pearlswithplaid

I love Autumn, Halloween, Day of the Dead. . I do love anything Halloween and collect Halloween items all year round. My favorite colors are black and orange (therefore my favorite baseball team of all time is the San Francisco Giants). Also some Halloween yellow. I think there isn't a color that I don't like.

But I do love the snow and winter and have snow envy for those living through those harsh winters. My dream is to attend a Packers game in the middle of a snowstorm.

I have been crafting since kindergarten. My first project was a trivet I made for my Mom which she kept until the end. From there I tried most everything. I embroider, needlework & cross stitch. I can knit scarves only (squares and rectangles!). I cannot for the life of me figure out how to crochet! And yet I love amigurumi. So I find myself suffering from crochet envy.

I love paper and paper crafts. wands, embellishment boxes, cupcake liners and straws, journaling, altered crafts, ATC's and ROLO's.

I love animals and have 2 cats (all strays that found us) and a lovely brindle boxer, who was found walking down a very crowded street in the middle of the Tucson summer. She's lovely and crazy and I couldn't live without her.

I watch baseball, SF Giants baseball to be exact, but that is on my computer while I'm crafting. When you receive an ATC or ROLO from me, you can be assured that my inspiration was from watching baseball.

Other TV shows I watch are Supernatural, Law and Order:CI, Manhunter, and a lot of Swedish and Danish TV dramas. Love them!

I adore mysteries with recipes (Diane Mott Davidson), mystery/horror, suspense, but my true love is children's books. My favorites are classics: Anne of Green Gables, Little House series, Honey Bunch, Flicka, Ricka and Dicka and Their New Spotted Dresses (one of the earliest I can remember reading). I love children's books with recipes, or recipes in literature type books. My favorite children's book of all time is A Little Princess. I (re)read this several times a year.

I love fairy tales and fairies. A girl I went to college with actually saw fairies and I haven't stopped thinking of that since. Obviously, she does not share the clutter that lives in my brain and blocks that creative process!

Anything with Tom Hardy, Vincent D'Onofrio, The cast of Rock N Rolla, Mads Mikkelsen. I love murder mysteries and suspense movies.

• Postcards of baseball parks or any baseball souvenirs. I appreciate any ballpark in the USA, world, etc., even AAA teams, AA teams or Little League. I am not picky. I welcome repeats, too.

• Halloween anything-ribbon, black, orange, decor, leftovers-you get the idea

• Anything Baseball or San Francisco Giants related

• straws or cupcake wrappers, any kind

• cactus in all forms and media.

• Yes, I jumped on the llama bandwagon. I mean seriously, they are too cute.

• I started a garden and have purchased some houseplants in addition to my cactus. I take 'before' pictures of my plants because you never know when, well you know, they'll die. I'm not of the green thumb variety.

• Organizing (AKA losing everything I bring into the house) my craft area-continuous

• wand making with straws and cupcake liners

• Finding a crafting bargain