BadBirdDesign

Handmade Anything Drawing/Painting Stitching
Bags/purses/Totes Patches ATC's

I really like vintage fabrics, mushroom prints and handprinted fabric. I LOVE swaps and exchanges as a way to see all of the unique ways a single idea can be approached.

I live in Central Michigan with my two toddlers and my husband. I work as a Systems Administrator and Monitoring Tech for a large hosting company. (I am not yet disgruntled, but server monitoring is a lot like daycare)

I heart funkiness, things that are a little more counterculture. I'm extremely liberal in belief. I hate television, although I have my guilty pleasures.

As a note I'm a Bhuddist, and while not really interested in fundamentalist items from any belief, I respect that everyone has their own ideas and beliefs.

bob dylan, alexi murdock, sufjan stevens, freer, lauren hill, ween, the pixies, ani difranco, tori amos, miles davis, sonic youth, the brian shram band, tool, allman brothers, garcia y grisman, the band, keith green, cj bolland, carol king, cake, janis joplin, led zepplin, 311,tom waits, blind melon, gogol bordello/gypsy punk, paul cantelon, spin doctors, rusted root, ben harper, elo, bjork, etta james, djangho rineheart, the mars volta, red hot chilli peppers, fionna apple, erykah badu, dave matthews band, john coltrane, gipsy kings, the donnas, gnarls barkely, danger doom, danger mouse, tricky, jack johnson, tonic, ratm, seth bernard, buck cherry,jamie lidell, disturbed, the black crows, bach, beethoven, pachabel, the misfits, a wee bit of glen danzig solo, toadies, toad the wet sprocket, simon and garfunkel, tripping daisy, violent femmes, janes addiction, devo, rolling stones, firewater, portishead, wire, dropkick murphy's, daft punk, johnny depp, and about a million others. I tend to dislike the radio more and more and pop princesses hurt me in my soul.

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair- neruda, The Prophet- Gibran, 1907, 1908- Rilke, Gwendolyn Brooks, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Neil Gaiman, Orson Scott Card, Andre Dubus III, Mark Danielewski- House of Leaves, Everything is Illuminated, History of Love, Bee Season, European Dream, Mere Christianity, The Problem of Pain and almost everything else by CS Lewis, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence, The Girlfriend's Guide to Toddlers, Coyote Kings of the Space Age Bachelor Pad, everything by Margaret Atwood, The Red Tent, George R.R. Martin, Allen Ginsberg, Rilke is my favorite poet, Anais Nin, japanese craft books, Buddha by Deepak Chopra, Herman Hesse, Phillip K. Dick, She's Come Undone, Jennifer Weiner, Bangkok 8 series, Bukowski

Paradise Now, Run Lola Run, Amelie, Good Bye Lenin, What to do in Case of Fire, Everything is Illuminated (although it basically abandoned the premise of the book, which was so much better), Forbidden Zone, Strange Days, The Three Colors Trilogy, True Stories by David Byrne, Gift, War With In, Hard Candy, Science of Sleep, A Scanner Darkly, What the bleep Do We Know, Juno

Country style, neon, Branded stuff (Disney, Hello Kitty, etc.)