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AHEM>>MILITARY MAIL IS SLOW. I promise to rate you as I receive it, just be patient.

I am a master at self proclamation... I am an artist. A poet. A believer.
Yes, I am weird. Yes, I might be insane. But, life sure is fun. I am a Cancer. I am an optimist. I am extremely open minded. I am currently 24, and in The United States Navy. I'm making sacrifices for my future family, and because I want to do the expensive art school bit. I have only been married to my longest crush for a year now, hoping to someday reach a 50th anniversary. I am heavily opinionated. I am not shy, just quiet and reserved until you get to know me. I am not into politics because there isn't a party that I agree with 100%. I can't classify who or what I am into a specific religion. I hate labels.

I draw. I paint. My hands hate being idle. I make bracelets, I sew, I collage. I take pictures. I love mixing it all together. I am open to making new crafts. I keep art journals, but I've always called them "Bookies"! I like trying new techniques and styles in my art. I like to constantly improve and play. Someday I hope I am able to break away from my pages and do all kinds of art...sculpture, large canvas, statement art.

I LOVE mixed media art and altered art. Mail art, such as decorated envelopes and packages.

I really like mail. I like to paint and glue and draw on the envelopes and packages I mail out. Mail art thrills me, especially when I receive it. I like to keep any cool postage stamps I get. I collect them on stamp pages in my bookies. I am clueless as to what Kawaii is. And, most other things here on swap-bot. I've never gotten a friendship book, but I am curious about them. I am also curious about the artsy matchbox things.

~~~ I do sometimes reuse the envelopes and boxes I get. I like to paint, draw or collage over them... so you will probably get something recycled but very colorful from me!~~~~~

Other things I like to mail and receive: handmade and cute postcards, scraps and ephemera for art journal pages, ATC's, letters to pen-pals. Poetry. If I get a zine, I will read it a few times, and then mail it to someone else. Mix tapes, mix cd's. bracelets. journals. I like passing art journals back and forth.

~~I DON'T scrapbook, I DO art journal. I am open to crafting new things like matchboxes and little dolls, though I have never done so before.~~~

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ photography, poetry. I enjoy National Public Radio, mail, children, mythology, studying religious views and upbringings, reading, sarcasm, altered states, self portraits, cameras, paranormal, hamsters, witchery. animals, especially baby ones. mint chocolate chip ice cream yum yum The colors aqua, teal, turquoise, green, blood red. I like books, blank books, sketchbooks. purple ink pens. paisley. cotton candy. oranges and peaches and plums, fall and the month of October, Alf, Fraggle Rock. Elephants (baby elephants!), hippies, brutal honesty, watercolors and crayons, cuteness. Cartoon Network. Aqua Teen Hunger Force. 12 oz. Mouse. Robot Chicken. morbid. macabre. sillyness. freecreditreport.com commercials!!

Cookies, chocolate, cake, brownies. I like to bake.

people who assume to know who and what I am, psychoanalysts, bananas, hardcore rap, the word "hardcore", giving giving giving and never getting anything in return, child abusers, child molesters, selfish parents, cheaters,. Black licorice, make-up. romance novels. myspace.

Not much a fan of sanrio, bento, manga, country music, Looney Toones, Twilight, dogs. so sick of pink floyd and AC/DC and lynard skynard.

I love to read. Total bookworm. As long as it isn't romance and smut books, I'll give it a chance. I like things that spark my imagination and make me think. Disturbing books as well. Just no more emo vampires...please! I miss when vampires were scary.

Anias Nin.... ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥

Job; a comedy of Justice - Robert Heinlein. He is one of my favorite authors. Stranger in a strange world... wow.

And, Clive Barker, all his horror and fantasy novels are chilling and beautiful. Even his new young adult novels, Abarat.

Stephen King is cool, even though I have to await new arrivals because I've pretty much covered his collection.

Charles de Lint. I love modern fantasy/faerie.

Francesca Lia Block.

Dame Darcy for both her disturbing literature and graphic novels. She illustrated Jane Eyre!

Charles Bukowski is my most loved asshole poet.

I welcome book and poet suggestions. !

Again, very open minded and eclectic except for country and rap.

Heavy Metal. Beautiful Morbidness. Indie, Folk, acoustic. Alternative. Hippe vibes more than hippie grunge. Classic Rock. Girl music. Men with sexy voices.

Total variation: Acidbath, Eisley, Korn, The Ditty Bops, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mr. Bungle, Manson, Self, Cake, Cat Power, Soul Coughing, Train, Deadboy and the Elephantmen, Dax Riggs, Rilo Kiley, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zero's, Clutch, The Eels, Mike Doughty, Fiona Apple, Modest Mouse, Tori Amos, The Violent Femmes, The Birthday Massacre, John Mayer, Coldplay, The Magnetic Fields, Spoon, Lady Gaga, Monsters of Folk, The Disco Biscuits, The Black Keys, Silverchair, Bela Fleck, Sublime, NIN, Hanson, Blue October, TOOL, The Black Crowes, Five Finger Death Punch, The Who, Kings of Leon, Opiate for the Masses

Things I like and could always use and enjoy:

alphabet stencils, rub-ons, stickers, rubber stamps, anything elephants, anything hamsters, old timey photos, deco tape, moleskine cahiers (preferably blank, unruled), thin blank journals, sewing kits, sarcasm, music/movie/book/poetry suggestions, photo corners, odd magazine pictures, paper scraps, small brads, zines, mix-tapes, TAROT CARDS, non-touristy postcards, stationary, paper dolls, sheet music, zines, gel medium (I use this stuff like crazy), HANDMADE WALLET( I always lose the ones I buy), pez, ATC supplies,