I am a single mom to a son in middle school and a daughter in college, educator and fiber/mixed media artist.

I do not check my po box daily, sometimes not even weekly. I always rate my received swaps.

As a fiber artist, I'm into doing crochet, beading, dying( tie dye, batik, dye painting), and embroidery. Recently I got into art quilting and needle felting. I also like drawing with prismacolor colored pencils and ultra fine line permanent markers. And, I make ATCs. The picture on my profile is a burned out velvet scarf that I dyed.

My Favorite Craft Materials

Textured, "interesting" yarn, any amount, any fiber, for free-form crochet, my latest artistic passion

100% silk neckties from the thrift store

Vintage Fabrics,

Natural fiber fabrics and yarns,

Textured Fabrics ( brocade, upholstery fabric, velvet, etc.),

Interesting cotton and wool yarns and threads,

Old buttons,

Quirky and Unusual Ephemera,

Quirky and Unusual papers

wool felt

recycled and upcycled materials

WISHES

Metallic Shiva Artist Paintstiks

A leaf rubbing plate for the paintstiks

Things I Collect:

Maneki Neko ( Japanese Lucky Cats)

evil eye beads

Jerry Garcia ties - I occasionally find them in thrift stores

vintage silk scarves

small magic user figures

kinder egg toys

female super heroes

heart rocks

agates

Lenticular Postcards

Kawaii lettersets and stickers.

For clothing, I favor black, russets, burgundy, dark green, purple and teal.

To look at, I like bright happy colors; jewel tones; deep oranges, fuchsia, purples, dark green, teal,etc., in addition to the colors I prefer for clothing. I'm not much into pink. I also like muted woodland colors with mauve/soft purple.

colored glass

Celtic Knotwork

foxes

rabbits

oak trees and acorns

dark chocolate

wings

hawks

crows

squirrels

ferns

paisley

owls

woodlands

Tomten

No Disney, please.

"Dream of the sun dreaming its worlds. Sing till the song throws out root, trunk, branches, birds, stars. Sing until the dream engenders the spring at which you may drink and recognize yourself and recover."

-Octavio Paz

Nellie: A Cat on Her Own by Natalie Babbitt

Tatterhood and Other Tales by Ethel Johnston

Robert D. San Souci

Uncle Wiggly

Picture books with witches, elves and fairies

Neil Gaiman

The Hunger Games

Mysteries by women authors.

Fantasy by women authors.

Vampire books by women authors.

Fiber arts books.

Nevada Barr

psychedelic rock, jam bands, bluegrass, folk, jazz, indie, old timey country

Some of my all time favorite bands and artists:

k.d.lang, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Grateful Dead, Railroad Earth, Neko Case, Scissor Sisters

Intolerance.

Micro-managers.

Dollar Stores. ( they make me feel sad about wasted resources and worried about toxic waste)

Disney.(unless you have a all expense paid trip to Disneyland to swap)

Pastel colors.

Give the gift of life!

Please consider becoming a bone marrow donor/ stem cell donor by joining the National Marrow Donor Program.

Donor Site for those in Europe

You could "Be the Match" and have the unique opportunity of saving someone's life.In case you're wondering, marrow and stem cell donation is done while you're alive. It's much simpler than giving someone a kidney.

This is an issue that is very close to home for me. My daughter had received a peripheral stem cell transplant from a donor in the registry in July 2010. Her donor is in Germany!

state by state list of donation centers and donor drives

Also, please consider being a blood and platelet donor at your local blood bank.

I've been flaked on.

Mary Poppins: circus in the sky animal pendant @yelaklleps

Full Moon ATC Swap @sammyclaire --- Angeled by @sugarskull

Celebrate Winter Solstice @ainewicca -swap host @scrapcat said she would angel and did not follow through.