Annette

I grew up in Alaska and live in the Northwest U.S. I love to travel and have spent time in Europe, Eastern Europe, Kenya, Rwanda, Morocco, Seychelles, Egypt, Indonesia, Thailand, Australia, Costa Rica and Mexico.

I like reading, walking, films, knitting, the oceans, puzzles, tidepooling, mountains, hiking, Frida Kahlo, gardening, Miro, Music, Old photgraphs, Loteria, Library things, a robin, Vintage 20's-70's things (toys, books, board games, tickets, old advertisements, containers...), Pomegranate, polka dots, Chagall, bird photographs, scientific drawings, and my nieces and nephews. I have one very small cat.

**Things I Love:

• Snacks... Chocolate -- Especially fair trade! Also, the little chocolates baristas put on the side of the dish when you order espresso. Salty things, Sweets, sour things, gummis, interesting confections from faraway places.
• Things that are regional, special to a place!
• Bookmarks!
• Barbapapa, moomin, krtek, robots
• Zines
• Yarn (any colors/natural fibers)
• Interesting magazines (Esopus, McSweeneys, BUST, Gastronomica)
• Stationery! Cotton, linen, paper that has been inventively reused or upcylcled. Beautiful, funky, letterpress printed or homemade. *Homemade or interesting stickers.
• Candles--beeswax w/out scent or with essential oils--(not chemically scented--perfume allergies). Love lemon verbena, lavender, clove, fig, basil, pepper, citrus...
• Tea--Black or Herbal, my favorite is Lapsang Souchong! Hibiscus, lemon, rose, mint (anything with flavor that isn't "flavored")
• useful things with an interesting design
• Anything green or organic
• Handmade things!!

Things I'm Not Too Crazy About

• perfumed things (allergies)--essential oils are OK.
• Nestle's chocolate
• Homey country style
• Knitting with polyester
• Earrings--no pierced ears
• Black licorice
• The happy/sad theatre mask
• Artificial sweeteners

My family is diverse in ethnicity, gender, religion and nationality and I'm proud of that.

Nina Simone, Magnetic Fields, Nouvelle Vague, Jobim, Antony and the Johnsons, Johnny Cash, Childish Gambino, Warsaw Village Band, Tito Peunte, Parliament, Funkadelic, Elvis Costello, The Gits, Los De Abajo, Blossom Dearie, Maktub, Sam Cooke, MIA, The Clash, De La Soul, The Psychedelic Furs, Bill Withers, Serge Gainsbourg, Awesome, Oum Kalthoum

The Seven Samurai, The City of Lost Children, The Loves of a Blonde, Harold and Maude, Get Out, After Life, Night of the Hunter (1955), Amelie, The Lives of Others, Spirited Away, Brazil, New York Doll, Totoro, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Fast Runner, Jean Luc Godard, Mon Oncle, The Saddest Music in the World, Jesem and a bunch of others.

The Expanse, The Handmaid's Tale, Dix Pour Cent, The Wire, Mad Men, Le Bureau, Borgen, Deadwood, Claws, One Mississippi, The Office

knitting, beeswax candles, drawing/paper & shrinky-dinks

I really like Shoba Rao, Colson Whitehead, Eduardo Galeano, Pablo Neruda, Haruki Murakami, Ta Nehisi Coates, V.S. Naipaul, Dickens, Elie Weisel, Zora Neale Hurston, Yeats, Gerard Manly Hopkins, Dorothy Parker and Cormac McCarthy.

Also loved Persepolis, Maus, Stones from the River, The Hate You Give, Was, Cannery Row, Franny and Zooey, Wolf Winter --. I love to read.