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Ferrets! They fill my world with laughter and joy: Pixie, Boo Boo, Tocho, and Peanut (at the bridge)
Twighlight, Dusk: It is a thin ribbon of time when I feel most alive, and night is the frame in which creative energies flow freely. My joys are soft as velvet and as real as the beat of my heart, and in all things my love inserts color and symmetry into my life to change my world completely.
I adore the view of cemeteries through the lens, capturing time-kissed angels in their endless mourning, epitaphs etched into stone below the oaks, a soft drape of petal across a cold and broken wing.
In short, my passion for photography, web and graphic design, writing, and OOAK doll reanimations are what drives me. My adoration for ferrets, basset hounds, gothic culture, art and lifestyle, victorian architecture and style, paranormal research, anatomy and physiology, gothic music, and those who share the love of such things are what sparks my interest and imagination.
Halloween, horror, Egyptian Raks Sharqi, and anything requiring stretching the imagination to its limits... the list is long, the explanation complex. Suffice it to say... I love the dark when light merely sleeps within it.
SCA (Society of Creative Anachronism): Isabella Dawne, here from The Kingdom of Meridies, and The Barony of the Osprey.
I Guess it's just the hopeless romantic in me, or maybe the hopeful romantic. It's nice to step out of this plastic world and into a slice of the past. For me, this playful re-enactment is a both a challenge, and a respite of sorts from the humdrum of everyday, modern life.
The Paranormal:"Thing is with the whole paranormal investigations thing... people are dead serious about it." and yes, you can quote me on that! lol
I'd like to meet:
Those who dare live outside the expected 'norm,' artists who dare find beauty where others do not, musicians who live their art, quiet souls with infinite depth, anyone posessing an honest heart & creative spirit.
...Those who know where all the real beauty in the world truly exists.
Music:
On Beyond, Broken Soul, A Covenant of Thorns, Black Ether, Theatre of Tragedy, Hungry Lucy, Winter's Thrall, Cocteau Twins, The Birthday Massacre, Johnny Hollow, Dead Can Dance, Djilia Phralengo, The Damned, Brainclaw, Toys in the Attic, Within Temptation, Echostream, Ether Aura, The Cure, Collide, Dommin, Idiom of Sad, HIM, Type O Negative, Depeche Mode...the list is unbelievably long and in no particular order. Best just to visit my friends list.
Genres include: gothic, rock, ambient, shoegaze, metal, classical, techno/industrial, alternative, new wave, dark wave. Have I forgotten anything? If it moves me, stirs the blood and entices the imagination... I love it.
Movies:
Real Genius, War of the Worlds (remake AND original), Queen of the Damned, Sleepy Hollow, Pirates of the Carribean, Hocus Pocus, Saw, Harry Potter, 13 Ghosts (original), Hide & Seek, Bogeyman, Dark Water...and all 'well done' horror flicks. Okay, so some of the cheesier ones have their place too.
Television:
One Tree Hill, Everwood, Gilmore Girls, Medium, Ghost Hunters, Supernatural, Ghost Whisperer, ER, House, Gray's Anatomy, CSI Miami, Boston Legal....
Heroes:
My middle son. Read a very short blurb about what he did following Hurricane Katrina:
Beyond Katrina OR, you can read the quick blurb about it HERE
Chris is a very talented guitarist and songwriter, and an amazing human being. My other two sons, Micheal & Bobby, are also very talented and amazing. Music, writing, art... My kids are awesome!
My grandchildren! The pic above is Annaliese. She was the first of 5 grandchildren. Yeah, I started young. ;-) I'm still young enough to be a 'cool' grandma. Or so I tell myself anyway. All of my grandchildren are angels, all incredibly special in so many ways.
My grandAngels: Annaliese, Arianna, Elizabeth, Shade, and Connor. :-)
My furkids---who love me despite my mood, what clothes I have on, if I'm wearing makeup or not, if I have a bad hair day, or if I feel pessimistic or down. Of all the tough times over the past couple of years my little ones have always found a way to make me smile, no matter how down I may be. I've vowed to make sure that all the love they show me is returned, many times over, because they have been better friends to me than most of the humans that have claimed that title (friend).
Ferret friends/family: Pixie, Boo Boo, Tocho Pimne, and Peanut.. who is playing at the Rainbow Bridge.
Basset Hound friends/family: Josie & Julep
