jensquil

I am a middle school art teacher. I am married and have two wonderful children and four dogs, who are just like kids too. My husband is also an art teacher, so we have lots to talk about, and he likes to go to the craft store too! yay!!

I love to knit, paint, make cards (rubberstamped) and read. I am always looking for new and interesting things to do with my students, which also gets me excited to do my own work.

My all time favorite music is Yanni, I saw him 4 times in concert. His music is wonderful. I love to listen to it when I am making something, it really sparks my creativity. Classical music is also a favorite when working on a project, I like to play classical for my students too. I like many other kinds of music too, Fleetwood Mac, Evanesence, Daughtry, Moody Blues, Indigo Girls, Nickelback and many more.

I love to read as I said before, I have to say that I am really influenced at the moment by my students. They show me what they are reading and say "You should read this, it is really good!" So, I have read all the Twilight novels and I am currently reading the 4th book. I love Harry Potter and fantasy novels. I love anything with fairies, elves, dragons and that kind of suff. I love faeries so much that I got a tattoo of one on my leg. My favorite fairy artist is Amy Brown, I have her ballerina fairy on my leg with a frog( who represents my husband, my prince charming) and two little foot prints (one for each of my children).

I also have an addiction to magazines, I have sooo many, but I love to look at them and get ideas. I read artist's magazine, Fairy magazine, knitting magazines, Mary Englebreights magazine and I love Cloth Paper Scissors magazine.

One of my favorite things to do is go to the bookstore with my daughter and look at books and mags and have a coffee. I really like the flavored coffees. My daughter likes the frozen chocolate drinks, and we always share a cupckake.

My favorite movie is Moonstruck. I married into an Italian family, his mother used to say "Get me the big knife!" from the movie. We quote this movie often in our house. I also love the Harry Potter movies. Indiana Jones, James Bond ( my husband loves these too) and The Nightmare Before Christmas.

I watch alot of craft related shows like Knitty Gritty and Uncommon Threads. I also like to watch British Comedies and the Bravo channel, which has Project Runway, Top Chef, Top Design and all that suff.

I love to knit. I have a huge stash of yarn. I don't think my husband realizes how much yarn I really have. I have made paintings with acrylic and yarn. I have a huge collection of rubberstamps, my husband made a set of wall shelves to store them, it is filled almost 3 deep. I like to try new things, so I have a room full of stuff to play with. I am trying to get some scrapbooking started and finished. I have tons of pics of my kids, but only one book started. I like all kinds of things to play with in my artwork: gel pens, stickers, markers, beads, scrapbook paper (I like pinks, purples and greens), etc.

Okay, I have to add that I am now hooked on dotees! I love them! I just bought a bunch of fabric and beads to make more. Yay!

My favorite color is pink, but I love all kinds of colors and combinations. I love to see complementary combinatons like greens and reds and blues and oranges. I also like varigated colors. I like to get varigated yarns for many of my knitting projects.

I love to burn candles in my home, my favorite scents are ones with cinnamon and flower scents. I collect so many things, I really like teddy bears, frogs(cute ones), dogs and anything small and cute, I think the term for swap-bot is kuwaii(spelling?).

I do have a small allergy to wool. Certain wools make me feel like someone is poking my eyes with needles, Yuk!

I belong a local art league and we did an altered bra raffle to raise money for breast cancer awareness. We had 15 bras altered and we made over five hundred dollars to give to the PA breast cancer coalition. It was great, my bra was a halloween theme, we had a ze-bra, a boobsie twins bra and many more. I am really interested in altered art, it is interesting to see what people do with stuff we see everyday, so I collect all different kinds of papers, ribbons, buttons and things to use in my artwork.

Fabric *beads *yarn *ribbon *DMC Floss *gel pens *rubberstamps *charms *buttons *printed paper

My fairy is called Tangle Elfwand. She is a cheerful sprite.She lives at the bottom of tangled gardens and in hedgerows.She is only seen when the seer holds a four-leafed clover.She wears tangled dresses of multicoloured petals. She has delicate green wings like a cicada.Get your free fairy name here! http://www.emmadavies.net/fairy/default.aspx This is a cool site! : )