gooddog56

I work doing occupational therapy with adults who are mentally ill--and love my work. I get to spend 2 - 3 hours every workday teaching folks to make art...

I'm married, 27 years. We have no kids, but 2 dogs. Our "girls" are English Setters.

I love all colors, with a preference for cool colors. I collect frogs, sheep, whistles shaped like fish (yes, it's an odd thing to collect--my collection is rather small), wool, glass beads and penguins.

I enjoy reading and always have a book or two underway--often one is about knitting, the other a novel or psychology/social science book.

For exercise I swim or ride my bike.

I spend a good deal of time with my 83-year old mother--we do crafts together: beading, cardmaking & rubber stamping mostly, occasionally something different.

Folk/eclectic--from Joni Mitchell's early stuff to Lucy Kaplansky to Martyn Joseph to Eliza Gilkyson.

I also like Brazilian bossa nova/samba music and some of the older mellow jazz for background music.

The Devil Wears Prada, An Inconvenient Truth, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, subtitled French comedies, old Bogart/Bacall movies...

Don't have time to watch more than the news.

paper crafts -- knitting, fulling & felting -- art clay silver -- beading

I make and sell books and greeting cards, knit for my own enjoyment (and gifts for family & friends), and sell/gift some of my silver and beaded jewelry.

Button preferences: I use buttons to make molds for silver clay jewelry--so the kind of buttons I like best are metal buttons, with a shank on the back (no holes), and a raised design. A variety of designs would be great!

Fiber preferences: natural fibers, wool is my favorite, worsted weight or thereabouts...Someday I may learn to spin--I have tons of wool roving and combed top that I also use to make felt.

My husband comments that I have enough wool to last til the next millennium, but I think I could use a bit more...

(avatar by Tom Richardson)