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Date Joined: October 25, 2008
Last Online: February 5, 2012 Birthday: June 9 Country: United States My Flickr Photos My Etsy Store Forrest's Place |
I am a single mom to a 11 year old son and an 18 year old daughter, 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
A Mockingjay (from The Hunger Games) brooch or patch
Metallic Shiva Artist Paintstiks
A leaf rubbing plate for the paintstiks
Things I Collect:
Iwako (adorable Japanese erasers)
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
Moomin books
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.
state by state list of donation centers and donor drives
Also, please consider being a blood and platelet donor at your local blood bank.
Mary Poppins: circus in the sky animal pendant @yelaklleps
Full Moon ATC Swap member's account has been deleted
Celebrate Winter Solstice @ainewicca -swap host @scrapcat said she would angel and did not follow through.
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Comments
If you have special themes for the swaps you will prefere just send me a message.
I hope you have fun in my group :)
Opened my stocking this morning. Thank you so much. I hada a wonderful time opening them up and will put them to use.
Thanks for the random envie from tag at CPG!
I forgot one more thing~~neat stamps on the envie. Thank you!!!
Thanks Mindy for CPG~~WTA envie, nice pcs and cute recipe card. Pretty paper too.
I just want to say a big
for the recipe cards from my november CPG wishlist. =D
Thank you so much for joing my Christmas-themed swap at HAW :)! I´m so happy to have you in! Have fun!
Thanks for being a member of the Crafting Queens~
WTA21 CQ was a wonderful envie thanks so much
Hi, Thank you for the ZMaCS WTA for april postcard you sent, very bright, fun, and creative! Thank you, it really brightened my day! Rachel M