Pippi2010

Thanks for popping in!

I'm a California native.who relocated to Kentucky over 15 years ago.

I'm a Christian, am married, with 1 grown daughter and 4 grandkids. I also have 2 grown step-daughters with the eldest having 2 baby girls.

We have 2 furbabies, both of whom are ESAs. Pippi is my Chinese Crested, almost 14 years old. She came to rescue me in 2016. Milo is an Miniature Australian Kelpie, about 6 years years old and he's been with us for two.

Been disabled by illness for over 25 years.

Hobbies & Interests...

Reading, watching, listening to mysteries, especially British historical novels and classic era movies. Pretty all tv shows are British mysteries or crime, sometimes historical melodramas.

Ice Hockey (Let's Go Blues!)

Collecting and swapping used postage stamps with my primary collection focused on fauna & flora of the polar regions.

Handmade candies, butters, spreads...will be working to perfect sugar free sweets. I hope to get back to baking... scones, muffins....love baked goods! I collect recipes for all of the above! (We just bought a house more suited to physical limitations and I plan to take advantage of it)

Biblical and Middle Eastern archaeology, including Egypt, Sudan, Nubia, Cyprus, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Syria, Gaza, Sinai Peninsula, Mesopotamia(Iraq), Palestine...Greece, Turkey, Crete maybe

Cribbage, sudoku, crosswords, cryptic crosswords, other card games

Crafts: crochet, pc needlepoint, sewing, cross stitch, needle tatting, latchhooking, embroidery, candlewicking (needlefelting ia next on to do list), sewing, beading, painting, drawing, papercrafts, decoupage, fabric painting, watercolor, charcoal, pastels, sketching, coloring, rock painting, clay working

Currently into making doll clothes & miniatures (hopefully to sell), swapping ATCs, Xmas ornaments, jewelry, dog sweaters

Things I collect Polar bear snowglobes,, handcrafted bookmarks, recipes- baked goods/candy/jams/butters/spreads philately- postage stamps, postcards, First Day Covers EEYORE frames

Favorite things...ANIMALS! polar fauna- polar bears, Arctic rabbits and hares, Arctic foxes, Arctic squirrels, Arctic lemmings, Arctic stoat/ermine/martens/mink/pole cat/weasel/otters/badgers/wolverines (any member of the mustelid family) seals, walrus, elephant seals, sea lions, beluga whales, snowy owls, tundra swans, Siberian flying squirrels, musk oxen, sled dogs, penguins

woodland critters, especially squirrels and rabbits marsupial/As Australian mammals Smallish, furry rodent type cute animals...quokkas, wombats, pikas, prairie dogs, capybaras, groundhogs, beavers

pink animals, by nature or art..pugs, flamingos, pink dolphins

manatees

Chinese Crested dogs

Eeyore

Mysteries

coffee, cocoa, tea, caramel, chocolate, mocha, tiramisu

big bushy pink flowers, roses, peonies, hydrangeas, rhododendrons, mums mums, zinnias, azaleas

colors- pink! I also like aqua, seafoam, plum, lavender, mauve...don't care for black, brown, gray, orange or orangey reds...not a big fan of red in general

My decor.. Xmas- pastels anduted brights in a theme of mostly sweets...candy canes, cupcakes, plum pudding, hard candy, cakes, pies, cocoa, coffee, peppermints nuts, nutcrackers and snowpeople

Living Room- vintage cinema and classic movies...dark red, black, brown, gray, light yellow, splash of vintage pink

Bedroom, Arctic and snow theme mostly polar bears and wolves, but other animals too, bath is penguins.

Front bath is colorful rubber duckies

Kitchen is fat chefs... dark red, black, tan, bit of yellow

Craft room is bright pink, purples, blues mostly, but very colorful

Library/quiet room will be shabby chic with a bit of tea room theme