gladycloudy

I am in my mid thirties, married with no kids, but we have 2 beautiful (but sometimes mischievous) Italian Greyhounds which are enough to keep us busy. I have a day job of sitting in front of the computer for 8 hours, so I prefer to sit in front of the sewing machine (and occasionally, overlocker) when I have time for my hobbies.

Any books and magazines to do with fabric & bead related crafts. I like looking at pictures instead of reading a lot of words. I love Japanese patchwork and quilting magazines, even though I can't read Japanese at all.

Chic flicks - Notting Hill, Bridget Jones Diary, Pride and Prejudice (TV version, the one with Colin Firth in it)

• Making fashion doll clothes
• Making handbags
• Making beaded jewellry
• Making other small-ish fabric items, like cushion, placemats, coasters, scarfs etc
• Admiring people who are patient enough to make a queen size quilt, flipping through quilting magazines and dreaming 'I will do this one day...'

• Beautiful crafting fabrics (cotton only)
• Quilting/stitching/beading magazines (in English, Japanese & Chinese)
• Other craft relation notions, like ribbons, fabric lace, rac-rics.
• Beads (glass, acrylic, stone, resin)
• Bag patterns
• Paper crafting material (I like collecting them although I don't do much paper craft)

I love Kawaii stuff and cartoon characters, in particularly, I love My Melody, Tuxedo Sam, Little Twins Stars, MonokuRo Boo, TaroPanda, MushiMaro.

• I love fabric with the following features:
• cherries
• strawberries
• apples
• love hearts/valentines
• cupcake
• mushroom

• polka dots

• I love fabric in the following styles:

• shabby chic
• Japanese novelty fabric
• 70s retro style
• Japanese Kawaii characters
• contemporary

• toile

• I love fabric from the following designers/manufacturers:

• Robyn Pandolph
• Michael Miller
• Alexander Henry
• 3 Sisters
• American Jane Patterns
• Tula Pink
• Sandy Gervais
• Deb Strain
• Prints Charming
• Kaffe Fassett
• Amy Butler
• Sandy Henderson

• I am not particularly keen on fabric of the following styles:
• post-war / Liberty
• realistic animal prints
• african prints, indigenious prints, hawaiian style, bandana
• dark mushy color
• Neon color
• tie-dyed / Batik

Please don't send food of any kind to me from overseas (including tea bags, lollies, chocolate), not that I don't like them, but the Custom in Australia is very strict about what come into here.

There is a link here if you want to see more information of what cannot be mailed into Australia http://www.daffa.gov.au/aqis/mail/cant-mail

• makeup
• key chains (unless it is handmade by you)
• fruit flavour chewing gum
• ... ummm... can't think of anything else at the moment...