awkwardgirl

I'm a 27 year old orthodontic lab tech who lives in Washington state, on the Eastside. I'm a Pagan who loves tattoos (I have four), drinking tea, yarn, Asian ball-jointed dolls (I have 4 Pullips, one Dal, and a PukiFee Ante), ReMent, rubber ducks, Lilo & Stitch, and yummy smelling bath products. I also have a strange love for narwhals, sloths, and snails (cute, faux ones, not slimy real ones. =P)

I collect Pullips and tiny BJDs - the family includes Stella (Pullip Paja), Ruby (Pullip Latte), Aislinn (Pullip Assa), Lenore (Custom Pullip Stica), Linden (Dal Frara), a little Pullip and little Dal, and the latest addition to the family, my new PukiFee Ante, Sparrow. My newest collection, though silly, is the Monster High dolls. I have Lagoona Blue, Frankie Stein, and Draculaura.

I also suffer from fibromyalgia, so I like to have things to keep my hands busy over the long bouts of chronic fatigue and pain.

I'm a knitter and a jewelry maker mostly, but have been known to dabble in sewing and embroidery. I have an intense love for Manos del Uruguay and Malabrigo yarns and gemstone or cool pressed glass beads of all kinds. A girl can never have too many skeins of yarn or too many shiny things

awkwardgirl on ravelry.com :) and infrequently, awkward_girl on twitter ^^ v

Terry Pratchett's Discworld/Wee Free Men series, Jane Austen, Charlotte Bronte, Neil Gaiman (especially Good Omens/The Graveyard Book), Sophie Kinsella, Jennifer Crusie, Douglas Adams, Holly Black, Sherwood Smith, Stephanie Pearl-McPhee, old school Mercedes Lackey, Christopher Moore, and most any kind of fantasy and historical genre.

I'm recently a little obsessed with audiobooks and audible.com, since it makes work that much easier to deal with. ^_~

CSI:NY, Warehouse 13, Psych, Leverage, Castle, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Supernatural, Eureka, Firefly, Pushing Daisies, The Dresden Files, Due South

Depeche Mode, Charlotte Martin, Emilie Autumn, Ingrid Michaelson, Sarah McLachlan, Matt Nathanson, Scott Andrew LePera, Missy Higgins, Deb Talan, Patty Griffin, Joshua Radin, Loreena McKennitt, Enya, The Weepies, Sara Bareilles, Maroon 5, Jason Mraz, Blue Oyster Cult, Boston, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Sheila Chandra, Michael Franti & Spearhead (power to the peaceful!), Delerium, Billy Talent, Buck 65, D'Goya, Eliza Carthy, Daft Punk, Dar Williams, Flogging Molly, Frou Frou/Imogen Heap, HIM, Garbage, Within Temptation, Jonatha Brooke

I love...

• Tea/teacups
• Re-ment (Tiny. Japanese. Plastic. Food. LOVE!)
• Kawaii of all kinds: the pinker, the girlier, the better ^_~
• Crystals and gemstones/shiny rocks
• Beads of all shapes/sizes/colors, preferably natural stone or glass
• Hello Kitty/Sanrio
• Celtic anything
• Tree of Life/rune stones/Pagan iconography
• Doll clothes (Pullip/PukiFee sized)
• Yarn of all varieties
• Things with cute snails/narwhals/sloths on them
• Mix cds of your favorite tunes
• Dark chocolate, Jellybelly jelly beans, minty hard candies, and Starbursts
• Invader Zim (Gir!)
• Mostly all scents, except rose or patchouli which give me migraines
• Rubber ducks
• Kokeshi
• Things with cupcakes/cookies/candy on them
• Friendship bracelets (I feel like I'm reliving my childhood!)
• Knitted things. Anything.
• Crocheted things. Ditto.
• Anything with a lotus blossom
• Origami/origami paper
• Cute wristlets or wallets
• Jewel tones (garnet reds, amethysts, sapphire blues, emerald greens, etc) and pink!
• Discworld themed things! (I'm a huge fan of the Night Watch characters, Death + Susan, the wizards, Vetinari, etc.)
• Steampunk/Neo-Victorian