MuseumGirl

If you are expecting something from me, and it is late, please let me know. I'm anal about getting my swaps out on time. If it was even a day late going in the mail, I will have let you know. I also pledge to rate. I rate everything, usually within a day of receiving. If I haven't rated ya, I haven't gotten it yet.

I am a high school art teacher and I love every minute of it. I try to do as much art work as I can, but time gets away from me. I am originally from St. Louis, and I love being in the city. Unfortunately, I currently live in a small rural town in southwest Missouri. Gah! There's cows, cows are weird!

I have (almost) three degrees- a bachelors in Historic Preservation, an associates in Funeral Sciences, and I'm almost done with my Masters in Education. I is edumakated!

By the way, Dias de los Muertos and Halloween, coolest stuff ever!

Mostly I do watercolors and colored pencil pieces. I love to knit and have every intention of teaching myself to crochet. I make lots of little things out of the scrap paper that accumulates in my classroom. I love to make jewelry out of beads and wire and whatever else I can find.

And tattoos. I love tattoos, I have multiple and I design them. I've designed for a number of my friends and students.

Fiction: Neil Gaiman, Laurell K. Hamilton, J.K. Rowling, Margaret Atwood, Janet Evanovich, Douglas Adams... I read a lot, I could go on and on.

Non-Fiction: COOK BOOKS! I may have a small addiction. I have all the Stitch and Bitch books, including the Happy Hooker. All the Mary Roach books - Stiff, Spook, Bonk. And I recommend Wil Stor vs. the Supernatural, good read.

I collect a number of strange things:

Stuff out of quarter machines,

Cherries,

Pineapples,

Gargoyles,

Dias de los Muertos (Days of the Dead) stuff,

Milagros,

Death icons (mostly skulls),

Folklore and Superstitions,

Catholic Saint ephemera (specifically George, Anthony, Jude, and Catherine of Bologna)

I am diabetic, so no candy or the such for me. Makes me sad. :(

Please don't send me Twilight stuff. I can't stand the book, and I know there are people out there that love it, and that's cool. But I don't. And I teach High School, so I hear about it all day everyday.

Not a fan of cats nor the color yellow.

Hmm, you know I'm not really all that picky. Its really just the Twilight thing.