I am a fiber artist and have been for about four years now. I have been quilting for about 13 years.

My husband and I have a cute little Yorkie who keeps me company while I work in my studio. (I'm using her picture for my avatar.) We also have 4 little koi (Japanese goldfish) and about two dozen goldfish that refuse to stand still long enough for an accurate counting.

Please, do not send me anything with artificial sweeteners like aspartame!

I love Lord of the Rings, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Mercedes Lackey, and Anne McCaffrey, Juliet Marillier, Stephanie Meyer (I'm with the vampires), Marion Zimmer Bradley, Melanie Rawn. Basically anything fantasy. :-) I also like historical fiction.

TV: Gilmore Girls, 4400, Dead Zone, Battlestar Galactica, Grey's Anatomy (my mother sucked me in), House

Movies: Lord of the Rings, Serenity & Firefly, The Holiday, Boondock Saints

Music: Some of my favorite music groups/musicians are Lorena McKennit, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Nickel Creek, and Moxie Fruvous.

I quilt mostly (art quilts), but I knit a lot, too, and I also spin yarn on a drop spindle. I do some beading and embroidery, but not as much as I used to. So many obsessions, so little time!

Bright green is my favorite color. I love the combination of bright green, bright blue, purple and black. Basically, anything jewelry-toned or bright. I also love red and black together. I DO NOT like pastels or muddy colors, or neon yellow or orange. I also like pink & brown together and pink and white.

Fabric I use mostly bold, brightly colored fabrics in my work, so please don't send me any fabrics that are pastel or very country. While fat quarters are fine, I also like receiving fabric pieces larger than that (1/2 yard, 1 yard, etc.). Tone-on-tone or marble fabrics are fine and very useful, but please do not send me any solid colored fabrics! I do not use them!

Types of fabric I use a lot or am looking for:

• Batiks
• Bright green
• Bright blue
• Bright purple
• Bright yellow
• Black, White, Red, or any combination of those
• Fabric with gold or silver metallic on it
• Cupcake
• Japanese/Asian style
• Christmas
• Valentine's Day/Love/Romantic
• Sheep

Fabrics I DON'T use so please don't send:

• Country
• Pastel
• Baby/Little kid related
• Large florals (unless they are batik)
• Thimbleberries

Yarn I knit a lot of kitchen stuff, so I use a lot of worsted weight cotton like Sugar 'N' Cream. I also like to knit socks and lace, so I love lace, fingering, and sport weight yarns, but I like heavier weights as well. I especially love anything hand-dyed!!!!

I do not use any acrylic/polyester yarn unless it is a novelty yarn like fun fur, etc.

One of my very favorite things to receive is Edibles, especially ones from outside the USA. I also like to receive edibles local to my USA partners. (Store-bought only, please)

• Chocolate
• Mints
• Candy
• Hot Chocolate - please do not send me any HC with aspartame in it!
• Tea
• Pasta/Rice mixes
• Marinates
• Anything Cadbury (except Cadbury Crunchies. Not terribly fond of them.)
• Baking mixes: cake, brownies, pancakes, etc.
• Cookies
• Ghiraradelli Caramel-filled Milk Chocolate bars
• Cadbury Hot Chocolate

I am involved in some tea swaps, mostly for my husband, who loves tea. (I am trying really, really hard to like tea, but am having a hard time LOL!) My husband prefers white or green teas, but is very open to trying new ones. However, he does not like plain black tea, lemon, peach, or chai tea. If you really want to make his day, his favorite tea is pomegranate.

Loose leaf tea is very welcome, too, for any tea swap or as an extra, as long as it is clearly labeled.

• Anything with aspartame/splenda in it!
• Americana
• Primitive/Country
• "Cutsy" things (example: cartoonish or little kid-type stuff)
• I do not like pastels or muddy colors, hot pink or neon yellow or orange as main colors, but they are fine in small amounts or as accents
• Anything Halloween related
• Stuff with Disney characters on it
• Magnets, Keychains, or pencils (Unless they are directly related to something on my profile, for example: a sheep magnet or dragon keychain, etc.)
• Tourist brochures
• Anything that smells like cigarette smoke
• Nothing with shrimp in it - I don't like it and my husband is allergic
• I'm not terribly fond of ATCs unless they are related to something on my profile.
• Scrapbooking supplies & ephemera (It's not that I don't like them, just that I have no use for them)
• Short pieces of ribbon or yarn - again, I have no use for them (However, full or partly spools of ribbon or skein or yarn are great!)

• Bright, wild colors
• Lizards, dragons, butterflies, koi (Japenese goldfish), frogs, fairies & elves, turtles, Sheep
• Tea & Hot Chocolate (especially Cadbury - yum!!) Please, NO artificial sweeteners like aspartame or Splenda or "Diet" or "Light" drink mixes
• Dark Chocolate TimTams (I have access to the milk chocolate kind so I don't need those)Dark Chocolate TimTams = instant heart!!!
• Beads and buttons
• Good-quality cotton or silk fabrics (by good quality, I mean NOT Joanne's or Walmart, etc.)
• Funky pens (Dollar Stores are great places to find unusual pens)
• Yarn (Not acrylic/polyester!)
• Spinnable fiber (Wool, silk, cotton, angelina fiber, bamboo, etc. Anything with long enough strands to spin into yarn)
• Variegated/Hand-dyed pearl/perle cotton for embroidery or knitted bookmarks
• Pretty stickers
• Anything Asian
• Vintage postcards
• Vintage Christmas stuff
• Fancy silk/rayon/cotton etc. threads for hand-embroidery
• Things with Autumn/Fall images or Autumn colors
• CHOCOLATE!!!! I would LOVE chocolate or candy, gum, mints, etc from other countries!!!! (Nothing with aspartame please!)
• Cute Tissues to put in my purse (please, no plain tissues.)
• Fun Chapstick/Lip Balm - I don't like the kind that comes in pots or little tins, though, only the kind that comes in a stick or tube
• Shaped paperclips (Swirls, hearts, stars, squares, etc. Please don't send me regular, plain paperclips.)
• Reusable market bags (handmade or store bought)
• Tape measures
• Small scissors for my knitting bag
• Blank notecards, especially square notecards and anything made by Tree Free Greetings or Leanin' Tree but regular notecards are great, too - handmade or store-bought
• Birthday cards for me to use - either handmade or store-bought (NO little kid ones, please!)
• Office supplies: pretty/strange/funky pens, memo/note pads, sticky notes, mini stapler kits, etc, full-size memo/stationery pads
• I would love an altered journal to write in!

• Hand-knit kitchen stuff (dish cloths, dish towels, hand towels)
• Hand-knit baby bibs
• Hand-knit bookmarks
• Hand-knit cupcake dishcloths/stuffies
• Notecards
• Tea and Hot Chocolate
• Fabric
• Chocolate, gum, mints, etc.
• Local reusable shopping bags
• I'm open to suggestions, too, if there is something else you would like me to send