runswithscizzors

I am a quilter, beader, appliquer, fabric junky who likes making stuff! I teach hand applique and machine quilting at my local quilt shop, trying my best to create other enthusiasts!

My cat "Little Eddie Munster" relaxing after a hard session of toilet paper shredding.

I love all kinds! I am a happier person when I can listen to good music!

OZOMATLI!!
Santana, Stevie Ray, Stevie Wonder, Los Lobos...
Queued on my player right now: Squeeze, The Palladins, Los Lonely Boys, R. Kelly, Trent Tomlinson, Stephen Bruton, Susan Tedeschi, Frank Zappa, Paul Thorn, Steve Earle, Justin Timberlake, Bob Marley, Shawn Colvin, Keith Sweat, Blackstreet, The Austin Lounge Lizards, and Albert Castiglia
I Love Motown!! - Marvin Gaye, Smokey Robinson, Sam Cooke, Shirelles, Wilson Pickett, Solomon Burke...so many others!
I Love R&B! - Isley Brothers, Shalimar, The Whispers, Curtis Mayfield...
I Love Blues! - Howlin' Wolf, Jimmy Reed, Albert, B.B. and Freddie King, Buddy Guy, John Lee Hooker, R.L.Burnside...
I Love C&W - minus the twang and the yodeling - Steve Earle, Paul Thorn Band, Shawn Colvin, Trent Tomlinson, Lucinda Williams, Buddy & Julie Miller, Rodney Crowell, Robert Earl Keen, Lyle Lovett...
Gospel Inspired - Robert Randolph and the Family Band, Blind Boys of Alabama, Paul Thorn Band...
Long Live Rock (be it dead or alive!)... The Who, The Kinks, Blue Oyster Cult, Pre-1975 Rolling Stones, Robin Trower, Bon Scott's AC/DC, The Pretenders, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Prince, everything ROCKABILLY!
I have never met a classical piece I didn't like, either. Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, la la la la la!

Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Winston Graham, James Herriot, Sarah Vowell, Oscar Wilde, Leon Uris, Walker Percy
"Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole
"Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo
"Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
"Lucifer's Hammer" by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle
"Cold Mountain" by Robert Frazer
"Accordion Crimes" by Annie Proulx

So many movies... so little time! I LOVE movies! I could list pages and pages... Period pieces with historically correct backdrops
Anything Rogers and Hammerstein
O Brother, Where Art Thou? (and all Coen movies)
The Quiet Man
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (and all John Ford movies)
Band of Brothers
Memento
Gladiator
The Red Violin
Clay Pigeons
Jackie Brown (and most Tarantino movies)

Benecio Del Toro - awesome actor!

~Papi Chulo~

Gregory Peck
Christian Bale
Helen Mirren
James McAvoy
Helena Bonham Carter
Russell Crowe - can hardly wait for his Robin Hood movie!
Robert Mitchum
Jimmy Stewart
Rupert Everett
Edward Norton
Tim Robbins
Frances McDormand
Edward James Olmos - totally underrated!
Jodie Foster
Joaquin Phoenix
Gwenyth Paltrow

Everything to the DVR... I HATE commercials! BBC, TCM Channel, IFC Channel
The Closer
Life
Dexter
The Colbert Report
Project Runway
Third Watch reruns
NOW with David Brancacchio
Bill Moyers
Pretty much anything PBS - Mystery, Masterpiece Theater, Red Green, Red Dwarf, Monty Python

I'm a beginner at paper collage, but I'm trying! Sewing sewing sewing... by machine and by hand. I love embroidery and drawn thread work, brazilian embroidery and applique. I am a total bead addict. Never met a bead I didn't like! Knitting! Especially socks:-) I like making flowers from French Silk Wired Ribbon, rickrack and bits of fabric. I like making pincushions, too. I like all paper and sharpies, Stickles and rubber stamps, colored pencils and gel pens, postcards and ATCs, Papier Mache, making masks, making little monsters, painting them up and decorating them. Shrinky Dinks Poly Clay

I love these little baby pictures:

• Flowers and trees

• Oceana... anything underwater: fish, mermaids, coral, anemones...

• Animals

• Religous iconography

• Beads and shiny things

• Dark ruby red and other jewel tones

• Birds

• Everything Day of the Dead

• Temari

• Halloween

• Victorian jewelry

• Insects (most) especially Bees and Praying Mantis and Dragonflies

• Crappy 5 minute swaps, and I know you know what I'm saying. Don't send me that shit!!

• "Inspirational" words on ANYTHING. You know the ones.... "breathe", "artist", "create", "beauty", "I believe in Faeries", ad nauseum. I REALLY don't like them.

• Dunce hats and crowns and wings on everything and everyone. I especially hate the babies with wings. Enough already!! It's nauseatingly overdone. Use some creativity and think of something new, please. EDITED TO ADD: Okay, so crowns aren't always bad, like if they are on the people who actually wore them, and wings are okay if they are on birds or insects or pterodactyls... oh, and Button Fairies... after all, fairies have to fly, right?

• Sappy frou-frou girlie stuff

• Anime... all that I've seen is creepy.

• Duplicitous, scheming, underhanded, lying oxygen wasters.

• Pretentious, self-centered people who can only talk about themselves

• Annoying people who won't go away.

• Passive-aggressive "hit and run" forum posters. Get some cajones, stick around for the fallout, and stand up for your snarky remarks, you wimps! And don't think you can post some shitty remark and then put a smiley face after it, and that somehow makes it okay. It is despicable.

• The Swap-bot Troll (sick fucker)

• Ann Coulter

• Narrow minds

• Drunk drivers, and drunks in general