user8376

I'm Fee, and I'm from bonnie Scotland. I live in the middle of nowhere with my wonderful man, my two beautiful daughters, and our four cats, three chickens, and honey bees :)

I've been a self-employed artist and crafter since 2009 and I can't imagine ever doing anything else for a living. I''m currently studying for a degree in English Literature - I love love LOVE reading, and I buy far too many books as well as making them myself. I mainly read literary fiction and magical realism, and I'm a sucker for poetry. I also love taking photographs, making art and writing poetry; stationery, journalling, Midori/Traveler's notebooks, mountains, forests, funghi and bontanica, nature illustration, and taxidermy.

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• Alice In Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
• The His Dark Materials Trilogy by Philip Pullman
• House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
• Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
• The Secret History by Donna Tartt
• 194 by George Orwell
• Hot Milk by Deborah Levy
• Raven Girl by Audrey Niffeneger
• Station Eleven by Emily St John Mandell
• A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Moby Dick by Herman Melville
• Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
• Lanark by Alasdair Gray
• Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman
• Mr Vertigo by Paul Auster
• The Collector by John Fowles

My favourite poets are John Burnside, Jen Campbell, Warsan Shire, Jacob Polley, Nin Andrews, and Carol Ann Duffy.

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Amanda Palmer, The Dresden Dolls, Tori Amos, David Bowie, Kate Bush, Nine Inch Nails, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Everything Everything, They Might Be Giants, IAMX, and The Postal Service.

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Any of Wes Anderson, Alfred Hitchcock, or David Lynch's films.

I grew up on a diet of musicals and ballets, and I still adore them now. I also love Hammer Horror and the classic horrors from the 1920's right up until they turned in to torture porn in the late nineties.

• The Prestige
• Amelie
• Labyrinth
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Fargo
• Grey Gardens
• Girl, Interrupted
• Silence of the Lambs
• Mirror Mask
• Repo: The Genetic Opera
• Return To Oz

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My favourite show of all time is Twin Peaks, with Hannibal coming a close second.

• A History Of Scotland
• American Horror Story
• Arrested Development
• Ashes to Ashes and Life On Mars
• Being Human
• Desperate Housewives
• Gormenghast
• The Mighty Boosh
• IT Crowd
• Luther
• Sherlock - I love the Benedict Cumberbatch version, but I love the Jeremy Brett version even more! :)
• Spaced
• Whitechapel
• X-Files

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My day job is making and selling stuff so I do a lot of crafting! I mainly work with tartan, making brooches and other lovely things, but I also make jewellery, soaps and balms, greeting cards, soft toys and dolls, papier mache bits and bobs, and notebooks and journals.

In my spare time I try to make art - pretty pictures rather than 'stuff'. I love journalling, collage, embroidery, and working with anything water soluble. I love drawing people and houses. The concept of what is 'home' is really interesting to me.

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