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Birthday:
September 15
Last Online: December 1, 2008 Country: USA MySpace Profile Cox Journal Shelfari. |
I am a retired high school English teacher,now an actor and writer. I have always loved crafting and aspire to learn to draw and paint, although I am not sure I have the patience for that. I keep trying though! I'm enrolling in a watercolor class in the fall. I used to do silversmithing and still do some macrame once in a while. I like to sew and enjoy making up my own patterns for purses and stuff. I've got a bag full of old men's ties that are just waiting for inspiration and time available to get started.
Recently, I've started experimenting with block printing and paper making. I'm planning on making my Christmas cards this year.
Purple and turquoise are my favorite colors, but I love navy blue and forest green too.
Please don't send anything with fragrances as my son is allergic. I love plants & flowers, but travel too much to keep any alive. I even managed to kill a snake plant somehow. I think it got hit in a hard freeze we had last winter.
I was born in the year of the Tiger, and they are my favorite animal: so beautiful and strong. My sons tell me I am obsessed with boxes and containers of any kind. It's really hard for me to throw away the box something came in, especially if it's unique!
I love learning new things, so I really want to hear about your area, learn about YOU! I love surprises, that's one of the best things about swap-bot! I know what I like and I will generally just go get it if I want it enough. Surprise me with something different! I love it when swappers add personal notes about what they sent. Share a little of YOU! Thanks!
Any music that is well done is appealing, but I listen most often to rock, blues and jazz. I love making mixes and seeing what other people mix up. I'm open to hearing new groups and singers, but generally don't like rap music. Opera is okay when I'm there watching the performance, but I don't listen to it otherwise. I appreciate country music, but don't listen to it much either.
Big Fish, LA Confidential, Chinatown, Princess Bride, Neverending Story, Bringing Up Baby, Monkey Business, Animal House, Harry Potter movies, LOTR, Amelie, The Thin Man series, Memento, The Gods Must be Crazy, The Road to Singapore, Conspiracy Theory… pretty eclectic mix, I know!
Veronica Mars, Lost, Desperate Housewives, Ugly Betty, Monk, Psych, The 4400, Dead Zone, Scrubs, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Project Runway, Top Chef…
Photography, crocheting, some knitting, used to do embroidery & crewel, but not so much anymore. I love to make collages, mixed media, colored pencil, sewing, silver-smithing, decoupage, stenciling, I'll try anything! I love to learn new crafts! I do like to scrapbook, but don't really do it much, so I can't really use materials for that.
Since I'm a former English teacher, I love to read most anything (I've been known to resort to the backs of cereal boxes and shampoo bottles!), but I adore mysteries, especially "cozy" ones (like coffeehouse, cooking, bookstore, dog lovers, handyman, they go on and on!). Sue Grafton's alphabet series is a must read, but so is Harry Potter!
I don't like overly religious books or really gory stuff, although I adore most of Dean Koontz's stuff, and some Stephen King.
I go in phases of reading. Right now, I'm enjoying cooking books, like Ruth Reichl and Peter Mayle. Past binges have included fantasy and SF, police procedurals, true adventures like Endurance (a great book and an amazing true story), Into Thin Air and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.
Biographies and autobiographies are another favorite. If you haven't read Lance Armstrong's two, you must! Maya Angelou's are wonderful too. Gilda Radner's book, It's Always Something, Dave Eggers' A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, … I could go on!
I loved The Memory Keeper's Daughter, The Time Traveler's Wife, Hairstyles of the Damned, A Confederacy of Dunces, and The Historian among many others. Reading is a passion, can you tell? Check out my Shelfari site if you want more!
I usually find I can't use supplies sent to me in swaps: colors, sizes, patterns, etc. don't usually fit my needs and I don't do mixed media stuff. I'f rather just go find what I like/need at the time. My house is way too cramped with stuff I've accumulated to use "someday" already!
Long story short, a great "surprise" for me is a great book or mix cd, or anything HANDMADE by you. I also like hearing about where you live and places you've been.
Thanks for whatever you send. If I can't use it, I'll regift it in another swap!
I really like most things, but I'm not into cutesy stuff or overtly religious materials.
Remember I live in a desert! So if it's summer and you're thinking of sending chocolate, think again! Anything perishable is probably not a good idea during those months (that'd be late May-September here)!
I'm not into stickers, so those will just be re-gifted if sent.
Comments
Thanks for the comment about my koi fish. As soon as I get a chance I will talk to Tara about when to set up a day to met for the next crafting group on how to create the bears. I guess I talk to Denise first? :)
I'm glad you liked the card, and I hope you like everything else when you open the gifts on your birthday.
I received your package in the mail too and am so excited to open it tomorrow! :-) Yay for birthdays!
Hello, How's it going? I'm excited about the felting class this month that I signed up for. I hope to see you there. Cheerio! Stephanie
Hello, If anyone is interested in the two or one of the Oct. Halloween swaps here they are: Halloween Spooksville Fun Mail! http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/20560
Boo! Halloween Swap!
http://www.swap-bot.com/swap/show/19880
Thank you for the traveling journal which you have sent to me. It will be fun writing in it.
your no-low-gas vacation book was amazing.I really do want to come visit Arizona.you did an amazing job,thanks so much.
You're welcome! I'm glad you liked it!
Hi,
Thanks so much for your penpal letter reply, I will get a reply out sometime this week!
George x
I appreciate your comment about the state card. A little late, lol, yup, I sent it a whole year late. I do thank you for letting me know you got it. I'm just squaring up some of the mistakes I made before.
Welcome to the Quote and Photo swap! I am really excited about this challenge!!! Ü