♥I am a fun loving, easygoing person.
♥I love spending time with my husband. We always enjoy traveling or just being together at home.
♥ I like to hang out with friends. My friends mean the world to me.
♥I love to go to concerts and music festivals and I love to dance.
♥I am a Deadhead! When the Grateful Dead was on tour I saw almost 100 shows live.
Fare thee well, Fare thee well, I love you more than words can tell.
I miss Jerry!
♥I like drumming and drum circles.
♥I like hiking and camping and the great outdoors.
♥I love sunsets especially the ones with a purple glow.
♥I love to go to Sushi Dinners!I also enjoy many types of ethnic foods.
Hidemi my favorite Sushi Chef
♥I go to the Renaissance Pleasure Faire every year at least once a year and dress up. Sometimes I am a wench, a pirate or a fairy.
♥I love to go to Fairy Festivals. Someday I hope to attend the big Fairy Festival in England and meet my favorite fairy artist.
♥I like Maypoles and dancing around them. (My husband proposed to me at a Maypole).
♥Spring is my favorite season.
♥I love flowers. My favorites are Morning Glories, Sweetpeas, Foxglove, Hollyhocks, Forget-Me-Nots, Hydrangeas, Cosmos, Mexican Sage, Texas Primrose, Roses and many more.
♥I love wee fairy gardens. This is one that a friend made for me.
♥I love stained glass and hand blown glass. My windows are filled with both.
♥I collect fairies and have them all over my house and yard.
♥My favoirite fairy artist from today are:
Linda Ravenscroft
Jessica Galbreth
Amy Brown
Victoria Griffin
Michele-lee Phelan
Nene Thomas
Becky Kelly
Julie Fain
♥Fairy Artist from the past that I like are:
Ida Outwaite
Cicely Mary Barker
♥Other artists I like are:
Mary Engelbreit
Marjolin Bastin
♥I love the Art Nouveau style.
I especially like Alphonse Mucha
John Waterhouse
♥I like Mandalas.
♥I also like the Rock Posters of the 60’s.
I'd like to meet:
I am open to meeting new friends or finding old friends that happen to be on MySpace.
I would like to meet open-minded people that share common interests with me. People who like: having fun, dancing, going to music festivals, concerts and live shows, The Grateful Dead, traveling, international cuisine, scrapbooking, crafting, photography, Renaissance Faires. Also imaginative and artistic people that adore mystical creatures and fairies.
I would also like to meet people who are interested in learning more about preserving their photos in safe scrapbook albums. For more information about Creative Memories, my workshop schedule, or online ordering click here: my Creative Memories website
Music:
My musical taste is very eclectic. It depends on which soundtrack from my life is playing and what kind of mood I am in.
People call me "The Human Juke Box" because I like to sing along with almost any song from the 60's to now and I know all the lyrics. Everyone tells me that I should go on a music game show because I know all the lyrics to songs and who the artist is.
*"LET THERE BE SONGS TO FILL THE AIR...":
The Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, Phil Lesh and Friends, Ratdog, Robert Hunter, Phish, Merl Saunders, Karl Denson's Tiny Universe, Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, Neil Young, Credence Clearwater Revival, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Crosby, Stills and Nash, The Allman Brothers, Queen, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Peter Frampton, Paul Simon, Lynard Skynard and The Animal Liberation Orchestra.
*REGGAE:
Bob Marley, Steel Pulse, Peter Tosh, Burning Spear, and Damien Marley.
*MELLOW MUSIC:
Loreena McKennitt, Enya, Clannad, Julee Cruise, Ravi Shankar, Gary Stadler (Fairy Songs), Mike Rowland,and Woodland.
*OLD SCHOOL DISCO:
Wild Cherry, Peaches and Herb, Kool and the Gang, KC and the Sunshine Band, The Commodores, Chic, Earth Wind and Fire, Anita Ward, Gloria Naylor, Lipps Inc., Sister Sledge, Klymaxx, Frankie Smith, The Gap Band, Moris Day and the Time, Midnight Star, and Dana Rayne.
*DANCE:
Chaka Khan, Nenah Cherry, Tone Loc, Debbie Deb, Young MC, Technotronic, Newcleus, Vanity 6 (Apolonia), Salt-N-Pepa, Digital Underground, Dazz Band, and Whodini.
*FUNK/RAP:
Run-DMC, Beastie Boys, Sir Mix-A-Lot, Grandmaster Flash, Sugarhill Gang, and 2 Live Crew.
*60'S AND 70'S Tunes:
Gordon Lightfoot, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Harry Chapin, Jim Croce, Dan Fogelberg, Simon and Garfunkel, Van Morrison, Don McLean, The Monkees, Elton John, Cat Stevens, Steely Dan, Loggins and Messina, Rupert Holmes, Jimmy Buffet, Bread, Helen Reddy, Barry Manillow, Nicolette Larson, Marvin Gaye, Neil Sedaka, Captain and Tennille, Carole King, and Al Stewart.
*80'S TUNES:
The Untouchables, The English Beat, Elvis Costello, Squeeze, Pet Shop Boys, Dramarama, The Smiths, Morrissey, Modern English, Depeche Mode, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians, The Cure, The Clash, New Order, Tracy Chapman, Everything But the Girl, Sade, Joe Jackson, Madonna, Prince, Roxy Music, Aerosmith, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, John Mellencamp, and Bryan Adams.
*90'S TUNES:
Lenny Kravitz, Tori Amos, Red Hot Chili Peppers, R.E.M., Spin Doctors, 4-Non Blondes, Blind Melon, Gin Blossoms, Collective Soul, Counting Crows, Blues Traveler, Fiona Apple, Fastball, and Shawn Mullins.
*THE 2000'S TUNES:
Jack Johnson, Ben Harper, Jason Mraz, John Mayer, David Gray, Five For Fighting, Dido, Norah Jones, The Wallflowers, Pete Droge, Rachael Yamagata, Beth Orton, Sia, Gary Jules, Amos Lee, Colbie Caillat and Mat Kearney.
Movies:
♥ I like a lot of movies from a while ago:
Harold and Maude, Grease, Terms of Endearment, The Color Purple, and Blue Velvet.
♥ I also like the 80's movies from High School: Valley Girl, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo’s Fire, Footloose, Say Anything, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Some Kind of Wonderful, The Outsiders, The Lost Boys, and Purple Rain.
♥ Other movies I like are Heathers, Edward Scissorhands, Wild at Heart, Fried Green Tomatoes, Singles, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Benny and Joon, Reality Bites, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, Pulp Fiction, How to Make an American Quilt, The Truth About Cats and Dogs, Like Water for Chocolate, The Wedding Singer, There's Something About Mary, Titanic, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Memoirs of a Geisha, and Juno.
Television:
♥ The Shows I like now are Weeds, Lost, Survivor, Men in Trees , Desperate Housewives, Real World, The Girls Next Door, The L Word, and L.A. Ink.
♥I like to watch HGTV (Home and Garden Television) or TLC (The Learning Channel). I love all the home decorating shows and shows like Mission Organization and Clean Sweep. I like to see the 'before and after'. I also like 'This Old House' and I love gardening shows too.
♥ I also record my soap-“Days of Our Lives†( I have watched since I was a kid). I know...huge cheese factor.
♥ My favorite show was Six Feet Under (I was so bummed when it ended).
♥ I also watched Everwood, Sex and the City, and Will and Grace when they were still on.
♥ The shows I watched in college were Seinfeld and (hate to admit)...Beverly Hills 90210 and Melrose Place.
♥ After college I watched Twin Peaks, Northern Exposure, The X Files, Dawson’s Creek, Felicity, Party of Five, and The Real World.
♥ Some of the old school shows I watched when I was a kid were Flipper, All in the Family, Carol Burnett Show, Happy Days, The Jeffersons, Alice, The Facts of Life, The Love Boat, The Andy Griffith Show, Laverne and Shirley, Fantasy Island, Green Acres, Little House on the Prairie, Charlie’s Angels, Planet of the Apes, The Partridge Family, 8 is Enough, Dukes of Hazard, Soul Train, and Moonlighting.
(Yes...I was a latchkey kid, so we watched a lot of TV afterschool)
Books:
♥ I love books and I really like to read!!!
♥ I collect fairy books of all kinds (stories and art).
♥ I also have lots of cookbooks. My favorite cookbooks are by Susan Branch.
♥ I have many books that are more reference types on gardening, travel, music, photography, art and coffee table style books.
♥ I read mostly women authors~ mainly novels. I hate romance novels.
♥ My favorite author is Ellen Gilchrist. I have read every book she has published.
♥ I also like Marion Zimmer Bradley -I LOVE the Mists of Avalon series.
♥ The authors I like are Margaret Atwood, Lynn Andrews, Judy Blume, Sylvia Plath, Louise Erdrich, Laura Esquirel, Carrie Fisher, Fannie Flag, Sue Monk Kidd, Madeleine L’Engle, Terry McMillan, Sue Miller, Toni Morrison ,Gloria Naylor, Whitney Otto, Anita Shreve, Jane Smiley, Amy Tan and (hate to admit it)V.C. Andrews.
♥ I collect children's books and I have thousands of of them. I collect many of them because of the beautiful illustrations. I like many illustrators from the early 1900s. I collect Green Tiger Press books that are out of print. I love the art in them.
♥ When I was a kid I loved to read! Some of my favorites were:
~All the Madeleine L'Engle books including 'A Wrinkle in Time', 'A Wind in the Door', and 'A Swiftly Tilting Planet'.
~All the Judy Blume books especially 'Are You There God It's Me Margaret', 'Blubber' and 'Forever'.
~Roald Dahl books especially 'James and the Giant Peach', and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory'.
~I also liked 'Black Beauty', 'Treasure Island', 'Little Women', 'Island of the Blue Dolphins', and 'The Secret Garden'.
There are so many more books that I like, but the list would be really long.
Heroes:
♥ My biggest hero is my Mom~ She is a very strong woman who has overcome a lot and is a cancer survivor.
♥ I admire the talented artist Linda Ravenscroft. She is amazing!
♥ Another hero of mine is my husband Claude. He is also a talented artist who was born with true talent. He is also very smart!
♥ I think Lance Armstrong is amazing too.
