kristiamb

If you don't receive a rating from me please let me know. I spend most of my time with my two kids and husband. I love running, biking, cross country skiing, skiing, hiking, yoga, and working out. I volunteer in my spare time. Currently I am making (binding) journals, zines, journaling, painting, drawing and crocheting. I'm involved in some art groups online - atcs for all, Traci Bautistas ning group creativity unleashed, & Etsy. Most of my art and crafts are pictured on Flickr.

Parabola, Sommerset Studio magazines, Cloth, Paper, Scissors, A Joseph Campbell Companion by Diane K. Osbon. Franny & Zooey, Nine Stories, The Catcher in the Rye, by J.D. Salinger. A Hero With a Thousand Faces, Myths to Live By, Joseph Campbell. The Power of Myth, Bill Moyers. The Pilgrimage, Paulo Coelho. Ahab's Wife, Abundance by Neslund. Water For Elephants, Time Travelers Wife, The Virgin Blue, The girl With the Pearl Earring, Tracy Chevalier, The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd, The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell, Art books: Collage Unleashed Traci Bautistia, Stitch Alchemy, Kelly Perkins, Layered, Tattered and Stitched, Ruth Rae, How to Make Books, Esther Smith, crochet books

I like all sorts (styles) of music past and present

Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tennenbaums, Darjeeling LTD. Wes Anderson (director) Lost in Translation, Harold and Maude, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Incredible Mr. Fox, Car Wash, Amelie. Lord of the Rings. The Point narrated by Ringo Starr. Old movies that are black and white and have the synchronized swimming scenes in them. Raising Arizona, The Others, Mystic Pizza, old Jerry Lewis movies with Dean Martin, It's a Wonderful Life! Spirited Away, Mitazaki.

Vintage fabric, sheet music, and wallpaper. Vintage Christmas - old tags, christmas cards, and vintage tinsel or ornaments. Old ephemera - music sheets, ledgers, letters, documents, discarded interesting mail stuff (envelopes, stamps), unique advertisements, unique papers, and painted papers. Crochet jewelry, old jewelry chains, rusty things - steampunk (watch pieces, rusty nails, washers), different types of thread (thick, thin, embroidery), clips, yarn, ribbons, beads, old number or alphabet stamps, unique rubber stamps. Vintage jewelery pieces, unique buttons, wax linen thread, book cloth, thread for sewing. Tapes! - Gaffer, fabric, paper, metal, with colorful designs, washi or handmade. Any type of yarn,