amikins

hello! I am a 24 years old

I am a competitive (though not currently as i am lacking a male partner) ballroom dancer and i adore sparkely. As a resulting of the costuming of ballroom dancing i have got a thing for rhinestones. I adore the older music used for ballroom dancing.

I love to cook, specifically bake. I am a professionally train in the pastry and sugar arts. I plan to open a cake shop at some point in my life and make fantastic wedding and party cakes. I also love non-baking cooking as well. I find quality tea, especially loose leaf, quite lovely as well. I also adore Kitchen gadgets.

In general i am such a geek, about everything.

I am a scarf addict! silk, pashmina, woven knitted, small, large, long, short, wide, skinny, prints, solids, striped I love them all!

I have an irrational fear of Ouija boards. I had a bad child hood experence involveing one and my 2 older brothers being older brothers. I know Ouija boards cant hurt me, but i seriously cant walk by them in a game board isle without getting a bit un-nerved. so please dont send my anything ouija boards.

i love to knit, and make jewerly. I crochet a little and have recently taken up cross stitch. I really enjoy vintage-like sampler patterns. I don't like cross stitch patterns with angels or religous images in them, or patterns of little kids. But anything else sounds good for cross stitch. i enjoy sewing and quilting. im up for pretty much anything crafty. I'm into scrap booking a little bit, but i don't go crazy.

I love the classics and anything about history. I like non-historical books too. I enjoy most genre's. Some of my favorite books are gone with the wind, little women, pride and prejudice, harry potter, Biographies, embarrassing teen fiction, general history books, cook books, books on crafts. i love learning new things.

I love sci-fi, Doctor who, star trek TNG, Stargate, Torchwood, firefly, Merlin, vampire Diaries,Glee. I watch the food network all the time and have been watching Good eats since the frist season. Can't stand Bobby Flay or Rachel Ray. I like that 70's show which is apparently on every hour of the day in re-runs apparently. I like cartons, Anime, futurama, family guy, Kim Possible, Avatar, basically everything i should be too old for. I watch the history channel like crazy. I love documentaries! Im addicted to the BBC america.

most Sci-fi, Star wars, Star trek, Back to the future trilogy, I like the harry potter moives, anything historical, gone with the wind, pride and predjudice, I love musicals. Old Disney cartoons are good before they went all CGI (not that CGI is bad.) I enjoy chick flicks, but mostly the more classic chick flicks like pretty woman, steel magnolias, also anything with dolly parton, not a big country fan but i love that woman. Maybe its because she is soo sparkley... My Netflix account determined that i like violent science fiction, created a whole section for me, never would have thought so, but i guess it was right. weird.

I'm addicted to purple right now. all shades but i perfer the darker richer shades. I have always liked black, in kindergarden my favorite colors were pink and black, lol. I love rich deep colors like jewel tones. Pink is nice. I really like all colors, however I absolutely can't stand orange. I used to say i was allergic to orange. i think its ok in limited quantities with other colors but as a main i just find it wrong. sparkles are awesome!!

In yarn i love natural fibers and interesting blends, I am really into knitting socks right now so im into sock yarn. I love all yarn really, i find there isisnt enough non-pastel yarn in the world.

Fabrics i love interesting patterns in fun color combos. I love asian inspired prints and i love plaids, they are both soo fun. I love vintage inspired fabrics.

I love things that sparkle. Rhinestones are just wicked awesome. I love glitter but prefer the super fine as it twinkles better!

I like most beads, i love silver, colorful, glass, carved, Pearl, crystals, pretty much everything.

I love asian foods. Chinese, japanese, vietnamese, Indian. I love noodles. I love lychee I am a regular Bento-er. I love all foods really. i love british snack foods too. I've been trying to track down Jelly Babies in the U.S. and finally found some and i love them. As for chocolate i prefer Dark chocolate. I LOVE gummy bears! i love fruity flavored candies and im open to most any strange flavor. i love out of the ordinary candies and love those little asian jellys. I love marshmallows and I LOVE PEEPS! Most candy I'm happy with, nuts, nougat (real nougat) it's awesome! I don't like peanut butter filled candies unless they are reese's cups of any size Even the peanut butter filled eggs they make at Easter taste weird to me. love cookies and baked goods. I am ALLERGIC to SHELLFISH. I don't expect it to come up as it is highly unlikely anyone will be sending me 1/2 a pound of scallops, but its good information to have out there. I LOVE SPICY FOODS!!! all kinds!

Art. i respect and can enjoy all styles of art, i am however not a big fan of anything bloody or gory.

I like animals. currently very much into Owls! LOVE THEM! kittys are fun. Hedgehogs are adorable and were i good with small rodents as pets i would get one. i like giraffes a lot too, Turtles are cute, i have one. I also have some koi fish. dogs are nice too.

I like Hello Kitty and other kawaii things.

music- I like Glee, I like Aerosmith, Abba, music from the 40's and 50's im not very picky. I have strange tastes.

I like Dip pens and ink. they help me to improve my hand writing.

I collect vintage piggy banks.

kawaii food, particularly pastries with faces

I'm newly addicted to Lush cosmetics

Socks: I wear a size 8.5 American size shoe, and i love hand knit as well as store bought socks. In pattern store bought socks i prefer a darker back ground color rather than a white background. But im not picky as long as they keep my feet warm.

In no particular order:

Jelly Babies,

Anything with the 2008 Bejing Olympic mascots,

Vintage piggy banks,

Yarn,

Micro-fine Glitter,

scrap-book items,

Lush brand stuff,

Sampler style Cross stitch pattern,

Bento items,

Pretty Chopsticks, ( i.e. not throw away kind you get with take out)

interesting hot sauces,

Beads,

Candy from out side North America,

asian print fabrics,

Plaid fabric,

Vintage print fabrics,

scarfs,

Pens & ink,

Memo pads,

Tea (not green tea),

crystal rhinestones,

Anything with cupcakes,

Anything hand made,