Catalinacrafts

ATTENTION: I am in the process of moving into a new apartment to attend university, so I wont be able to write back to all my pen pal letters until after I'm all settled in. But I promise I will get back to all of you :)

My name is Angie, I'm 20 years old and I am a Studio Art Major. I love to paint, draw, craft, scrapbook, recycle and reuse things. I'll make pretty much anything that involves a little creativity and color. I run my own craft business with a friend. We share a booth at 2 local farmers markets where we sell our paintings, photography, jewelry and other crafts.

I recently invested in a Cricut Expression, so my time is usually spent cutting and crafting!

I kind of live on a farm. I have grown up raising cats, dogs, ducks, chickens and goats! Right now I have two very adorable, very odd cats. My siamese just turned a year old. We adopted her from the humane society last summer and named her La Femme Nikita. (Kita for short). She is very sweet and cuddly, and also extremely mischievous and troublesome. We adopted Gonzo about 4 years ago from a rescue organization. He is a big yellow fluffball. He is just like a doll, when you pick him up, he just hangs limp in your arms and doesnt try to get away, he just loves the attention.

"A salute to the fabulous four: the glories of our age, the bringers of joy, to our, and future generations. 'Cause there'll always be poverty and pain and war and injustice in this world, but there will, thank the lord, also, always be, The Beatles."

Vampire Weekend, Queen, Taylor Swift, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, Michael Buble, The Darkness, Killers, Snow Patrol, Daft Punk, Eiffel 65, Death Cab, Postal Service, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, The All-American Rejects, Regina Spektor, Lily Allen, MIKA, Paolo Nutini, Kanye West, The Cardigans, No Doubt, Garbage, Eels, Hellogoodbye, Led Zeppelin, CCR, Beatles, Rogue Wave, Angels and Airwaves, Tokyo Police Club, Nada Surf, M. Ward, Band of Horses, Beck, Jakob Dylan, Ingrid Michaelson, Paramore, The Offspring, Polyphonic Spree, Schoolyard Heroes, Hot Hot Heat, MxPx, Relient K, Rooney, The Presidents, Head Automatica, Gogol Bordello, Gym Class Heroes, The Shins, The Hives, Donnas, Supernova, The All-American Rejects, Redwalls, Smoosh, Boys Like Girls, The Format, Motion City Soundtrack, Lenny Kravitz, Aerosmith, Jack Johnson, Run DMC, The Elevator Men, BEARBOT, Tenacious D, Weezer.

I recently made the new years resolution to read 12 books this year. That is a lot for me, as I spend a good portion of my time either at college, work, or crafting. I was shocked when I'd already read 16 books by april.

Since Jan 2010, i have read: The Princess Diaries 1-4, House of night books 1-3, Percy Jackson books 1 and 2, Don't judge a girl by her cover, Living Dead in Dallas, A break with Charity, The lovely bones, Anansi Boys, The Truth about Diamonds, and Remember to Forget.

I watch all my favorite tv shows online usually instead of when they air.

My favorites are: GLEE, Gilmore Girls, Vampire Diaries, 90210, One Tree Hill, The Office, Flash Forward, Heroes, Gossip Girl, The O.C, Men in Trees, Entourage, That 70's Show, South Park, Futurama.

A quick few favorites off the top of my head are,

Pirate Radio, Definitely maybe, Almost Famous, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Away We Go, (500) days of Summer, Ironman, Lord of the Rings, X-men, Bourne Trilogy, Transformers, Pride and Prejudice, Wall-E, Across the Universe.

I own my own business. I make and sell paintings and crafts. I love making handpainted t-shirts, tearing up calendars to make envelopes out of them, going to goodwill to get cheap odds and ends to integrate into my crafts.

I don't scrapbook as much as I just make cards, envelopes, handmade paper, and I love to sew!

MAC computers, Newfoundland dogs, Posters, Getting Mix CD's, bright colors, ribbons, buttons, beads, funky jewelry (plastic or nickel free metal--im allergic to nickel!), and t-shirts that i can cut and sew into either a bag or a new style of shirt, fabric, italy, greece, africa (my mom and grandma were born in kenya), corvettes, photographs, and bo burnham :)

• Jewelry that is not hypo allergenic, unless it is pure gold or silver (but i dont expect to receive anything that expensive!!) or surgical steel. I am extremely allergic to Nickel which is found in many cheap metal jewelry pieces.

• Religion related items. I have received many many crosses and quotes in my time with swaps on other sites. So please don't send me any more! I want to receive a wider variety of items :)

• A Bunny! I'm allergic!!!! haha.

Other than that, I'm open to pretty much anything!

• Kawaii Stationary (I have just started hearing about Kawaii and havent seen much of it since I was younger when we had a Sanrio store in my mall, but it has long since been gone. I think kawaii animals and fruits are very cute and would love some stationary!)

• Pens (that write smoothly, without gushing ink)

• Fibers for handmade paper. I love making my own paper, and am trying to explore all the different options, if you have any fibers or dried flowers that I can add to my paper, please send it!

• Bright, colorful, happy things

• Black and white photographs

• Lettersets (I'd love anything cute, but would really appreciate stationary with lines for writing, because I cant write in a straight line otherwise - no matter how hard i try!)

• ATC's