tabethaboo

I live in northern England with my three boys - 1 boyfriend and 2 cats. We have a little flat stuffed to the rafters with books, art, craft materials, cat toys and music equipment. I don't work, because I have been ill for a while, so i spend my days pottering around the flat, writing letters and making stuff.

My half lounge half craft studio is a collage of all that I am. I am in love with books of all sorts, old, new, fiction, non-fiction and always have one in my handbag. I'm a paper and ephemera junkie and can't walk past a stationery shop without going in.

My favourite colours at the moment are teal and mustard, pink and grey and pea green.

I love food, cooking and eating it. I can't decide which is my favourite cuisine out of indian, chinese, italian or japanese! I can't get enough of cheese fondue! I love cheese! I have baking crazes and we end up eating cakes and biscuits for weeks!

My favourite animals are cats(big and domestic), otters and donkeys. I absolutely adore birds of prey, especially owls and also peacocks, hummingbirds and swans are pretty cool too.

I love learning about different countries and cultures. My dream holiday is to Japan and I love European cities especially Paris and Amsterdam.

My favourite flowers are tulips and poppies. My favourite season is Autumn. I love nature. I'm always drinking tea (only plain black).

I take 2 cameras with me everywhere, a digital one and my trusted lomo.

Some of my favourite things in the world are summer rain, harbours, cups of tea, clean socks, pyjamas, fresh snow, cats, sunset, shooting stars, lighthouses and windmills, lomo, autumn, donkeys, campfires...

Far too many to list - childhood favourites include, Peter Pan, Pippi Longstocking, Chalet School and Moomins.

I collect craft books - old, new and used.

I love most movies but especially Anime, Hitchcock and old black and white movies. I also really enjoy foreign language movies like Amelie, Life is Beautiful and Run Lola Run. My favourite film of all time is 'My Neighbour Totoro'.

Photography, art, crochet, papercrafts, lomo, collage, atcs, handmade notebooks, journals, sewing, amigurumi...

Jasmine, basil, fresh cut grass, clean laundry, roast chicken, baking, chocolate (walking through Cadbury's World is heaven!), christmas...

• I have super sensitive skin so any toilitries/smellies etc need to have natural ingrediants or be formulated for sensitive skin
• coconut (both ingested and on the skin)

• names - unusual or pretty names, their meaning and their origin
• hello kitty pearlcards
• cats (especially maneki neko)
• books
• stationery
• postcards (mainly of places)
• bags
• japanese stuff
• vintage photographs
• my neighbour totoro
• craft books

• owls
• cats (especially maneki neko)
• photography
• hello kitty pearlcards
• beautiful paper
• letter sets
• teal, mustard, pink and pea green
• old books
• baking
• donkeys
• otters
• pippi longstocking
• peter pan (not disney)
• collage
• rubber stamps
• bento stuff
• scenic postcards
• tulips and poppies
• trees
• autumn
• lomo
• my neighbour totoro
• kawaii (animals)
• moomins
• sewing
• mice
• stripes and polka dots
• amigurumi
• woodland animals
• vintage fabric
• sewing patterns
• craft books
• sewing box
• sakura gel pens
• ultra fine sharpies
• japanese stuff
• oil cloth
• blythe or pullip doll
• 1950s picnic hamper
• camping stuff
• 1940s patterns
• etsy favourites
• jlist favourites
• lightweight fingerless gloves
• stamp carving kit
• needle felting kit
• crochet patterns
• pretty knitting needles
• gorgeous wool/yarn

• nuts
• coffee
• disney
• dark/gothic stuff (Tim Burton-esque is fine though)
• dotee
• tea (unless its plain black tea)