janicemarie

Greetings my snail-mail loving friends! My name is Janice-Marie, I live in Melbourne Australia with my husband and my fluffy cat called monkey. I have a garden with nearly 150 different medicinal and magical plants & herbs.

I am a hedge-witch, I love the plants with darker sides and magic & folklore.

In my day job I'm in Marketing with a background in design so all things designer appeal to me. I love typography, hand-lettering & graphic design.

I love to bake and love all types of cooking, I'm celiac though so I'm learning to adapt all my recipes.

I also love whimsy and I have a weakness for korean stickers and stationery (washi tape rocks).

I love mail & mail art, and I'm a member at letter writers alliance.

Favourite Colours/Themes ♥ Blue, Turquoise, Black, Red, Purples ♥ Natural dye colours, pinks & neutrals ♥ Weaving ♥ Sashiko ♥ natural dyeing ♥ medicinal herbalism ♥ folklore, superstition and magic (i'd love to hear about folk remedies and little superstitions and tricks your grandmothers and great grandmothers used to do) ♥ Tiki/Polynesian themes ♥ screenprinting, lino carving, hand printed art ♥ art postcards ♥ stamp carving

I'm a creative obsessive, I love to learn new things so I'm always up for a new challenge.

I'm learning to weave, I take pottery classes every week, I'm designing my own range of tiki mugs!

At heart I'm a paper girl if it involves paper I love it. I love bookbinding, printmaking, illustration, hand-lettering, and stamp-carving, ATC's, all gorgeous papery things!

I also make toys and art teddies, I sculpt as well.

♥ Epic Fantasy of the likes of Brent weeks, Brandon Sanderson, Michael J Sullivan, PV Brett, Trudi Canarvon.

♥ Paranormal romance like kim harrison, tanya Huff, kelly armstrong,

♥ Steampunk & urban fantasy like Gail Caririger, Jim Butcher, Richard kaddry, Mike Carey.

I love new music! That is I love hearing about your favourite artists and songs.

♥ Alternative/Indie artists - muse, interpol, gomez,
♥ Popindiefolk fusion like angus & julia stone, regina spektor caro emerald, gotye
♥ Eurovision!
♥ Blues and roots - kings of leon (old stuff and I still like the new stuff!) The black Keys, queens of the stone age
♥ Brit indie - radiohead, the smiths, morrisey, billy brag,
♥Aussie Hip Hop - Hilltop hoods, phrase, illy, 360, bliss & esso
♥Other hip hop - 80's classics 90's classics, I prefer boppy happier stuff to gangsta shoot everyone stuff.

But like I said - I love love love discovering new artists. Heck one of my favourite songs at the moment is the end theme from portal and I don't even play games!

I love a good action move - heck i love a bad action movie, I'll go see just about anything with Jason Statham in it.

I love sci-fi - Dr Who, Stargate Atlantis, Firefly, Star Trek TNG.

I also like animated films.

♥ Tiki inspired items ♥ folklore inspired items ♥ prayer cards for saints (especially St Cyprian of Antioch, St Expeditie, St Mary McKillop) ♥ Botanica items ♥ washi tape/deco tape
♥ hand carved stamps
♥ Letter writing sets
♥ how-to zines
♥ Nick bantock inspired work (griffin & sabine)
♥ Brian froud inspired work (labrynth, dark crystal, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy Book)
♥ Korean Stationery & stickers (pony brown, coco's happy day, invite-L)
♥ Postal related rubber stamps
♥ Art of... books (concept art from pixar, disney, dreamworks)
♥ fantasy art & illustration
♥ tiny things! (small letters, re-ment, miniaturized items)
♥ Origami Papers
♥ Dr Who related items
♥ Witchcraft related items/themes
♥ Fountain pen or calligraphy related items
♥ Anything Invader Zim * Airmail stickers * Airmail envelopes & airmail paper * Hand stamped images relating to mail, airmail, mail art, postal themes * postcards/photos of signs with interesting typography/lettering (there are some examples on my flickr- link here! ) mail related hand carved or bought rubber stamps * pen pal stationery (I love cute stuff but I also adore beautiful paper like old crown mill, fabriano etc) * plain handmade paper (no plant bits, petals, leaves or seeds in it please- customs issues) I'm looking for interesting things to calligraphy on. * anything print gocco, including your own gocco creations. * choc mint hot chocolate packets (a few years ago someone sent me a packetI think it was land o lakes! and i just died from the goodness!)

Because of Australian Quarantine issues - Unsealed Tea (apparently factory sealed teabags in sachet packets are fine - hot chocolate is fine too) - Seeds
- Plant matter
- Paper with dried plant matter or seeds embedded in it.

Things I'd prefer not to receive
- serviettes/napkins - printed foil off the top of yoghurt or other food containers - Glitter (if there is glitter on your artwork no worries but please not loose glitter or packs of glitter)
- ball point pens, coloured pencils

Bound & Lettered
If you are interested in bookbinding or Calligraphy/Hand lettering please consider joining Bound & lettered. Link to group