LINBUR0100

I'm a 30 YO single and fabulous (no question mark here!) gal who loves making cards, ATCs, and collage, and loves to cook good food, read good books, and drink good wine.

Things I like:
International themed things, especially Indian or oriental looking embellishments or papers.

Elephants. I don't like dumbo mumbo jumbo cutesy mamma and baby type elephants, but stylized African scene elephants or Indian elephants on parade are great! Animal prints are also okay to a certain extent (think tasteful adornment, not glaring intrusiveness!)

Palm trees, grapes or vineyard themes, Tuscan or Roman themed stuff. Vintage stuff(think old french posters, travel, maps, etc.)

Day of the Dead looking stuff.

Chocolate, probably too much, but I don't like white chocolate or mint chocolate.

Green, Brown metallics (think bronze, copper, burnished gold), Pewter, Russet tones, Autumn colors, toned down orange

Interesting interpretations of religious imagery (think reliquaries, shrines, any tasteful representation of figures or icons from any religion)

Things I don't like:
Stylized skulls and crossbones. Not that I have a problem with funky looking skeletons (see the Day of the Dead entry above). I just saw the ugliest thing ever the other day...it was the whole skull and crossbones thing, but in little girl pink. It was meant to be ironed onto tee shirts. If my niece ever wanted to iron something like that on her shirt, I think I'd have a long hard talk with her...

Cutesy animal prints.

Anything that is predominately glittery (some glitz is okay, but I'm not a big fan of bling on crafts)

Bright orange, Bright sliver, Bright green, On second thought--any color with the word bright in its name!

Other Interesting Facts (well, I find them interesting!) I do not eat pork, so for recipe swaps, I'd prefer recipes that do not include pork products as an ingredient.

I collect cookbooks, but don't actually cook from them. Not that I don't cook! I just prefer to use my own skill rather than reading about someone else's. But I read cookbooks for inspiration.

I like to read a lot. My favorite authors are Dean Koontz and Diana Abu-Jaber, but I occasionally get in the mood for a trashy romance novel. When that happens, you can't beat Johanna Lindsay. I don't read as many romances these days though, so that's not my genre of choice.

Norah Jones, Middle Eastern music, Eminem, Big Band & Swing, traditional holiday music (even when it's not the holiday season)

I don't know...I'm not much into American movies. I like Bollywood. But if I had to choose, I guess I'd say Braveheart, Amelie, Gladiator.

I don't own a TV. But I do have a laptop with a DVD player, so these days it's "All Buffy, All the Time" --Spike is my boyfriend [swoons]

ATCs and collage using a variety of techniques.

For greeting cards, I like Iris Folding, dry embossing, rubber stamping, wet embossing.