Hag53

Computer has come home as good as new!!! Life is really good sometimes. They had to replace the power pack and the mother board, but the hard drive is intact!!! Onward and forward!

I was Betsy before the name change thing! I didn't understand that picking a name would replace me on my profile!!! LOL! This is one that I've started using on other accounts.

Anyway I'm still the same 55 year old woman from southern vermont.

The Classics by female authors. Memoirs by just about anyone.

The Color Purple, Beaches, The Rose, Fried Green Tomatoes are at the top of my list.

CSI, House, Law and Order and an occasional sit-com.

Dotees, Goddess Dolls and fabric inchies have taken over my life! In addition I still love: Crochet, counted cross stitch, altered art and chunky books.

ATC's, tip-ins, shipping tags, matchboxes, paper art dolls and altered cd's. Felt Goddess dolls and most recently Dotee dolls!!! What fun!

Goddess, Vintage anything, cancelled postage stamps, ocean/seaside, words/phrases of wisdom and art or paper dolls. RED HAT - I love anything Red Hat. I love anything with large beastly cats - lions, panthers, tigers ect.

I have a rather general profile. That's because although I want people to know about me, I don't want to stick myself in a rut when it comes to experiencing life which includes swapping.

I don't want to tie the hands of someone who is going to be sending me something. I want a piece of the artist/sender, a glimpse into who they are by what they chose for me. When I'm in swaps where we are supposed to say what we want I still use something general like, "something bright" rather than a specific color. What if I choose pink, but they happen to have a lot of really interesting things in orange? I miss out on the more interesting things because I chose pink instead of thinking to choose orange. Gezzzzzzz, kind of crazy I know, but I think about this kind of thing, about how important it is to just show up, how much we might miss out on because we are too stiff and set in our ways, about the paths not taken and the experiences we lock ourselves out of.

I want the people who send to me to feel safe and confidant that whatever they do for me, it will be, ‘good enough’. All this requires is that a person makes their best effort. And, if they haven’t made their best effort that remains with them because I don’t feel qualified to judge another’s truth or reality.

In general it might be helpful to know that I do both paper and sewing crafts so almost anything is useful to me. I also find that found and used items speak sometimes.

Lately I have been working on felt/fabric dolls that use all manner of embellishments including ribbon, beads, buttons, charms, and boggles of all kinds.

I love Goddess representation of any kind in any media. I love shrines and tiny little things that I can hide away in a box or pocket. I love handmade things in any theme or media.

I love people and am infinately curious about:

Who you really are. What you really care about. What impassions you. What brings you joy.

I am pagan, but abolutely not anti anything else. I'm calm and open minded. The path of the Goddess speaks the most truth to my heart, but I'm deeply respectful of anything that speaks truth to the hearts of others.