejealouscurator.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}