user9106

Hi all, I'm Andreia, I'm 27 and I'm from Portugal. I've been working as a freelance translator for the last 4.5 years. I am fun-loving, good humoured, good spirited, and never miss a chance to party. I really love a good laugh. I am an eager reader and music listener and have recently rediscovered my long-forgotten love for crafts. I enjoy making pins and brooches, working with beads, charms, wire and safety pins, crocheting, costumizing and remodelling old stuff and lately I've also been experimenting with polymer clay. I have a lot of fun taking hundreds of pics - the sillier, the better :) I also love food and cooking. I'm not very picky on flavours: I like every fruity and herbal flavour, spices, tea, coffee, caramel and chocolate.

My favourite colours are black, blue, red/burgundy, purple/lilac/mauve, some greens and pinks, brass, grey, silver and white. I'm not very fond of brown, orange or yellow.

I like all kinds of stuff with cats, dragonflies, butterflies, hearts, skulls, bats, polka dots, stripes, B-movie themed, Halloween themed, spooky themed; lace, beads, charms, cameos and frills; cute and kitsch things; things with an antique, vintage, bizarre or generally unusual look.

Some of my favourite objects: brooches, pins, hair pins, barrettes, necklaces, bracelets, earrings, safety pins, charms, beads, lipgloss, lipstick, notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, fans, CDs, soap bars, candles, fragrances.

I LOVE art and I really can't picture the world without it.

Deathrock, batcave, old school goth, coldwave, darkwave, post-punk, psychobilly, gothabilly, neofolk, apocalyptic folk, neoclassical, classical, martial, darkfolk, dark cabaret, avantgarde, 80s, new wave, minimal electro, some synthpop, NDW, cabaret, classical. As for bands, well, I'd rather not make a list, for it is almost endless ;)

Umberto Eco, Oscar Wilde, Lewis Carroll, Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, Arturo Perez-Reverte, David Lodge, Fernando Pessoa, Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Arthur Rimbaud, Laclos' Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Joseph Sheridan LeFanu, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Agatha Christie, Eça de Queirós, Alexandre Herculano, Lord Byron, George Orwell, W. B. Yeats, Kafka, Dostoievsky, Shakespeare, Goethe, to name just a few.

Jewellery making (with beads, charms, wire and safety pins), crochet, embroidery (mostly cross-stitch)

18th century, 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1980s, 19th century, Agatha Christie, Alice in Wonderland, anachronism, anthropology, antique weaponry, antiques, art, art nouveau, b-movies, baroque, batcave, books, Britain, britcom, burlesque, cabaret, camerae obscurae, cats, cinema, clothes, coldwave, crafts, curiosity cabinets, daguerreotypes, dandies, darkfolk, darkwave, deathrock, Die Dreigroschenoper, Die Zauberflöte, dolls, Europe, fin de siècle, food, German expressionism, Germany, gothabilly, gothic novels, gothic rock, Le Grand Guignol, Hercule Poirot, heritage, hermeticism, history, horror, horrorpunk, humour, Japan, kitsch, Kurt Weill, languages, learning, literature, London, murder mystery novels, music, mythology and folklore, ndw, neofolk, oddities, orreries, Paris, philology, philosophy, photography, pirates, postpunk, puppets, reading, retrofuturism, romanticism, secret societies, semiotics, shoes and boots, sightseeing, silent films, steampunk, surrealism, symbolism, the uncanny, travelling, umberto eco, uniforms, vaudeville, Victorian illustration, victoriana, vintage, zoetropes