darkpaintedrose

I'm a twenty-two year old college student attending the University of Maryland in College Park. I'm majoring in English Language and Literature with a concentration in Language, Writing, and Rhetoric, and minoring in Classical Mythology. I hope to someday work in a publishing house in the editing department. What's scary is the fact that I'm graduating in May 2008!

I've been knitting for over four years, and crocheting for a little over one. I love to sew, work with beads, and collage.

On the non-crafty front, I try to read as often as possible. Humorous mystery novels with animals in them are my guilty pleasure.

I'm the producer of a local Rocky Horror Picture Show shadow-cast and I work part-time at a book store near campus. I have two beta fish (Lucifer and Goofus), a goldfish (Shark), and a dwarf hamster (Spaz). I've been dating my boyfriend John for almost three years now (Dec. 11).

Allergies:
-nickel (if we're in a jewelry swap, as long as it's packaged as nickel-free or hypoallergenic it should be okay) -mohair (it makes me sneeze)

3 Doors Down, Aerosmith, Alanis Morrisette, Alice in Chains, A Perfect Circle, Audioslave, Barenaked Ladies, The Beatles, Bloodhound Gang, Blue October, Breaking Benjamin, Cake, Chevelle, Cole Porter, Counting Crows, Default, Def Leppard, Dream Theater, Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Evanescence, Everclear, Fastball, Foo Fighters, Foreigner, Fuel, Godsmack, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, Guns N Roses, HelloGoodbye, Hoobastank, Incubus, Lacuna Coil, Linkin Park, Matchbox 20, Metallica, Nickelback, Nine Inch Nails, Nirvana, Oasis, Offspring, Panic! at the Disco, Pearl Jam, P!nk, Pink Floyd, Puddle of Mudd, Queen, Ra, REM, Roison Murphy, Seether, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Staind, Stephen Lynch, Stone Temple Pilots, Tenacious D, Tom Petty, Tool, Vertical Horizon, Weezer, Yellowcard

1984, Absalom Absalom!, A Midsummer Nights' Dream, anything Civil War-related, The Complete Masterworks of Edgar Allan Poe, The Devil Wears Prada, Gone With The Wind, Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy, The Hours, In The Time of the Butterflies, The Mists of Avalon, My Year of Meats, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Princess Bride, Rubyfruit Jungle, The Scarlet Letter, Stone Butch Blues

10 things I hate about you, Army of Darkness, The Birdcage, Blazing Saddles, Bring it On, The Butterfly Effect, Cannibal! The Musical, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Chicago, Corpse Bride, Death Becomes Her, Dude Where's My Car?, Ella Enchanted, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Forrest Gump, The Frighteners, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Hocus Pocus, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Maverick, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Moulin Rouge, Nightmare Before Christmas, Pirates of the Caribbean (I & II), The Princess Bride, Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Shawshank Redemption, Shrek (I & II), Spaceballs, Spiderman (I & II), Tenacious D: Pick of Destiny, V for Vendetta, West Side Story, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Willow, X-Men (I, II, & III), Young Frankenstein

anything on the Discovery Channel, America's Next Top Model, As the World Turns, Battlestar Galactica, Beauty and the Geek, Big Love, Celebrity Fit Club, CSI, Grey's Anatomy, Family Guy, Farscape, Futurama, Gossip Girl, Hell's Kitchen, Heroes, House, Jeopardy, Last Comic Standing, Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, Man vs. Wild, My Name is Earl, Mythbusters, Project Runway, So You Think You Can Dance, Survivorman, That 70's Show, Top Chef, Ugly Betty, Weeds

anything I set my mind to, beadwork, collage, crochet, knitting, sewing

colors: jewel tones, reds, blacks, grays, blues, purples, off-whites (as accent, not whole thing), some greens

fibers: anything soft and squishy (even acrylic is fine as long as it's soft and squishy)

food: milk chocolate, dark chocolate, coconut, tea (fruity, mint, chai, regular), hot chocolate, Reese's Peanut Butter Eggs (or whatever else they're shaped as per specific holiday), sour gummies, sour peaches candy (not the rings, but the little oval ones)

jewelry: sterling silver, white gold, strange stones (i.e. moonstone, abalone, turquoise, etc.), filigree, necklaces, rings, bracelets, earrings (stud, hoop, or tiny dangle ones)

colors: oranges, yellows, anything florescent, browns

fibers: scratchy acrylic, mohair (it makes me sneeze)

food: white chocolate, anything with nuts (except for hazelnuts and pecans), coffee

jewelry: anything made out of nickel (I'm allergic), yellow gold, really long dangle earrings (by long I mean more than a half inch/1 cm)