PinkPoodle

I am in my mid-30's with two wonderful daughters, one 4 months and the other 3 years. I am a Stay At Home Mom and I intend on homeschooling them. I use cloth diapers, use a sling, and I breastfeed. I started sewing when I was younger because my mother insisted I learn, which annoyed me incredibly. But now that I have girls of my own and we are living on one income I find that I love sewing and so I am working on projects whenever I get the chance. I am trying to learn to be more frugal and how to make our money go farther.

My three year old loves craft time and so I am always looking for things to do with her. I have been making clothes for her, too.

I lived in Germany for a year in high school with family - both parents were born and raised in there. I miss it terribly.

I love Holidays, especially Halloween, Christmas, and birthdays because I am trying to get a bunch of traditions hashed out now so that they are in place when my girls are older. We had no traditions when we were younger and it was so boring. Every birthday and holiday just flowed into all the rest. Isn't that sad? People ask me what I got for a birthday in any given year and I cannot answer.

Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Sue Grafton

Historical romance novels set in England

The eighties - Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, etc.

Celtic music

My Cousin Vinny - I think the best movie of all time, only because for some asinine reason there is a movie quote from this movie to suit all occasions.

Till There Was You - Sums up my philosophical beliefs quite nicely.

Smilla's Sense of Snow - Cause it's cool.

Night At The Roxbury - Cause it's funny

Romy and Michelle's High School Reunion - Cause I hated high school, too

Emma - Cause I cry when Mr. Knightley, (Jeremy Northam) proposes.

I watch way too much TV when I should be spending my time doing other things. That said - CSI: New York and Las Vegas, Criminal Minds, NCIS, Ghost Whisperer, Numbers, Bones, House, Monk and Dexter. Except Dexter annoyed me since in the fall they are moving to Showtime, which meant that for the entire season I felt like I was watching a one hour commercial every Sunday night. I really liked that show, but we don't have cable or satellite or anything. Just normal rabbit ears.

Sewing

Crochet

Paper crafts

Scrapbooking

Beading

Jewelry making

Window painting

Clay (like FIMO)

German window painting and art

I LOVE pink, turquoise, lime green, and orange.

I LOVE patterns, stripes especially, paisley and dots.

All blues and all purples are lovely.

I prefer my colors bright and strong, but pastels are ok, too.

Gnomes, gnomes, gnomes

Mushrooms

Fairies and elves

Mermaids

Dragonflies

Diddl

Girly stuff

Flamingoes

Gerbera Daisies

Bling - anything with diamond rhinestones

Cupcake stuff - anything you can find (just please don't send me real ones - that'd be messy!)

Japanese Paper Lanterns and Parasols

Aprons

Mobiles, or any other kind of hanging thing

Wind chimes

Dotees

Kitchen Witch (small witch on a broom)

Cloth Napkins

Jewelry

Picture frames

Candles (Nothing too sweet; soft florals (rose is great) or spicy ok; NO vanilla)

Decor/sewing/crafting books and magazines

Kitchen things and linens in hot pink and orange

Candy - Licorice - NOT red licorice, just the black; red hots, pillow mints (not butter mints), I love Milka chocolate, German brause - I can't get enough of this! - but not in packets, preferably wafers or tiny little LEGO type blocks,

Scrapbooking stuff

Beading stuff

Fabric, fat quarters

Handmade toiletries

Handmade Bags

Scarves

Bright nail polish

Fun, playful, colorful hats

Books

Fun sewing notions like cute buttons or ric rac or unusual trim

Whimsy jars

No allergies

Yellow

Brown

No earth toned colors

Vanilla or strongly floral scents

Nothing religious

Nothing overly country

No skulls

No Americana

My daughter is three. She is very girly. I'm sure I don't know where she gets it!! ;) She loves everything pink and fairies right now. Glitter, feathers, anything she can glue for a sort of mixed media collage would thrill her. Her bedroom colors are pink and aqua in a fairy theme. Just not Disney fairies, please. More the traditional or Waldorf type of fairies.