Prairie Waif
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| Gender | Female |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Self-employed, Initial Designs by Prairie Waif |
| Location | Brandon, Manitoba, Canada |
| Introduction | I started knitting before I started Kindergarten and began sewing my own clothes when I was 12 and in 4-H. From there? I have learned every craft and technique that I can to add to my bag of tricks for sewing, teaching and creating unique items for friends, relatives and boutiques. I trained with a Danish drapery seamstress and can make draperies of any kind to order. I made draperies for most of the west-end of Brandon while working for Rooms Alive. When at Graduate School, I made draperies for Lady Eaton College's President's office and a few Dons' quarters. I took a quilting class in 9th grade and have been dabbling in creating and repairing quilts since then. Ah, so many needle arts to enjoy! Let me help you by making what you need or teaching you to enjoy a needle art you would like to learn. MJ Welch, Waif |
| Interests | COFFEE, Brew-pub Beer, Politics, Social and Civil Justice, Theology, English Language Study, Graffiti Culture, Hydrology, Environmental Issues, History of Religious Ideology, World History, Irish History and Traditions, Demographics, Feminism, French Language, Budgies, Hamsters, Gardening, Bread and Soup Making, Needle Arts, Collecting:, Unique and Funny Fabrics, Stars, Dragonflies, Polar Bears. |
| Favorite Movies | Good Will Hunting, The Tao of Steve, Vigo, The Italian Job (Mark Wahlberg version), Arthur, The Red Violin, Dr. Zhivago, SuperSize Me!, Hang the Red Lanterns, The Piano, Full Frontal, Croupier, Amelie, La Florida, Big, The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, Dogma, Schoolhouse Rock!, A Christmas Story, Fight Club, Edward Scissorhands, High Fidelity, All of Me, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were Rabbit, Best in Show, Ed Wood, This is Spinal Tap, Fight Club, For the Moment, The Four Feathers, A Knights Tale, Cruising Bar, The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Dance Me Outside, Pump Up The Volume, and many many more! |
| Favorite Music | James Taylor, has been there since the beginning along with, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, John Mayer, Dudley Moore, James Ehnes, Josh Groban, Tony Bennett, Leonard Cohen, Coldplay, The Smiths, Morrissey, Christopher Cross, Diana Krall, Jann Arden, Dixie Chicks, Bruce Cockburn, Ani Difranco, Melissa Etheridge, The Bee Gees, Jackson Browne, Billy Bragg, The Barenaked Ladies, Bryan Adams, Edith Piaf, Our Lady Peace, Etta James, Beck, Mae Moore, Elvis Costello, Everything But The Girl, Rufus Wainright, Lou Reed, Diane Foley, Nina Simone, Van Morrison, Tracy Chapman, Carol King, Lucinda Williams, Raghu Lokanathan, Sex With Strangers, The Kingston Trio, Corinne Bailey Rae, Katie Meleua, Marvin Gaye, Teddy Pendergrass, U2, The Pogues, Richard Seguin, and many more. <b>*DO NOT ATTEMPT* to play Elvis Presley on *MY* Stereo System-->Ever.</b> |
| Favorite Books | All time favourite: --, TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD, --- author: Harper Lee (the only book she wrote), Hello Darling! Are You Working?, The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Being There, Generations X: Tales for An Accelerated Culture, Shampoo Planet, Life After God, The Rubyiat, The Prophet, The Road From Coorain, The Professor and The Madman, The Map That Changed The World, Freakonomics, True North, Letters From Vietnam, Hanoi Hilton, The Barrytown Trilogy, The Pursuit of Attention, The Gift of Fear, Where the Wild Things Are, The Top 500 Poems, The Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions, America (the book), I AM AMERICA (AND SO CAN YOU!), Texas Graveyards: A Cultural Legacy, The Mathematical Tourist, How to Lie with Statistics, How to Lie with Maps, The Mathematical Universe, Tess of the D'Ubervilles, Angela's Ashes, The Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man, The Stranger, On Top of The World: Cantor Fitzgerald-Howard Lutnick & 9/11, The Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Pigs is Pigs, Swine Lake, New Testament, Book types: Non-Fiction; Science, Biography, History, Language, Authors: Douglas Coupland, Simon Winchester, Douglas Adams, Roddy Doyle, Frederick Manfred, Jill Kerr Conway, John Grisham, Tom Clancy, James Joyce, Keats, Oscar Wilde, Rupert Everett, I collect children's books (i.e. pre-1970). |
"In the midst of winter I learned that there was within me an endless summer." (Albert Camus)