CURRENT MISSION

seeking an adventure filled with lovely places and people

ABOUT ME

I love making things, especially felt and other textilles
i love doing things aroun the house (homemaking...so old fashioned :-) )
i love teaching and i love kids
i love art
i like cars and monkeys
i like singing out loud and dancing like crazy around the house.

PHILOSOPHY

always look for the gold in people.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

we hosted soem lovely lovely people, trying to save some pennies for a flight somewhere to try couchsurfing from the hostee side!

Interests

We love going places
I love monkeys/primates
music, gigs, films,friends
adventures, cake, tea parties, knitting, sewing, baking, et etc

Cristen loves playing guitar, photography and fixing cars and motorbikes.

• arts
• singing
• photography
• dancing
• dining
• baking
• partying
• movies
• cars
• knitting
• music
• guitar
• snowboarding

Music, Movies, and Books

MUSIC: The boy least likely to, breaks co-op, mumm-ra, arcade fire, The shins, camera obscura, belle and sebastian, rilo kiley, Jo Mango, Johnny Cash, Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart, Nick Drake, Donovan, janis joplin, the decemberists, Nina simone, Amadou & Mariam, sigor ros, Bob Rafferty, the raconteurs, killers, Mr Scruff, The Kinks, aqualung, stevie wonder, Frou Frou, Zero 7, Remy Zero, Iron and Wine, razorlight, RedHotChilliPeppers, el dog (yeah!), bit of blues and jazz, swing, 80's pop if the moods right!

Favorite TV Shows:CSI (all of them), spooks, hustle, murder she wrote, columbo, friends, the office. !

Favorite Movies:Garden State,
goonies, Big Lebowski,
Elf,
requiem for a dream,
eternal sunshine of a spotless mind,
Amelie,
Little miss sunshine,
breaking and entering
Donnie Darko,
Girl interrupted,
Slumdog millionaire

and lots lots more

Favorite Books:the little princess by francis hodgson burnett long time childhood fav.
curious incident of the dog in the nightime
Waris Dire- Desert Flower is a wonderful inspirational story
Brian Kennan - An evil cradling
Hans Christian Anderson fairy tales.
Books about leonardo davinci that isn't the davinci code!
lots of others, quite like harlen coben books.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

(cheesy/corny but true) Got married...best day EVER !!!!!

went to the top of a volcano which was pretty amazing.

Teach, Learn, Share

i can teach you how to make stuff
cristen can teach guitar
you could teach me how to snowboard
or help me learn arabic or spanish
we can share stories and food