inkinthedoorway

I am 26 and I live in the UK, in Norwich.

I have a ridiculously wide range of interests and hobbies. I love making my own things, jewellery, bags, cushion covers and like making things for other people :)

I spend alot of my time making tiny things from polymer clay (especially dolls food), playing around with words and enjoy the cut-up/deletion/found poetry scene, which means I deface a lot of books. I spend way too much time looking at pretty BJD's I wish I could afford, painting, writing, playing my guitar and having tea parties. I love my 78's record collection, it's awesome! I also play a lot of video games, especially love Nintendo and the Gamecube.

I have pierced ears, and a few tattoos (but i want so many more!) and love body art and modifications. I am a smoker, but all the swapsy stuff is kept tucked well away away from smoke. I have a puppy (Alfie), but the same applies, no puppy on swappy stuff!!

If there comes the occassion, I might re-swap things I've been sent if I think it might make someone very very happy to recieve it! It's nice to make people happy :)

• Pin-up, rockabilly, psychobilly
• Nautical themed things
• Coraline
• Day of the Dead stuff
• Psychotronic movies and general B movies
• Suicide Girls
• TANK GIRL!
• Zombies
• Charlie Brown
• Man Ray
• poetry (walt whitman, sylvia plath, kerouac)
• BJD stuff, spesh for MSD
• ROBOTS!
• Kawaii stuff
• Patti Smith
• Burlesque
• Retro/vintage fashion
• Pretty much anything from Paperchase
• old magazines (20's, 30's, 40's especially)
• Plaid/Tartan
• Hell Bunny
• Steampunk
• Punk Rock, Riot Grrl, Queer Core
• Philip K Dick
• Animal Prints
• Betty Boop
• Sweets and Chocolates
• Tea and Coffee
• Cute Stationary
• My beautiful typewriters
• Interesting make-up and beauty products, love Urban Decay range and Soap&Glory products and perfumes from Harajuku lovers.
• Russian/matryoshka Dolls
• I have a bit of a thing for cute boxes... I just can't help myself!
• the GAMECUBE, espeially like the games animal crossing, harvest moon and monkeyball
• A soft spot for Tim Burton
• Engrish - it makes me laugh :)

• I am not that fond of the colour PINK
• I am not a huge fan of Hello Kitty but I don't mind a little bit of it if the item is fun/unusual, I do like a lot of other Kawaii/sanrio stuff
• I hate most Disney characters, for instance micky and minnie mouse and the like
• Used Products
• Primark
• Bling - anything too crystally or gold
• Barbie
• I don't like being given bubble bath because i don't have a bath and it makes me sad :(
• boho hippy clothes
• sequins
• princesses
• things with cars on them

I have quite an eclectic taste in music, seriously bizarre. One day all I'll listen to is psychobilly, the next Riot Grrl, the next soundtrack music, to metal (expecially non-english black metal, today I listened to alot of Fintroll interweaved with Ulver). I have a soft spot for old school sounds, hip-hop, metal and punk and the odd bit of rock-n-roll. Punk, ska, folk and reggae are all good by me. Except pop-punk, thats not so good. I think I only don't like the stuff like chart/radio music, it all sounds the same and it makes my ears feel like being sick.

I read A LOT!!! I love sci-fi stories and can't get enough of philip k dick and clifford simak. I also am a bit in love with sylvia plath, walt whitman, martin amis, michael faber, virginia woolf and so many more (i think my heart is made out of latex!). I also read a lot of graphic novels, really like anything by Daniel Clowes, especially Ghost World. Love the Preacher series, Robot, anything by Charles Burns, and Tank Girl.

I watch a lot of B movies and old movies in general, I'll always have a special place in my heart for Audrey Hepburn and any movie with Bela Lugosi in it. I am a sucker for movies by Lynch, Cronenberg and Tarantino. I also watch a lot of anime, but I'm quite picky. I like the series Lain, the 80's series Sci-Bots and most Studio Ghibli stuff. Love the following movies: Visitor Q, Beetlejuice, Heart of Midnight, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Factotum, Jesus' Son, Dark Crystal, Willow, Napoleon Dynamite, Tank Girl, Fifth Element, Leon, Old Boy, Royal Tenenbaums, Secretary, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Donnie Darko, Ghostworld, Carnival of Souls, Big Lebowski... and many more.

I like the following TV shows: Dexter, True Blood, Breaking Bad, Lie to Me, Deadwood, Would I Lie to You?, Northern Exposure, Twin Peaks, Bullshit, Stephen Fry's Planet Word.. ..

• Fun jewellery
• Teas and Coffees from other places in the world
• Fimo
• Anything crafty really (except seed beads, I have tons!)
• Cute stationary with envelopes
• Unusual memo notes for penpal and swaps
• Your crafted ATC's
• Soap and Glory Products
• Cabachons and mounts
• Old black and white photos for art stuff
• Stickers (not like reward stars or anything, but fun/cute stickers, I especially like stickers with foods with faces, most kawaii characters. (I don't really like real animals on things)
• Anything victoriana or steampunk
• anything with ENGRISH (Funny translations from other languages into English, mostly Japanese/Chinese, it just makes me laugh so much!)
• Rubber stamps and inkpads (especially Alphabet stamps)
• Deco Tape
• Anything day of the dead related, just love those crazy skulls!