hi! :)

i’m angie haugland, the writer behind this blog and the owner/designer/creator behind Pangea Handmade. i dabble a bit in minor, hobby-style photography and i graduated with a creative writing degree in 2007.

i enjoy kayaking, hiking, listening to music, sewing, reading, and being happy.

the list below is also the first post of this blog, but i figured an ‘about me’ page was in order, so i wanted it to be available quickly to anyone who wanted to know a little more about me, and maybe what my blog will bring to you.

ok then, here goes:

25 random things about me:

1. i was born in 1986 (capricorn, by the old standards)
2. my last blog was called Science&Romance. it’s been changed to Pangea Handmade to be more cohesive and recognizable with my shop & website.
3. my middle name is the same as my mother’s. my family is italian.
4. i spent 3 months in Berolzheim, Baden-Wurtemburg (Germany) as a junior in high school. i lived with a family and went to school there and traveled through Italy & France as well. i took with my very first digital camera (which only had 3 megapixels!) and managed to take over 300 photos per day, on average (i went through a lot of batteries…) .
5. i love blank notebooks, especially ones filled with graph paper & unlined paper. however, i only enjoy them if i’ve picked them out myself because i’m incredibly particular about them if their purpose is journaling/idea gathering. i have specific criteria each would have to meet, and there is no such thing as an “all-purpose notebook”.
6. i enjoy fruit more than i let on. i could eat fruit & only fruit for weeks and never be unsatisfied (and probably healthier).
7. i’ve been told my handwriting is very neat, but i don’t think it could be any messier. i’m self-conscious about it, but not embarrassed. i’m learning to like it.
8. i am a semi-clean person. i don’t like a mess & i am very organized, but for some unknown reason (to the utter disapproval of my husband) i don’t mind dishes in the sink or piles of dirty laundry (or clean, for that matter).
9. i have a cat. i named her after the little mermaid (ariel) because it was my favorite movie as a kid. my parents can vouch for this, i had all the words memorized.
10. i love old music, indie music, low-fi, singer/songwriter stuff, girl-core, and shitty 80s rock ballads on vinyl. shoot me.
11. i have a terribly wonderful collection of vintage lace trim & doilies. i think that i was born in the wrong decade. someday i will sew them all together and make a giant vintage quilt. someday.
12. my shop features handmade jewelry right now, but i’m looking to include a multitude of other ventures (been sewing bags/clutches/pouches for friends and family, test pieces seem to be doing well!). i need to find a way to combine them all under my Pangea Handmade brand.
13. i have absolutely NO patience for bad customer service. i have worked customer service for all of my life, and it’s unacceptable and baffling to me that so many people do not understand what good customer service is.
14. another of my many artistic interests is very minor graphic design.
15. i have an english degree with an emphasis in creative writing. someday i will write books.
16. i love mail. getting mail, sending mail, reading mail, mail ephemera (though i do not collect stamps, go figure), and penpals. serious.
17. i’m very conscious of symmetry/asymmetry for some reason. i have no idea how to explain this one…
18. i will mostly always choose comedy or indie over drama and horror. i actually cannot handle horror movies. if there is a possibility that i will have to see one (or even parts of one, for any reason), i get so anxious that i have been known to get physically sick. i attribute this to watching Nightmare on Elm Street without my parents’ permission on halloween in 6th grade at a friend’s house where i would have been very uncool to say that i was too scared to watch it (and being cool still mattered to me then). i couldn’t sleep comfortably (or take baths…) for over 2 years after. not. even. kidding. i am a wimp.
19. oh yeah, at that time, i lived on a street called “elm”.
20. if i could have chosen any other major, i may have chosen textile design, though i am absolutely not regretful of my decision of english instead. i should maybe have worded it like this: “if i would have double-majored…”
21. i am and always will be a Mac girl. though i am not against PCs, i just will never choose to buy one.
22. my husband is my best friend. i have no idea how i ever lived without him, though i firmly believe that your experiences in life lead you to the right place and the right person only after you’ve lived through things that teach you to be who you are.
23. my life goal right now is to quit my full-time job by the time i have children.
24. i have a pretty extensive collection of vintage photographs from around the world.
25. i am so excited to be blogging again! let the creative outlets overflow!

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