jukejan

UPDATED 11/17/09

I have been very busy in taking care of me. Still love to craft and swap, just at a more reasonable pace.

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About me in the visual sense.... I love anything vintage, the older the better for me, but all looks from the 1800's to the 1970's...(OR ANYTHING THAT IS ALTERED BY COMPUTER TO LOOK OLD)...angels, pinups, collage type rubberstamps....Day of the Dead, aboriginal designs, Victorian.

Nature is really my passion. I really adore the following items, botanicals of all types, birds, stamps, dragonflys, bees, butterflies, nests, eggs...metals..steampunk style.

"Campy" images like 50's humor, sexual content does not offend me.

LOVE Victorian trading cards, old advertising stuff...clip art, deco & nouveau style...small old tins...german scrap and beads and bobs. :) Tiny doll parts, too.

Colors of the world!! I gravitate alot to green & aqua when I create, but I really like ALL COLORS. When I shop for paper I mostly buy the grungey, funky looking papers or old time looking stuff. I generally avoid the cutsie stuff.

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, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Ray Charles.... Muddy Waters, BB King, Howlin' Wolf, Aretha, and not the least of smooth style kd lang. Jimmy Buffett, reggae, oldies do-wop. We have a vinyl record collection of over two hundred albums. Like most music excluding headbanger & opera. Rap that is respectful is ok.

!ACIDCLEMATIS

Paper, paper paper...painted furniture, altered anything, love to glue things on things!! Watercolor and acrylic painting, watercolor pencils too. Dabbling in polymer clay. Still a novice!!

I love creating shadow boxes, miniature stuff and creating little worlds.

Sign making with flat driftwood from old boats, lobster pots anything that catches my fancy.

Inchies, card making, ATCs, matchboxes, SHRINES, postcards, glue books.... the list will grow.

Assemblage is my new fav. Love Somerset Studio magazine!! Wonderful inspiration be sure to check it out if you haven't, yet.

Love to find/get bits & pieces for use on collage & assemblage. Rusted hardware, broken doll parts and anything that looks antique and thrift store goodies. Lace, embroidered pieces and millenary items are always welcomed.

Artist Joseph Connell, just the look I prefer!

The following badges are compliments of Raven.

Swaps that I have sent here link

Photography is something I been getting into. I like nature shots more that people shots. I also love to take pictures of doors. Doors are the portals of our lives, in and out we go in life and death.

Married, no kids by choice. Loving the DH 25 yrs plus...New Englander. I can be nice or crabby. Sarcastic or sweet. I have learned to bite my tongue over the years, but I have my "true voice " for when I need to speak my peace. I get irritated with people who aren't patient with others on swapbot for all kinds of reasons, but I stay out of the fray because I am here to make friends, make crafts, get ideas and swap stuff.

This is not a snarky place, so go snark somewhere else is my motto.

Church of the big blue sky type of spirituality for me. Prayer works.

My totems are the crow and the turtle. Open minded, but please don't try to convert me. I'm happy that you are happy.

Goddesses that are important to me are: Diana, Our Lady of Guadalupe, Sarasvati, & Isis.

Lost my mom and still healing. She is always with me. I am not so sad anymore, but I want her here on my profile, cuz she is my craft mentor!

beach We camp on the beach in the spring, summer, & fall. We are fortunate to travel whenever we can. Mexico is magical. Punta Cana DR beach is my fav with those palms that go to the water... Costa Rica another visit??? I speak enough Spanish to get by and make an ass out of myself.

I have the world's most affectionate cat, Smokey Boo Boo Lucky Cat. Smokes 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, no likey!

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

NO goth/bloody type images, it's just not my style. (Funky skulls OK,as is All day of the dead images, calaveras, too)

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

Detest Hersey's brand chocolate, tastes like wax to me! Gross!!

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

Art & craft is always subjective, if I think you sent me your best work I always rate well! I can't say something isn't ART!

My rating (5.00) speaks for itself. I act like a reponsible adult and expect the same from you.

Coffee nice & strong will always welcome any coffee :) Tea is also great, no red zinger type please.

Love tarot images and mystical art, castles, aura, in tune with the earth spiritual is wonderful.

Toblerone chocolate, new fancy schmancy m & m's, CoteD'Oro choc bars from Belgium.

Starbucks, mmmm

handmade papers

flea market miniatures

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, sewn, 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/

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

Wooden turtles that have an ethnic edge are my special collectable.

mushroom My Fav nature pic, outside my front door.

• 2009-------------------------- Just back from FLA where so many birds blessed me at the beach... Skimmers, multiple great blue herons, and egrets were all feeding with the gulls as they waited for bait fish in the shallows. Also, a cool little frog stuck to the lanai one night and when I got my camera he took off.

9/10 saw my first maple leaves changing orange and gold today.

Saw a flock of wild turkeys at the cemetary while "visiting" mom. Got a feather for my altar.

I watched the crow flock chase an osprey away from the meadow across the street. Earlier, they had looked like crows acting as cows as they walked in the tall grass cawing to each other.

The humming bird came to visit my impatients and sweet pea vines. Stayed as I stood stock still!

Whispy clouds look like smoke colored feathers as the sun set this evening.

Something nutty happened at the beach...my friends and I were walking along a trail and we came upon a group of people walking a dog. I also noticed that they were walking a dwarf goat!!

My spirit soars as I hear the canary like song of the goldfinches in my yard.

Wayside Lillies have finally begun blooming in this cold summer. Their orange faces are a familiar and special site as I travel the roads here. My window boxes are bursting with begonias and osteospurnum (sp). Really pretty this year!

My cat birds have been very active in the year, and entertain me with their musical variety. ONe of them did the song of a tern and then moved on to a robin.

Saw my little friend the kingfisher this afternoon, hunting along Scorton Creek on the telephone wire. Four ospreys were soaring the thermals over his domain. Magestic ! In FlA saw white ibis, herons, egrets, spoonbills and a pileated woodpecker, hawks and a golden eagle, ospreys and warblers. Super Birding!

Today I spotted my first yellow warbler and wild blue vinca blossoms on an after work walk in the woods.

Spring peepers are calling in the wetspots starting at dusk. Saw deer tracks in the sand at the cranberry bogs today. Daffys are blooming!

Had an actual TURKEY land on my roof this morning and he flew away when DH went to see WTH crashed!!

Lots of geese accumulating on the ponds that I pass. More birdsong in the morning, too. Spring is awakening no matter the weather.

I saw five swans flying over the winter brown marsh, just beautiful!

3 Blue jays eating crackers in my backyard on the snow, a vivid winterscape! Delicate snow falls and sticks to the pines today, so peacefully.

*2008------------------------------- Swamp holly berries are bright red on the bushes in the low places and my bittersweet vines are bursting with berries all around the yard.

Late this afternoon... Looking west out of the second story window, is a church steeple. The church was built in 1717. Paul & I happened to be married there. Well, now there is a dark purple cloud with orange below and sunlight shining on the tippity top of the golden rooster weathervane. It is a magnificent sight to behold!

After I got my animal spirit guide shrine(-crow-)from Bubbalover, 3 days later, I saw maybe forty crows in a group of trees facing the sun in the late afternoon. THAT was magick!

Heard an owl this morn, very early.... and had four sandhill cranes in the driveway, in FLA. Also, interesting mushrooms, dragonflies and flowers.

Great blue heron wading in the shallows with his friends the egrets in view of the Boston Skyline as a backdrop. love that dirty water...

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

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

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!

"Aging is a kick in the crotchety." from It's Not Menopause... I'm Just Like This, Maxine's Guide to Aging Disgracefully

Heard a good one from Anthony Bourdain, the chef, "It's Beer O'clock!"