crescendo

I have been on Earth for 45 years, married for 11 years (really 21 years together, 22 if you count the year I had to stalk him in college to find out if he was interested in me or not) to a most Wonderful husband, no kids, but have a cuddly dear cat named Smokey. I live in a rural area on the outskirts of the city amidst lots of trees and nature.

I am energized by peaceful nature environments, but drained by noise, crowds and hubbub. I am a big time gardener, and love growing flowers, vegetables, shrubs, vines and trees. I have been a gardener since college, when I discovered the soothing properties of connecting with the Earth.

I have an immature sense of humor at times and am not offended at all by foul language, explicit music, fart jokes or anything like that. I just laugh and laugh at those things, heh.

I am a former software engineer turned graphic designer, which is a perfect mix of my love for nerdly things, computers and for art and design. I am a perpetual student, always loving to learn something new and take classes, especially art and Adobe software classes.

I am an art supply and art book junkie. My favorite mediums to work in are watercolor, pen/ink/watercolor journaling, digital graphic design, and pretty much will dabble with any type of painting and drawing. I love to learn new art/craft techniques, my mind grabs onto new things and it keeps me motivated to learn all the time. I have started loving to do colored pencil ATCs, glue book/collage type things and love all things paper ephemera, mmmmm. I am just learning to sew (well ok, maybe that is premature, I can sort of sew a strait line, haha) and want to also learn to embroider, do beaded things, felting, dotees...so many crafts to learn! So many fun supplies to collect and fondle! I can totally see becoming addicted to fabric and fibers just as easily as to paper and ephemera.

My home is decorated with natural finishes such as wood, stone, glass and metal.

My interests include: organic gardening, nature journaling, boating, goats, nature, graphic design, art, computers, cats/dogs, animals, outdoors, hiking, decorating, landscaping, science, spirituality, body/mind/spirit, fitness, Spinning (indoor cycling, not wool:)

I like bright/saturated/vibrant/vivid colors, not pastels.

Currently my fave color combos are: blue/leaf green/sunny yellow; and then citrus combo of: tangerine/lime/lemon

For some reason I LOATHE the color "mauve/dusty rose".

My home is decorated with earth tones like green, brown, burgundy, gold, blue, royal purple.

♥ Vintage postcards (the written on ones from antique stores)

♥ Fortune cookie fortunes; "Yogi" brand tea bag tags

♥ Snails and garden slugs

♥ Goats. Goats. Did I mention LOVING Goats?

♥ Gardening

♥ Pink Flamingos

♥ Maui, the Ocean, Sun and Sand

♥ Cute Gingerbread Men/Women and Snow Men/Women

♥ Humor and Satire, Bathroom humor (yeah, I'm pretty immature sometimes)

♥ Spiritual, yoga, mandalas, prayer flags, personal growth, inspirational things

♥ Any items/art/craft that you are passionate about creating by hand -- I love to see everyone's creative side come out (your handmade items are especially precious)

♥ Pilsbury Dough Boy

♥ Hand drawn/painted ATCs

♥ Prisms, sparkly things, glittery things, shiny things

♥ Polished stones/gemstones/healing stones

♥ The Sun, the moon

♥ Haiku

♥ Cookie Monster

♥ Vintage fruit and vegetable crate labels

♥ Essential Oils

♥ Handmade earrings

♥ Mix CDs, guided meditation CDs

♥ Soy aromatherapy candles

♥ Word/Number/Logic puzzles (just cut out of your newspaper is fine + solutions)

♥ Souvenier squished/elongated pennies

♥ Smokey the Bear

♥ Food with cute faces

♥ Sock monkeys

♥ Eiffel Tower

♥ Just mentioning goats again

♥ Ginger flavored candies

♥ Chocolate-mint flavored candies

♥ Chocolate in all ways, shapes and forms

♥ Herbal tea

Big Bang Theory, PBS, National Geographic Channel, Discover Channel, Scrubs, Frasier, Seinfeld, Chuck, Gardening & Science shows, Monty Python, Ren and Stimpy, Southpark, Jeopardy

↓ No Perfume, nail polish or otherwise chemical/non-organic body products ↓ No Things that smell of cigarette smoke (if you can help it as best as possible) or especially don't try to cover it up with perfume (including scented dryer sheets -- triggers migraine -- sorry! I'd prefer to air out cigarette smoke than get a migraine!) ↓ No Caffeine ↓ No Things that are the color "mauve" ↓ I am allergic to anything that is artificially/chemically scented, colored or flavored, or that contain soy. ↓ No Sad and depressing music or things ↓ No Goth, horror, voodoo-ish evil things

↓↓↓↓↓ No Drama and bickering in the forums

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