**Things I Love**

-Costuming
-Historical Re-enactment,
-Renaissance Faires (Fayres),
-College (musical theatre and history),
-Theatre (specifically musicals)
-history (esp. ancient/medireview/renaissance/etc)
-paganism and mystical religions
-religions in general
-designing websites and graphics
-reading (almost anything)
-drawing (i love my prismas!!)
-anime (drawing and reading)
-karaoke (leave me alone!)
-farming
-looming/weaving
-raising sheep/flax to make my own thread
-crocheting/knitting/tatting/embroidery
-interior decorating
-singing
-quantum physics
-sewing
-researching period garb
-learning latin/gaelic
-learning to dance
-choir
-my theatre peeps :-P
-nature
-self-reliance (both physical and mental)
-learning for its own sake
-learning for the sake of creating wisdom
-wenches and garb whore
-appreciating my innate connection to all of creation
-being myself, no matter how weird that may make me
-being self-sufficient
-"the lady of shallot" both the poem by tennyson as well as the many paintings by waterhouse and the pre-raphaelites
-tennyson, keats, coleridge, wordsworth, blake, "della crusca", byron, walter scott (romantic period verse)
-pre-raphaelite painters (waterhouse, alma, rossetti, leighton, "Stitching the Standard", "La Bella Dame Sans Merci", "The Accolade", "Godspeed", etc.)
-Josephine Wall and Jonothan E. Bowser
-non-fiction books (Art and Physics, The Tao of Physics, The White Goddess, Bulfinch's Mythology, The Golden Bough, Walden, The Self-Aware Universe, The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Dialogues of Plato, The Mind of the Middle Ages, A History of Civilizations,A History of Costume, Stichery, World Mythology, etc.)
-being a techie for show (stage hand)
-faeries, unicorns, dragons, gnomes, etc.
-home-made things, thrift store things
-things with "character"
-rainbows and waterfalls
-ireland and england
-asia