ladycolor7

UPDATE 4/19/10

I am so sorry. I am, and have been very ill. In fact I am writing to you right now from the hospital. But that is neither here or there, any way again I am sorry for the delay in your getting your items into the mail and not following thru on the swaps that I set up. I will be sending everyone their items this week, (my daughter will get them wrapped and sent off). I am going to have to step down for a bit (hopefully not too long), I am so sick of being sick. Please know I will miss swapping with you all, I have become addicted to this site and all of you. Sandy

I have just found out that I love, and I really mean I love, making and receiving amiguruimi's. I just made my second one & it came out awesome. I want to make more. I just received my second ami, and now I want more. I want to make a huge collection of these little things. They are so cool.

6-19-09 Finally, no more illness (knock on wood), I am all caught up with my swaps. Please if you didn't receive it yet, contact me. I will gladly make you a new whatever you were supposed to get to begin with. :) I should stay caught up, and even possibly ahead. YAY!!!

I've been married to David for 32 years, and even through the few ups & downs we've had, (and we had many, I am not easy to live with; but then neither is he), :) we made it through and are now really close.

I have two grown daughters, Chrystal 32 & Tiffany 28. Chrystal graduated from college with a BA in Bio-Technology. I am so proud of her. This girl quit high school at 16, went to hairdressing school, and hated the work. Moved to Florida until she was 19, then came home and finished high school. The regular way, not GED. Graduated top of the class, and then went to work full time as a bartender and took college courses on the side. And now she graduate this spring. YAY

Tiffany is married to Deven and they have two children, Tatiana 7, and Ashton 4. Tiffany is a letter carrier (I tease her all the time and call her a mailman), and Deven is a chef. They both work crazy hours so hubby and I watch the kids a lot. Not such a big deal, we love them. :) UPDATE: very little babysitting going on now, YAY (ok, not nice, but finally peace & quiet) LOL

I have 2 fur babies (cats), Lucifer aka Louie (the grandkids named him after the cat in Cinderella), and Miss Dusty (or as I call her chub-chub). They are so totally the babies. Louie loves hubby and he is an all daddy cat. Psycho nut too. He bounces off walls, steals my mp3 player, and attacks all my fridgies, no matter how high I put them. Miss Dusty is a mamma's girl. She is always glued to me. Afraid I may go or do something and she will miss out.

During the warm weather I go motorcycle riding a lot. That is if it's not raining, which it is doing all the time lately. I was getting my license this year, so I can ride my own bike. I hate relying on anyone else, (hubby), when I want to go for a ride and he doesn't. With knee replacement surgery coming up this fall, no license this year, hopefully next year.

I love fishing, fresh and salt water. We go often down to Cape Cod and fish for stripers. That's fun, a great day of tanning & fishing all in one. I love to tan. I use no SPF of any kind, I tan with baby oil. Who could ask for more. :)

My beliefs are Pagan. Which means, I believe in more than one God, and I believe in the Goddess. I'm an Earth child but my sign is Fire. And I am very much my sign. I don't have a problem with other peoples belief system as long as they are not stuffing it down my throat, or trying to convert {or save} me. In fact my mom will send me something religious (she's catholic), and tells me to just switch the word to Goddess or whatever I want that it is still the same for both of us. :)

My favorite holiday is Samhain (Halloween). On this holiday, I celebrate in 2 ways. One with the dressing up ( l love to dress up & any reason to dress up is definitely for me), going to parties, and passing out candy or taking the grandkidz trick or treating. But I also celebrate the beginning of a new year. I take time to honor those who have passed as well as the Goddess & God, and have a small, (ok, just me, as I am a solitary) ceremony to say thank you for the past year, and what I wish for in the new year.

I love to crochet. Doilies, Bookmarks, Clothes, amigurumi's; really anything. But I will admit, I am a thready by heart. I love to use threads. My clothing is made with threads in size 10, 8, 5, & 3. I am always hot, so I like light clothing.

I used to make jewelry. I made Victorian jewelry, and gemstone bead items the most. I did a little seed beading as well. I just don't have the inspiration for it anymore. And health has snuck in and said, yo lady, no more. LOL

I paint ceramics. Mostly for myself, and they are usually faeries, dragons, wizards, gargoyles, and fantasy items that I display in my office. As these are all my favorite items. I also make some items for around the house & I make gifts for others.

I paint clothing, and really design some cool stuff. I took a pair of plain old jeans and gave them some really fancy patch-work look to them. These are my favorite jeans. And I get lots of compliments on them.

I love to make the rooms in my home colorful. So I am always painting something in the house. Like my office is red & purple (including the furniture), my bathroom is gold & forest Green with a hint of light sage, my bedroom is strawberry cream & burgundy, my kitchen will be pale, pale yellow & red, my stove room will be turquoise & ??? {not sure yet}, and the living room will be lavender, burgundy & a touch of gold. I like loud, wild, fun rooms, as you can see. :) No boring white for me. LOL

I am an avid reader, and my favorite style is: horror, erotic fantasy, sci-fi, mystery, & thrillers.

Here 's a list of most of the authors I read:

Laurell K Hamilton, Christine Feehan, Kelley Armstrong, Kerry Arthur, Marjorie M Liu, James Patterson, John Sandford, Patricia Cornwell. Sue Grafton, Lillith Saintcrow, Charlene Harris, Jennifer Armintrout, Karen Chance, Yasmine Galenorn,

I'm sure there are many more, I'm just drawing a blank right now.

I love all music that has words. I like to sing along. LOL I do not like Rap {but there are a few songs I do like as they have singing in them as well), & Classical {this puts me to sleep, so it's way too boring)

at the top of my list are;

Country, Pop, Rock, Blues, Jazz, R&B, & Oldies
Oldies from the 50's on up.

http://www1.bestgraph.com/gifs/cinema/cameras/cameras-01.gif My favorite movies are;

My Fair Lady, Dirty Dancing, Lost Boys (the original) and Taken

My Favorite Tv shows are:

I have a lot of TV shows that I watch, but I tape on DVR and then take a day and sit, crochet and watch them all.

They are:

Ghost Whisperer, Medium, One Tree Hill, Mentalist, CSI, CSI NY, Criminal Minds, The Closer, Cold Case, Without a Trace, Numbers, Flashpoint, Eleventh Hour, Law & Order SVU, Supernatural, Fringe, Bones, True Blood, Drop Dead Diva, Army Wives, Eastwick, Vampire Diaries,

I can't think of the ones that are in-between seasons.

I guess I could add that my favorite colors are Red and Purple together. I love Hot Pink with Orange or Black. I like black with orange or red. I love Bold Colors. The colors I don't really like are brown, beiges, tans, neutrals and not a fan of pastels.

I love and collect owls, snakes, hawks, spiders, {as these are my totems and protectors}, wizards, witchy items, gargoyles, faeries, and pretty much anything fantasy. I have just recently gotten into collecting trolls. I like the ones from before 1975. I don't collect them for monetary reason, I just do it cause I love them. I am into the size 3" & 5". Any thing bigger or smaller I don't collect. I'm not much into the cutsie stuff, more like a goth-victorian type of person. and that even includes my clothes. :)

I guess if I were to hope for things, it would be; yarn - not funky types (cause I can't crochet with them LOL), I like cotton, soft wool, worsted, just regular yarn

thread - for crocheting - variegated are my favorites, all colors, size 10, 8, 5, & 3 - can't seem to get into the 20 & 30 but I have been known to use 2 strands together when I use the 20

amigurumi's - I love these. I like the fact that they are handmade, and they are just so awesome. I have an owl, a frog, a chick, a giraffe, my astrology ami, and my DH's astrology ami, right now, but I want more. :) I need glass eyes. My stores here don't sell them so I have to buy on ebay.

I would love to have a thread holder (for crochet). It holds the ball of thread, and keeps it from running away when you're crocheting. and also keeps Louie and Chub chub from chasing it. LOL :)

I collect 3 & 5" trolls. the ones made before 1975. I bet some of you remember these. the long colorful hair. LOL

I collect the solid color clear birds. I have the bluebird of happiness, the cardinal of love, the yellow canary of sunshine (I think), I have clear glass, green, blue, purple, multi, etc. I just love these.

I collect faeries, wizards, dragons, owls, hawks, snakes, and spiders. I collect them in ceramic, pewter, resin, and jewelry.

I'm not much of a sweets person - but I do love M&M's and chocolate covered cherries.

I collect crochet hooks. Old are my favorite, but some day I'd like to get some of those hand carved fancy ones.

Things to make ATC's with as I have really gotten into making these as well.

I guess I would like to get the items I have been flaked on as well. It's funny, I was flaked on on my second swap. it kind of bummed me out.

color my afghan rnd 5 - 4-6" squares purple & white received these from (DARN IT: MY MIND HAS GONE BLANK. I will find the card with the name on it).

color my afghan rnd 6 - 4-6" squares pink & light green

color my afghan rnd 7 - 4-6" squares senders choice

lolita bookmark series 2/8 casual & hime

I kind of don't like doing this, but I am tired of flakers. I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm "flakey", but I would never, ever not send to someone, and I always rate, (I may go blond sometimes and forget), but I at least once a month go thru all of my swaps and check to make sure that I've rated everyone.

I mean really, you work hard at your craft, you should be rated for it. To me, to not rate is just plain old rude. Especially if someone sends you an email asking to see if you ever received the item, and then you don't get back to them to ease their mind. or you totally ignore all of the emails sent to you. And I know when they are ignored, go to the send part of your message center and it will show you what messages have been read, and which haven't.

any hoo, here is my list of no sends and no rates:

NEVER RECEIVED

Color My Afghan Round 5 (purple & white) @fifibelle - I'm worried she might be ill {I was angeled a set from a very sweet crocheter} thank you

Color My Afghan Round 6 (pink & lt green) @BLee - partially suspended was hurt though

Color My Afghan Round 7 (senders choice) @BLee - partially suspended was hurt though

lolita bkmrk 2/8 casual & hime @whisperelmwood - no clue says not on since 8/19 but left response to feedback 9/17 weird

3rd Annual PURPLE Christmas Handmade Ornament Swap @AmyCrockett (seems she is no longer a memeber)

NO RATING RECEIVED

lolita bkmrk 2/8 casual & hime @razmatazz - hasn't been on since 6/2

Color My Afghan Round 8 @BLee - partially suspended

Homemade Bookmarks @misskris - read the first email now ignores all of the others.

Elements ATC #1: Fire @RunWildHorses - partially suspended

I don't know. @razmatazz not leaving feedback or answering me is I think the saddest one for me. I crochet my bookmarks and for the lolita set I couldn't find a pattern that I liked, so I created one from scratch. I thought it was awesome. go figure.