smmarrty

I am a teacher, grad student, and crafter. I make quilts, cards, envelopes, paper stuff, ATC's, dotees, creepy dolls and other stuffed things. I also love shrink plastic charms and charm bracelets/necklaces. I try to use things I already have and I try to use old stuff in a new way. I have lots of stuff to trade - mint tins, fabric, japanese newspapers and magazines and vintage sheet music. Email me if you are interested - smmarrt@aol.com. Happy Swapping!

I read...alot. I always have 1 or 2 books going at the same time. Right now I read mostly British crime and police procedurals - Stephen Booth, Mark Billingham and Elizabeth George (yes, I know she's American.) I also like Cara Black, Val McDermid and Ruth Rendell.

Currently, I am in graduate school for a Masters in Elementary Education so I just read "Disrupting Class" and I am about to read "Lies My Teacher told Me:Everything Your American History Book Got Wrong". And for a book reveiw, I am reading Randy Shilts' "The Mayor of Castro Street".

Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young, the Grateful Dead, all 70's music - good and bad. Current artists the Killers, the Shins, the Raconteurs, Duffy and K.T. Tunstall.

I start quilts (I don't always finish them!), paper stuff - envelopes, ATC's, greeting cards and other stuff. I sew dolls (badly, mostly) but I love making dotees. I just started making charms and learning a little beading. I'll try just about anything...I love my Gocco machine but I've only used it once.

I'm a good friend, daughter, sister, auntie and employee - just celebrated my 14th anniversary at the preschool I work in - teacher and assistant director. Whew!