HydroNymph

Im a Nature girl, Art Fanatic who lives on 40 remote acres with solar power and outdoor showers! I co-teach a free Art Class for kids which is a lot of fun. I am taking Class's at a community college and thinking about going in the religion/philosophy area but also love Biology and Art. I am a writer nothing published yet, however I am trying to get some articles in a local progressive magazine and am in the process of writing a novel for youngadult readers. I also write poetry and short stories. My art is very whimsical and colorful. Im not to good at realism but I dont like it very much anyway. My favorite artisits are Kandinsky, Marc Chegall and Van Gogh. I Really admire Maya Lin she is my hero! I love earth in a way only literal tree huggers can understand. I love the ocean, water is so soothing. My spirituality is very tied with the earth and whats here as apposed to preperation for whats to come. I think earth is a heaven in itself. I do rituals for the old celtic festivles and consider myself a neo-druid. However I don't do any diviniation or magick. I do as I state bellow like god and goddess imagery. However I am not polythiestic. I believe in one unifying spirit with in everything, I am pantheistic. Spiriual things I like are smudge sticks, Incense, candles, ritual oils, essiental oils, tailsman, prayer/worry beads, prayer flags, dream catchers, smudge pots and any god and/or godess imagery.

things I would especilly like to recieve:

Bees wax or soy candles

Japanese jellie candies or any natural, fruity candy.

Solid Perfume

Organic and/or natural body products

Beautiful prints of nature photos(no domesticated animal ones though please!) or paintings.

Painting: watercolor, guache and acrylic. Scrapbooking, silk painting, origami, paper cutting, beading, wire working, mask making and sculpting in polymor and clay.

I like Indie/Un Conventinal stuff like Little miss sunshine, I heart Huckabees, Waiting for guffman, Harold and Maude, The King of California, The Science of Sleep and Man of the century. I also like Duma, The Illusianist and Hero (I Love almost anything with dustin hoffman in it!) Other favs are older stuff with Charlie Chaplin, the Marx brothers and Fred Astair and Ginger rodgers and Frank Capra films. Some like it hot is also a big favorite.

I LOVE BOOKS, libraries, the scent of dust on old pages, litrature, stories, plays, poetry! I probably spend about three hours a week minimmum at my local library just browsing.

Right now my favorites include: Damion, Catcher in the Rye, Skellig, Wonder Boys, a Wrinkle in Time, The OZ books, the Wizard of Earthsea amon many others.

Poets: Blake, Emmerson and Whitman.

Ray Bradbury, Ersula Le Guine, Micheal Chabon, Salenger, David Almond, Natalie Goldberg, Hans Christian Anderson, The Brothers Grimm (not exactly authors but I love the fairy tales they recorded) Frank Baum, Daniel Pinkwater (hilarous!!!) and Madeline L Engel.

Im not a coffee drinker, infact I do not drink many caffinated beverages. I do love green and herbal teas though! I dont wear make-up because of sensitive skin and I just prefer to think Im pretty without. I do like natural chapsticks though! Im not a big nail polish person I havn't worn any since my pre-teen days. Im really not into kawaii or cutesy stuff. I dont really like photo realistic pet pictures or really sparkly bright stuff.I dont like candy to much but I happen to love some japanese candy. Oh yeah and no earings please my ears are not peirced. Gum?- I advertly stay away from the stuff.

Music: I like New Age, Reggea, The Blues, Jazz, Celtic, Classic, African Drumming, some Rock and some folk.

Favorite Bands and Music Artists: Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkle, The Beatles, Great Big Sea, The Losse Acoustic Trio, Fushia Band, Ani Difranco and Mary Youngblood.

Favorite Metal: I LOVE copper!!! Its my favorite metal of all. I also like Brass and Silver but copper is the best!

Jewlery: I like thick metal cuff bracelets. Although I like beading I dont like wearing jewlery with to many beads, I would prefer a coard with simple charm on it and a few beads. I also like ancklets and toe rings.

Semi Precious stones: Moonstone, Lapis Lazuli, Amythist, Amber and Jade (I like all green stones actually).

Textures: Mmmm soft is good, so is silk. I dont mind corse wool and I certainly love smooth things.

Animals: I seriously appericate all animals. But I do have some favorites: Apes and Monkeys, Elephants, Cats, Spiders, Snakes and Sea turtles. Oh yes I can't forget whales! I dont really like horses that much though...I know I should...

Plants: All trees especialy Oaks, Willows and Ginko trees. if you send me a gingko leave I will love it :) I also like pomagranits, figs and pears. I like flowers of all kinds but dont really like floral designs on things.

all shades of Green, Deep Incompasing Blue, the perfect purple (which is hard to find)Soft Greys, goldens and pumpkin oranges. I tend to wear earth and Ocean tones the most Oranges are good but I dont like to wear it. I could go on and on with the colors I love however I dislike BubbleGum Pink and Highlighter Hues. but even those colors I have seen put into very beautiful pictures.

I like lots of scents. especilly light and fragrent ones like Jasamine, Honeysuckle and Sweetpea but I love Pine, melon (other fruity ones too accept apple and pumpkin) and the smell after it rains (not sure if theres an esential oil for that one)Just recently I smelled a black liquerce candle that I actually liked a lot. In insence I tend to go for stuff like ceder, musk (moonmusk especilly), dragons blood and something with himilayan in its name that I cant remember. (no floral smells for incense) also If I recieve cheap incense from the dollor store, wallmart, target ect. I will just throw it out as they are not infused with EO and have bad stuff in them.

I like Laura Birch designs (particularly her cats!) I also love Jessica Galbreth (Like amy brown too but I like that Jessica Galbreth also has goddesses and mermaids!), Susan Seddon Boulet (her art is sooo beautiful!!!) and Thalia Took (I like how she makes art with gods, not just goddesses and I love her colors and design). I tend to like Curves rather then Edges but edges are awesome in some things. I like Organic shapes and patterns. Nature inspired stuff is wonderful but I like it to look sharp and classy rather then cute and crafty (that pretty much goes for everything). Hmm I like ethnic things such as those found at world market or actual markets. Although I like the ethnic look, some forms of folk art can be to busy or done in colors combinations that I dont like. I love simple and handmade things (in other words I think to many flourishs distract from the beauty of practicality).

This goes for what kinds of things I like to be the focus of a picture or item if any. I like Gods and Goddesses and as you can probably guess Nymphs. I love Mermaids, Fairies are cool too. I like Tree and Animal spirits. Cats are really cool but I like ones done in intresting styles and unordinary colors. I also have an infatuation with the monkey king (hanuman too), elephants and whales. I also like darker forms such as Vampires, Dark fairies, Gods and Goddesses of Dealth and witches (striking and scarey rather then gross and ugly. I like the good kind too) Oh yes I like frogs and insects (dragon flies, crickets, grasshoppers, praying mantisses ect.) Spiders are also a favorite. My favorite deity icons are mother earth, Gaea the Greenman, Yemanya, Artimis, Persephone, Cernunnous, Athena, Ixchel, Pele and the nile river and spiral goddesses. I love any ocean spirit!