Tiiamaria

Rock, metal, hard rock, gothic rock & metal bansd such as Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Sentenced, Charon, Tarot, Opeth, D-A-D, Volbeat, Faitn No More, Apocalyptica.

Pirates of Caribbean, Sleepy Hollow, Before Sunrise, The Crow, The Nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride

I knit most these days but I still do a little bit of crocheting an sewing. I'm also into card making, decorating deco-booklets, ATC's and any paper crafts. I'm also open and interested to learn new ideas.

• travelling * London, UK * letter writing *going to see good concerts * receiving mail * literature * cooking & baking * tea * coffee * candy * rubberstamping * scrapbooking stuff (despite not being into scrapbooking but I use the stuff for other projects!) * deco tape * nature * vintage stuff * yarn * craft magazines *

I prefer natural yarn, blends are ok too as long as they're good quality. I like wool (spun and unspun) but not the itchy type. I knit socks, scarves and shawls most at the moment so I don't mind if the yarn is bulky or thin. I'm not too much into cotton or novelty yarns (effective type). Solid colours are nice but I also love self-striping, space-dyed and yarn with variegated colours.

My favourite colour is black. I also like all shades of red (the deeper & darker, the better but I also have a bit of a (darker shades) of pink season going on) earth tones and olive green.

I like the combinations of pink - brown, black - white, black and red, black - and almost anything :)

I'm not much of a fan of yellow, navy blue, bright blue, basic bright green and most baby colours.

Things that would make me happy : neat handmade stuff, long letters, yarn, bamboo knitting needles, Kool-Aid, alphabet stickers, rubberstamps / stamped images, random scrapbook/card making material

Things I'd rather not recieve in swaps : coconut, rosehip (tea or anything that includes it), herbs(allergic!), chewing gum, FriendshipBooks, erasers, pencils ... and generally crappy stuff but who sends them out anyway ;)