Lunaria

** Update October 2009** I've moved and sort of settled in, but I still don't have my craft room set up. Looking forward to doing a littel swapping again.

Update April 2009 : I'm selling my house and buying a condo. Yay!

I'm taking a break from swapping after the 1st of the year - and having completed my 500th swap! Swapping ruled my life for a while - and it has been great fun.Time for a different obsession! posted Dec 1 2008

Middle-aged mama, college age son. Love my job ( health care) but wish I could retire and do crafts all day! I hate housekeeping. My house is always a disaster. I've learned to make peace with dog hair dust bunnies, but NOT with the clutter.

I believe in thinking outside the box, promoting world peace through being kind to those around us, and I love people who are a little quirky and eccentric.

I love good quality loose tea ( unflavored) and I collect unusual teabags from all over the world, and children's books with tea themes.

I love dark chocolate, hazelnuts and almonds.

• cutesy, country, fussy, or girly stuff
• things with artificial colors and flavors
• stickers
• things from dollar stores (except Daiso! I love their stuff!)
• plastic stuff

• Soft/dusty purples and roses (and even better if they are shimmery/iridescent)
• soft greens (and the names for the soft greens: celery, peridot, celadon, sage and moss),
• black and chocolate brown together
• metallics,
• monochromatic effects ( several shades of one color together)

• combinations of reds/ oranges/ golds/ black

• Not a fan of primary colors or pastels.

i hav e rediscovered knitting after a 20 year hiatus! It's my new obsession. I'll make anything, and I love making felted toys, bowls, etc. Also I like to work in Polymer clay (textures and colors. I want to learn how to make japanese- style lanterns/lamp shades from papers and polymer clay.

Don't watch much TV.

Movies: Quirky indie movies are my favorites. Have a Netflix queue of 200+ movies!

Books: I listen to audio books from Audible.com on my little mp3 player. My favorites are stories about other cultures. For a while I was on a binge of novels and memoirs about China and India; now I'm on a binge of 18th century historical stuff ( John Adams, Tale of Two cities). I think I'm a cultural anthropologist at heart!

Music: eclectic, from opera/choral music to electric blues to contemporary folk. Leonard Cohen, Swell Season, Martha Wainwright, Norah Jones, KT Tunstall.