FairyCrafter

I am a retired teacher, mother of three, grandmother of 5 (and step-grandmother of 2 more-soon). I have been married over 40 years to a husband I love and respect. I love to garden, craft and create. We have no pets, but we enjoy bird watching. And I am thankful for all of the blessings God has given me.

I have had many favorite crafts from crochet to macrame to silk embroidry to scrapbooking to jewelry making, and others. I would consider crocheting a favorite but right now I am enjoy papercrafting. I love to make ATCs, tags, and inchies. I think inchies are fun. And I always like making cards. I did some scrapbooking, even taught classes, but I love taking picture on a splendid camera my husband bought for me and I have so many photos that I get frustrated making my own scrapbook. Rubber stamping is the focus of most of my paper craft projects but not all. I have been stamping for about thirty years and have many, many stamps. I am always looking for something new and different or very versatile.

I like inspirational books, craft books, children's books of all sorts, and fairy books. I am not an avid reader but enjoy some things that come out on the best seller list.

Favorite movies: PRACTICAL MAGIC, NOTTING HILL, STEEL MAGNOLIAS and, MAMMA MIA!

I enjoy easy listening music and some classical. I like country music if I'm in the mood. Christian music is great and I LOVE Christmas music.

I fancy Fairies (figurines, prints, jewelry, books, anything with fairies), but pretty fairies, graceful young fairies, not cutsy or weird ones. Things having to do with fairies such as butterflies, ladybugs and dragonflies suit me. And fantasy appeal to me too. I also like vintage items, ie. vintage images and bits of lace or ribbon and old buttons and so on. I like gardening so I like flowers and ferns and, well, back to the fairy kind of thing.

I seem to choose rich colors, the jewel tones, over pastels. I enjoy oriental themes and have studied Chinese brush art. Since most things vintage appeal to me, I choose that style often. You will see flowers a lot in my projects. I revisit old techniques sometimes but I like to learn and try new things too.

It's nice to see others ideas and the project that brings the idea to reality. I appreciate the effort someone puts into that project. I like to look at techniques used and sometime try to learn a little bit. Mostly, I like seeing that someone cares enough to do their best when they complete a project to send out. I try to make that my goal when I make something to mail.