Blackbird Crafts
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| Introduction | I'm a handmade goods enthusiast that suddenly realized the sewing and jewelry making I do to relieve stress could be sold. Here are my adventures as a starving artist. My fall back skills are writing and the theatre arts... going to be starving for a while. |
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| Interests | Crafts, fabric, metal, yarn, Renaissance Faires, Celtic Festivals, flea markets, live music, history, flora and fauna, books, style, the Victorian period, essential oils, soaps, beeswax, all natural products, PBS, the Regency period, how things are made, calendar art, photography, sealing wax, literature, American Pickers, theatre, graphics, parasols, ink |
| Favorite movies | Captain Blood, Moulin Rouge!, Jane Eyre, Bright Star, Star Wars, The Princess Bride, Fraggle Rock, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Sense and Sensibility, Cold Comfort Farm, Now Voyager |
| Favorite music | The Mediaeval Baebes, Scythian, Weezer, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, The Grateful Dead, Tom Lehrer, Neko Case, The Glengarry Bhoys, Enter the Haggis, Slide, Flogging Molly, The Killers, Stephen Sondheim, Gilbert and Sullivan, Vitamin String Quartet, The Decemberists, Against Me, Silversun Pickups |
| Favorite books | Jane Austen, the Bronte sisters, William Shakespeare, poetry, Arthurian legends, Robin Hood legends, Lemony Snicket, well constructed narratives, 1984, The Complete Short Stories of Ernest Hemingway, John Keats, Sylvia Plath, Kurt Vonnegut |