posyandplum

Hi! I'm a college student from Connecticut. I'm also sometimes from New York City where I live with my parents, sister, and pet cockatiel named posy. (That's where I got my username on swapbot/etsy - the "plum" doesn't really mean anything, I just liked the alliteration, I guess.) I enjoy lots of different crafts, including jewelry making and bead-work, sewing, knitting, and crocheting. I also have done a bit of ceramics, although I don't have a studio to take classes at right now. I speak spanish, and spent some time living in Mexico last year, which is why I was pretty inactive around here for a few months. I also spend a lot of time dancing and playing trombone and piano.
I have an etsy account, but haven't updated my shop for a while - I hope to revive it one of these days! If you're interested in setting up a private swap for items on my etsy site or other craft items I make, just let me know! I'm looking forward to swapping all types of homemade goodies with you!

This is bound to change, but at the moment books by: Annie Proulx, Douglas Hofstadter, Jack Finney, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Ursula K Leguin, JD Salinger, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip Pullman, Vladimir Nabokov, poetry by ee cummings and Ogden Nash among others, also Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes

I am notoriously under-educated movie-wise. I still have a few favorites, though: All of the Marx Brothers movies, Wallace and Gromit (not the new one so much though), Bringing Up Baby, Philadelphia Story, Throw Mama From a Train, Sleuth, Bananas, Take the Money and Run, The Sting,

Likes: anything from my wishlist - or things inspired by it; silly putty; silly things in general; dark chocolate; tea; awesome socks!!; peanuts + calvin and hobbes (the comics, although the nuts/philosophers are cool too); things with images from classic children's books and illustrators (anything from Eric Carl to Cicely Mary Barker); handmade things; natural products/natural body products; lip balm from crazy rumors; tactile things; pretty things; dangly earrings and delicate necklaces, tiny cute adorable things (not so into kawaii though, sorry); rich colors; animals; music - especially world music, folk music, blues, swing and jazz; trombone sheet music; dance; traveling; craft supplies; cooking/baking vegetarian and vegan food;

I have an overall normal/basic "style" if you could call it that, leaning slightly towards ethnic-y/earthy/delicate/I probably got it at salvation army, ... and things that are new to me too, for sure - surprise me :)

I can always use - sterling silver jewelry findings, glass beads, scraps of silver or silver filled wire Randomly looking for right now - exacto pen-like knife (eg the retractable ones)

Dislikes: Meat products (I'm a vegetarian, not vegan though so dairy, beeswax, wool and the like are ok); cigarette smoke and things that smells like it; coffee (although coffee flavored/scented things are ok, just not coffee); incense; religious items; Also, though I like other kinds of art supplies and craft supplies- I'm not a scrapbooker! so no scrap book supplies, please. Thanks!