jumplittle

Aquarian with a Gemini moon, mother of a high schooler, steward of two rescue pups, friend to several extraordinary people, cog in a corporate wheel.

Things I like include: Anthropologie, autumn, Boden, bookstores, coffee, copperplate, Edisto Beach, fashion mags, garnets, hina dolls, interior design, letterpress anything, Matisse, Marimekko, monograms, postcards, Scrabble, stationery, sushi, tea parties, turtleneck sweaters, typography, windy days, witty people, Vermeer, zines

Things I dislike: deliberate rudeness and beets

Bare Naked Ladies, Bee Gees, big band, disco, eighties, Missy Elliott, Ben Harper, Jack Johnson, Muse, Panic! At the Disco, Queen, Radiohead, REM, various 1 hit wonders.

The Birds, Clue, Death on the Nile, Evil Under the Sun, Laura, Mr. Blandings Build His Dream House, Halloween, The Others, Raising Arizona, Rear Window, The Ring, The Sound of Music, Strangers on a Train, Suspicion, The Thin Man, Wait Until Dark.

As Time Goes By, The Avengers, Black Mirror, Death in Paradise, Endeavour, Father Brown, Granchester, I Love Lucy, Murder She Wrote, The Office, Perry Mason, Parks & Rec, Sherlock

collage, calligraphy, flip books, origami, pocket letters, various paper crafts, dollhouses, miniatures.

British mysteries: M.C. Beaton, Agatha Christie, Colin Dexter, Elizabeth George, P.D. James, Ngaio Marsh, Ruth Rendell, Dorothy Sayers

Humorists: Rick Bragg, Carl Hiassen, P.G. Wodehouse

Children's books: Lauren Child, Holly Hobbie, James Marshall, Dave Pilkey, Tasha Tudor, Rosemary Wells, Dare Wright

Vintage books: children's, cookbooks, decorating manuals, fashion advice, etiquette books