fairyoflostthings

HI!!!! My name is Leah (a.k.a. The Fairy Of Lost Things). I am an artist from Columbus Ohio. I am 31 years old. I work for myself from home and I have a part time gig outside the house. I am starting a home based business that one day I hope it will become a brick and mortar retail location. I'm the chick people hand things and say "I know you can do something with this". I recycle almost EVERYTHING into crafts. Right now I'm in the process of making avocado skin candles and pickle jar lid belt buckles. I make t-shirt grocery bags because those reusable ones in the stores can't be properly washed. If you'd like one send me two shirts, one to make for sale and one to make for you and I'll happily send you a bag!

I am VERY proudly Pagan. I am a rockabilly chick (read 1940-50's style) but also pretty goth. (Goth-a-billy)

I play Vampire the Masquerade LARP (bit of a geek), D&D 3.0+, Fading Suns, and Shadow Run. I'm studying tribal belly dance. I'm (slowly) learning my tarot cards. Anything that you can tell me, show me, send me to help with that would be awesome!

I am a very eclectic person. I love music from Tori Amos, Johnny Cash, Rush, Patsy Cline, Kim Lenz, Gogol Bordello, VNV Nation, NIN, She Wants Revenge, Wolfsheim, The Decemberists, Natalie Merchant, Sarah McLaughlin, Loreena McKennitt , Clannad... the list goes on for a long time.

Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Mists Of Avalon, The Spiral Dance, In The Path of the Mother, Laurel K. Hamilton, Jacqueline Carey, Anthem by Aynn Rand.

Memoirs of a Geisha, The Artist's Guide, craft instruction books, Where the Wild Things Are, If You Give A Mouse A Cookie...

I love movies... lots of movies. The Princess Bride, Harry Potter, Golden Compass, Blood Diamond, Wall-E (I'm a sucker for some of the recent Disney releases), Usual Suspects, Sphere, Event Horizon, Saw 1-4, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Mists of Avalon, The Sword and the Sorcerer, Amelie

Deadwood, Dexter, Dr. Who, True Blood, CSI Vegas (with Grissom), Warehouse 13, Farscape, Firefly, Haven...

I like making ATC's and Postcards. I'm great with paper piecing for scrapbooks. I love building shrines. My most recent ones can be seen on my website. I knit, spin, sew, embroider, and quilt. I want to learn to weave on a loom. I also make jewelery and do bead weaving. I want to learn crafts that are slowly slipping out of general knowledge such as tatting and bobbin lace. Loosing these art forms to lack of people interested will be a horrible thing in my mind.

I LOVE getting stuff in the mail!

I would love to receive: ♥anything purple, black, or red ♥gothabilly, rockabilly ♥"earthy stuff" (acorn caps, pine cones, pressed leaves/flowers, rocks, stones, crystals...) ♥healthy recipes on index cards (especially with Weight Watchers point info) ♥metal bottle caps and lids from jars ♥digital photographs on cd of flowers for an ongoing art project ♥loose game pieces, little toys, game boards ♥random COOL stuff off the ground ♥anything Geisha oriented ♥ATC's (zombie, tattoo, goth, fairy, weird hearts, Pagan/Goddess, tarot, Alice In Wonderland, spiders, butterflies) ♥any thing related to the above ATC's ♥Alice's Adventures in Wonderland or Through the Looking Glass ♥craft supplies ♥knitting patterns ♥ephemera ♥t-shirts with interesting pictures/words for recycling ♥keys, door knob plates/key holes ♥boxes of all shapes and sizes (cigar boxes, hard cardboard gift boxes, cardboard tubes ♥anything that can help me learn my tarot cards ♥Altoids tins and other small tins ♥Pink Pearl erasers or similar ♥scrapbook paper or card stock scrap pieces ♥folded paper road maps ♥paper umbrellas ♥papers for a "poor man's journal" in 4x6, 5x7, 8x10, or 9x12. See here for information: http://blog.giddygiddy.com/giddygiddy/2010/04/poor-mans-journal.html ♥silverware with pretty handles or odd shapes ♥whimsical things of all shapes and sizes!

The following treats are some of my favorites: ♥ Kinder Eggs or Kinder Balls ♥ loose leaf or bagged teas ♥ gummy candy (cherries, coke bottles, bears, worms, sour patch kids, peach rings, etc.) ♥ chocolate... anything... except bugs... eww ♥ fruity tic-tacs

I love anything 50's in cherry's, pinup girls, vintage advertising, car culture. Colors for the kitchen are red, green, yellow, and black. Bathroom are earth tones (browns, tan, olive & forest green) Bedroom jewel tones. Think India and the Orient.