radmama

HELLOOOO! It has certainly been quite a long time since I have participated in any swaps...but I miss it and I miss all the fun things showing up in my mailbox and more importantly, I miss making and writing and sending.

I am a sassy lady in my 30s with a husband of almost 10 years and a 6 year old daughter. We have two cats that are fat fuzzballs and a "neglected" beta fish. I have an art therapy BA and am starting grad school (again) this fall. I love sending and receiving mail. I love mail art. I've been creating and crafting and using my imagination for as long as I can recall. I helped start an art gallery collective that was open for over two years. And now, in addition to my part time job and adulting, I have my own arty business, art studio and actively sell at a variety of art and craft fairs.

My original crafting love is for paper and many different paper crafts: card making, postcard making, collage, making journals... I also love making earrings and I wear them everyday!

I think I want to start making zines again.

I love painting with watercolors. Much of my painting focuses on body positivity and representing larger bodies not often seen in modern fine art.

I Love to collect papers and I LOVE vintage magazines for use in collage. I have a neat collection of National Geographic Magazines from the early 1930s and the entire 1986 collection of Playboy Magazine... hehe!

Along with paper crafts I'm a sucker for all sorts of embellishments: WASHI TAPE, brads/fasteners, some stickers, die-cuts, acetate cut outs...

I LOVE sakura micron pens and liquitex inks!

I have been experimenting with working in altered books and have been journaling and art journaling for years.

I have also had some experience with enameling on copper base metals but I don't currently have my set up in my studio. I also enjoy photography along with my husband. We have all the equipment for a darkroom but not enough room in the studio...

I like a pretty wide variety of music, but this is some of what I've been listening to lately:

Milky Chance, Grade, At-the-Drive-in, Mirah, Interpol, Rilo Kiley, Maggie Rodgers, Alkaline Trio, Jets to Brazil, Jawbreaker, Regina Spektor, Cat Power, Santigold.....

Anything by

Richard Brautigan,

Chuck Palaniuk,

John Fante...

Also just got into very specifically styled ##GRAPHIC NOVELS by

"Blankets" and "Habibi" by Craig Thompson

Everything done by Marjane Satrapi

"Ghost World" by Daniel Clowes

"Encyclopedia of Early Earth: A Novel" by Isabel Greenberg

FOREVER FAVORITES

The Hawkline Monster by Richard Brautigan,

Salad Days & Pariah by Charles Romalotti,

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett,

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.

Furociously Happy by Jenny Lawson.

Likes:

Paper.

Funky and large earrings.

Outer space & astronauts.

Seahorses (lifelike, not cartoony).

Fine Art "Plus Size" figure model inspiration.

Written thoughts on personal opinions.

Stationary.

Mendhi inspired art & designs.

Unused U.S. stamps (vintages ones are especially neat).

Random facts.

Sakura/micron Pens.

Watercolors and acrylic inks.

Handmade cards & postcards.

Old black and white photos (I've been picking these up at antique stores since I was a kid...instant ancestors! Haha!).

Vintage magazines.

Spirituality (eastern spiritual ideas like Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, etc, "new age" spiritualism, pagan, earth based beliefs, ancient spiritual info/beliefs).

Thoughtful quotes.

Art & writing that positively explores sensuality, body image, childbirth, sexuality & the human form.

Ephemera (vintage).

Classic Artists: Gustave Klimt, Alphonse Mucha, Edouard Manet.

Journals.

The moon.

Figure drawing.

Art nouveau.

Rustic looking stuff.

Purple & teal & copper.

Typewritten stuff.

"Alternative" lifestyles.

Collages and art.

Ghosts (creepy not cartoony).

Tea (black tea, white tea, roobios and mint tea are my faves) & coffee.

Wishlist

Your art!

Stationary with matching envelopes.

Handmade earrings.

Postcards (some touristy are ok as I can alter them).

Vintage magazines.

Handmade items.

Weird/Strange/Odd images, stories, photos.

Foreign language book pages & magazines (any language that is not English).

Washi tape.

Old photographs.

Dislikes:

Cartoons (Hello Kitty & Disney-like stuff).

Green tea, chai and ginger flavors.

Bubbly, girly stuff.

Religious themed stuff.

Most candy & Chocolate. (however I LOVE Rowntree's Fruit Pastilles)

Magnolia

Everything is Illuminated

The Dark Crystal

The Life Aquatic

Fried Green Tomatoes