Karen

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About me

Gender Female
Industry Arts
Occupation Ne'er-do-well
Location The Jersey Shore, Eastern Seaboard, United States
Introduction Wife, mother, shopkeeper ~ I sew, collect, quilt, cook, travel, antique … the days are just packed! I am the only daughter of an only daughter of an only daughter ~ going back 7 generations. Every one of them, a craftswoman; every one, a collector. I grew up in my father's two general stores and I, in my turn, owned and ran a 150-year-old general store/antique shop/cafe for a decade ~ tag sales and antiquing are a wonderful way of life.
Interests cooking, quilting, antiquing, sewing, ephemera, travel, movies, antique prints & engravings, Colonial Williamsburg, early American samplers, William Morris, Miro, Björk, Limoges, needlepoint, ... (tell me when to stop) ...
Favorite Movies Saratoga Trunk, Finding Nemo, Casablanca, Love Actually, His Girl Friday, The Princess Bride, The Decalogue, Double Indemnity, Pulp Fiction, Meet Me In St. Louis
Favorite Music Vivaldi's 4 Seasons, Beethoven's Pastoral, Debussy's Claire de Lune, Kleine Nacht Musik (anything Mozart actually), Canon & Gigue in D Major, Björk, Joni Mitchell (then & now)
Favorite Books The Name of the Rose, everything Austen particularly Persuasion & Pride and Prejudice, The Talisman, Every Woman's Luck Book, Book of Days, The Complete Far Side

Your people want to make a statue in your honor. What will it be made out of and what victory will it commemorate?

Herbed Butter. Your complete surrender to my sweet, creamy, savory disposition.