~*Spindelicious Handspun*~

• Industry: Arts
• Location: United States

About Me

I'm an aspiring midwife who is interested in coming alongside indigenous midwives in developing countries in order to teach them necessary skills, encourage them in their wisdom and much needed service to the families in their communities, and serve them with Christ's love. I hope to be a part of starting birth centers in developing countries to help put a stop to needless maternal and infant mortality and morbidity.

Interests

• Fiber art
• art therapy
• midwifery
• birth and birth rituals across cultures
• Whatever is going on in the DRC
• Niki de Saint Phalle
• sculpture (soft and otherwise)
• playart
• handspinning
• art journals/altered books/collage
• spinning yarn
• silk
• wool
• bunnies
• Global missions
• Father Son and Spirit
• glass art
• mosaic
• yurts
• homesteading
• the NW
• trail running
• crafting
• needle felting
• feminism/race/class/gender issues around the world
• anthropology of childbirth
• embroidery art
• knitting

Favorite Movies

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Monsoon Wedding
• Babel
• There Will Be Blood
• depressing documentaries
• depressing foreign films
• all Harry Potter
• all Tim Burton
• Amelie
• lighthearted romps
• Gandhi
• zombie movies!
• Twilight saga
• Babel...did I mention Babel?...

Favorite Music

• NEKO CASE!!
• The Decemberists
• Bright Eyes
• The Cure
• Beirut
• Sufjan Stevens
• Rilo Kiley
• Cat Power
• Helio Sequence
• MGMT
• Psapp
• Tegan & Sara
• Neko Case
• Feist
• Journey
• Lykke Li
• M.I.A
• Mark Lanegan
• The White Stripes
• The Cure
• Death Cab For Cutie
• The Shins
• Babes In Toyland
• Kathleen Hanna
• Fiona Apple
• Massive Attack
• Flyleaf
• Interpol
• Bjork of course
• Radiohead
• Fleet Foxes
• Nouvelle Vague
• Arcade Fire
• Deftones
• Neko Case
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs
• Camera Obscura
• Damian Rice
• P.J Harvey
• Anything really soulful
• did I mention Neko Case?..

Favorite Books

• ...And authors. Wow...too many to list. Let's see...The Poisonwood Bible
• The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
• Ina May's Guide To Childbirth
• One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Handspun Revolution
• all Wally Lamb
• all Salman Rushdie
• Madame Guyon
• Rob Bell
• all Robbie-Davis Floyd
• Walter Brugemann
• Shane Hipps
• An Alter in the World
• all Henri Nouwen
• Tree of Souls: the Mythology of Judaism
• N.T Wright
• all Eugene Peterson
• Peter Rollins is great
• Kierkegaard
• all Harry Potter
• Grapes of Wrath
• The Red Tent...all Anita Diamant
• Traveling Mercies...all Anne Lamott
• Reviving Ophelia
• The Twilight Saga (yes I'll admit it)
• and I'm a spinning/craft/midwifery book *junkie*.