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Shala

I am here for Friends

About Me

The first thing anyone should know about me is that I'm passionately in love with my husband, Mike Simbeck, so I'm very not interested in flirting. I've got an old fashioned attitude about fidelity, so does he. In fact, I'm terribly old fashioned in a lot of ways. I crochet pretty lace things and bead pretty necklaces, and write about them. I also crochet things like aliens and eyepods and other bits of whimsy, I wear bright pink sneakers because my mother told me when I was little I could be invisible in them. I have tattoos and piercings and wear shawls regularly. I'm an eccentric old woman before my time and probably very boring. If you want to read the blog I update regularly, it's here and my regular webpage is here I'm the Beadwork editor at BellaOnline.com , which is a great site to work for and be a part of. Check it out, lots of great hosts who write about a lot of interesting topics. I also run an email list called BeadsInFashion at Yahoogroups.com.

My Interests

beading, crocheting, sewing, tatting, music, action films, reading, dancing, painting, tattoos, graphics, corsets, high heels, cooking, techie toys, Barbie dolls, snowglobes, staying at nice hotels, coffee, zoos, cats, pink shoes, weight lifting, music, BuyAlaska, DIY

I'd like to meet:

Other BellaOnline editors, beaders, people interested in recycled and repurposed crafts, people with interesting things to talk about that they feel passionate about.

Music:

ask, I'll give you the link to my playlist. I've got about 40 gigs loaded on my iPod now and it goes from classical to .. name it.

Movies:

Things go boom. If things don't go boom or it's got some plot or moral lesson I'll probably fall asleep.

Television:

Nova, NCIS, Lost,Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Eureka, and an awful lot of PBS because Mike knows I won't yell "I'm sick of the idiot box!" when PBS is on.

Books:

See music. I have a lot of books. I've heard the average American household has about 20 books in it, if that's true, then I've got everyone's books. Thousands and thousands of books, science, history, philosophy, religion, cookbooks, science fiction, fantasy, poetry, erotica, crime novels, self defense books, if it's printed, I'll read it unless it's wretched.

Heroes:

Ben Franklin, Nikola Tesla, Da Vinci, Emma Goldman, John Lennon, Mother Theresa,Lt. Ernest Childers, my grandfather, my mother,history is full of heroes.

My Blog

Beads!

Posted a new article to Beadwork at BellaOnline about how to make open daisy chains. I also made E a peace sign necklace.Just the kind of wire doodling I do sometimes while I'm watching tv. I still ne...
Posted by Shala on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:02:00 PST

Ahh Love!

Mike told me last night after E called to tell me something was wrong with my computer.. "you have the power to instill great fear.. you have earned a yellow ring."Which only makes sense if you read c...
Posted by Shala on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 02:47:00 PST

Happiness!!!

Saturday, Mike came home with ingredients to cook dinner AND flowers and a box that the mailman left on the porch. The box, which I assumed was the looms I order from Palmer Looms took a back seat to ...
Posted by Shala on Wed, 26 Mar 2008 09:30:00 PST

The Family

Anyway, working on new updates for my printables page, waiting for the okay for my e-book, and thinking of ways I can sell printie templates and printies on my webpage.Looking at different options for...
Posted by Shala on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:58:00 PST

Updates!

I posted a project on Cut Out + Keep , look for the devil duck earrings.I also posted some new patterns on Beadwork at BellaOnline.com for Celtic knots. I hope you enjoy them!...
Posted by Shala on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:11:00 PST

I miss dancing

But my back won't let me dance, not the way I like to dance anyway. Let's see.. we all got sick. Mike got the sickest, which isn't how it normally works out, normally I get the sickest, but this time,...
Posted by Shala on Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:51:00 PST

Take me with you!

Well.. Paper clone me.Due to car problems, it looks like we don't get to go on vacation this year, again. So take me with you to neat places you go and take pictures please?The printable version is HE...
Posted by Shala on Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:32:00 PST

Evil. Just plain evil.

The other day I was talking to Mike, and he asked me a question, I flippantly replied "Because they think deep down, I'm really nice."He nearly fell out bed laughing.So I complained to R. Who said "Wa...
Posted by Shala on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 05:23:00 PST

Exercise girl

Ran into an old friend tonight, kind of nice, but it was a friend from 1993, which was a very strange year. She asked about people I don't often think of, and a couple people I think too often about. ...
Posted by Shala on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 10:04:00 PST

Microcosm Publishing

This is pretty much for the people I've given catalogs to, because you all know how much I *love* them. A few days ago, (while I was still having computer issues) they posted a bulletin about needing ...
Posted by Shala on Mon, 21 Jan 2008 05:54:00 PST