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Date Joined: August 7, 2007
Last Online: March 28, 2008 Birthday: March 25 Country: United States |
I am a dry-witted pastry chef with a variety of seemingly unrelated interests:
*Knitting (socks, hats, baby blankets, and most recently gloves) I love wooden needles and can't stand metal needles. Typically stick to natural fibers in any color--I especially like jewel-toned greens, purples, reds, and natural "spa" colors like aqua, mint, cream. I get a lot of my patterns from Knitty.com and Interweave, and love Stitch-n-Bitch and the Yarn Harlot.
*An inexplicable addiction to reality tv, especially if it involves modeling, bad parenting, or chefs competing to win. I watch Amazing Race, America's Next Top Model, Top Chef, Project Runway, Last Comic Standing, Beauty & The Geek, World Series of Pop Culture. As for regular television, I love Arrested Development (r.i.p.), The Office, Gilmore Girls (again, r.i.p.), Lost, Sex and the City, Deadwood, and just about anything on HGTV or the Food Network.
*Watching movies (60 at the cinema in 2006) Satire, romantic comedy, cheesy action flicks.
*Reading-I am usually reading 2 or 3 things at a time: biographies, dog memoirs, fiction, knitting and classy cookbooks are favorites. For example: Yarn Harlot, Interweave, Barefoot Contessa, Jon Katz' dog books, Ann Patchet, Jodi Picoult, Jhumpa Lahiri.
*Collecting whimsical stationary and cards. I especially enjoy things with a vintage flavor or with funny animals or monograms.
*Anything to do with my dog Big Martha (Dogue De Bordeaux) and her 2 cats. BM loves to chew on big rawhides and balls. She does not wear clothing!
*Makeup & Bath Products--I adore just about anything from The Body Shop, Origins, the Burt's Bees collection, and Sephora. Lip gloss, bubble bath, fun eyeshadow, scented soap, candles, foot stuff, I love it all! Nothing tested on animals.
*Gardening--I've succeeded in growing rather than killing most of my garden this season. I enjoy fun gardening gloves and accessories in bright colors.
*Then of course there's gourmet food, candy, coffee, the 3 food groups... I'll eat just about anything but especially enjoy unusual chocolates, fruit preserves, sauces to put on ice cream, chewy candy, and flavored coffees.
I look forward to doing some serious swapping in the future!
Comments
Whoops, please ignore my comment, Cathy. I sent it to the wrong person. Yikes. It is hard to get used to this swapping thing.
Thanks so much for the yarn and other goodies. I love that yarn and have some in hot pink and white. Now I have to find a cotton project. Thanks again!
Hi! I received the destash package you sent me! Thank you so much....oddly enough, I was really looking for some of the yarn that you sent, but feeling to guilty to go buy any! And I looooove the mix CD. I'm listening to it right now! Thank you! -Vicki