sillyhoffmann

Hi! My name is Sylvia; Silly for short. I am 40 years old and proud of it! I love my friends and my family. They are the best people in the world! Like many people, I commute to the big city for my job (at Michaels Arts and Crafts). I enjoy the challenge of solving crafting dilemmas for people and I am looking forward to expanding my crafty solutions to the swap bot world! I recently moved to the country to a small and wonderful community. I live in a little studio, dreaming of the day when I have enough furniture to unpack the rest of my stuff. I have, however, unpacked all things crafty, and am itching to swap inspiration with people who love and see beauty and humor in almost everything around them. I am a person powered by the sun. I love sunny days, light blue skies, the greens of summer and the fiery colors of fall. I love to make people laugh, the summer sunshine, and a sunrise that tints the clouds white gold and red. I really enjoy a good insult, if given in the right spirit, and love humor that is quirky, strange and silly. I also love cats, and for 4 years I was able to foster for MEOW Cat Rescue in Kirkland, Washington. I worked with cats with anxiety/anger issues as well as those that were depressed. It was one of the most rewarding things I have ever done! I am catless at the moment, but I have friends who share, so that helps.

A few of my favorite things: Colors: I love jewel tones and rich, bright colors. I am not into pastels, although they have their place. My favorite color is blue, and summer greens. Fall is my favorite seasonal palette, with it’s fiery red, orange-yellow, sky blue and sap green. I like neon and flourescent colors when mixed in with other colors and used sparingly.

Copious spare time activities: Netflix and reading fills a lot of the cracks in my spare time. I find I will grab anything if it looks good. Recent reads are; ‘Multipe Scarcasm’ ‘Artful Blooging, fall addition ‘Alex and me’ about a scientist and her African gray Parrot, and the studies on animal behavior she has done with him. ‘The Soprano Sorceress’ a Sci-Fi. ‘Weird Washington’ is all about weird places/events/stories in Washington. ‘Why We Buy’. A book on what makes people buy stuff. ‘Three bags full’. A flock of sheep solve the murder of their shepherd. ‘Gods Middle finger’. A journalist re accounts a year he spent in the dangerous, drug lord infested Sierra Madras. Several scifis, a book on Christmas traditions, and one on birds It’s like hitting shuffle on an iPod. I never know what I am going to get when I hit the library!

Recent netflix: ‘Saving Grace’. I am so hooked! ‘The World’s Fastest Indian’ It’s a motorcycle flick, and very good at that! ‘Second Hand Lions‘ The Bourne Supremacy’ ‘The Bucket List’ ‘The Bourne Identity’ ‘Keeping Mum’ ‘Touch the Sound’ ‘A Price Above Rubies’

Traveling: I love going to new places. I have done a lot of traveling in the USA, and a little in Europe. Mostly Switzerland, since my mother is from there and I have gone back to visit family. My dad and I used to do road trips to desert country. I think my favorite places have been the grand Canyon and Zion National Park. I could spend an entire summer hiking, taking pictures, and eating campfire food! Postcards I love pictures of cultural festivals and traditions, towns, landscape. I really like when a person can explain why is going on in the picture and maybe why they picked it. I also like silly postcards and funny ones. Cutesie (baby, dresses up kittens, etc) are not my thing. Creative artwork is always welcome. Really, anything other than cutesie, and it is good! Favorite craft: I am into speed scrap booking, paint murals for children, and creating pictures from cut paper. I am longing to get back to my first love of paper and acrylic collage. However, I haven’t had much time lately, so I am starting to come home with $1 craft items from Michaels and ‘silly’ them up. If they turn out, great. If not, no harm done, and my creativity need was fed.

Things I like: Cats. I love to hike. I am solar powered and love being out in the sun, seeing how light plays off the water, the grass, the clouds. Joy! I can spend quite a while watching birds, and often imagine the little conversations they are having in my head. I also tend to make sound effects when watching animals that are acting making me laugh. I love to people watch almost as much as I love to nature watch. I enjoy getting my hands in the dirt and do a little gardening. I loooove yard work. It is such a different form of labor than I do the rest of the week and I love the sense of accomplishment it give me. I love watching chickens. They have the silliest run! The art I love is usually bright with a limited palette, silly funny, humorous or smile evoking in some way. I really love bookmarks, since I read a ton. I never seem to have enough of them, and improvise with whatever is handy. Funny garage sale finds are always a hit. I recently picked up a childs bed tray with the most hilarious collage of cats and dogs dressed in paper cut out clothes. I looooove flannel.

Great bumper stickers I have seen I’d tell you to go to hell, but I work there and don’t want to see you every day. Make Mac n Cheese, not war. What Would Buffy Do? Talk to me Goose! I am right 97% of the time, the other 4% I don’t care about.

List-o-likes I love the smell of lemon and of sage leaves crushed between my fingers (which smells very different than the sage scent things in stores have in them). Flowers, frogs, gardening, laughing, family, hotdogs, a good night sleep, mac n cheese, vanilla ice cream, card games, things made of glass, embellishments I can put on cards and paintings, candles, citrus smells (not the sweet ones but the real tangy ones), magnets, painting murals in childrens’ rooms, making people laugh, the sun, sandy beaches, Christmas lights, pinwheels, the zoo, rocks, paisley, hand written letters, fun napkins, bird and frog song, the beach, shells, finding pennies on the street, colorful store displays, wandering a new town with aimless abandon, thrift stores, garage sales, and postcards.

What I don’t like: Licorice. The smell of lavander, sandelwood, or sage. I’m not into gory, bloody and extremely scarey. Pastel colors, although they have their place. Gothic and depressing stuff. It also has it’s place, but I need all the joy I can get in my life at the moment. Not into hard core vintage. The colors tend to feel dirty to me and the images are to soft and lacy for my taste. I am not a girly girl, so lace and romance and things romantic-squishy are not my thing.

I have no allergies, unless you call a low tolerance for screaming babies and rude customers an allergy. :)