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.

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 (stars and moons and suns) style, Cats and Dogs All animals especially Bears (real pictures of bears not teddy bears) Not that there is anything wrong with teddy bears :)

LOVES: Anything Handmade

Pen-Pal letters and swappers that include a personal note with swaps makes me happy!

Decorated envelopes

silver jewlery or handmade earings, braclets, and necklaces

colored natural gemstones

butterflies

cookbooks

cozy socks

candy

tea

Fairies

stationery it is hard to find nice stationery here I like floral,nature and artstic kinds not Kawaii or diddle

learning about people and cultures

scented soap

magazines used is fine!

postcards

Always in need of Kitchen towels

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:

Pink girly things

Kawaii

cartoon characters or Disney stuff

scrapbooking but some of the stuff I can use for my card making

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! I also love more sutble and complex films as well. I just love Dance movies also like Strictly Ballroom and Step up We get no TV so I love movies and I'm fine if you send me any "back-up" copies you've made.

Here is a short list of favorites: Meet Joe Black, Dan in Real Life, I am Legend, The Illusionist, Princess Bride, everything Star Trek, all the LOTR movies, The list could go on for a very long time

cooking and preserving food, gardening, reading, herbs for cooking, healing and crafting, knitting, I 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've been drying a bunch of homegrown and wild collected herbs for tea blends, herbal bath bags and popourri (spelling?)

I really enjoy reading non-fiction such as real life adventures or how-to books also books about great people. I do love engaging plot-driven books too. Here are a few of the books I've read recently: Catch me if you can (about a infamous con-man) Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mysteries, My Guantanamo Diary, Not by the Sword and..... I have a horrible time remember the titles of the books I've read.

I like all kinds of foods spicy and exotic Indian, Mexican, Thai,Chinese, all asian 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. Light florals are OK

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