BudgieFresnell

Hello there! :)

I found this site through a friend of mine on facebook and was drawn to it because when I was younger I used to swap friendship books. My mother gave me one one day to shut me up cause I always used to think too much, talk too much and generally need to be occupied too much. I haven't seen one for about 10 years so finding this site was like an ancient but happy memory coming back to me. I loved the way I could create for hours and send somebody something that may give them as much joy as I got when I received something beautiful or interesting in the post.

My name is Chris. I live with my son Bailey (7 nearly 8), 2 cats 'Diesel' and 'Meep', one kitten (Meep's) called 'Jefferson Beans von Twisp' or 'Beans' for short and 1 budgie (rip 'Ethel') 'George'. There is a small person on the way. Due date is 30th November. Scary but awesome, my partner is yet to move in but we're looking to doing that next month. My friends and my family mean the world to me, I'd be lost without them, no matter how anti social this pregnancy is making me! :) For a job I'm lucky enough to be self employed as an artist and lighting technician although the latter is being put in suspension for a while as I'm not allowed to lift anything or go up ladders. I adore what I do, I couldn't be without creativity, my world would cease to exist without it.

Likes:

*Birds and moths.

*Bright colours.

*Tattoos and piercings (although body does not like metal in it right now so have taken out all bar my ears and septum which has a hidden retainer in atm).

*Frogs, lizards and cute monsters.

*Flowers, plants; all things green and growing. The peace you get at the seaside. (The smell of the sea, the sound of the guls and the waves.)

*Obscure yet darkly beautiful art, erotic art, photography. Elegant and fine art but with a certain edge or interesting content. Asian art. Iconography. Retro images and pin up art.

*Light, lights and the things you can create with them. I love interesting fairy lights, things with led's and lights in jars. :D

*Theatre and the amazing energy of backstage. (wish I had more of my own! :D)

*Music, film, books. Of pretty much all genres.

*Fabric, haberdashery bits; buttons, beads, lace and ribbons. Strange found treasures. Clothing patterns for vintage style items or strange pieces.

*Knickers! :D

*Paints, pencils, papers and all things that I can make things from.

*Broken toys. (interesting ones)

*Steampunk/cyberpunk.

*Coloured bottles and jars.

*Trinkets and charms.

*Sea creatures.

*Stars.

*Nut and bee.

*Boojabooja. (but only the sugar free stuff)

Wish List:

*Recipes for food that I CAN eat. (see below for what I can't)

*Buttons! :D

*Seeds. (that I can put in pots)

*Strange childrens books (in any language but with pictures)

*Amigurumi, felt or fabric monsters and sea creatures.

*Taxidermy bugs (especially those small ish ones in clear resin pendants).

*'Classic' books. Old is as good as new as long as in one piece. :)

*Coloured LED bulbs.

*Kawaii felt food. (cuter and nicer to me than real food! :D )

*Photobooth pictures (like in amelie).

*Interesting cuttings (from magazines, newspapers etc).

*Lettersets.

*Vintage style clothes patterns.

*Origami creatures you have made.

*Trinkets and charms.

*Colouring in pages. :D

*Pants/ Bloomers patterns.

*Felt

*Toy patterns.

*Fabrics. (no smaller than 6ins by 6ins please)

Things I'm not so fond of:

*Injustice.

*Inconsideration/rudeness.

*Seeing people hurt.

*Problems I can't solve or accept as they are.

*Being ill. (OMG morning sickness is a bitch!)

*Being told I can't do something.

Anti wish list: (please don't send me)

*Anything smelly, my sense of smell has been massively exaggerated and even the subltest of things seems to set off my sickness. (unless it's peppermint tea! Then I would love you lots! :D)

*Food that I can't eat. (check allergies list) Please, please, please, if you do send anything edible, makes sure you read labels thoroughly. Not much fun receiving tasty looking sweets I can't eat. Is like eating ice cream in front of a small child without giving them some. I do the same face too! :D

*Anything too festive or tacky, I'm a relatively happy person most of the year except those holidays that involve HAVING to be cheerful or feeling guilty about buying people gifts.

*Peacock feathers. (I'm supersticious!) :)

*Anything Twilight.

*Anything preachy. I am very open minded and accepting of most things (except that which is obviously evil; child sacrifice, torture, that sort of thing.) so by all means send things that are informative or beautiful, just don't tell me I have to believe in God in any other way other than my own. (I'm Taoist/Chaos btw but believe in God, jesus, and every other God in the sky or being in nature that chooses to make themselves known :) )

*Anything TOO dark. For example, I find beauty in taxidermy, don't send roadkill. I like erotic art, don't send porn. I doubt you would but you get the idea. :D

*Collage, *Sewing, *Painting, *Drawing, *Photography, *Lighting, *Doll making.

All things swing. All things alternative. :) and some guilty pleasures but shh. Xx

Favourite favourites of the top of my head?

*Incubus, *Garbage, *The Baseballs, *Corey Taylor, *Papa Roach, *The Cranberries, *Hollywood Undead. *Joe Strummer, *Tim Armstrong. *Rage Against the Machine, *Skunk Anansie, *The Clash, *Louis Armstrong *Silverchair, *Fat 45, *The Puppini Sisters.

There are probably loads more but they were the first few I thought of! :D Xx

*The Fountain, *Moulin Rouge, *Romeo and Juliet, *Coraline, *The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, *Alice in Wonderland, *Lucky Number Slevin, *Amelie, *Memento, *August Rush, *Scott Pilgrim vs the World, *Step Up, *Shutter Island, *Fight Club, *The Usual Suspects, *Down with Love, *Inception, *My Neighbour Totoro, *Kiki's delivery service, *A Single Man, *10 Things I Hate About You.

*Anything by Neil Gaiman or Roald Dahl. *Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis, *Kabuki by David Mack, *The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter, *The Chairs by Ionesco, *A Midsummer Nights Dream by Shakespeare, *The Beach and The Tesseract by Alex Garland, *The Tao Te Ching by Lau Tzu, *Johnathon Livingston Seagul by Richard Bach, *The Electric Church by Jeff Somers, *The E Branch Series by Brian Lumley, *His Dark Materials Trilogy by Phllip Pullman, *Elegance by Kathleen Tessaro, *The Trilogy in 5 parts (Hitchhikers Guide etc) by Douglas Adams.

*Beef,

*Fish,

*Mango,

*Pineapple,

*Fennel,

*Celery,

*Chilli,

*Carob,

*Sugar,

*Gluten (wheat, barley, rye, some oats),

*Alcohol,

*Caffeine,

*Lactose,

*Rapeseed and flaxseed.

*Dust and pollens (but I doubt anyone would send those! :D )

The Cats:

Would love you for:

*A bit o nip.

Not so much for:

*Toys, they don't seem to play with their own. Feet, shoelaces, carrier bags and each other tend to win out.

*Food, oddly, these guys seem to have easily dicky tummies too.

The Little Man

Would love you for:

*Drawing paper, the boy eats it I'm sure.

*Disposable cameras, see above. One day I'll have enough to buy him his own one. Not til he's a bit older though for the sake of it being potentially trashed.

*Hamma beads.

*A pair of binoculars. In our cull of our house stuff he decided he didn't want the ones he had until they were already in a good home, now wants them back. Awkward so-and-so.

The Big Man:

Would love you for:

*Socks, size 8 (uk mens), I think his feet are scissor wielding maniacs with bad aim.

*Boxer shorts, the snug kind with nerdy images on (robots, iron man, etc) size mens small... I would say something similar to the above comment about his feet but I really don't wanna think about that in this context. :/ :D

The Budgie:

Would love you for:

*A pretty blue hanging mirror to gaze at his beautiful green plumage. Lol. :D

I think that is it! :D Xx Have fun creating and I look forward to hearing from you!