jukejan

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About me in the visual sense...Winslow Homer makes my heart leap!

I love anything vintage... such a wide spectrum of images...angels, pinups, greek & roman mythology, collage type rubberstamps....Day of the Dead, aboriginal designs, Victorian pen & ink...It's easy to please me!

Love grungy & distressed, using inks, distress powders, sanding....... Also, primitive or opulent..... it is all good for me.

Maps, pre 40's photos (especially Victorian) botanicals of all types... Birds, stamps, dragonflys, bees, butterflies, nests, eggs...metals... I'm inspired by so many things. Inner parts of clocks, watches, any widgets of inner machinery.

"Campy" images like 50's humor...postcard with some age to them.

Nature is a favorite..... woodblock prints, silhouettes... (I use old dictionaries, foreign language texts, diagrams, take apart encyclopedias, BUT DON'T NEED ANY RIGHT NOW.) Just scored 2 enormous Dictionaries!

LOVE Victorian trading cards, old advertising stuff...clip art, deco & nouveau style...small old tins

Colors of the world!! I love brights,jewel tones, muted tones, patterns, fades, crackle and even neutrals to offset everything else... Textured papers are a particular favorite...Asian inspired designs... art prints...contrasting things...

You know how the trees look with the sunrise/sunset behind the trees and nature is just singing to you? Love that!

Banana Paper?? Ink Daubers? Fun little junky things for assemblage making.

Can't go to the beach without taking home shells, rocks & driftwood. I put them in my flower garden. Right now I'm not into shells, but I sure have alot of them to share, many tropical ones.

I sing the blues. I have a cellar band that rocks......... KoKo Taylor, Shemekia Copeland, Susan Tedeschi, Debbie Davies, Clapton, Fabulous Thunderbirds, Stones, Doors, folk, Scottish, Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles.... Muddy Waters, BB King, Howlin' Wolf, Aretha, and not the least of smooth style kd lang. Jimmy Buffett, reggae, oldies do-wop.

Like most music excluding headbanger & opera. Rap that is respectful is ok.

Paper, paper paper...painted furniture, altered frames, love to glue things on things!! Sign making with flat driftwood from old boats, lobster pots anything that catches my fancy...use of found objects. Weird yard sculptures...

Inchies, card making, ATCs, matchboxes, shrines, altered items, postcards.... the list will grow. Scrapping got me started a year back, but I'm a collager at heart.

Assemblage is my new fav. Love Somerset Studio magazine!! Wonderful inspiration.

Love to find/get bits & pieces for use on collage & assemblage. Rusted hardware, broken doll parts and anything that looks antique. Found objects of all types.

Where have I been???just discovered Joseph Connell from other swappers profiles....just the look I prefer!

The following badges are compliments of Raven.

Married no kids. Loving the DH 25 yrs plus...New Englander. Church of the big blue sky type of spirituality for me.

My totems are the crow and the turtle. Open minded, but please don't try to convert me. Goddesses that are important to me are:Diana, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Sarasvati, & Isis.

Lost my mom last year, healing.

We camp on the beach in the summer, and travel whenever we can. Mexico is magical. Punta Cana DR beach is my fav with those palms that go to the water.

I have the world's most affectionate cat, Smokey Boo Boo Lucky Cat. He was strayed with a broken wrist when he adopted us... thus his name...he's a hugger cat.

Love to cook & eat. We recycle everything we can. Love my garden, my stone walls, the woods across the street and birdwatching.

disney blech. not interested in kawaii from what I can tell, but I think hello Kitty is cute...

Not too much on cutsie dutsie girly type stuff, please, BUT, on the other hand I create it !!

I do like Shabby Chic look. Black lace is fun!

NO goth/bloody type images (Funky skulls ok) but love tarot images and mystical art, castles, aura, in tune with the earth spiritual is wonderful.

Please, no lip gloss, candles, hand creams, mostly what I would welcome is paper or something created by you. I'm picky about the other kind of stuff.

I take the non-flake pledge. Why sign up if ya can't commit? I pledge to rate!

I reuse packaging. Be good to mother earth!

AVOIDING THE DRAMA ON THE FORUMS LIKE THE PLAGUE!

Member since Feb.'08

coffee nice & strong & i like tea, but have a ton from Christmas

Toblerone chocolate

nuts (excluding hazel & brazil nuts)

World Market & Pier One stores

handmade papers

flea market miniatures

mini ink pads (any color)

old photos or scanned images of them

I do love mystery books, detective stories and historically based books. For the most part I go to my library.

Any crafted item that is from your country, expertise or passion. Stuffies, knitted, clayed anything you make I like. I have pierced ears.

MacIntosh or MacPherson tartan.

Maybe someone will adopt me and send me on this cruise in 2010! http://www.bluescruise.com/

Saw coyote tracks in the sand near our camper on the beach, looked like a young one. Saw the claw mark!!

Pumpkin on my front doorstep. Nipon daisies are blooming nearby. Swamp maples are starting to turn colors.

9/8 Smelling the ripening wild concord grapes growing in our border, sweet!

Thousands of barn swallows are swirling around in enormous flocks at my beach, preparing for their southern migration.

Watched five crows fly over the sand dunes and land at the crest of a dune. One of them was a baby and it twittered for it's parents attention. So cute!

Hear my first 'ack ack' tree frog 8/2.

CAT