Stitcheddreams

UPDATE: I want to apologize to everyone that I still owe swaps to, I have been fighting my depression for a few weeks now and it has been a battle that I have been unable to overcome. It became even more difficult to keep up with everything that I had signed up for, when the things that I had already created and sent out came up missing. I have been trying desperately to remake everything that went missing and keep up with the items that I still needed to make and send and so I have become so far behind that my anxiety has been choking me on top of everything else.

I wanted to tell everyone that I am still making and sending things, it is going to take me some time to catch up but I will not just let it all fall away and disappear. I love this community and the creative people within it and hope that you will all have patience with me while I get a stranglehold on my issues and create and send out things that I will be proud to share and not just throw disappointing items into an envelope and send it out so that I can just say that it is done.

If you have any issues with anything that I have sent, or have not received something from me, PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE message me! I swear that I will make sure you get what I promised to send and that it will not be trash/junk but rather have real thought and love put into it.

IMPORTANT: There was an issue with the mail that I was sending from my work and I have seen a few things that never made it to the person I posted to. IF YOU HAVE NOT RECEIVED A SWAP FROM ME PLEASE MESSAGE ME BEFORE RATING!!!! I will be more then happy to send again! I am no longer sending from my job so there should not be any further issues but please know that I will NEVER flake!!!!

I am am 32 year old Woman, born and raised in Maryland. I recently bought my first home with my boyfriend and we brought my mother with us, which is both great (since I don't have to worry about her) and terrible at the same time. We have 4 cats and are fostering a friends pitbull until she gets a new place.

I both love and hate living in Maryland, I love it since it is the place I grew up and I know my area like the back of my hand. I also love how diverse and unique it is. The only downside is the terrible humidity in the summer and the fact that Spring and Fall are each only about a week long.

I was an Art History major and hope to one day go back to school to complete my BA and get my Masters and possibly my Ph.D! So art is a really big part of my life, I love ancient Greek art and architecture, Art Nouveau, Renaissance, Romanticism, and Baroque.

I have a huge love of Astronomy, mainly nebulaes and galaxies, I love space pictures with lots of colors but I am in love with most Hubble shots of space. Neil DeGrasse Tyson is amazing and hilarious in person! One of my favorite quotes is Carl Sagan's blue dot

I am Agnostic but love Greek Mythology, Hinduism, Buddhism, Ancient Egyptian, Celtic Mythology, folklore, Druidry, and Wicca. I ask that you please do not send me anything to try to convert me or blast my beliefs, I respect everyone's right to practice their own religion and ask only the same in return!

I am a fan of all types of music, just not so much Country music. Favorite bands/singers: Twenty One Pilots Eve 6 Third Eye Blind Billie Holiday 311 ...I could go on but it would take a while

I am a huge fan of Scifi/ Fantasy and Mysteries

Recent Favorites:

Harry Potter

Anything by Ilona Andrews, started with the Kate Daniels series but I have yet to find anything of theirs that I have not loved (except the Edge series, loved the 1st book but couldn't really get into the second)

The Paper Magician trilogy by Charlie Holmberg

The Evermen Saga by James Maxwell

Early Riser by Jasper Fforde

Viper by Bex Hogan

Skyward by Brandon Sanderson

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

Maggie Hope series by Susan MacNeal

The Chronicles of Elantra by Michelle Sagara

The Martian and Artemis by Andy Weir

The Evernight Trilogy by Katherine Arden

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Janet Evanovich - The Plum Series

Princess Bride

Laurell K Hamilton - Anita Blake Series

Deborah Harkness - A Discovery of Witches Trilogy

Howl's Moving Castle

Rupi Kaur - Poetry

Spider-Gwen - Comic

John Robert Lewis - March Trilogy (Graphic Novel)

Annette Marie - The Guild Codex Series

George R.R. Martin

Twilight - Yes I know it is considered by most to be trash but eff it, I love em

Madeline Miller - Circe

Karen Marie Moning - Pretty much everything that she has written

Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

Nnedi Okorafor - Binti Trilogy

Sara Raasch - Steam Raiders Series

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children Series

Rebecca Roanhorse - The Sixth World Series

Clive Barker - Abarat Series

Classic Favorites:

The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings, I read this series in Middle School and thus started my love for fantastical stories

The Fionavar Tapestry by Guy Gaverial Kay

Dune

The Odyssey

Shakespeare - Much ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer's Night's Dream, The Tempest

The Old Man and the Sea

Siddhartha

Edgar Allen Poe

Again I could go on and on about all of the books that have moved me and shaped the person I am but it is a lot to list

Television:

A Discovery of Witches, Game of Thrones, New Charmed Series, Death in Paradise, Father Brown, Handmaid's Tale, Mindhunter, Doctor Who, NCIS, Stranger Things, Kill Joys, The Magicians, Orphan Black, Lucifer, Veronica Mars, The big Bang Theory, Good Omens, Midsomer Murders, Dead Like Me, Firefly, The Haunting of Hill House, Scream, Sherlock, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: DS9, West Wing, The Newsroom, True Blood, Castle, Chilling Adventures of Sabrina, The Ancient Magus' Bride, Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norell, Jessica Jone, Luke Cage, Merlin, Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries, Sense8, The Great British Baking Show, The Umbrella Academy, The Runaways

Movies:

Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Kiki's Delivery Service, Ace Ventura, The Addams Family, Color of Magic, One For The Money, Easy A, Harry Potter, Fantastic Beasts, The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, The Martian, The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Indiana Jones, Pitch Perfect, Twilight, Alien, Twister, Sabrina, Arsenic and Old Lace, North by Northwest, Singing in the Rain, Some Like it Hot, The Sixth Sense, Sherlock Holmes, Mad Max: Fury Road, The Princess Bride, The Help, Fast and the Furious, Men in Black, A Midsummer's Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night

A - Art Nouveau, Art History, Architecture, Alphonse Mucha, Antoni Gaudi, ATC's, Altered objects/art, Antiques

B - Books, Book binding, Baroque, Basket weaving, Beads, Buttons,

C - Coloring books, Collages, Comics, Card Making, Cross Stitch, Ceramics, Crochet,

D - Doodles, Drawing, Die Cut-outs, Dollhouses,

E - Envelopes, Ephemera, Embossing, Embroidery,

F - Fountains, Feminism, Film Photography, Faux Leather, Findings, Flowers (Dried/Pressed), Folklore, Fairy Tales,

G - Gustav Klimt, Graffiti Art, Gel Pens, Glassine,

H - Harry Potter, Halloween, Harlem Renaissance, Handmade paper, Happy Mail,

I - Illusionism, Ilvermorny,

J - Junk Journals, Juxtaposition, Jewelry Making,

K -

L - Leather crafts, Lace Making,

M - Macrame, Miniatures, Mixed Media, Mosaics, Mythology (Greek, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Norse, Celtic, Irish, Scottish, Hoodoo, Buddhist, Hindu, Haitian Vudo, Romani, Incan, Aztec, Mayan), Metal Earth Models,

N - Note Paper,

O - Oragami,

P - Patterns (Paper, fabric, craft), Photos, Paintings, Paper, Polaroids, Polymer clay,

Q - Quilting

R - Realism, Renaissance, Resin, Rococo,

S - Sculpture, Surrealism, Steampunk, Stained Glass, Scrapbook (mainly just the inserts, I don't actually make or use scrapbooks),

T - Tissue Paper, Templates,

U -

V - Vellum (not the animal skin version),

W - Watercolor, Wire, Weaving, Wood Working, Witches/Warlocks

X -

Y -

Z -

Favorites:

Renaissance styles of clothing, decorations, and crafts (I actually have a beautiful tapestry of a woman with unicorns hanging in my living room)

Steampunk clothing, decoration, and crafts (I am actually making a dollhouse with a good bit of steampunk items in it)

Harry Potter everything (I have lots of HP clothing and knick-knacks)

I also love vintage looks such as 50's and 60's clothing and vintage scarpbooking stuff

Kawaii is amazing and super adorable

Miyazaki is amazing but I love Howl's Moving Castle and Spirited Away the most

Owls - You can never have enough owls

Octopus - so smart and adorable

Mandalas - I love all of the color combinations

Jim Shore - I have a few of his statues and adore them

Dragons - I have a dragon tattoo on my chest and have always been fascinated by them

Gypsy/ Romani aesthetic

Masquerades

Persian decorating styles