...by Midknight

About Me

I’m a Happily Married Mom of 3 + 1 kids (25yr old son, 24yr old bonus-daughter, 20yr old daughter & 18yr old son) and 5 cats, who gets to stay home and do the things I love. I crochet as often as I can and I love making up new designs in crochet. My oldest son does have Asperger’s Syndrome & Hydrocephalus, so when things go wrong, I have to be ready at a moments notice. Please check out Jonathan’s Story.

I enjoy crocheting, knitting, drawing, painting, painting on ArtRage and working on Photoshop. My grandmother taught me crochet when I was 7yrs old, I am self-taught in knitting and on Photoshop, and my art education is all through my school career, from elementary through high school.

I also live everyday with Fibromyalgia.

My Hobbies, Fandoms, and Random Things

My Hobbies

I love crafting and art.

My favorites are:

Crochet
Knit
tatting- still new at it though
Needle Felting
Bead Weaving
Beaded Stringing
pencil drawing
painting
Photoshop
ArtRage
writing patterns for crochet
teaching others how to crochet, knit and make pretty things with beads
and pretty much anything that catches my interest

My Fandoms

Well, I am a middle-aged fangirl and squee just as loud as the younger fangirls. ♥♥♥

Don’t get me started on these particular fandoms or you’ll never get me to shut up

Doctor Who- especially the New Who and the Ninth/Tenth Doctor, though I can go on and on about Classic Who also. The Forth Doctor was my “First Doctor”.
Phantom of the Opera- anything and everything Phantom. I have 3 versions of the Lon Chaney PotO on DVD, the 2004 ALW PotO starring Gerard Butler and Robert Englunds horror version of PotO. I still have yet to see ALW’s PotO on stage, it is one of my goals, plus I need to convince my husband to take me. What can I say I’m a Phangirl
Amanda Tapping ♥- I just wanna be her when I grow up. kthxbye ♥
Richard Dean Anderson ♥- MacGyver/Jack O'Neill... Need I say more.
Gerard Butler ♥- Well what can I say, Scottish, handsome and an awesome actor to boot
David Tennant ♥- see above comment, every word of it applies here too
Superman ♥- I just love Superman! Ok.
Farscape- hubby rented the 1st couple seasons and I was immediately hooked! I now own the 10th Anniversary Farscape Complete Series Box and the Peacekeeper Wars movie.
Stargate SG-1- I LOVELOVELOVE this show! I’m a major Sam/Jack Shipper
Sanctuary- Why does it figure that as soon as I discover this show and fall in love with it, it gets cancelled??!?
There are many others, but I think these are my main ones right now.

Random Things

Exactly what it says, these are the random things that I like

Penguins- yes I love Penguins. I think they are adorable
Music- I love music, just about all kinds, although I'm not really thrilled about most of the current popular stuff, RnB, Rap and country, although I like the older classic country and bluegrass when I'm in the mood for it. A lot of my favorites are pretty much Indy and Alternative and I love the obscure stuff, the stuff that most people haven't heard before. I love soundtracks and original cast recordings from musicals and New Age music too. Oh, and I really like to listen to music in other languages from other countries, mostly the stuff from Europe and Asia.
SciFi/Fantasy- TV shows, movies, books...
Renaissance Faires/Festivals- I love them. I had worked at the Michigan Renaissance Festival for over 10 years and before that I was a "professional patron" for about 3 years. I love the atmosphere and the garb,
Faeries, Unicorns and Dragons- yeah, I collect them.
Toys- yes I have toys, lots of them. Some are collections, others I do play with. I have 2 Lightsabers, both 'Mace Windue purple' and both light up and make the sounds and a remote control R2-D2, yes, I do play with them. I have the 12" Dr Daniel Jackson and Lt Colonel Cameron Mitchell dolls from Stargate SG1. I have a collection of Doctor Who (New Who) figures. I also have a few different working Sonic Screwdrivers (the Fourth Doctors, The Tenth Doctors, River Songs, the War Doctors and a Trans-Temporal Sonic Screwdriver), a mini Sonic Screwdriver on a key-chain, a small Tenth Doctor light up, no sound, pen Sonic Screwdriver and a Semi-Psychic paper. The Tenth Doctor's Sonic Screwdriver has a pen nib and an invisible ink nib and the blue light at the end is UV for seeing the messages on the psychic paper written with the invisible ink. I also have 2 of the 4 Angel puppet replicas from the episode 'Smiletime' from the Joss Whedon show 'Angel:The Series'. Last, but not least, I have the Official Metal Plated Malcolm Reynolds Stunt Pistol Replica from Firefly. I'm also probably forgetting some things. Ok yes, I am a Giant Over-Grown Geek lol
Comic books- yes I am that much of a geek, although I am quite particular on the comic book series I read. I like Graphic novels too.
Halloween- Need I say more?