Snoskimouse

Hi! I'm Sal a very shy girl from the north east of England, who loves to draw. I live at home with my Mama, Step-Dad, twin sisters and two brother bunnies.

I graduated from university with a degree in Illustration and Design, I hope to someday work exclusively as an illustrator. Wish me luck in finding work!! :3

If you don't received anything from me or have any sort of problem, please let me know and I'll resend or do my best to solve the problem :3

I love being in the great outdoors! cycling, long walks, writing long letters, the sea & the sky, teas, coffee, being creative,Manga & Anime, travelling, birds, anything with wings, insects,friends, Natural History illustration, Davey Havok, stationery, Japan, Scandinavia, bunnies, seals, mice (especially dormice :3), Autumn,silly stories, Morrissey, drawing, reading, the postman ^^, festivals,dragons, old fashioned storybook illustrations, botanical illustrations, running about barefoot, tree climbing, Dinosaurs, Windmills, video games,inks, horseshoe crabs, boats, watercolours,tea cups & saucers, soft paintbrushes, Sci-fi, Cyberpunk, Fantasy, listening to the radio,abandoned buildings, when plants take over old buildings, the pretty colours that oil on water makes, Bill Bailey, The Moomins, eggs, day dreaming, greens, dark purple, silver, turquoise, glam rock (!) nail varnishes, Studio Ghibli films,weird lifestyles-odd artists, Steampunk,noodles, bananas & banana flavoured things :) all things cute >kawaii< aand Hats! - ooh! Jonathan Rhys Meyers- I think thats enough for now :P

Favourite characters :)

Lisa Simpson (so cool!), Peppermint Patty, Linus, Schroeder, Battle Angel Alita, Snufkin, Stinky (The Moomins), Little My, Princess Nausicaa, Miffy, Mamegoma, Fifi Lapin, Lenore & Ragamuffin, L, Link (Anything Zelda really) Laguna Loire, Steerpike, Professor Layton, Chocobo, Cactuar & Moogle (especially the rabbityesque ones :3)

Squids, octopus (I really don't like these I find them a little scary..In fact let's say ALL cephalopds.), gold, pastel colours, very pink girly stuff, Make-up (I do wear it occassionally, but I don't want lots of it) Disney, scrapbooking supplies, silk/animal furs, religous items, kitschy items Diddl,coconut.. erm, I'm struggling to think of anything else!.. Oh! Coriander & Black pepper too

• The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Norweigan Wood, Kafka on the Shore, 1Q84 and After Dark by Haruki Murakami

• Neverwhere, Coraline, American Gods by Neil Gaiman

• Moominvalley in November, The Summer Book and The Winter Book by Tove Jansson

• Of Mice & Men by John Steinbeck

• What a Wonderful World and Solanin by Inio Asano

• Blankets by Craig Thompson

• Ghost World by Daniel Clowes

• Stories of Ibis by Hiroshi Yamamoto

• Saturn Apartments by Hisae Iwaoka

• Battle Angel Alita by Yukito Kishiro

• Deathnote by Tsgumi Ohba

• Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto

• The End of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas

• Titus Groan, Gormenghast & Titus Alone by Mervyn Peake

• British Insects by Michael Chinery

• 1984 by George Orwell

• Metamorphoses by Franz Kafka

• A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin

The Castle of Cagliostro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Tony Takitani, Amelie, Delicatessan, Micmacs, 5cm per Second, Velvet Goldmine, Eagle vs. Shark, Kermit: The Swamp Years, Andre, Ghost World, Of Mice and Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Nightmare Before Christmas, Labyrinth, Withnail and I, Casshern, Blade Runner, Metropolis,

AND.. The Moomins, Daria, Qi, any nature documentary, Six Feet Under, Invader Zim, Have I Got News for You, Black Books, Flight of The Conchords, Monk, Doctor Who, Blackadder, The Simpsons, Twin Peaks, Red Dwarf, Whose Line is it Anyway, King of the Hill, Gormenghast BBC miniseries

...Favourite animes!

Any Studio Ghibli, 5cm per Second, Battle Angel Alita, Deathnote, Mainichi Kaasan, Chobits, Advent Children, The Guyver, Haibane Renmei, Vampire Princess Miyu (original), Dominion Tank Police, Paranoia Agent, Last Exile, Lucky Star, Ghost in the Shell, Akira. Ooh I know I've missed loads off I just can't recall them all!!

I love anything banana, cinnamon, butterscotch or fruit flavoured. (except watermelon) Pocky and Mikado are always much appreciated as are Riesen, strawberry chocolate,boiled sweets and nutty sweets. I like milk and dark chocolates. Especially love pistachio and macadamia nuts. mmmm macamadamia nuts

Although I love Riesen I'm not a hard toffee fan in general. Nor am I a white chocolate fan :P OH! I totally forgot, I'm not a fan of Hershey's chocs.. well not loads of it, Hershey's kisses are nice ^^

Drawing, painting in inks & watercolours, fineliner sketches, origami, card making, doodling xD and I'm trying to teach myself to crochet!

Tove Jansson, Yoshitaka Amano, Gustav Klimt, The Glasgow Four, Arthur Rackham, Alphonse Mucha, William Waterhouse, Carl Larsson, Beatrix Potter, Egon Schiele,Christopher Morley, Shaun Tan, Hayao Miyazaki, Inio Asano, Yukito Kishiro, Camilla D'Errico, Oliver Jeffers, Alexis Deacon,

My favourite painting is 'Isabella and the Pot of Basil' by William Holman Hunt

Nobuo Uematsu, Joe Hisaishi, The Ramones, The Smashing Pumpkins, Codeine Velvet Club, The Smiths, Morrissey, AFI, Nick Cave, Pixies, Bob Dylan, Nina Nastacia, Simon & Garfunkel, Fleet Foxes, David Bowie, Echo & The Bunnymen, Pavement, Arcade Fire, Sigur Ros, Motoi Sakuraba, The Doors, Travelling Wilburys, Hello Seahorse, E.S Posthumus, Wild Nothing

Aha, I see I should really put these in too ^^ Well I'm allergic to pollen & pine nuts- neither would give me a really awful reaction, but just to let you's know :P Oh & heavily perfumed things too!

I don't like the smell of cigarette smoke on my items either =_=;.. And if you don't mind I don't need any notebooks, I have a drawer full of them! xD

Hee, so I thought a wish list was a bit cheeky- but after reading lists on other profiles I thought it could be quite fun..

• Double sided origami paper or origami paper

• Sugar packets from cafes (a weird and long standing collection ^^)

• Pretty address/letter labels

• Japanese or Scandinavian souveiners

• Insect related items :D

• Mexican Day of the Dead things :) or Halloween stuff

• Postcards- any type

• Deco tape & stickers

• Final Fantasy Merchandise

• Cute socks (long ones or toe socks are best!)

• Writing paper

• Anything Moomin, Mamegoma, Peanuts or Fifi Lapin related

• Things to do with wings!

• Tea

• Fineliner pens

• Anything to do with Neil Gaiman's Sandman