alyssacrutchfield

Handmade jewelry, scrapbooking, paper crafts, floral design

I'm 24, married, and mother to two very cute boys. We just moved back to San Diego, California after a brief stint in Pahrump, Nevada that didn't end soon enough (no offense to anyone from there but we were just used to living in San Diego). I'm lucky enough to be a stay-at-home-mom but will be going back to school in the summer and I also run a small handcrafted jewelry design company out of my house. I like being crafty and enjoy others who enjoy being crafty as well. I'm also a little obsessed about making jewelry right now. I like to give jewelry as well as receive it. Oddly enough I also love mailing stuff so I thought this would be the perfect place to do it!

Ethnic items especially from Japan, Korea, the Philippines and other southeast Asian countries, Kawaii items (Hello Kitty, Morning Glory, etc.), beads and anything related to jewelry making and anything related to gnomes. The cute ones not the creepy ones!

anything about making jewelry! Blindness by Jose Saramango, Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn, Noli Me Tangere by Jose Rizal, Filipino/Filipino-American literature in general, books about the Filipino-American war, 19th-20th century European history books...I read a wide variety of things.

• interesting and unusual beads (not cheapy ones I could buy at Michaels or Wal-Mart

• ethnic items from Asian (especially Japan, Thailand, and Korea)

• anything that has to do with the cute lawn gnomes

• hello kitty anything

• cute stuffies

• 24 gauge 2" headpins in any color

• fat quarters with a small enough print to cover buttons with

• anything with cherry blossoms