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Bella Figura, The Tradition of Living Beautifully episodes
- When in Doubt Go Backwards: Annabell Alsup on Transforming Our Homes Into Ancestral Spaces
Annabell Alsup is owner and founder of House of Tocumen, a vintage rug company that sources authentic, weaved rugs from artisans around the world. Annabell is not only a vendor, but through her vibrant Instagram page, also educates people on how to find and buy authentic vintage rugs and home decor.
Part of an active duty military family, she lives with her husband and four sons, with a fifth on the way on a homestead in South Carolina, where they care for four goats, one baby doll sheep, 32 chickens and four mini donkeys.
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Resources:
House of Tocumen website
House of Tocumen Instagram
Dolores:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Bella Figura Shoppe on Etsy
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
1 hr 11 min - Annabell Alsup
Annabell Alsup is owner and founder of House of Tocumen, a vintage rug company that sources authentic, weaved rugs from artisans around the world. Annabell is not only a vendor, but through her vibrant Instagram page, also educates people on how to find and buy authentic vintage rugs and home decor.
Part of an active duty military family, she lives with her husband and four sons, with a fifth on the way on a homestead in South Carolina, where they care for four goats, one baby doll sheep, 32 chickens and four mini donkeys.
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Resources:
House of Tocumen website
House of Tocumen Instagram
Dolores:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Bella Figura Shoppe on Etsy
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
1 hr 11 min - Wendell Berry's "Family Work": Saving the Endangered Life of Home
In this third and final solo episode of Season 2, I am talking about the American writer Wendell Berry's essay, "Family Work."
Berry makes the connection between work around the home—gardening, cooking, reading, farm chores, etc.—and the solvency of family life.
Discussed in this episode:
Wendell Berry
The history of life at home
The forces that have eroded home life
Why disease is more lucrative to companies than health
How to combat the erosion of home life
Resources:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Bella Figura Shoppe on Etsy
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
40 min - Wendell Berry's "Family Work"
In this third and final solo episode of Season 2, I am talking about the American writer Wendell Berry's essay, "Family Work."
Berry makes the connection between work around the home—gardening, cooking, reading, farm chores, etc.—and the solvency of family life.
Discussed in this episode:
Wendell Berry
The history of life at home
The forces that have eroded home life
Why disease is more lucrative to companies than health
How to combat the erosion of home life
Resources:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Bella Figura Shoppe on Etsy
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
39 min - Design Traditions: Ros Byam Shaw on Antiques and Old World Country Decor
Ros Byam Shaw is a freelance journalist and writes on design and interiors for "The World of Interiors," "House & Garden" and the "Saturday Telegraph," among others.
She is the author of Old House New Home, Perfect English, Perfect English Cottage, Perfect English Farmhouse, and English Eccentric, as well as Farrow & Ball Living with Color and Farrow & Ball Decorating with Color (all published by Ryland Peters & Small). Ros lives in Devon, England with her husband and dog.
Resources:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Guest:
Books by Ros
Ros' writing in "House and Garden"
Ros on Instagram
Antique Shop
Dolores:
Bella Figura Shoppe on Etsy
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
1 hr 16 min - Ros Byam Shaw
Ros Byam Shaw is a freelance journalist and writes on design and interiors for "The World of Interiors," "House & Garden" and the "Saturday Telegraph," among others.
She is the author of Old House New Home, Perfect English, Perfect English Cottage, Perfect English Farmhouse, and English Eccentric, as well as Farrow & Ball Living with Color and Farrow & Ball Decorating with Color (all published by Ryland Peters & Small). Ros lives in Devon, England with her husband and dog.
Resources:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Guest:
Books by Ros
Ros' writing in "House and Garden"
Ros on Instagram
Antique Shop
Dolores:
Bella Figura Shoppe on Etsy
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
1 hr 16 min - Starting Over: Angela Ferraro-Fanning on Reinventing Work and Building a Homestead
Angela Ferraro-Fanning is an author and the founder of Axe & Root Homestead, a six-acre farm in central New Jersey. A self-described "plant-based permaculture homesteader" (she breaks that down in the episode!), she began homesteading in 2012 after suffering postpartum depression with her first child. Unhappy in the graphic design business she’d worked in for over a decade, she longed to be outdoors, aligning her lifestyle with the seasons and with nature.
She started growing and preserving as much of her own homegrown produce as possible, and the homestead quickly grew from a home garden to a farm bustling with Clydesdales, geese and ducks for eggs, an apiary with ten beehives, sheep and a small orchard. She taps her own trees for maple syrup, creates her own soap and has even recently added a hobby vineyard for homemade wine.
She is the co-author of “The Harvest Table: A Collection of Seasonal Plant-Based Recipes Inspired by the Home Garden,” as well as author of The Little Homesteader Series. She is co-host of “The Definitely Not Simple Life Podcast."
[Photo Courtesy of Angela Ferraro-Fanning]
Things discussed in this episode:
Following your dreams
Changing career paths
Raising ducks, horses
Preserving food
Homegrown food
Learning as you go
Home gardens
Being a mother
Resources:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Shop: Bella Figura Shoppe
Guest:
Axe and Root Homestead
Angela's Cookbook
The Little Homesteader Series
Angela on Instagram
Dolores:
Bella Figura Shoppe on Etsy
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
1 hr 17 min - A Handmade Christmas
Join me for a Christmas special where I talk about cultivating the Christmas spirit with nature, vintage finds, and your own two hands.
Merry Christmas to all!
With love,
Dolores
Resources:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
Bella Figura Shoppe on Etsy
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
28 min - Shaye Elliott
Shaye Elliott is founder of the popular blog The Elliott Homestead. She is a cookbook author, farmer, artist, wife and mother of four. She lives with her family in rural Washington state where she records her well-known YouTube videos on inspiration and tips on homesteading, cooking, preserving, gardening, and all around cultivating a beautiful life.
She is the author of four books, including Welcome to the Farm: How-to Wisdom from The Elliott Homestead; Family Table: Farm Cooking from the Elliott Homestead; The Elliott Homestead: From Scratch: Traditional, whole-foods dishes for easy, everyday meals; and Seasons at the Farm: Year-Round Celebrations at the Elliott Homestead. She is co-host of the high-ranking home and garden podcast, “Homemaker Chic.”
Things discussed in this episode:
Growing your own food
The importance of cooking
Why cooking challenges convenience culture
Embracing being a homemaker
It's okay to want to be a wife and mother
Defying the push to climb the corporate ladder
Living a slower life
Food is love
Resources:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
My Guest:
The Elliott Homestead
Shaye's photographs
Shaye's books
Homemaker Chic Podcast
Shaye's YouTube Channel
Dolores:
Bella Figura Shoppe
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
1 hr 12 min - Cooking is the Answer: Shaye Elliott on Defying Convenience Culture and Living a Beautiful Life
Shaye Elliott is founder of the popular blog The Elliott Homestead. She is a cookbook author, farmer, artist, wife and mother of four. She lives with her family in rural Washington state where she records her well-known YouTube videos on inspiration and tips on homesteading, cooking, preserving, gardening, and all around cultivating a beautiful life.
She is the author of four books, including Welcome to the Farm: How-to Wisdom from The Elliott Homestead; Family Table: Farm Cooking from the Elliott Homestead; The Elliott Homestead: From Scratch: Traditional, whole-foods dishes for easy, everyday meals; and Seasons at the Farm: Year-Round Celebrations at the Elliott Homestead. She is co-host of the high-ranking home and garden podcast, “Homemaker Chic.”
Things discussed in this episode:
Growing your own food
The importance of cooking
Why cooking challenges convenience culture
Embracing being a homemaker
It's okay to want to be a wife and mother
Defying the push to climb the corporate ladder
Living a slower life
Food is love
Resources:
Dry Farm Wines: Use link dryfarmwines.com/bellafigura to receive a bottle for just a penny in your first order!
My Guest:
The Elliott Homestead
Shaye's photographs
Shaye's books
Homemaker Chic Podcast
Shaye's YouTube Channel
Dolores:
Bella Figura Shoppe
Bella Figura website
Dolores on Instagram
Bella Figura YouTube
Bella Figura Pinterest
1 hr 12 min
About Bella Figura, The Tradition of Living Beautifully
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This show explores ways to beautify all facets of your life using heritage, culture, beauty by hand, old world style, and ancestral traditions. Join me in exploring bella figura, the Italian…
tradition of living beautifully, through down-to-earth conversations with extraordinary people. These are spiritual conversations for the rest of us. Your heritage is your superpower. Learn how to wield it...