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melimade.com

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About Me

I am a fiendish crafter living in the Tampa Bay area with my amazing husband and my sweet baby girl.

I create/design for my site

and my etsy store
melimade.etsy.com

My Interests

Creating, sewing, knitting, drawing, stitching, embroidery (both hand and machine), cooking, veganism, baking, painting, sculpting, beading, jewelry making & design, reading, writing, great movies, music

I'd like to meet:

Vegans, moms, people with open minds, musicians with something to sing about, crafters, people who read, people who eat peanut butter toast with spaghetti, knitters, sewers, & other non-republicans.

Music:

Ani DiFranco, Nine Inch Nails, TMBG, Bjork, Ben Folds, Ben Kweller, the Beatles, Coldplay, interpol, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips, Paul Simon, Soul Coughing, Rage Against the Machine, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Keane, Death Cab, lots of local music, many, many more

Movies:

The Machinist, The Neverending Story, Napoleon Dynamite, Amelie, Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind, Lost In Translation, Better Off Dead, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Fight Club,Vanilla Sky, Interstate 60, Shawshank Redemption, White Water Summer, Fisher King, American Beauty, Big Fish, Bottle Rocket, Punch Drunk Love, Garden State, Reservoir Dogs, Almost Famous, Hackers, Princess Bride(inconceivable!), Lord of the Rings trilogy, Seven, Magnolia, 200 Cigarettes, A Clockwork Orange, Girl Interrupted, Hackers, Trainspotting, the Fifth Element, The Shining(and all Kubrick, really),

Television:

Scrubs, Lost ...

Books:

Running with Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, Naked by David Sedaris, Matilda by Roald Dahl, Book of Joe by Jonathan Tropper, From the Mixed up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Koningsberg, Zami by Audre Lorde, Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, Dry by Augusten Burroughs, Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon, Holidays on Ice by David Sedaris, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City by Nick Flynn, A Million Little Pieces by James Frey, A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby, High Fidelity by Nick Hornby

Heroes:

"no i don't prefer obscurity but i'm an idealistic girl and i wouldn't work for you no matter what you paid and i may not be able to change the whole fucking world but i could be the million that you never made" miss ani d

My Blog

Shop Update

Hey all! Melimade.com has just undergone a shop update with many new items added! Check it out... http://www.melimade.com   enjoy! -meli...
Posted by melimade.com on Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:21:00 PST

Best of the Bay 2006

Um, really? Creative Loafing magazine, (Formerly Weekly Planet) has named Crafting Out Loud Best Urban Craft Fair 2006 Woo-Hoo! Check it out here and check us out this weekend at New World Brewery. ...
Posted by melimade.com on Sat, 23 Sep 2006 07:34:00 PST

mentions melimade

Hey y'all, check this out, I was mentioned on this very cool blog, Indie Obsession Not only a cool site but also a really cool concept. Thanks Indie Obsession!  ...
Posted by melimade.com on Sat, 16 Sep 2006 04:16:00 PST

crafting out loud gets noticed!

Check us out, read the whole thing-- none of that Skim-it-and-act-like-you-read-it Crap! Note the incredibly bad pic of me... http://www.weeklyplanet.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A10041 8 Then show u...
Posted by melimade.com on Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:03:00 PST

just in case

In case you're not already turned on to this fabulous website, I had to mention my favorite web destination, toothpastefordinner It is truly hilarious, often dark, and perfectly written for me, as in ...
Posted by melimade.com on Mon, 14 Aug 2006 02:19:00 PST

self-confidence boost

So, if you want a real boost in your self confidence, find out which celebrity you look like here: http://www.myheritage.com/FP/Company/tryFaceRecognition.php Supposedly, if you upload a picture to th...
Posted by melimade.com on Mon, 07 Aug 2006 07:49:00 PST

check this out ya'll

http://blog.etsy.com/ Too freakin' cool! Out of that many items/sellers, I was the 100,000th sale. Weird! On another note, I have found many new ways to diplay my stuff for shows, and the theme has tu...
Posted by melimade.com on Sat, 22 Jul 2006 01:26:00 PST

Bib Mac & fries

Just thought I would grace you all with pics of my newest projects, these leaf bibs & coverall bibs. Enjoy! ...
Posted by melimade.com on Tue, 11 Jul 2006 07:33:00 PST

For craftin' out loud!!

A whole new set of plans! I just finished a big order for a new shop, and accepted a job making bags & jewelry for a wedding party. I got into a show in december to which i am so lookin...
Posted by melimade.com on Mon, 10 Jul 2006 06:00:00 PST

Design Help

Hey everybody! After another semi-successful, semi-crappy craft sale, I realize tha I don't really have my table set-up down. In fact, I don't have it together at all. It's a mess. I have no them...
Posted by melimade.com on Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:19:00 PST