I live in Orange County, California & have been married for 11 years. I can't have kids but I love spending time with my 23 nieces & nephews plus my friends kids too! We have two dogs that we rescued, Kaya a lab/chow & Buster a lab/pitbull. We live close to the beach & I love spending time down there watching my husband surf! I keep super busy with work, school, crafts, home, husband & dogs. I'm working towards a new career, taking a few culinary classes next semester plus business classes... we'll see where that leads me, maybe a pastry chef!

THINGS THAT MAKE ME GRIN

• Paper
• Fun Mail
• Amy Butler Fabric
• New color combinations
• The ocean, especially dolphins
• My Dogs - pictures Sept 2007 & Dec 2008
• Sock Monkeys
• Books & getting lost in a bookstore...
• Trying a new craft
• Garden Gnomes
• Family
• Movies
• Wii
• Swimming
• Camping
• Chai tea & Chai flavored things
• Baking especially for the holidays & family reunions
• Homemade cards
• Watching Jeopardy with my husband
• Cookbooks - especially the ones that small organizations & churches put together (they're usually a families best recipes)
• Ribbon
• Envelopes
• Pens
• My favorite Sanrio characters are Chi Chai Mochan, Cinnamoroll, & Sugarbunnies

WISHLIST

• Cute fabrics - you can see the styles I like on my etsy favorites
• Ric Rac
• Your favorite family recipes - especially cookies & desserts
• Deco Tape
• Chai flavored anything
• Japanese craft books - especially kusudama
• Green buttons, all shapes & sizes
• If you live outside the US & Canada I would love to know more about your town & country!
• Something for my dogs
• Something for my hubby
• Profile surprises are the best & of course something from my Etsy favorites or Amazaon wishlist are always fun!

CRAFTS

• Gocco
• Making cards
• scrapbooking - not so much for myself but as gifts for others
• Paper making
• kusudama
• working with alcohol inks, especially marbling effects
• cake decorating
• baking - I'm training to be a pastry chef!
• I'd like to learn: Tatting, More kusudama designs that can be used as ornaments, Amigurumi, How to quilt

COLORS

Turquoise if I have to choose just one... But I love ALL colors... pink, blue, orange, brown, green, yellow, red...

BOOKS

I am constantly reading or listening to audio books & I like to read/listen to several different books at a time so that I can read from the genre I'm in the mood for...

• The Time Travelers Wife
• Life Expectancy
• My Sister's Keeper
• Kite Runner
• The Lovely Bones
• The Twilight Books
• Kira-Kira
• Cracker!
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• The Harry Potter Series

I could probably keep going on & on... there are so many good books out there!

MOVIES

• Amelie
• Uncle Buck
• The Out of Towners (the original)
• Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
• Office Space
• Blazing Saddles
• Joe Versus the Volcano
• Stranger Than Fiction
• Clueless
• Legally Blonde
• anything with Doris Day in it!!!

MUSIC

• Beck
• Jack Johnson
• James Blunt
• Sublime
• The Presidents of the United States of America
• The Feelings Hijackers
• Alabama 3
• The Beatles
• Chris Isaak
• Pink Floyd
• The Doors
• but sometimes I'm in the mood for country, dance, opera, classical, punk, or pretty much anything but screaming heavy metal

TELEVISION

• Jeopardy
• cooking shows
• craft shows
• House
• Bones
• Heroes
• Grey's Anatomy
• Pushing Daisies
• 24
• Dog Town

His name is Matt He's a...

• surfer
• golfer
• camper
• dirt bike rider

Things he likes...

• a good cigar now & again
• the Lakers
• Los Angeles Angels
• He's likes to cook (& he's a pretty good cook! - lucky me!)
• Fave colors are blue & white

• Fruit based dessert recipe - talita
• Technique Tags - MissNelson
• Technique Tags - pinkylee
• Technique Tags - stelllastar
• Totally Weird Mail Art - cutebec
• Five Things From Your Town/City #2 - SnowLeopardXX

• Disney stuff... unless it's Alice in Wonderland - I live very close to Disneyland & have had a season pass most of my life, I have enough Disney!
• Chocolate & nuts - I'm VERY allergic to both! - But my husband will eat nuts
• Coffee - although my husband is an avid coffee drinker so he would appreciate it.
• Baking stuff - I love to bake & have tons of stuff! Unless it's a really unique cookie cutter, unique cookie/dessert recipe or something from my amazon wishlist I'm afraid I won't use it - especially store bought frostings.

Irrational Fears:

• Spiders
• Ice
• Birds
• Cats (ok so not too irrational because I was attacked by one when I was real little plus I'm allergic)But, the weird thing is that I am strangely drawn to Chococat...
• Blimps (Ok I'm not afraid of them, but they annoy me!)
• Clowns - same thing... they are annoying too!

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I am loving swap-bot! It is so much fun & challenging my creativity is great! I hope that if we swap you love what I send you... I always try to get your package/postcard out before the date but I will ALWAYS get it out by the deadline! If you don't receive your package PLEASE let me know & I will make it right with you!!!