Okay, since I'm being asked every now and then about certain facts, I decided to make this open for public.
So, here's a kinda 20-questions-game...:grin:

Nicknames and Aliases
Elavyan >>> Ela
elrond' s daughter >> ED (pronounced E.D. ~ eedee ~ not 'Ed'!)


Born in the year 1979 of the second age
Please, never ask me "How old are you?" - I usually don't know the answer.
Honestly.
I told someone I was 24 when I was still 23; and I was about to write '28' here although I'm 27 at the moment,
so I changed "Age" to "Born in..."
So, ask me "When where you born?" and I can tell you. That doesn't change from year to year ^^

Eyes
Blue-grey

Hair
Dark chestnut brown with a slight reddish shimmer

Ears
Pointy

Occupation
Nothing at the moment (correct phrase would be 'looking for a job' I guess...)
I have studied Art History with an emphasis on Costume History. I also studied medieval
German Literature and graduaded with a Master's degree in July 2006.
I am planning to start on my doctor's promotion in Medieval German Literature soon.

Hobbies
Ehmehmerrm...yes. Many.
Reading, drawing, photography, travelling, writing, collecting things (I collect bookmarks,
postcards with faery motifs, sea shells and lots of other tidbits), doing stuff on the
computer, costuming & dressing up, sewing & handicraft, music...you pick one :-)


Where I'd like to live (fictional)
Rivendell from JRR Tolkien's books
Halloween Town from Tim Burton's "Nightmare before Christmas"

Actually I believe I am living in a Monty Python movie...

Where I'd like to live (real)
At the seaside

What I'd like to be if I could be a....

~ song: Lady in Black by Uriah Heep
~ season: Winter
~ flower: Lily
~ color: Silver
~ animal: Cat
~ gem: Opal
~ mood: Bouncy
~ time of day: Night
~ city: a mixture of London, Venice and New Orleans
~ country: England, Ireland or Iceland
~ historical person: Alexander the Great


Favourite...

~ actress: myself

Isabelle Adjani. Monica Bellucci. Kristin Kreuk. Liv Tyler. Cate Blanchett (no...*not* only because of LotR)


~ actor: Johnny Depp and Vin Diesel. Good mix, I know.


~ kind of music: Soundtracks. Medieval. Folk. Classic. Metal. Gothic. Darkwave.
A bit of everything and nothing really seriously...

~ smiley: You guessed it:

~ books:
* The Lord of the Rings & The Silmarillion
* Memory, Sorrow & Thorn- Trilogy by Tad Williams
* Wraeththu- and Grigori-Trilogy and Burying the Shadow by Storm Constantine
* Anita Blake & Merry Gentry series by Laurell K. Hamilton
* The mists of Avalon and Darkover-cycle by Marion Zimmer Bradley
* Rhinegold by Stephan Grundy
* The Jesus-video by Andreas Eschbach

...to name but a few ;-)

~ films (sorted by preference):
LotR ()
Chronicles of Riddick
Pirates of the Caribbean
The Nightmare before Christmas
Corpse Bride (and pretty much everything else by Tim Burton)
Snow White with Sigourney Weaver
Snow White with Kristin Kreuk
Interview with the Vampire
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Brother's Grimm (I'm about the only person who likes that one)
Elizabeth
Troy
Kingdom of Heaven
Cleopatra
Star Wars (new trilogy only)

All Ray Harryhausen Films

Monty Python (as I said...I'm living in one)

Sissi, Gone with the Wind... (Hey, I'm a girl!!! I'm allowed to like that kind of stuff!)

Splatter and Horror movies (ok - I'm not a girl )

....and one really bad Austrian black-humored comedy called Muttertag (Mother's Day) :lol:

~ TV series:

Black Adder
Fawlty Towers (don't mention the war! )

~ clothes:

Surprise, it's not an elf dress!
My blue sandwashed jeans, pink ballerinas and a black jumper that I once found at a festival.

I use to find a lot of things...

And, last but not least, absolute No-go's:

Getting no mail
Beverage rests
Shirts with buttons
Children
Getting up early
Saxophone music
Spiders
Cold rooms
Coffee
Work!

My sewing equipment

Some of you might be interested in what equipment I'm using for my costumes and all.

For general sewing work, I use a Singer 764. It's a pretty old machine, about 25 years old or so, but I wouldn't
wanna switch it for one of these new machines with digital displays and stuff...

For Overlock work, pipings, trims and any kind of fancy stuff I use a Pfaff Hobbylock 788. Again, this is a rather old
model, but like my sewing machine, I got it for a good price *and* it's easy to use, with not too many features, but
enough so you can do more 'exotic' things.

All embroidery work is either done by hand or by a Singer Quantum Futura, which isn't mine unfortunately...