Obligatory Introduction Post!

Hello Blogspotters--or do you guys call yourselves something else? My name is Becca! I go by Becca Darling in the world of crafts and zines. I'm 20-years-old. I was born and raised in Fort Worth, TX. Okay, that's a bit of a lie, I also lived in Lubbuck, TX for a few years, and then spent a few years in Crowley, TX.

I graduated high school in 2006. I attended about 3 semesters of community college. In my fourth semester, I got pretty sick with influenza and a nasty stomach virus and was out for almost a month and a half. I had to drop my classes or risk failing them. I haven't had a chance to go back to school since, but I do plan on getting back in the swing of things, because I am quite bored without having homework to keep me busy.

I'm a ginger--sorta. My hair is mostly brown, sometimes auburn, and sometimes blazing red. Never been dyed (at least not with permanent dye). It just likes to change colors on me.

This is me!

obligatory bathroom picture by Sara G.

I've got what you call baby-birthin' hips. I'm pretty proud of my curves. Sometimes they get in the way when getting dressed, but that's fine ;)

I have one tattoo at the moment...

not-so-good pic of my tattoo

I swear that it looks better in person. The flash of the camera washed it out, and it's only wonky-looking because its really hard to take a picture of your own arm. I want more tattoos!

I currently reside in North Platte, NE because I lost my job back home. It's okay, though, because it was a crappy job. Well, not a crappy job, but corporate was full of assholes that would come to the theater and basically not give two shits that we were all suffering. I actually kind of enjoyed being a bartender at a movie theater. I want to bartend again. It's fun.

In NP, NE, I work at a retail store called Shopko. It's pretty okay. I'm an apparel specialist. It's a pretty cool job, actually. I like putting out new clothes and whatnot, and I like folding the clothes when there's nothing else to do. I'm hoping it'll give me a good foot in the retail door because I kind of want to open up my own kind of "rare" sock store kind of like sockdreams.com. Oh, and I really want to work in a lingerie store. Lingerie, shoes, socks, and sweaters are my weakness.

I discovered zines at the age of 13 thanks to a lovely show called Our Hero. If anyone would ever like to bestow upon me the DVD set, then I would love you forever and I promise I will make you something simply amazing in return! Anyway, I wrote zines for nearly 7 years without gaps. Now I'm so intermitten in the entire zine world. It makes me a little sad because I still enjoy them and I still have a huge stack in my room to read through. I've only made one zine in the last year, but she's my pride and joy and I don't want to spoil her by just adding anything to her.

My mom does embroidery a lot. She finally got an embroidery machine so she's been working away on that for quite some time. She's trying to hammer out a lot of projects before her day job kicks back in here in the next few weeks.

So, I put together an etsy site (http://photocopiedheart.etsy.com) for my mom and I. It actually just started out as an account for me because I was considering buying some items on there, and then I finally decided to set up a shop. We've made a few sales in the past few months, but nothing spectacular. It's actually mostly been my stuff that's sold. Meh.

Anyway...if there's anything else you want to know about me...then just ask!