CraftyDeeney

Hello! My name is Nadine, but my husband calls me Deeney... I am married with 4 "furry" children - 3 dogs (2 lab mixes and a german shepherd) and a black cat who thinks he is a dog. All of our pets are rescued and all of them are spoiled.

I am 37 and currently unemployed which has led to a craft explosion in our house. I have always like to craft, however with too much time on my hands, things have gotten a little wild.

I am pretty easy going, I have a great sense of humor and think laughter is the best medicine.

I love: animals (of course), books, coffee, music, recycled/upcycled items, and chocolate. I love the color blue, like natural things, and appreciate messy crafters.

Not so much a fan of: tea, religious items, floral print, deathly afraid of clowns and puppets, and perfection.

I love music... I love all kinds: blues, R&B, folk, rock, hip hop, rap... everything but country.

I like strong rocking women: Patty Griffin, Beth Hart, Susan Tedechi, Pink, Joan Osborne, Indigo Girls

I like classic funk and R&B: Earth, Wind & Fire, Gap Band, Aretha, War, Sly and the Family Stone, Stevie Wonder - and more modern R&B like Anthony Hamilton, John Legend, Alicia Keys

I love Bluesy music from John Lee Hooker to Johnny Lang, Stevie Ray Vaughn to Van Morrison

I would love to hear new or local musicians.. lots of undiscovered talent out there!

I am an avid reader - non-fiction, fiction, crime, thrillers, ... everything but romance since I found my prince charming.

I just finished reading Blink (non-fiction) and I am scrounging around for a new book to read

Some of my favorite authors are Joe Landon, Jeffrey Deaver, Carl Hiasson, Lincoln Child/Douglas Preston, I guess I will read just about anything

I am not much of a movie buff - I like the old classics with Audrey Hepburn, musicals with Gene Kelley. I don't mind action, comedy etc.... but hate romantic comedies. I can't think of the last movie I went to the theater to see.

I love me some reality tv... The Apprentice, Hell's Kitchen, Project Runway, Celebrity Rehab, etc etc

I also like to watch Discovery channel, history and true crime. Not a big fan of anything on network TV right now. I am an MSNBC junkie.. love Rachel Maddow and Keith Olbermann

I like general crafting, beading, paper crafts. I would like to learn how to knit and crochet and my sewing skills are minimal.

When I craft, the house usually looks like a kindergarten class tore through on a sugar high. So if you expect perfect, yikes... not me.

Overall.. not too picky: I really love ethnic stuff... from Scandanavian glass to textiles from Latin America... I love the diversity and culture that surrounds us.
I also am very very progressive and liberal (oh no! lol) so I love things that celebrate gay pride, women's rights, diversity, pro-labor, pro-choice, pro-animal, pro-environment etc. If it will make Rush Limbaugh cry, then its perfect for me.

I love puppies! (mainly large breed dogs and puppies), paw prints, animals in general (cept for monkeys), nature scenes

Blue is my favorite color I like lilac and lavender scented things, and roses

I love to laugh so humor is always appreciated

I am sort of a diet Coke freak.. and I used to collect Coca-Cola stuff... but slowed down once I had to move it all

Fabric scraps, paper scraps, embellishments - stuff to make more crafts are always appreciated

I also like to drink coffee, beer, wine, booze (not all at once) and occasionally smoke a cigar... I know its unhealthy, but I like sitting in the yard on a summer's evening reading a book and puffing on a stogie.

Ohhh and mmmmm chocolate covered espresso beans... love em!

What I really love - is something that tells me about you :) Your passion, your creativity, your heart, means more to me than anything else.

Like I said not too picky but I have a phobia of clowns - as in I will cry and have nightmares

I also don't like bugs (ok except for butterflies and dragonflies), monkeys/apes/chimps (I should have mentioned this earlier, because I got a great postcard but the chimps made me cringe... I think I must have had a bad experience in a prior life)

Since I don't have children, I don't find children themed things cute (like Anne Geddes stuff, porcelain dolls, Precious Moments). I don't mean that in a mean way, its just I don't have that awwww reaction to children.

Kawaii stuff... there are so many here who love it so save it for them - same with anime, cartoons, and stuff like that

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