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I love the blues, rock, easy listening, swing (think "In the Mood" by Glen Miller), and what I think is called alternative - I listen to a station you can log onto on the web: CKUA.com. It plays everything, and it's listener sponsored, so you don't hear ads. I hear music played by people I've never heard of and I LOVE (most of) their styles. Try it out.

I don't like classical, jazz or rap, so I do have to change the station sometimes :).

Stephen King (most of them but to me Salem's Lot was the scariest book I've ever read), Robert McCammon (Swan Song - a long story, but I didn't want it to end), Dean Koontz (Watchers - my first Dean Koontz and it got me to read them all; I even read it again), Jodi Picoult (just started her books - kind of whiney but that's the way people are these days), and others.

I like to read, so I read a lot, but I read so fast that I can't remember the books I do read - have you ever started a book, and know that you've HAVE read it, but you don't know what's going to happen, so you just continue to the end? Well, I've done that. More than once.

The Crysalids (also called Rebirth), by John Wyndham is one of the best - read that one a lot of times. When I was younger I loved the Outsiders, by SE Hinton.

And, to age myself, before that - Trixie Beldon - The Gatehouse Mystery. I must have read that one seven times!

I don't like most movies made from books, and I'd rather read the book, but I was glad I saw the movie, The Godfather, before reading it. Most of Stephen King's books are slaughtered when made into movies. I actually thought that Needful Things would make a great movie, but... Ahem, it wasn't, LOL.

I just had laser surgery on my eyes - quite a difference having to put glasses on to read now, instead of taking them off! Still getting used to that. I wish I'd done this years ago when I didn't need reading glasses, then I would've gotten slowly used to needing them (like most people). Anyway, I can't read comfortably right now - hopefully, the eye (it's mainly the one that was the bad eye) settles down in a couple of months. Don't get me wrong, I still read, but not quite as fast, or as compulsively now.

I don't see a lot of movies anymore. I did when I was younger - living on an Air Force base in Gemany, I went to the movies every Saturday with my 25 cent allowance. A movie and a bag of fries is what that bought. Hayley Mills was one of my favourites back then - The Truth About Spring, The Moonspinners, etc.

We had our cable cut off years ago, so I don't watch what I did - home decorating, cooking shows, etc. I do like Cold Case (which it seems to be since I can watch it every day now, instead of just weekly).

Although I wasn't able to watch it on TV, I rented Six Feet Under and loved it.

There was once a great show on CBC (This is Wonderland) that was absolutely one of the best shows I've ever watched weekly, and they CANCELED it. Duh.

My favourite show these days is Being Erica. Erin Karpluk plays Erica. The premise of the show is based on a simple question we've all asked ourselves: "What if I had the benefit of hindsight and could alter those defining choices that I now regret?"

Michael Riley (who acted in This is Wonderland) plays Dr. Tom, a therapist who has the power to send Erica back in the past to change those decisions.

I like comedies. I used to really like Northern Exposure. I like quirky comedy.

Scrapbooking rules, but because card-making is so fast, I complete them more so than any of the albums I dream of having someday (there's no way I can give anybody a "store bought" card anymore!

I finally have a craft room, and I have to admit - it's really full. I could hold a class and supply everyone with everything they'd need and not miss any of it. This is not good, but then again, it is.

I tend to collect patterns of different crafts to do. My computer is full of patterns, and so is my filing cabinet :) I can't stop. When I clean up, I just organize better - I seldom throw anything away.

Edit (May 11) - since discovering Swap-bot in November, ATCs rule these days! I spend so much time making these little gems, that everything else has been put on the back burner!

I like to camp and would love to live in the country. I'm an Air Force brat, so travel is in my blood - plan to see more of this planet.

I like having little kids around, teaching them to cook or do crafts - expand their world. With babies, the first thing I do is have them touch something - usually a plant.

I have a garden, but I'm lazy about it - in other words, I'm organic :)

I like to take pictures - wish I could take better pics with the great camera my husband bought me.

I work as a lab assistant in a city college. Waiting to retire :)

I like bright colours - red, yellow, and the different kinds of blue there are. Not sure what "jewel" colours are, but they sound nice! I don't like pink, bright or otherwise, and don't like pastel colours. I still remember my bedroom walls painted a pale green!

Love the vintage look; things that are old. Things from old books, old tickets, postcards, pictures.

The following likes could be for anything to do with rub-ons, stickers, stamps, etc. I really like rub-ons.

I like: faux stitching, doodles, trees, wild animals & bugs, birds, ocean stuff, travel, nature, ducks (the real ones, not the rubber ducky ones), horses, grass, lighthouses, fairies, mushrooms, dinosaurs.

I like postcards or anything that could be incorporated into an ATC - kind of off the wall, or macabre, quirky, not cutsey. Dragons, mermaids, Boris type art.

I like Native art, and love African masks.

I'd really like it if you wrote a bit about what you're sending me - why you like it and what you'd like me to know about it. Or even just something about yourself!

I don't wear jewellry, but I'd like to get "parts" that I could use for art / dotee dolls.

I love "Classic 45" scrapbooking paper.

DISLIKE:

Disney, cutsie, lots of small anything, pet things, stuff for kids (mine are grown), wedding items, stickers with sayings on them, religious stuff.

Am very angry with the Canada Postal Service and the cost of mailing out what they call "small parcels", which includes anything that causes the envelope to be wider than 1/4 an inch (no matter how light it is). I've had to stop swapping matchboxes and dotee dolls simply because it costs $5.25 to mail them out (surface!) The same item from the States cost $1.66 - which would be a bit over $2 here). Doesn't seem right.

Flaked by:

Robyn J Broadus-RJBroadus: Stamped Images #5 - Love; May 7 - angeled by hanfmuk

Judy Fort-fortcrafts: 100 Inchie Project # 21-30 Flowers; May 13 - angeled by boopgirly

Lory Alvarado-Caker: Got ATC's? Potty Mouth

stephanie porter-dastephan6: 2009 Reading Log 1; June 28 - angeled by artistic

Thespoena McLaughlin-1GruviScrapper: Vintage ATC - Newbie; July 3 - angeled by patricia

Maggie Owens-m2mowens: Birdhouses ATC; July 22 - angeled by groundhoggirl

Never got rated by:

Stefanie Schade-m4riella: Xmas Card Swap

Susan Lee-Bubblewrap: M Recipe Swap

evey del sotano-eveyinorbit: Owl ATC, January

Krys Williams-tehuti: 100 Inchies (Love) 11-20

Karen Ferrero-KarenMarie: Stamped Images #6, Spring

Lisa Sikorski-PennyArcade: 2009 Reading Log #1

Dominique Anne-coeurdartichaut: Owl ATC March

Kristen Kimball-sleepybeachbum:Your City ATC

Thespoena McLaughlin-1GruviScrapper: Beeswax ATC

I always rate and I don't flake. I will pm/email if I haven't been rated to see if my item made it to your house. If you got it, I'd appreciate a rating. If you didn't, please let me know so I can fix the problem.

I won't automatically give a heart because of extra's anymore. There have been times in the past when I have, but I haven't wanted to because, well, the main part of the swap (which is what I look forward to) didn't do it for me. If something makes me say "wow", you'll get a heart anyway. Not that I don't appreciate the extra's - I enjoy using them in my art. It's just I want you to know that they won't necessarily earn you a heart from me. If you get one, I'd like it to be your art that got it for you!!