notice

How cute is this pink skirt and that tunic in the middle? LOVE the new pieces from Notice.
Really enjoyed An Education, a film I would highly recommend. The line art (motion graphics) on the opening were fantastic, especially the paper airplanes. The styling throughout the movie was beautiful and so were the British accents.

JC and I were one of the "couples" for the JNP Workshop. It was fun dressing up and getting props together and reminded me of the good ol' days of being a stylist/producer. The dress I am wearing is by Rebe. Here are a couple of favorites by Melissa.

And here are a couple of the best shots by Jeffrey.

someone has a case of the mondays.

Waking up is so hard to do. Poor doggies just have to play all day, eat, take walks, lay around, nap, drink water, and they can barely stand mondays. See you tomorrow!

craft.

We had date night last night and tried a place neither of us had ever been. This restaurant was stunning and the service was impeccable. And of course, most importantly, the food was absolutely delicious.
I had the Short Ribs and JC had the lamb. We had a lovely evening and enjoyed all the fine details & little surprises, like take home muffins.
Thanks, Craft, for an excellent dinner and breakfast!

We were commissioned to do some custom fabric albums and I wanted to show you my favorites. We're using American Crafts D-Ring albums as the base and carefully covering them by hand with various fabrics. My favorites turned out to be for a set of twins, a boy and a girl.


We also did some more classic looks with these.
The inside is covered with the same fabric as the outside.


Buster stole Bamboo's toy (or perhaps he really does prefer pink over blue) and was protecting it for so long, he dozed off...

love love love

Got to see this movie (thanks to Stacey!) and we both absolutely loved it. Amazing cast, great locations spotted throughout Los Angeles, and we'll both be seeing it again when it comes out, just not with each other. Mr. Wonderful makes fun of me because I still get excited when I see the previews for it.
Using Shabby Chic Crafts tags, I created these layouts. And I'm guest blogging for them today as well.

5 sweet lovely little things details
details here for sweet things
details here

Thanks for looking... what are you loving right now?

sunday brunch bliss

2 eggs over easy
bacon extra crispy
3 polenta cakes
glass of green juice (Naked Superfood)

(not pictured: cup of Ground Work coffee with English toffee creamer and glass of grapefruit juice)

wearing Victoria's Secret slippers, a gift from Kristin Harmel, and my peace sweatpants from when we used to make them as part of our collection over 5 years ago.

moments

I love this video. Nominated for the Best Short Form Music Video Grammy award, the truly inventive "Her Morning Elegance" is hands down my favorite video from last year. Wondering if the Kindle commercial was shot by the same artist? Does anyone know?

And I love that my boyfriend found out about the event we attended last night at Bergamot Station. Her Morning Elegance Gallery did an amazing job of displaying the incredible stop motion photographs. "Her Morning Elegance music video was made of exactly 2096 still photographs, shot and sequenced to create the sense of movement using stop motion technique.
After going from stills to motion, the artists decided to break the motion back to its still form and exhibit the 2096 individual photographs in gallery exhibitions worldwide.Each still photograph will be printed once as a single edition print and sold through this website. Once a photograph is sold, the corresponding second in the video will no longer be available. And with the very last frame sold, the video will have been broken apart, back to its original 2096 pieces, spread worldwide and hung in 2096 houses, bedrooms, living rooms and galleries."
Here are some photos from the evening...





The other night, we had the pleasure of listening to the author of The Happiness Project at Vroman's in Pasadena. Gretchen spoke of her resolutions, the things she tried to do for happiness which failed (Laughing Yoga being one of them), and amazing insights into her year of research. She was inspiring and I am truly looking forward to reading the book. Oh and I totally perked up when she mentioned scrapbooking. Turns out she does it & loves it!

happy things from CHA

With only 3 hours to spend at the Craft & Hobby Association winter show, I had a well executed plan to hit my favorites first. It turned out to be the perfect allotment of time to focus and see what I wanted to see. It was quick, but delightful and of course I didn't take enough photos.

I didn't take any photos with Jenni, but had a fun time chatting with her. The new collection looks great and here's some lovely photos of Jenni Bowlin on Shimelle's blog

Getting to meet and hang out with Elizabeth Kartchner was definitely a highlight. Her new line, Dear Lizzy with American Crafts is so fun and colorful. Shimelle did a great write up here.

And here are some photos:






Love the Hambly make n take bracelets. A couple of us were so crazy about the rub-ons, we decided to put some on our phones.

reel neat.

I've had these film reel canisters around for quite sometime. I use them to hold little goodies and various embellishments. A couple days ago, boredom (or inspiration, perhaps) hit and I began altering them with little stickers. They made me happy, so I listed some of them on Etsy.
Hope you like them too!

Here are some recent photos from my phone-
the rain boots that have been worn for the past 5 days.
And the doggies looking out at the sunshine-at last!

nuts

I am nuts about being on the Shabby Chic Crafts Design Team! (I'm cheesy, I know)
Here are the other girls...
Leslie
Megan
Michelle
Sasha
Christina
And the Flickr group
(Sassafras, American Crafts, Shabby Chic Crafts, Heidi Swapp, My Little Shoebox, Queen & Co, Elle's Studio, Love Elsie, Kitty Robot, photo by LA Photo Party)
And here's something else that's been keeping my hands busy. Just a fun project using a film canister. Liking the idea of upcycling.

boom boom room day 2

Here are the photos from Day 2...Samantha Harris and me
Connie Fletcher & Aaron Staton
Mom & Yara Shahidi (who is an absolute delight, with a perfect amount of poise and politeness. Many adults could take some cues from this 9 year old!)
Penelope Ann Miller & daughters
Abigail Spencer
And these are the photos that bring me back to my teenage years (as did most of the ones from yesterday!)
Kathleen Robertson (she was on 90210)
Kennedy from MTV
Jodie Sweetin (from Full House!) holding After, the 2nd young adult novel by Kristin Harmel. It's due out February 9th.

It's a rainy week in LA, how cute is this?

boom boom room day 1

Here are some photos from Jayneoni Moore's fabulous Boom Boom Room charity gifting suites for the Golden Globes. Once again the event was wonderful. Every year she organizes a great group of vendors and has a stylish event that supports some great causes. This year we teamed up with Be good to people with limited edition collaborative shirts. Stay tuned, as our shirts will soon be available on their website. Really enjoyed hanging out with these vendors and if I had a baby, they would definitely be snuggling up in a Chic Papoose (Buster and Bamboo quite enjoy getting carried around in theirs), drinking Nourish, and riding around in a West Coast Wagon. Special thanks to my mom and Buster who helped at set up.









We posted a lot more of the photos on our Facebook Fan Page for Amy Tangerine.
Growing Your Baby did a post of the first day here. Thanks for looking... be back tomorrow with more photos. If you just can't wait to see more, Day 2 is written up here.

instant gratification

So glad we got the chance to check out Instant Gratification on Saturday night. It seemed as though half of Los Angeles was crammed into a little gallery, so I feel lucky to have snapped a few pics.





After the event we got "dressed up" for a joint birthday party that included an airbrush tattoo artist and a photo booth. And an Ed Hardy theme.

Up for a fun photo project? I participated in the original where they mailed out disposable cameras, but this time they're going digital. Check out A Million Little Pictures-Time Capsule.

At last, Exotic Sounds of Courtney Jaye is on iTunes. Makes me long for a trip to Hawaii. And "Sweet Ride" (track #3) has replaced "Party in the USA" by Miley Cyrus in my head. Oh and #5 is on repeat as we speak, and for any "Band of Horses" fans, this is a must. A couple of my favorite songs by Courtney can also be found on this album- tracks #7 and #10.

Gotta love instant gratification.

behind the scenes

I love doing the scrapbooking for some of LA Photo Party's events. While I enjoy doing all kinds of different events, I think my favorites are birthday parties and Bat Mitzvahs (although I really enjoy weddings as well.) There's just something about the young spirits and teens who come together to celebrate and have fun with making something for their dear friend. At the end of the evening, the scrapbook is complete & becomes a great keepsake/glorified guestbook.




Also great for private events and smaller gatherings, the creative mess just flows and seeing the smiles on everyone's faces with their project completed is total joy.

sunsets

I'll try and do a better job of blogging this week. The start of 2010 greeted me with a stuffy head/nose/cold for 3 days, then I recovered a little and ended up going to Florida for my BFF's birthday and to watch Georgia Tech play (and lose) in the coldest Orange Bowl ever.

I just love amazing sunsets. Tonight was no exception. Living in Venice and walking up to Santa Monica is a total delight.

ten things to kick off twenty-ten

1.(from notebook doodles)

2. Jump! It makes you happy. Here's a great article on one of my favorite things to do.

3. the men in my life taking a photo together.


4. Keep those New Years Resolutions this year. Here's a cheat sheet to help us all out.

5. I like collections of all kinds. Looking forward to seeing hers every day of this new year.

6. Looking forward to more hikes this year.
7.(made by julene)

8. my lucky charms (you can sort of see Buster's four leaf clover on his back. it looks like the 5th leaf fell off as he made a wish)
9. I want this and NEED this.

10. 2010 I ♥ you already.

Dear 2009, you were...

oh so fine. I did this wrap up of 2009 for American Crafts blog. It's hard to read the journaling at the bottom, so here goes:

Malibu, Big Bear, snowboarding, Atlanta for Doug's wedding, Whistler, Mammoth, San Diego, LA Photo Party, Chicago St. Patty's Day, boat ride with Asa, San Francisco, April Fools Day, Culver City Artwalk, Swine flu?, biking, shipping Neiman Marcus baby shirts, Paso Robles, Savannah, Dodgers game, Lake Como Italy, sofa shopping for Venice, SISLive-Franklin, Gasparilla Island, Playboy Mansion, NYC, Boston, the flip, Brazil, ATL-Clemson-GT, Pittsburgh, Austin, Chicago, Newell, Hollywood FL & CA, lots of laughter, hiking, indulging, enjoying every bit, dancing & loving.
(All American Crafts supplies and to make the photo collage, I used Big Huge Labs)
A big huge hug and THANK YOU to all of you who stop in here every once in a while.
Cheers and see you in the next decade!

as usual.

Buster didn't really enjoy putting on his santa outfit (he dislikes any and all doggy clothes), but he sure looked as adorable as ever in it. And he got a special Christmas treat for being a good sport and letting me snap this photo of him. Enjoy your weekend!

happy holidays!

There are so many things to be thankful for. Here's a layout from Thanksgiving...

And here are a couple for Christmas.

Hope everyone has a wonderful holiday filled with great food, family, joy, laughter & lots of love!

the process... (the condensed version)

Here's a look into our machine embroiderer's studio in downtown Los Angeles. After the machine does it's magic, the shirts return to us for the hand cutting of the excess fabric.
Finished shirts are shipped out to stores. This custom order thermal is sold exclusively at Roxy in Vail, Colorado.
Sometimes the shirts end up in magazines. This was Retha Jones in our pink Preppy Polo layered shirt in Essence Magazine circa 2005.

Now that the Kings (Cedric the Entertainer, Steve harvey, D.L. Hughley, and Bernie Mac) and Queens (Adele Givens, Laura Hayes, Mo'Nique and Sommore) of Comedy have graduated to the movie and TV big leagues, it's time for a new class of comedians to be crowned. ESSENCE gathered eight of today's funniest faces -- Shondrella Avery, Retha Jones (wearing Amy Tangerine) Charlie Murphy, Niecy Nash, Retta, Tony Rock, Chris Spencer and Sherri Shepherd -- comics who are still in the trenches, knockin' 'em dead on comedy-club stages and shining in supporting roles with hopes of taking center stage. When they came together in San Fernando Valley's Balboa Park, it was like a high-school reunion as the jokes flew, quickly turning our photo shoot into Comedy Central.

But most of the time they end up on great customers and people just like you all! We have received more custom orders this holiday season from people emailing us than ever before. Thanks so much for all of your support. Here are some snapshots, please keep them coming and show us your slice.