Pookledo

A vegetarian hippy goth with a fashion degree, who works for a bead company and still likes a touch of glamour and the strange...

I love handmade items, livejournal, stand up alternative comedy, obscure geeky things, books, textures and colour...

And too many full stops...

And I love private swaps. Just ask :o)

Adam Ant, Green day, Doug Anthony Allstars, Patti Smith, Pulp, Nirvana, Echo and the Bunnymen, Rammstein, Hayseed Dixie...

I also like music festivals and have been to Glastonbury and Download...

Dr Who, Father Ted, Red Dwarf, Supernatural, Torchwood, CSI, NCIS, Masterchef, Man vs Wild...

Little Shop of Horrors, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Italian Job...

I went to university to study fashion and textiles design. In particular I studied surface decoration, and multimedia textiles with some machine and hand embroidery, papermaking, collage...

I also knit and crochet. For a few years I was a self employed dressmaker... I now work for a bead and jewellery making supplies company...

I like:- purple, silver, black, pink, weird and obscure, art, friends, recycling, gardening (especially growing vegetables), geocaching, livejournal, bookcrossing and bookmooch,

• Scraps of quilting type material (I'm making a patchwork quilt with larger pieces, and using smaller pieces for bookmarks and jewellery making)
• Adult sized metal bangles
• Herbal tea sachets (Not green tea, mint or black tea though)
• Anything for the garden
• Sharpies
• Address labels
• Double sided tape
• Big flowery hair accessories
• Fascinators
• Fazer blue chocolate
• Hair slides or grips
• Envelope reuse labels
• Silver plated wire
• Any craft wire
• Any gemstones or sea glass/pottery
• Books from my wishlist (linked above)
• Beads or broken jewellery I can use for crafts
• Size UK 26 Gothic clothes
• Size UK 5 socks in bright colours or patterns
• Anything purple, black or silver,
• Double knitting yarn (anything from 12" to odd balls),
• Candle making supplies including old candles I can melt down
• Candles,
• Anything from my Etsy favourites,
• A Sale in my Etsy shop (See link above)
• Anything gothic/pagan/spiritual,
• Bookcrossing supplies
• Geocaching supplies
• Un-activated travel bugs
• Jewellery making books
• Seed beads
• Felt
• Scraps of luxury materials such as silk and chiffons
• Hand dyed ribbons or scraps
• Charms
• Good quality hand made items

I'm happy to reuse items, or hand me downs. Recycling rocks!

I love well made handmade items.

• Tote bags,
• Pendants,
• Handmade cards,
• Candles,
• Handmade beads or buttons
• Hand dyed silks, ribbons or threads

• I don't have my ears pierced, so no earrings for me please.
• Anything to do with clowns
• I'm vegetarian, so not meat products for me either. (This includes anything with gelatine or cochineal)
• No lipgloss.
• No green tea, peppermint tea, or black tea

• Handmade jewellery
• Handmade cards
• Handmade bookmarks
• ATC supplies
• Paper scraps
• Fabric scraps
• Beads
• Dotee faces
• Bookmooch points

I like a mixed bag of books really. At the moment I'm liking, The Moneyless Man, Kitchen Confidential, Anne of Green Gables...

I'm not into horror, romance, fantasy or sci fi.There's a book wishlist in the links at the top for you to get an idea of my tastes from.