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My name is Danielle. I am an artsy fartsy, hippy dippy gypsy. Dreadhead, Deadhead, Metalhead. Head in the clouds.
I am proudly weird. Good Weird. I like bright colors. I like adventures, and exploring.
I am a veteran of the United States Navy. I am a self-proclaimed artist, and photographer. I work out of my home as a Dread Worker. I install and maintain dreadlocks for straight hair-types.
I am currently going to school to obtain an associates degree, with intent to get a bachelors after that for Art Therapy. I am awesome. I may be insane, but I'm having fun.

I have Asperger's Autism. I am an Aspie! What this means is that I have high functioning autism. I appear normal but social situations are very hard and exhausting for me. Autism is not a disease or a mental illness. Basically, the neurons in my brain fire faster and in a different pattern that what is considered "normal". I am just wired differently, that is all. I have over-sensitive sensory perception issues, so background noises confuse me and loud sounds startle and stress me out longer than they should. I have constant anxiety. There are good things about Aspergers though, like: my amazing long term photographic memory, my ability to tune out the world when I am being artistic, I can find solutions to problems most people wouldn't consider, and that it makes me a advocate and a voice for lower functioning people with autism. Having autism does not mean that I am a math wizard and that I love trains. I hate and suck at math and trains are boring.

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My favorite colors are: Teal, Jade and Seafoam greens, blues, peaches, dark reds.

• adventures, riding my bicycle
• mermaids, seahorses, octopi, The Ocean
• sarcasm
• Charles Bukowski
• paranormal, spirits, ghosts
• ice cream
• swimming
• elephants.
• knitting
• mail art, ATC's, creative exchange
• nature, rain, wind
• polaroids, cameras, photography
• anything handmade
• owls!
• Unicorns!, Big Foot, UFO's
• Halloween. I love creepy cute stuff and spooky things!
• playing ukulele I love to write poetry. Take pictures and polaroids. I like to draw and use mixed media in my journals.

• journalling, especially art journals(bookies)
• handmade envelopes
• mail art, decorated envelopes, things that make the postal system go "hmmm"
• zines
• doodles, sketches, paintings
• friendship bracelets
• ATCs
• unusual postcards
• magizine/newspaper clippings
• favorite poetry/poets
• bundles of ephemera/mixed media
• handmade stickers
• pressed leaves/flowers
• the more bizarre/weird/crazy the better!

I would LOVE to receive these things:

• foreign candies/chocolate
• mail from Sri Lanka
• blank artsy/funny/cute postcards
• dreadlock beads (sharpie diameter)
• embroidery floss in any color
• old paper
• pretty papers to make envelopes with
• ephemera for my journal!
• SLAMS!
• anything elephants
• If you live on or near the OCEAN, I would love to receive things you scavenge to make my jewelry out of - (crab claws, tiny seahorses)

• anything for my dog Milo. West Highland Terrier.

• If we have common interests, I would love to be pen-pals. I love sending and sharing things and getting to know people of like minds and interests.

• anything disney
• Looney toones
• anything patriotic

-drawing -painting -handmade jewelry -knitting(I'm a beginner, but I'm addicted, still so much to learn) -epoxy resin -art journals( not scrapbookish, more... artistic soul vomit therapy) -smash journals (not scrapbookish, more... a collection of my life: photos that I have drawn and painted over, random ephemera, weird drawings.) -polymer clay -shrink film art(shrinky dinks!)