makestuff

Updated 9/2/2022 - I don't get on here much anymore, but you can send me a message here.

I love nerdy crafts, sewing, hand/machine embroidery, quilting, making bags/purses, watercolors and ATCs. I've been taking art classes at the community college and learning more about drawing and color.

I started sewing when I was a teenager and made my own clothes - dresses and tops mostly. I stick to smaller projects now for the most part, like small quilts, dolls and purses.

Dotee dolls are super fun, and I always look for new ideas to make them unique. I also love making stuffed dolls and animals, and mixed media art.

Photography is something I started in 2018. I have a Nikon DSLR and I love capturing subtle expressions and great moments.

• A- Animal Crossing, african greys, art quilts, animals, ATCs, Alice in Wonderland

• B- birds, boho, butterflies, bunnies

• C- Charlie Chaplin (we share a cake day!), cosplay, comics, cartoons, creepy cute, chiibis, colorful, chickens

• D- dragons, dotee dolls, dolls in general, Salvador Dali, Daria

• E- Edna from The Incredibles, embroidery supplies

• F- fairies, Ferris Bueller, felt (wool), fat quarters, family

• G- Edward Gorey, gnomes, giraffes, Grover

• H- Harry Potter, hand-drawn/hand-painted, hens

• I- interesting facts, Instagram

• J- journals, Janeane Garofalo

• K- kawaii, kindness

• L- love, letters, lattes

• M- magic, muppets, mermaids, Maleficent, mashups

• N- naps, naked postcards, notecards

• O- owls, ocelots, odd things

• P- Pusheen, Pompompurin (we share a cake day!), penpals, pugs, parrots, photography, pagan stuff, postcards

• Q- quilting, quirky, Q from Star Trek, Quentin (Tarantino)

• R- recycling/reuse, reading, roosters

• S- Star Wars, snowmen, sewing, Sesame Street, sci-fi, stuffies, seed beads, Scooby Doo

• T- turtles, tarot, Totoro, threads

• U- ukuleles, understanding, urban art

• V- velvet, vampires

• W- watercolors, witches, Worf, wizards, woodland animals

• X- exciting art

• Y- yo-yos, yarn

• Z- zines, zentangles

Not fond of religious items, politics or circus themes.

If you do not receive a rating from me, please let me know. I rate everything when I get it, unless I don't know which swap the package was for.

Also, if you do not receive a swap from me, please let me know so I can resend it. I'm not a flaker!

The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me. - Oscar Wilde, "De Profundis"

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them. - Ray Bradbury

In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer. - Albert Camus

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive. - John Green, Looking for Alaska

Invictus
By William Ernest Henley

Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.

In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.

Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.

It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.

I much prefer postcards sent "naked" and I love pretty much all kinds of postcards except religious ones. Don't worry about offending me, either! I love risque, dark, creepy, and strange cards! Touristy cards are fine, too. There aren't many postcards I don't like :)