heliogal

I am married with 2 teenage children which are independent homeschoolers. I live in a rural area in a home we built. We are off grid using solar power. So all my computer correspondences are solar powered yeah!We lived for a year with no electricity at all before we were able to get solar power system up. It was fantastic experience.

Nature is very important to me and I like arts and crafts that reflect nature.

If you want to put extras in:I like stationary, sachets, address labels and fancy STICKERS, LOTION,soaps ANYTHING Scented, ribbon, teas, homemade or store bought spice blends, candles (all kinds votives and jar candles ect...),candy I like fruity candies, carmel, coconut, nuts, chocolate ( but between May through September it is HOT here) I like victorian style postcards/cards, Celestial style,Cats and Dogs all animals really. not into cartoon characters like disney or hello kitty.

LOVES: Anything Handmade, silver jewlery, colored natural gemstones, butterflies cookbooks cozy socks, candy tea Fairies, stationary, note pads, pens learning about people and cultures, scented soap, seeds, postcards, trying new recipes, flowers and flower imagery, SUNFLOWERS, SUN,Moon and Stars imagery shopping at thrift stores all shades of yellow (execpt really bright garish)

Not into: Kawaii cartoon characters or Disney stuff scrapbooking (although my daughter is) patriotic USA stuff or camoflage stuff Christian stuff

world music epecially music from Brazil, Cuba, and Africa. Jazz of all types and Rock from Indie to oldies with a soft spot for 80's music.

I love watching all kinds of movies. My guilty pleasures are action/ adventure films and scifi where the good guys always win. Will Smith rocks! Can't wait to see the new Indiana Jones movie. I also love more sutble and complex films as well.I encourage everybody to see the documentary film called Protagonist it is a beautiful story of people changing for the better, it is a very hopeful and encouraging movie when everything seems like it can't ever get better. I just love Dance movies like Strictly Ballroom and Step up ect..

cooking and preserving food, gardening, reading, herbs for cooking, healing and crafting, knitting, Update: still haven't gotten back into soaping but still hoping to, started to make notecards and postcards so I would enjoy biggish (not ATC size) patterned papers and card making supplies ohhh blank cards with envelopes I would love! I am knitting dishcloths and coasters now trying to work up to be good enough to enter some of the dishcloth swaps.:0) I've been drying a bunch of homegrown and wild collected herbs for tea blends, herbal bath bags and popourri (spelling?)

usually it is the book that I just finnshed reading. I like Bill Bryson, Sharon Lovejoy gardening books I do like to read a lot of non-fiction but I like fiction as well. I just read Star girl and loved it.

I like all kinds of foods spicy and exotic Indian, Mexican, Thai, ect.. I love trying new recipes and I recently have been getting into more healthful eating and whole grains. UPDATE: my daughter is becoming vegetarian so all the rest of us have cut down drastically on eating meat. I would love more ethnic and vegetarian recipes or cookbooks. I still have my sweet tooth and love baked goods and candies I like all fruits. I drink more tea than coffee. But I do like coffee mixes.

I really prefer things scented with natural essences. I like clean scents like lemon, honeydew melon, pine, herbs such as lemon verbena,lavender, rosemary, sage, Spicey scents like cinnamon are good but not vanilla or really floral smells

I love yellows! pale yellow to sunflower yellow to golden wheat. I like all earthy tone colors and also jewel tones.You can make me happy with most colors. I do not like pink or neon colors