A while back Maria and I posted a plea for assistance. We wanted innocent, fresh blood to subject to endless hours of Photoshop (EXAGGERATION ALERT). Surprised by the overwhelming number of responses, we picked only a few to initiate Stickers and Donuts expansion. Thus, please welcome the four new writers below. Be nice.
Amber
Life Story: Between growing up on the west side of Cleveland and going to college in New Orleans, Amber often describes herself as a North-South Coast girl (even though this does not make sense). She can swing between the biting winters of Ohio and the oppressive heat of Louisiana with all of the grace a Master of Architecture degree from Tulane University demands, which she insists is quite a lot. She currently works part-time at a national clothing retailer geared towards fancy, older ladies and part-time trying to find a full-time job. Amber enjoys sleeping, knitting, reading, mucking about on the internet, The Mighty Boosh, wearing a lot of black, playing with puppies, Arrested Development, hoarding office supplies and notebooks, cake, nerdy things, and wearing glasses. Because she is a stress baker Amber is often beloved by roommates. Her wide internet fingerprint can be easily traced through her Twitter, knitting blog, last.fm and personal site.
Amirah
Life Story: Amirah grew up in the Western Europe area, and moved around The Netherlands, Germany and Belgium. She currently lives in London (which is an amazing city)! Her parents are from Burma (Myanmar) and Tanzania, and she basically has family all over the world which gives her a great excuse to travel! Last summer was her first experience of independent travel, she went backpacking around the Eastern Cape of South Africa with a bunch of friends and it was the best month of her life….she has seriously been bitten by the travel bug! Right now, Amirah is in high school studying for A-Levels (which are the UK national exams that you take at the end of high school). In any free time she has, you will probably find her: eating epic amounts of ice cream, watching FRIENDS reruns, laughing at myself, browsing the web for “really cute stuff!” or exploring (AKA: getting lost in) Central London!
Life Story: Georgy was born in England, grew up in Vancouver and now lives in Brighton, on the UK’s South Coast, home of “Quadrophenia”, Fatboy Slim, the Royal Pavilion and lots of Regency naughtiness. She has been a music journalist, a graphic designer, and a web designer, but gave it all up to be an artist and an avant gardener and a bit of a hippie. She loves biscuits and breakfast cereals and makes a mean vegan chili. She volunteers for a community food growing and teaching programme and is studying horticulture, which doesn’t leave much time for sleep. She’s obsessed with mid-century modern design, quirky graphics, and what she likes to call “Ghetto gardening” – growing herbs and vegetables in an urban setting using recycled junk as germinators and pots. She waffles about the latter on her personal blog and you can email her here.
Life Story: “Ookah” is actually “Pascale,” but she usually goes by the name “Ookah” for everything concerning work (design, photography, illustration). Ookah was born and raised in Paris, city of lights and wonderful patisseries, where she studied graphic design, attended a LOT of small gigs played by local friends (all the while taking pictures, another one of my hobbies), and developed a healthy obsession for everything vintage and 50s/60s related. After she graduated, she started working freelance for a very various range of clients (movie magazine, wine seller, IT company, insurance, …). Then Ookah moved to London, to pursue a life-long dream of adventure and BACON. She has been in London for almost a year, working freelance and using her free time to draw funny doodles (in french), and study Japanese (another hobby). Ookah also loves 60s music – she is (not so) secrelty in love with 1967 Steve Winwood (from the Spencer Davis Group), pin-up fashion (stockings, corsets, red lips… hiiiiiii.), books (lots of, everywhere, all the time, READ), and Alice in Wonderland (I currently own 9 different editions, including 2 pop-ups). She would like you to know that she has a VERY weird relationship with her hair, and has been successively platinum blond, red-head, brunette, with short hair, hippie-long hair, bangs, curly, straight…
Hooray!
