msscoco

I am 18; like the Jamaican Rasta colors; majoring in illustration; fave colors include: dark purple, lime green and turquoise/aqua; love everything art; Have a dog (one passed away recently) and a cat; love making and giving cards to people;Think retro and 80's things are super cool!!

I just got a sewing machine so i am trying to learn how to make cute things to give to people.

• I love stripes and polka dots.
• I love Comic Books that are artistic with good art; I prefer ones that arnt widely known like batman..etc.
• I really love super cute things. :]
• I love love love colorful things and rainbows.
• I love Disney movies
• I love crafts supplies
• I think stuffed animals are the coolest things, the bigger they are the better, as long as they are soft and cuddly.
• I love big plastic jewelry
• Pandas, Cute Elephants, Owls, penguins, cute monkeys, Giraffes and ladybugs are awesome.
• Giraffe and zebra printed things
• Big shoulder bags
• I love ribbons for scrapbooking; I like solid colors, and cute stuff. please nothing sheer and wedding like.
• art supplies; craft supplies
• Fabric, fabric, fabric
• I like soft yarn [nothing itchy and super cheap I have a lot of that stuff all ready]
• I love milk chocolate

• I dont really like pink things, hot pink is okay.
• I'm not really into sports, except gymnastics.

• I hate hard stuffed animals, the ones you get at carnivals with the beads in them or just hard ones in general.

• not into old fashion traditional floral, maybe Japanese lotus flowers are okay. But most flowery fabric, not so great -I don't hate furry stuffed animals but I don't really like them much.

• Dark chocolate
• not much of a mint fan, specially in chocolate.

I'm very interested in hearing some tips on how to do things, swap suggestions, anything that can help me to become a really good swapper.

So if you are my partner for anything please let me know what you want and give me some pretty good ideas so that I can do my best to make you happy.

Also I have to let you know that I'm actually pretty poor myself but I love crafts and I have some nice things around the house. [also I will follow the rules for the swaps as close as possible.]

I do a lot of: sketching, card making, paper crafts, graphic designing, fashion designing, knitting.

im also interested in but have yet to peruse: scrap booking, doll making, sewing, sticker making, etc.

Teenage related, Romance, fantasy, Yaoi

Memoirs of a Geisha, Twilight, Lord of the Rings, The interview with a vampire, the Vampire Armond, Just Ella, Romeo and Juliet, Dragons Bait, A certain slant of light, blue bloods, the eyes of the dragon, speak, a northern light, Cathy's Book, Tell No one, Blood and Gold.

(I own all of the books mentioned)

Romance, scary, action, comedy

memoirs of a geisha, the nightmare before Christmas, seven pounds, Benjamin Button, A little princess, peter pan [not animated]

(I own all of the movies mentioned)

The mentalist, Lie to me, CSI, Numbers, The big bang theory, Friends, Cold case, NCIS, Bones, Fruits Basket :], Night walker,

Reggae, Rap, R&B, Pop, Oldies, "80's"

Alicia Keys, Ray Charles, Katy Perry, Mickey Avilon, Damian Marley,

The Big Stuff:

• Digital SLR camera; very fast, macro & portraits
• Knitting machine; sweaters, scarves, legwarmers
• Kimono

The little stuff:

• Large 5.25 x 8.25 in Moleskine ruled Journal.
• Rubix cube
• Bento Box
• Sticker Machine
• Marvin the Martian lunch pail
• colorful & patterned fabric
• a cute soft towely bathrobe with hood, lime green.
• high quality adult costume patterns (for sewing, like 1800's outfits ect)
• and Vintage patterns (1950's)