Oh my goodness, I got tagged......there's something cool about this kind of tag that isn't the same as when you were tagged playing tag as a kid...unless of course I missed the point when I was a kid....hmmmmm I may have something there. only took me 50 years to figure that one out....

I a not quite sure if these eight facts are supposed to be something folks don't know already or if you can use stuff that people already know.....however since this is a web site, it's not as if you know anything more than your art, journals and comments show of you.

Now the rules state that you must 1) tell 8 things about yourself......2) put them in your journal,....and 3) tag eight more people......4) you must restate the rues.........

So without further ado......

1) I have an almost fatal weakness for amassing fabric, no, make that for amassing anything I can make something out of.......can barely go for a walk without picking up rocks, cones, leaves...maybe I should just say I tend to amass things in general.

2) Music has an unbelieveable and profound effect on me......I am the daughter of two musicans, but it is the curse of my life that I have the kind of voice that should only be heard in the shower, and when I was young and tried to learn to play the piano, banjo and guitar, my fingers would get horrible cramps. But I have a very acute ear and nothing is more wonderful to me than music of many genres done well, and nothing is more horrible to me than music done badly. I can listen to almost any style of live music done well, but canned music not so much.

3) I love to travel....boat, car, plane....it doesn't matter what the mode of transportation, just going someplace.......I especially loved the 6 trips I have made to England and Scotland. (I am a Californian)....

4) I love old house and old stuff....can be beautiful and expensive things, can be just the everyday ordinary things of times gone by. Linda Goodman, an astrologer once said of Cancers (my sign) that "if it's old it has value, if it's new, it's suspect....." now I don't know if I'd go so far as that, but if it's old it has value is one of my cornerstones.

5) Nothing makes me happier than to have a big group of folks I love around and fill them full of food I cooked......bliss.....wish I had more of that going on in my life now.....

6) I try very hard to look upon life as an adventure......it's easy to do when you're doing well, and a lot harder to keep in mind when you're going through bad patches.....but it really helps if you can keep that in mind!

7) I think outside the box because I was born there......when I was young, I was proud of it and vowed to stay that way, I actively worked on it. Now that I am getting on, I am finding out that the world isn't very nice to people like me. O they say they value creativity and originality, but it ain't really so most of the time......if you stick out from the norm, they try to lop off those parts.....life isn't easy for those of us who don't fit in the little boxes that society has made up. and it gets harder and harder to maintain your individuality.......so all you fellow artists here at deviantart.....know that you will have to fight to maintain your uniqueness, but please do, the more of us that can't be crammed into societies idea of what is correct, the easier it will be to be that way......

8) I love to learn, never lost that.....try new things and new ideas all the time.....I have an almost pathololgical fear of getting in a rut......keeps me young.


when I started this little game I was thinking .....oh my, what are the 8 interesting things about me I want others to know.....I could go on for a lot more, there are so many things I am interested in. however my computer has borked and will only play this gawdawfu music so I have to do the turn of and turn on thing.......

so far it's been a very adventursome life, perhaps even a little more than I had asked for .... but dull, nope it hasn't been that ...well hardly ever......

and now I'm off to tag 8 more ....