museofthemorning

Hiya! I'm Chrissy. I'm a collage and block print artist, zine writer, and art and creativity teacher.

I love gardening and permaculture. I have a focus on perennial food bearing plants and medicinal herbs in my yard. Ask me about it, I can go on for hours. We spend a lot of time outside in the garden working and enjoying it.

I am a Pagan, with a focus on the goddess Holda, and Germanic Paganism.

I studied German in college and I am trying to teach my family German.

I love to work on miniature canvasses, ATCs or other small works of art.

I seriously love sending and receiving things in the mail. Stickers, notepads, ATCs, teeny tiny ephemera, washi tape, book pages esp in other languages, shaped paper clips.... lots and lots of options. Let's have fun!!

I love stripey socks.

I love milk chocolate.

I love all things handmade.

For ATCs, I mainly do mixed media painting, inking and collage with painted papers. I also do block printing, which is often incorporated into my collages. I love creating reduction block prints.

I love to work in miniature, so many of my paintings and mixed media works are 4x6 or smaller.

I also love making zines! They're so much fun... if I can just think of subjects to write about!

Books:

My favorite book is The Time Traveller's Wife. I don't love the movie.

I love historical fiction and post-apocalyptic for the most part, but I'm super picky with my books because I don't have a lot of time to read. It really has to GRAB me right away or I'll never finish it.

Movies & Television:

My favorite movies are the Postman and Practical Magic. I absolutely love time travel movies also. It's my favorite motif in artistic media, though neither of my favorite movies are time travel movies! lol Doctor Who is my favorite television series.

Music:

I love Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Beach Boys, Billy Joel.... hmmm... there are others but I can never think of them.... I have very wide-ranging tastes and listen to all sorts of stuff on Spotify

Food & Drink:

I love tea- mostly herbal infusions, but flavored black or green teas are nice too. Darjeeling is also good. Chamomile & Peppermint are my favorites.

I drink a lot of Kombucha.

My favorite foods are homemade comfort type foods - Clam Chowder, Brownies, Spätzle, Sushi, Gyros, Hummus, Pfeffernüsse

YES, PLEASE:

• I love folk art style of designs and patterns - lots of details and patterns and contrasting colors.... zentangle-y, doodle-y type designs.....

• I love bohemian, gypsy, artsy styles....

• I love handmade pottery, handmade dolls and felt items. Hand embroidered designs.... I really love handmade things. A lot.

• I am a minimalist and anti-consumerist. That does not mean that I don't love art supplies. And books.

• I love celestial motifs, like sun and moon. Goddess designs, female empowerment motifs, female, feminine (not "girly"), also owls, foxes, hedgehogs, woodland creatures, gnomes,

• I love getting pages from vintage books- english, other languages, dictionaries, stuff with lots of words. Also old letters, notebook paper that's kind of yellowing, old useless money, basically old paper items.

• Tasteful nudity is OK in art, atcs, etc....

• Stickers are great. If I won't use them, then the kids will. NO character stickers please.

• Handmade postcards welcome, decorative, shaped postcards welcome. Please no tourist-y type postcards. LOVE blank postcards.

NO, THANK YOU, PLEASE DO NOT SEND:

• NO CHARACTER ITEMS PLEASE, including stickers - characters are people or animals or superheroes from TV shows, movies, books or otherwise.

• no religious stuff, especially no christian stuff.

• no sports themed stuff please

• NO tourist-y type postcards.