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Gender Female
Occupation Researcher and crafter
Location London, United Kingdom
Introduction Souvenir loving vintage textile up-cycler, printmaker and crazy golf enthusiast.
Interests stories, matinees, fetes, picture books, hidden history, friends, chatting, ideas, beliefs, change, hope, say no to ID cards, print making, textiles, fabric, playing records, handmade, bric-a-brac, ric rac, bunting in the breeze, markets, rummaging, games, printed ephemera, print gocco, exploring, 1950s fabrics, 1960s ceramics, 1950s ceramics, Alfred Meakin, homemaker, barkcloth, secondhand, looking, taking photos, watching films, charity shops, market towns, seaside towns, rock pools and coastal walks.
Favorite Movies miracle in milan, you me and everyone we know, that darn cat, scala cinema triple bills, viva sa vie, cary grant, louise brooks, be kind rewind, katherine hepburn, doris day, saturday night and sunday morning, cinema paradiso, columbo.
Favorite Music john peel radio shows, doris day, velvet underground, the go-betweens, hot chip, patrick wolf, home taping, cannanes, marine girls, orange juice, africa boy, sixties girl groups, shonan knife, kool girrl disco, beat happening, garden city project, mctells, joanna newsom, the beat, young marble giants, MIA, go! team (both bands!), nico, anything in a handmade cover, seven-inch singles, hearing my favorite band for the first time, K records, bi-joopiter, postcard.
Favorite Books the snowy day, ezra jack keats, ladybird books, vintage kids illustrations, old penguin books, Barthes mythologies, the kool aid wino, patterns, Bentley's snowflakes, novels by my bed, in my bag and tucked down the side of the sofa, rogets thesaurus, books about films, Opie's lore and language of school children, craft, print and pattern books.