Gender	Female
Industry	Education
Occupation	Administration, retired
Location	El Cerrito, CA, United States
Introduction	Exploration of crafts, including embroidery and beading, gardening, photography and graphic design, cats, random rants about the injustice of life, ineffective attempts to organize my possessions and time. Somehow it all ties together. I'm also a wannabe librarian for craft related topics: Follow me on Pinterest and Y-Knot Crafts
Interests	Reading, GIMP, Graphic Design, Beading, Huichol, Polymer Clay, Embroidery, Gardening, Succulents, Begonias, Plant Propagation, Photography, Hiking, Lace, Needlelace, Art Quilts, Textiles, Sewing, Various Crafts, Gourd Decoration, Art, Cats, Turkish, Web Design, Filemaker Pro Database Design, Lantern Slides, History, Languages and Linguistics, the Ocean, Unitarian-Universalism, Progressive Politics.
Favorite movies	Everything is Illuminated, Last of the Mohicans, Juno, Apocalypto, Shipping News, Vodka Lemon, Far From Heaven, Frozen River, Apocalyptica, Mean Girls, Kolya, Who's Camus Anyway?, The Secret Life of Words, Pirates of the Caribbean, Marco Polo series, K-Dramas
Favorite music	Neil Young, Willie Nelson, Martin Carthy, Andy Stewart, Ian McCall, Monique Verrier, Judy Collins, Paul Simon, KItka, Nirvana, Rage Against The Machine, Balkan folk dance
Favorite books	E. Annie Proulx, A. Manette Ansay, Michael Pollan, Lois McMaster Bujold, Barbara Ehrenriech, Edward Rutherfurd, Mary Doria Russell, Jonathan Kozol, Barbara Kingsolver. Harry Potter, Dystopias, art/craft books, history, various blogs.

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