Lunaria

Update 5/2011

I was an obsessed swapper for several years, stopped after having completed my 500th swap! Now I just lurk a bit.

Middle-aged mama, young adult son. Love my job ( health care) but wish I could retire and do crafts all day! I hate housekeeping. My house is always a disaster. I've learned to make peace with dog hair dust bunnies, but NOT with the clutter.

I believe in thinking outside the box, promoting world peace through being kind to those around us, and I love people who are a little quirky and eccentric.

I love dark chocolate, hazelnuts and almonds, and high quality tea.

• cutesy, country, fussy, or girly stuff
• things with artificial colors and flavors
• stickers
• things from dollar stores (except Daiso! I love their stuff!)
• plastic stuff

• Soft/dusty purples and roses (and even better if they are shimmery/iridescent)
• soft greens (and the names for the soft greens: celery, peridot, celadon, sage and moss),
• black and chocolate brown together
• metallics,
• monochromatic effects ( several shades of one color together)

• combinations of reds/ oranges/ golds/ black

• Not a fan of primary colors or pastels.

Knitting is my passion, but I have an overuse nerve injury from doing it too much, so now I am spinning my own yarn.

Also I like to work in Polymer clay (textures and colors. I want to learn how to make japanese- style lanterns/lamp shades from papers and polymer clay.

Don't watch much TV.

Movies: Quirky indie movies are my favorites. Have a Netflix queue of 200+ movies!

Books: I listen to audio books from Audible.com on my little mp3 player. My favorites are stories about other cultures. For a while I was on a binge of novels and memoirs about China and India; now I'm on a binge of 18th century historical stuff ( John Adams, Tale of Two cities). I think I'm a cultural anthropologist at heart!

Music: eclectic, from opera/choral music to electric blues to contemporary folk. Leonard Cohen, Swell Season, Martha Wainwright, Norah Jones, KT Tunstall.