FarStarr

I am 42, happily married and have a 16 year old daughter (Her birthday is Halloween). I met my husband in high school...sat behind him in Anatomy class!! My home is filled with collections-old cast iron animal figures and figural bottleopeners, Mr Peanut, antique advertising tins, Czech pottery birds, over 4000 cookbooks, antique gameboards and lots of fish! My BIG art focus lately has been altered stuff! I especially love gathering "Beautiful Trash" from everywhere I go! Someday I'll use it all...Hmmm maybe not! We had to put an addition on the house a few years ago because my fabric stash was out of hand. You know how a goldfish grows to fit it's space??? Well my stuff has grown to fit it's new space! I love everything fish,ocean and beach related. Old advertising is definitely one of my favorite things.

I'm not a cat or dog person, but we do have a not-so-dwarf Holland Lop house bunny named Cappuccino.

I love gardening...We've had so much rain this spring that the garden is not as wonderful as it could be, but that's okay.

As a family we have done a few things that most people don't do anymore-beekeeping, making our own maple syrup, cheese-making, and jelly-making. I grew up on a small farm and love to share those homesteading things with my family.

We have a very small piece of property in a gorgeous town on the New England coast. On our little piece of property we have grapes, a cherry tree, a peach tree, and apple tree, veggie garden, blackberries, and blueberries. I love to plant heirloom and other funky varieties of tomatoes.

Last year my wonderful husband built an awesome pond. Well, it's more like 2 ponds, a river, and 2 waterfalls. It is so cool! This year we have been filling in around it with lots of plants. Our ten remaining koi are having a good summer after the loss of Steve to a great blue heron. It was a traumatic event back in June!

My favorite colors are greens (all except olive) and blues. Taupe, olive green,and burnt orange are yucky.

My daughter's favorite things ever are dragons.

I just want to tell everyone that I am having a fantastic time swapping!! Getting mail almost every day is such a rush. I bring it to work to share. fun,fun,fun.

I believe in rating timely, communicating with partners if there is a problem, and generally being kind to others.

The Princess Bride, Better Off Dead, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Currently I love- The Office, The Big Bang, How I met your mother, Worst Week, Leverage and Gary Unmarried. Also on the food network..Tyler's Ultimate is my current favorite. Favorite classics-Arrested Development, Faulty Towers.

Altered Art..Altered Books...Quilting...Fabric Journals...ATC's...Photography...Collage..I really don't like the practice of adding wings to everything..faeries and cutsie stuff just aren't my thing.

My odd sense of humor is sometimes fairly obvious in my art. I am a little irreverent..ok alot. I don't like following rules with art. My first quilt was a tumbling block and I really didn't think they were talking to me when the book said to stop your seam a 1/4 inch before the end of the piece. Turns out there was a reason! I have been collecting clothing labels for years. Someday I'm going to make a quilt of just clothing labels, like the old cigar silk quilts.

I am self-taught in all my art. I read ALOT! I have absorbed so many books and magazines!

FISH themes seem to make it into almost anything I make :).

I HAVE A HUGE PERFUME ALLERGY* Please don't send anything scented. I can usually handle fruit smells, but anything else makes it so that I can't breathe..Thanks!