Aug 05
Printer Proofs
Posted in: Dottie AngelHere’s a quick iPhone video I made about the printer proofs, just one step in the production process.
Aug 04
First Thursday: Help, please!
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It’s the First Thursday of August! UPPERCASE and Art Central will be open until 9pm for festivities and activities.
I would really like your help: now that all the goodies such as the lucky bunny postcard, thread cards, fabric swatches, doily bits and vintage buttons are assembled, they all need to be inserted into the glassine envelopes and sealed with washi tape. It’s fun and pretty to look at, I promise! Especially with more people helping out to make the work go quickly. UPPERCASE will be open from 3pm – 9pm… I hope to see you soon!
A snapshot of my workspace, calculating just how many bits and bobs are needed to fill each glassine envelope…
Aug 03
Doilies, doilies, doilies!
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Once again, eBay was my source for getting vintage en masse. I spent quite a lot of time searching for the best lot that would make including bits of vintage doilies in the book possible… My score was a lot of around 70 doilies and tableclothes that have been cut up, by the wonderful Janice (see post below), into little bits that will be included in the glassine envelope of goodies (for preordered copies only, while supplies last.)
Thanks to the anonymous granny who made these doilies. I’m sorry that your family sold them on eBay, but now they are going to many appreciative and crafty hands around the world!
Aug 03
dottie angel: doilies
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The use of doilies and found lace, whether in whole such as the background for this applique, or as a decorative bit on a curtain, blanket or slip, is a hallmark of dottie angel style.
‘To doilify’ is one of Tif’s expressions that is included in our book’s dictionary.
Aug 03
thank you Janice & Papier Valise
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As you can see, we need an awful lot of thread cards! One in each book x print run = 3000! These photos are by Janice of the lovely blog Scissor Variations. Janice’s online shop, Papier Valise, is THE place for vintage ephemera for scrapbooking and collage-making.
Aug 03
dottie angel: little string of happy
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Every dottie angel book comes with a card of dottie thread and swatch of vintage fabric with which you can make a ‘little string of happy’.
Thank you to Kendra, Erin, Ana and Janice for winding the paper bobbins.
Aug 02
All of them!
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Tif is amazing to work with. She would send me surprise images such as this arrangement of all her chapter stitches!
Aug 02
Type Tuesday: A Versatile Title
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Tif stitched the book title lettering on a decorative oval linen that she could then move and phtograph on different backgrounds, such as fabric or vintage wallpaper.
As a designer, I really appreciated the various options. Each one has its own mood, though my favourites are the one on white fabric and this one, above, with its bright seventies floral.
Aug 02
Type Tuesday: dottie angel style
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If you read the dottie angel blog, you will quickly be introduced to a quirky and endearing narrator. ‘Perfectly perfect’, ‘peachy’, ‘crappity crap’ and other fun turns-of-phrase are part of the dottie angel vocabulary. The book includes a handy and entertaining dictionary to explain these and other dottie angel terms.
The book includes a “Just Say it Like it is” how-to for creating this wall hanging:
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