JadeCurley

(First and foremost, in the unfortunate situation that you don't receive your swap from me, pleeease let me know and I shall resend. :D)

I have a fondness for noses and lovely teeth and thick hair and front teeth with gaps and I ache to live at The Secret Garden Party. My cat, Lennon, is a miserable little whatsit and it's one of the reasons I love him. I can't cope that I never got to see Mumford & Sons on their first tour but at least I've seen Darwin Deez three times (and I even danced along to 'The Spring Dance'!).

I wish so badly that I was 18 circa 1963 but, you know, HEY HO!

I'm a new owner of a Diana Mini and have also purchased a Superheadz wide angle lens camera. This is going to be an expensive hobby but there's something about the old click and whirr, isn't there? :)

Photographs, photographs, photographs! I adore them. I love old black and white ones of people in gorgeous cars or of a family at the seaside in their fancy swimsuits or shirts and ties and coats and you can make up a story and invent names and personalities.

I've got an incredibly short attention there's a robin in my garden span.

Brooches are my favourite as are ducks, purple/grey/claret/that kind of vintage type pink (know the one?), ukuleles, MAC gel eyeliner, tan and green leather or 'leather' accessories and I once rescued a pigeon. I can spend an age in stationery shops yet buy nothing and I am in no way built for the technolgical age! ARGH! I get suffocated by rules and authority; too much ridgidity affects flow.

Within the next year, I hope to move out. I'm mentally decorating already: ornate frames, trinkets, good tacky, colour and softness, warm and cosy.

The past year has been a real learning curve on the capabilities and values of human beings, which leads me onto my new favourite quote:

"Champagne for my real friends; real pain for my sham friends." ~ Francis Bacon

(Please don't take that too literally!)

My New Year's resolutions are as follows:

• Be true to myself
• Revive the brain...via crafts and arts and other such things that actually interest me
• Start a charm bracelet
• Talk like a happy person...Should someone ask, 'What's the weather like?' I will not reply with, 'OH MY GOD, IT'S P*SSING IT DOWN!' Nuh no. I shall simply say, 'It is raining a lot.'
• Explore
• Devour the world

I've borrowed my sister-in-law's sewing machine and am now a pro at making drawstring bags!

I can't cope when an apostrophe is misused!

Why aren't tabloid papers illegal yet?

I've got a cupcake tin FULL of stickers and can't find anyone willing to write letters so I can send sticker-filled replies! :(

I'm so excited to be here! This site is all of my childhood dreams in one! Where have you been all my life?!

xxx

PS: I don't half go on sometimes.

PPS: I'm sorry if I fall short of swap-bot etiquette and I promise to learn it!