I am a relatively talented and terminally self-deprecating jeweler by day and also, technically, by night. I'm also really bad at profiles. That's why this one is nearly empty. I'm sorry that I am not sorry enough about that to try to change it.

I drink a lot of wine and I make a lot of brooches and I do a lot of nail art, not necessarily at the same time. But sometimes at the same time.

talking myself out of difficult situations and, due to the amount of time I spend with wet polish on my nails, performing a considerable number of tasks with my mouth or elbows rather than my hands

Books:
- Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote
- Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
- A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
- the Tao of Wu by RZA
- Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

Movies:
- Frankenhooker
- Ghidorah, the Three-Headed Monster
- the Omen (1976)
- My Neighbour Totoro
- Bambi
- the Lady and the Tramp

TV:
- Community
- Sailor Moon
- Regular Show
- Bob's Burgers

Music:
- Why?
- Wu-Tang Clan
- Kanye West
- Johnny Cash
- Fleet Foxes
- Neutral Milk Hotel
- Broken Social Scene

Food:
honestly I would live off cucumbers and jasmine tea if I could but I have been told that that would be detrimental to my health so I try to mix it up a little

red lipstick, curling iron, lighter, coffee, champagne & a nail file