1. I was raised to think I am short.
2. I am actually larger than life, sparkly and shiny.
3. I have been called "Too Much" and know there is an awesome society of "Too Much-ers" and am not bothered by this illustrious title.
4. I have two cats, Monk (named after Thelonious) and Arrow. Arrow is named after Arrow in The Point, a well loved album from my childhood. I now own this on CD. See pictures of both Monk and Arrow here.
5. I am married to a fabulous, musically talented Man, who loves animals as much as I do, encourages my creativity and has a beautiful smile. I am very happy to have found him and to be a part of his life. Click on this link to see an odd image of us.
6. We have been married for 13 years.
7. I have been with my Man for 15.
8. Our cats are 14 years old.
9. My father is a playful man who passed his perspective on life to me.
10. My mother is focused and grounded, she is one of my very best friends.
11. I love red wine and didn't know how good it was until about two years ago.
12. My mother says white wine is for wusses.
13. I am a fiber artist and I love this form of expression.
14. I am building my portfolio in both quilt art and textile design.
15. I don't like it when people ask, "Why fabric?", My answer to this is, "Why paint?"
16. I am a wannabe knitter who has successfully knit two pair of socks.
17. I love visual journaling, otherwise known as art journaling.
18. I often interpret these images into quilt art.
19. I love to parrot cadences heard on the radio, in real life or on the television.
20. I collect and voraciously read other people's visual journals, like Danny Gregory and Sabrina Ward Harrison.
21. I don't like George W, and I want him out of office.
22. I look much the way I did when I was nine and have been recognized in by childhood friends because of this.
23. I am tuning myself into the lower chakras and the colors red yellow and orange.
24. I love and feel empowered by practicing yoga.
25. I practice yoga at home to my new favorite CD.
26. I work as an educator at a local observatory.
27. We have real art on our walls at home, no prints.
28. I love European boots and shoes.
29. I have wide feet.
30. My man and I have the goal of visiting every National Park in the country.
31. So far we have been to the Grand Canyon (north and south rims), Zion Canyon, Bryce, Arches, Canyon De Chelly, Painted Desert, Chaco Canyon, Canyonlands, Yellowstone, The Grand Tetons, and I am sure this list is incomplete...
32. We recently relocated to the southwest from Connecticut.
33. It is a good idea to change your favorite colors daily.
34. I love muted greys with hints of other colors in them.
35. I love to read and must do so in order to sleep well.
36. I have an affinity to wild birds, red tailed hawks and crows in particular.
37. I am 37.
38. I have had spectacular and memorable dreams since I was very young.
39. I think the dream world is another world, no less important than the one you read this list from, just different.
40. I just started to pluck my eyebrows. I think this will be a short lived fad. (It isn't.)
41. I have traveled outside of my body and learned to do so while reading The Bridge Across Forever.
42. I was about 15 when I read this cheesy novel.
43. I am a spiritual person.
44. I am a feminist.
45. My middle name is Lynn.
46. I don't like tear-out ads, heavy duty paper ads, or subscription cards in magazines.
47. I love magazines including Quilt Art, FiberArt, and Surface Design Journal to name a few.
48. When I was a child I thought the sun was the moon-backward, at night.
49. Close friends would say that I am quite in touch with my inner child.
50. I like to carry odd things in my pockets when I go to work, things to remind me of what I enjoy most, thimbles, sewing machine feet, crystals.
51. I do not like the way black tea makes my tongue feel after drinking it.
52. I love very strong coffee, made in a french press pot.
53. My Man reads novels to me as we drink our morning coffee, most days.
54. I don't like sharing opinions unless I am asked to.
55. I love sharing creative exploits, encouragement and art.
56. Small art intrigues me, large themes can be explored in small formats.
57. Monk Parakeets live in my old town Norwalk, Connecticut. We don't know how they got here, errant pet stores/owners letting them loose because they are loud, an escape at an airport, either way they find life here quite tolerable and don't seem to be bothering native birds. I love their GREEN feathers flashing in a flurry of sound and flight. Over the weekend while taking a walk in a local cemetary we saw an open plastic bird cage with bird food spilled out over the ground- shame on whomever released this bird!
58. We plan to build a bat house to encourage bats to live near us and eat our mosquitoes. Bats are interesting creatures.
59. I have been called an art bully. I like this title.
60. I have long, straight, dark brown hair.
61. Not anymore, though I am growing it again.
62. I fall in love with people and their spirits easily.
63. I am not a good speller, although I read quite a lot.
64. Phonetics are aesthetics.
66. I think circuitously and I gather meaning intuitively.
67. I can mix gouache and watercolor paint to an exact match.
68. I took color mixing classes in college, it was torture, and this is a skill that needs time to develop.
69. I think line and form are a language beyond word.
70. I need glasses to drive and watch movies.
71. My Man and I love going to the movies together.
72. I do not like to watch TV, but love the Internet.
73. I prefer to leave the house with something to do, paint in my journal, a small sewing project, and beading.
74. I prefer backpacks to over the shoulder bags. I am using an over the shoulder bag now, it makes me feel lop-sided.
75. I prefer to have both arms relaxed and available for use.
76. I do not carry a purse.
77. I do not own high heels.
78. I own a black mini tank dress, but have no shoes to go with it.
79. I do not shave my arm pits.
80. I now live in an area that is generally congenial to hairy pits.
81. It doesn't matter anymore.
82. I have read all of the Harry Potter books and I listen to the books on tape consecutively at work. I have done this for more than two years.
83. People ask me if I get bored of listening to HP, I do not. I look forward to the next part, I have found inconsistencies, and I make up new plots.
84. I think there should be a muggle stow away on the train to Hog Warts...
85. I am more obsessive than compulsive.
86. I was given a Tamagotchi for my birthday. My coworker, Andrew, takes better care of it than I do.
87. I believe in many different Goddesses and Gods, as well as their myths and legends.
88. I own five working sewing machines and one 'ornamental' one. The 'ornamental' one is in working condition, if only it had a needle. This machine is more than one hundred years old.
89. I don't like napping, but I find it useful sometimes.
90. I like Neopets but am no longer obsessed by it.
91. I prefer pasta to rice, potatoes, or almost any other starch. Pasta is a family of origin food for me.
92. My studio can get quite messy and I have not fully figured out how to organize it so that I am able to keep it neat. I have hope.
93. I believe that anything in the world can be learned from a book, classes and teachers are extraneous.
94. Although quilt art and textiles are my artistic medium, I do not have a huge stash of fabric.
95. I began reading every night before I go to bed at a very early age, I remember asking my mother for a Dick and Jane book. She happily got it for me because she would encourage you to read food labels, if that were what interested you.
96. I love the opaque quality of gouache watercolor paint, and especially like painting on 400 grit black sandpaper.
97. This is an example of a "regular" colored sandpaper painting.
98. I don't know where I was during my 20 odd years of schooling but grammar was not top on the list of important subjects.
99. It took me a very long time to get this far in this list, I am bored of myself already and you should be too!My alter egos name is Marci. Marci is retired, blues her hair, is married to a man named Roger and likes to paint pigs. When telemarketers call, we try to sell them these fictious pigs.
100. Trish is an alter-ego friend of my alter-ego.
101. My white trash name is Barbie, my porn star name is Boobs Galore, if I were a super hero you could kill me with a whiff of stink, I day dream at work about drawing a comic book whose main character is named Captain Debauchery his side kicks name is Bubba Glug, arch nemesis name is Signore Sober and his side kick's name is Tommy TwelveStep. This last day dream is reserved for Friday afternoons.
102. I like the idea of traveling in a "Way Back" machine. Enter the machine and go way back.
103. I am grumpy most mornings-just this morning I was told I am 'prickly' in the morning.