jessleigh

I am a 28 year old female living in a small town in North Carolina with my boyfriend of seven years. I just started teaching high school english and journalism. The area that I live in has great flea markets and yard sales, and I am always picking up extra items. I love vintage items, stamps, postcards, photographs, maps, and collage items.

There is SO MUCH music in my life! My boyfriend collects vinyls and has probably about 800, plus thousands of cds, so there is music to go with every occasion. Lately I have been enjoying Cat Power's new album, which is very different from the rest of her music. I love music from all different decades. I listen to jazz, blues, bluegrass, indie rock, psychedelia, experimental music, avant garde, punk, rock, old time, and so much more. Here is a sampling: The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Miles Davis, Nina Simone, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Cat Power, Patty Griffin, Sonic Youth, Arcade Fire, David Bowie...

I am an English teacher, so reading is part of my life on so many levels. I love John Steinbeck's East of Eden, Jonathan Safran-Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Kate Chopin's The Awakening, Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway, Observatory Mansions, Time Traveler's Wife, The House of Leaves, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Wrinkle in Time by Madeline L'Engle, the Dark is Rising Series, Nancy Drew Books

Shows that are no longer on television: Twin Peaks, My So-Called Life, Carnivale, early eighties Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

Altered books, Collage, Decoupage