About Me!

I like to make things.  Early in my life my parents taught me how to do many things myself, from sewing to woodworking to baking.  I have never looked back since!  I love to sew and make my own clothes and have done a few quilts and things like that over the years.  My Mom taught me how to knit in about 10 minutes on Thanksgiving my Freshmen year of college and I have had some sort of project on the needles ever sense.  I have also crocheted a few projects,  but it is definitely not my preferred craft.  I love to build and engineer things with my Dad, but have been working on getting my own tools to do some things on my own.  Along with my wonderful husband Joel I get to do a lot of cooking and baking and grilling which is a lot of fun.  We do lots of experimentation and it is exciting.  I am always looking for something new to do, and challenge myself.  My friends hate it when we are shopping and I look at something and say, “I could make that!”

I like to have fun! I am more of a staying in type of person but I do like going out. I love to travel and go sight seeing. I like to spend time outside: camping, hiking, canoeing, etc.  I love watching movies and listening to music. I like playing games. I am a big fan of Apple computers. I enjoy taking care of my house plants and two cats. I tend to be a collector of things.

Favorite TV Shows:
How I met your Mother, Lost, Grey’s Anatomy, Ugly Betty, Desperate Housewives, That 70’s Show, MASH, No Reservations, Project Runway, Big Bang

Favorite Movies:
Amelie, Almost Famous, Grease, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Gone with the Wind, any Mike Meyers movie, Empire Records, The Wedding Singer, Pillow Talk, Disney Classics ie: Little Mermaid, etc, Legends of the Fall, Shawshank Redemption, Singing in the Rain, O Brother where art Thou, Billy Madison, hmm, and many many others

Favorite Books:
Angels & Demons, Davinci Code, Harry Potter series, Angela’s Ashes, ‘Tis, Guns Germs & Steel, Brave New World, 1984, Farenheit 451, The Design of Everyday Things, Agatha Christie

Favorite Quotes:
When you were born you were crying and those around you were smiling. Live your life so that when you die you are the one smiling and everyone around you is crying.

Nothing pains some people more than having to think
-Martin Luther King Jr

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; Imagination encircles the World.
-Albert Einstein

We do not inherit the land from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children
-Old Native American Saying

Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice, and narrow-mindedness. Broad, wholesome, and charitable views cannot be aquired by vegetating in one tiny corner of the globe.
-Mark Twain