Ok, yay, I get to join!!
My name is Rhiannon, MamaRhi came from when my kids were little. I was the first of my friends to have kids so a friend made it up first because it sounds kinda like mammary. Then as my house filled with tons of tiny neighborhood friends, they all called me Mama Rhi. Many of my adult friends call me Rhi (“Ree”). My kids are now in their 20s.
I love sending and receiving mail but I can rarely find others who enjoy it too these days. Makes me feel old.
I have lived in New Mexico for 6 years after growing up and raising my own kids in California. I love New Mexican culture and food and will probably stay here for the rest of my life.
I was a very chronically sick kid so I stayed home a lot and did a lot of arts and crafts (my mom is also an artist and I always had art supplies). I grew up and got a college degree in Art, where had a lot of fun taking beginning classes in everything. I am a bit of an art history nerd but not in a stuffy way. These days I am primarily a watercolor artist, but I love to draw in pen and colored pencil too. I sew and knit and generally craft pretty regularly. (I used to co-teach an art class in juvenile hall with a friend and he was always amused that I would be doing origami or drawing weird cartoons every time he was talking to the class. I just don’t sit still well without my hands being busy.)
I own a bike repair shop with my husband who is a need to keep busy kinda person too. A tinkerer more than an artist, but he builds steel bike frames and I kinda think they’re art. I run the business side of things but I love bikes too. We live in a converted school bus on a third of an acre where we are going to build a small adobe house.
Let’s see, what else? Um, I am a pretty quiet person in person. Kinda introverted. Into thrift stores, nature walks, wildflowers, coffee, talking to animals including wild birds and my cat Betty (who talks back), bike rides, and I love baking enough to be considering starting a business around it. I bake gluten-free because I have Celiac’s. I have chronic health and pain issues, a long list that I find tiresome to elaborate on.
But, that’s me. Feel free to PM me your address if you want some happy mail from Taos, NM. 