LavenderLizard

I'm an artsy-craftsy youth services librarian living down South who likes to make all sorts of things ALL THE TIME...

I enjoy making jewelry (beading, wire wrapping, etc.), and sometimes make my own beads and pendants from polymer clay, PMC (when I can afford it), Friendly Plastic, cloth, and anything else I can get my hands on. I've started altering wooden things like scrabble tiles to make charms as well. I do a little loom weaving, but only small projects. I also play with bottle caps!

I've become obsessed with ATCs--I do a lot of hand-embroidered cards, collage, carve my own rubber stamps, and have started suminagashi (ink marbling) and cyanotype. I don't swap the ATCs here much, though, as I am active on another site as well.

I like making tiny paper, cloth, or clay spirit dolls. I just got started with dotees and icicle dolls, but I love quirky dolls and softies in general as well as goddess dolls.

I also sew (kind of at a beginning level, mostly bags and toys at this point), embroider, play with ceramics, and make paper, candles, herbal items, and more. I just started amigurumi, but have to be careful of my touchy wrists. I've also started playing more with mixed media jewelry and soldering--still not that great yet.

I love collage art--I use antique book pages with my carved stamps, etc, to create all sorts of things.

And if you find it in the Stampington magazines, I'll probably think it's quite cool...I have a "thing" for those folks! Very creative bunch.

As you can tell, I like to keep my arts and crafts varied...one thing I cannot do at all well, however, is draw. I'm working on it, but not making much progress.

I'm VERY allergic to non-carbon paper (like dressmaker's carbon and the yellow paper in receipts) and wool. Weird, I know... I don't have pierced ears, and have to follow a strict diet for health reasons, so can't eat much of anything that could be sent through the mail. I am currently following a living/raw foods diet.

My favorite colors are jewel-toned red, green, blue and purple. I also like black and white things. I love nature themes, trees, fairies, lizards, owls, oriental style, fantasy, goddesses, cave art, and anything that begins with "Once upon a time..." I'd love to get materials I can use to make things, and I especially love getting handmade items in swaps.

Movies and TV in one for me...

Some of my favorites are Amelie, Bull Durham, Labyrinth, Stardust, Bones (I was an anthropology undergrad), Juno, Monk, Supernatural, the first half of Lady in the Water (the second half is highly unfortunate, I admit), classic horror (of the b&w Vincent Price variety, not the slasher kind), the Witches of Eastwick, and of course Lord of the Rings, Buffy, Firefly, Serenity, and all Joss Whedon! I love quirky characters, and he is the king in that area.

I'm a LIBRARIAN! 'Course I have these!

I love fairy tales (a great modern fairy tale I read recently was the Book of Lost Things). I love art and craft books, and collect them somewhat obsessively. I love urban fantasy as well--fairy tales are not just for the past! I love Wise Child by Monica Furlong, the poetry of Hafiz and Rumi, Charles De Lint, Susan Cooper, The Folk Keeper, David Shannon's picture books (talk about quirky!), The Wishing of Biddy Malone, The Ordinary Princess, Savvy, and let's see, how long can my list be?...

I am addicted to books about the crafts I make...things like jewelry making (especially the fancy art jewelry), polymer clay, sewing, amigurumi, collage, and on and on...

I will rate everyone when I receive your package, I promise! I also send out 2 messages to let you know if I haven't gotten something...so you'll know if something you send me goes missing. And of course let me know if you don't get something from me in a swap--I have never yet flaked on a swap, and it is my intention never to do so!

I'm also having trouble joining the groups people are inviting me into--I do want to join, but there's some kind of bug in the system preventing me. I'll keep trying!

Swaps I never received: Anything You Want to Make Swap, runes ~ handmade ~ USA, Favorite Fairy Tale Character Dotee (angeled!), Smashed Cents #2 (from one of the two partners--now angeled!), Newbie Swap #11