jolene278

• academic medical librarian in a library that looks like a table
• spiritual director - what the heck is that?
• former biology major who still has a fondness for all things related to the life sciences (as a medical librarian, that helps a lot)
• fondness for children's picture books (as a medical librarian, that doesn't help much)
• live in a 1915 Arts and Crafts style home in a fabulous restoring neighborhood in Toledo, Ohio with my partner and our spoiled red tabby cat
• too fond of Dutch licorice cats and Valrhona dark chocolate
• on a trip to Lowe's, would rather look at colors of paint chips (just to look at the colors) rather than buy anything
• known to jump out of the car (safely!) at stop signs to rescue lost/abandoned toys (except for that one time when I jumped out to rescue a wine glass)
• when I journal, I write to an unknown "you"
• love reading GQ and Esquire, though I am still trying to figure out the sexual orientation of their audience
• Enneagram 4 but I don't have a costume, like many 4s -- I have a uniform: black turtleneck, jeans, black socks
• I love chanting kirtan, even though it's not my faith tradition
• I'm addicted to Farmville

Fiction? mostly fantasy, including Lackey's Valdemar series and McCaffrey's Pern series; Harris' Sookie Stackhouse series is a hoot!

Non-fiction? Richard Rohr and Ron Rolheiser in terms of spiritual books (and apparently names that start with R); Christina Baldwin and Kathleen Adams for journaling books; autobiographical reflections: Anne Lamott

I don't watch much television (and don't have cable or satellite), but I like the original NCIS, Nova, and Nature.

I'm also watching (re-watching) Doctor Who, Torchwood, and Star Trek: Voyager on DVD.

In the far past, I quilted and knit; in the even farther past, I worked with soft pastels, watercolor, and handmade paper (using IBM card punches, if you remember those).

I am currently exploring:

• papercrafts (collage, mailart, inchies, artist pages, bookbinding, etc.)
• printmaking (intaglio and, everyone's favorite, potato block printing!); would like to learn letterpress some day
• watercolor (taking class at the Toledo Museum of Art, trying to learn how the water and paint work)
• prayer beads

Does cooking count as a craft? Hope so, because I love to cook too. We have our family of choice over once each month for Sunday dinner (the first dinner was Julia's Beef Bourguinon...who's idea was it to serve a four-day entree? Oh yeah, that was my idea!)

• New to swapping on Swap-bot (as of December 2009)
• Proceeding slowly so I don't over-extend (which would be very easy to do)

• No private swaps right now

• I will PM you if I don't understand the directions for a swap you host BEFORE I sign up (I want to make sure I know what's expected of me)

• I'll rate you (I know how important that is here on Swap-bot); please rate me
• if you're unhappy with me or my work, send me a PM letting me know before you rate me
• I reuse packaging and am fond of non-traditional packaging (that will send swaps safely)

I like:

• paper ephemera and found lost-things
• Arts and Crafts and Art Nouveau designs
• Inuit and other native Arctic peoples, Arabic, Ethiopian, Asian Indian images
• images of body parts like eyes, hands, etc.
• images with patterns and repeating shapes
• images of plants and animals (especially unusual ones)
• monochromatic or near-monochromatic images
• religious images okay (especially of Mary, the mother of Jesus, and bodhisattvas); holy cards (new or vintage) and postcards of shrines (new or vintage) are welcome too!
• odd, unusual, or interesting advertisements

I'm not-so-hip on:

• scented things
• pastels
• traditionally girly or cutsie images
• clowns
• American flags

Please don't send food or beverages, though interesting food or beverage packaging is okay.