ArtsOnFire

I'm sorry, we've recently been having issues with my 20 year old niece and her newborn baby girl. I will get things squared away in the next week or so. Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Lora

I am the Jewelry Designer for a major arts and crafts retail store, and I am a tour guide for Chicago Hauntings. If you're ever in Chicago, please join the tour.

U2, Keane, Snow Patrol, Dave Matthews Band, Marvin Gaye, Pearl Jam, Pink Floyd, The Sump Pumps, Lily Allen, Pavarotti singing Nussum Dorma, Amy Winehouse.

An Affair to Remember, anything Cary Grant, Wuthering Heights, Sense and Sensibility, Twister, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Charade. Anything with Audrey Hepburn

Paranormal State, Ghost Adventures, L&O:CI, L&O:SVU, House, In Plain Sight, Burn Notice (AWESOME), Chicago Cubs Baseball, Deadliest Catch; any English comedy like, Are You Being Served?, Keeping up Appearances, Black Adder, Abolutely Fabulous. Craig Ferguson is my favrorite late night host. I love MASH and I Love Lucy. I ABSOLUTLY DESPISE any reality based television show; hire some writers and some actors and come up with a show.

Jewelry making, paper, throwing pottery, card making, found objects, LMAO, "Angry Art" (that's what my daughter and I call it), vintage postcards and photos, old metal bits of whatever, keys, old jewelry (to take apart and put back together some other way); Fave colors: dark blue, silver, deep purple, black. Foreign language text from anywhere, bath scrubs, flavored tea, good candles, different colored or shaped glass beads, lovely yarns and fibers. Prefer sepia to b&w or color.

I am a firm believer in all things paranormal and am a "professional" ghost hunter. I have visited some of most haunted places in the US. I take digital images of spirits and EVP recordings. I have conducted healing and casting circles and house clearings.

I was struck by lightening when I was a kid - that really helps to answer a lot of questions, doesn't it???

I stalked Bono outside his hotel room in the freezing cold Chicago winter and had my picture taken with him.

Things I don't like: Kawaii, Sanrio, Hello Kitty, etc (ickie bad), pinky girly things, animal prints, things that are too religious (like those little books people hand out, unless they are in a language other than English), green tea, cheap candles, bath salts, plastic beads; large bodies of water; clowns; teddy bears; stuffed animals; disney except for Beauty and the Beast and Aladdin movies; the St. Louis Cardinals (we are talking hate, here);

Star Gazer Lillies; Buddah; digging around at Flea Markets; digging around at Thrift Shops, English things; Panda Express Mandarin Chicken; Constant Comment Tea; Books, History; Vintage Paris; Tazo Chai Tea, San Franciso; travelling; Tim Holtz' products; my Cricut Expression; oatmeal; thick juicy steaks encrusted with bleu cheese; sleeping late; a clean house; rainy cool days; camping (real camping with a tent and a fire); Edy's Swiss Chocolate Sherbet; surprises; Johnny B Radio; kittencats; puppydogs; snail mail envelopes full of surprises and local epehemera; doorways; shabby chic; Portillo's double cheeseburgers with everything NO ketchup; good homemade soup; Maryann's Beef Stroganoff; clean 100% cotton sheets; a good fitting bra; oatmeal raisin cookies; learning about other religions and cultures; learning to say thank you in other languages (so far I'm up to 14); Atomic Fire Balls; Dresses; a good solid pair of flip flops that can last the summer; Shetland Ponies; Jimmie John's Italian Club; auctions; ice cold milk; Jeff Goldblum (he is so sexy, I don't know why), a good sale, Chicago Cubs Baseball; Portillo's Chocolate Cake (to die for); a good hair cut;

Preferences: Book to movie; Hardback to Paperback; menthol to regular; reading to tv, rubber stamps mounted on wood to rubber stamps mounted on acrylic; toilet paper coming out from the bottom to coming out from the top; coke to pepsi; 12 grain wheat to white; psycological thrill to gore; 2% milk to regular; half caf to full caf; equal to sweetn low or splenid; Target to Wal-Mart; Sig to Phil; cloudy to sunny; cool to hot; truth to lies;

Some of my favorite people are: My Ray, Sheryl Ann (whom I miss terribly), My Meagan, My sister in law Maryann, Susanah (whom I miss terribly), my High School History Teacher Renny M. Connell, my Uncle Al, Jana Holle, Uncle Billie, Dawn, Deanne, Mike Rowe, Vincent D'onofrio, Heidi Klum, Ursula Bielski, Angelina Jolie, Leland Chapman, Daniel Burham, Dan the EMT who tried to save my Ronin,