sostenson

I now have a 8 month old fur baby named Evey. She's a miniature pincher mix and has way more energy than I'll ever have.

I am a 24 year old college graduate. I went to Chatham University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I majored in history and art history with a minor in history of religion. In other words I LOVE history. Although I'm an American and I love my country, I had too many American history classes and prefer foreign history. I'm also a recent convert to Catholicism and love the religion, especially the saints. My patron saint is Catherine of Alexandria with is also the patron saint of students.

I moved back home and am now serving with AmeriCorps and tutoring children at an after school program and summer day camp. My boyfriend and I are thinking of moving to North Carolina soon so I can teach.

I'm also into traveling. I've only been to Paris but would love to travel Europe. I would love to go to all the United Kingdom countries/former areas, such as Ireland/Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales and especially England. My specialty is 1500's England and King Henry VIII so England holds a certain appeal for me. Paris also has my heart.

I took French in high school and a semester of it in college but I can't speak it for the life of me. So if any fluent French speaking penpals would want to help me with learning to at least write it that would be awesome. Gaelic is another language I would love to learn.

I adore art. My favorite is The Last Judgement by Michelangelo. My favorite artist is Bernini. I think he's amazing. Renaissance art is some of my favorite.

I'm a bookaholic. My favorites are Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen (although I love ALL Austen) and Angels and Demons by Dan Brown. Also love love love The Thorn Birds. I also like the Twilight Series, mainly Edward and the love story. I am really into the Fifty Shades of Gray series right now too. Classics are also some of my favorites. Although I can't stand Wuthering Heights and most of the Bronte sister books. They're all so morbid.

My absolute favorite movie is V for Vendetta. Also love any Disney movie, especially Beauty and the Beast and Tangled. I also enjoy other animated movies like the Madagascars and Anastasia. I also love romantic comedies and period movies or historicals.

I don't watch a lot of tv but I do watch NCIS, SVU, or Spongebob. I also watch Gossip Girl but I wait for the seasons to come out. I have also started watching Mysteries at the Museum.

I love to scrapbook. I've made about four different ones. My mom is a member of this site and I love her ATCs so she got me in this. And with all my scrapbooking supplies I'm excited to start making some ATCs.

I really love making ATCs and try to make them as creative as possible. But I am not an artist. So if you receive one from me that you do not think fit the description or some other reason please let me know. If you send the original back to me I will gladly make another one for you. I would appreciate if you gave me some specifics of what you were looking for. I do not flake and I send on time so please let me know if you do not receive mine and I will fix it.

I will always give a 5 as long as I get it. If you're going to be late just email me. The heart is for the extra special ones.

I really like notpads. Especially pretty pictured ones like ones with foreign country pictures. Also pretty pages. I've started making my own envelopes so those come in handy.

TAYLOR SWIFT!! Obviously I really like T. Swift. I really like most music. Though I am not a fan of Rap music. I enjoy everything from foreign music and musicals to country and top 40.

• bling
• threads and needles
• stampers, other countries and pretty pictures
• glitters
• glues
• markers that work on backgrounds
• unused stamps
• Anything relating to royalty
• crafting tools
• royalty ATCs
• pretty envelopes
• pretty notepads
• vintage anything
• jewelry
• steampunk ATCs or other things
• any and all Tim Holtz Distressed line
• authentic foreign items, I love other cultures
• Paris or United Kingdom anything
• Puffy paint
• small zip lock baggies
• anything Catholic
• English biscuits, yum
• vintage keys and locks (making a wind chime)
• iphone 4s cases in my likes

• anything Thorn Birds

• House of Tudor stamps, would give anything for these.

• King Henry VIII
• Catholic saints
• other religions
• history
• art
• royalty
• yellow
• baking
• Vera Bradley
• penguins
• getting mail
• anything girly
• foreign

I'll really like anything. Not terribly picky

I DO NOT like

• morbid
• violence
• meanness
• Kawii, the only one I like even a little are the penguins. If this is all you have to send, please PM me and we'll sort it out :)
• anything scary, please no ghosts or anything like that.

This list can be used for profile based crafts, packages, whatever.

• Tudor Era (All Time Favorite)
• V for Vendetta
• Elizabethan Era
• Any religion
• cutsie owls
• Penguins
• Catherine of Alexandria, would LOVE an ATC of her
• Royalty, especially King Henry VIII and his third wife, Jane Seymour
• France/French, any era
• United Kingdom, especially medieval/renaissance UK
• Steampunk
• Avalonian/ King Arthur
• Lock and keys