Kristalia

whole profile updated on April 29th 2011

I'm a crazy person ^_^ I love crafting, doing art, watching korean dramas and animes, listening to music from all over the world, My daughter Anastasia, and cat Astari, my husband Brian, listening to audio books, watching scifi and so on.

As for right now My big thing is Amigurumi (Crocheted plushies(Stuffed animals)) and I've learned how to spin yarn so I'm all for roving since that would help my needle felting too. I'm always learning new things trying new crafts and itiching for the next thing

My todo list craft wise could wrap around the planet :) I'm a housewife and mother of a beautiful 2 year old daughter (2 going on 5)

The one thing I love above all else is opening wrapped up gifts lol. I still have mom wrap my gifts even though I know what it is or even if its just a little bit of money lol. big or small a lot or little I just love unwrapping gifts lol.

Hugs and Kisses to all

Ok here is the deal. I joined this site as it says in 2007. I joined it because I was alone in a college family houseing unit for the good part of 4 years while hubby was there in the school year going to school his summer jobs took him away for about 2 weeks at a time. So since I didn't attend the school I never made any friends up there and spent most of my time learning crafts, playing WoW and reading other's craft blogs. I kept seeing these ppl blog about their swaps and getting all the cool craft goodies in the mail and it sounded like lots of fun. So when I found this site I signed up and started reading. I soon learned I wasn't going to be able to do very much swaping while living in a town with only a Meijers (not craft store what so ever) Over the next year I was only able to complete 2 swaps then I got pregnant, moved from the school into a tiny little room in my in-laws house. Brian couldn't get work and I was pregnant so couldn't get work and as things were I certainly wasn't thinking about swaping let alone actually able to do swaping. My biggest goals were to get though the day with out killing someone and trying to live through the stress. I had to live there till my daughter was 14 months old :(

NOW I live in a wonderful apartment and We have our own room and the baby has her own room (instead of all 3 of us and our stuff in one tiny room) a nice big living room where I have my art/craft desk and can create to hearts content without a million interuptions and rude people hanging over my shoulder never shutting up. right now LIFE IS GOOD and I love it.

So since I've been wanting to get back into swaping again I came back here. I'm only going to do 1 or 2 at a time for now since I'm still getting a few things in order and trying to update all of my online sites and get my Etsy going but I'm back for good ^_^ and that number of completed swaps is going to grow

I have a lot of crafts I do, can do, want to learn to do and wish I could learn to do ^_^

I just get really thrilled at seeing other peoples Ideas

Things I do. Amigurumi, crochet, stitch markers, cards, felt plushies, needle felting, wool spinning, bees wax candles rolled and melted, bead jewelry, Clay charm, buttons, sculptures, knit, sew, carve, paint, stained glass, scrap booking, tatting,

and lots more

Want to learn: to make resin chrams, lamp work beads, glass blowing, Dicoric glass, wood burning, wood turning, leather working, blacksmithing, soap and other cosmetic making

Music: Almost anything excluding most american music but mostly Korean pop music. Japanese rock music and German goth

Books: Scifi, historical fiction, Manga, fantasy

Movies: besides some korean ones, Twister, tremors, last unicorn, mirror mask, the dark crystal, the labyrinth, Vuk, Mattie the goose boy, Princess and the goblins, serindipity, Princess Bride

T.V shows: Doctor WHO! lol, Various Korean Dramas, House, Bones, Nikita, Greys anatomy

Art style: Now this one is tough since I don't know what to call it, It's kind of like a old world/vintage/woodland cratures/old style hungarian/scandinavian type of art lol, movies like Vuk, Mattie the Goose boy and the last unicorn fit into the style/ feeling it gives perfectly. If there are any art historians out there who want to try figureing out what I'm talking about let me know and I'll show you some pictures and maybe you can tell me lol

Real Animals: I LOVE OWLS (big time), and Raccoons, and Elephants

Myth, Magick, Cryptic Animals/Cratures; Gryphons, Fairies, Aliens (like to come up with my own ^^), hippocamp, dragons, and most monsters in the FF games lol

Games: Final Fantasy series, World of Warcraft (Kaboomkin), Age of Empires (the first one), Children of the Nile and Pharaoh, Samorost, Virtual Villagers series

Colors: Pink, caribbean blue, purpleand black

Holiday: Halloween/Samhain,

fragrance: Egyptian cotton, Olive and Bamboo, (almost anything with bamboo)

novelties: cute stationary, pens, pencils, bookmarks, plushies, pillows, containers of any size (there is always a use)

I Love all kinds of Japanese and Korean goodies and i do mean all kinds if its cute I'll love it.

I love notebooks I have so many but am always looking to get more.

nothing better then japanese candy and curry

Fiber- for spinning and needle felting

My hair is a good length and I wear it up with a chop stick all the time so I'm always on the look out for pretty ones to match my clothes or to really stand out.

Japanese Craft books

Prismacolor markers (expensive yes but I've been getting them one at a time.)

All kinds of scrapbook stuff

Card making stuff

Patterns for anything really

Cloth (anything cute, fantasy, japanese cloth is the coolest)

embellishments galore

Stickers! (who doesn't love stickers)

Sculpty clay (wanna try that new eraser clay)

San-X memo pads and STICKERS! I love them all really want the Mindwave little Witch town memo pad

Also up for a swap of loose San-X memo pages as I have nearing 15 memo pads big and small.

Clear Japanese pretty folders

Yarn pretty yarn, crazy yarn :D

and most of all for right now Anything to do with Amigurumi (japanese crochet/knitting hooks and needles, Amigurumi pattern books yes i can read Japanese so no worries (in fact I prefer Japanese or Korean ones) and so on)

Lucet, Nostepinne, tatting shuttles, tatting thread, Witchcraft tools and gems

I'm good at Computer graphics

I make very pretty fractals (which are great for scrapbook paper)

I'm a huge Kawaii fan

Big Korean media, food and culture fan.

My dream is to live in France and have a small farm like place of my own.

Love renaissance stuff, Steampunk and fantasy galore ^_^

Life is full of magic and thats the way I like it.

Though not a full Witch I'm taking classes and loveing it

Only Allergic to Penicillin (or how ever its spelled The pink medicine) So no worries on anything else ^_^

I absolutely Abhor that Sponge bob thing! Powerpuffgirls (at least the american rendition of it) most american cartoons (they usually are either trying miserably to take after animes or they have no real thought put into them/ total garbage)

Neopets. I love petsites but this one is a complete no go.

The smell of smoke, and people who do drugs

people who can't utter even one sentance without swearing

I like the matchbox swaps a lot. To small to put a book in but they are so fun to decorate. Though sometimes I'm tempted to start a 200 count box swap then the 32 count lol

I'm up for any type of swap I can do ^_^