About Me

Hello! My name is Alicia. I have a PhD in Experimental Pathology, and am a freelance writer and editor specializing in scientific manuscripts and public health. I am a contributing writer at Suite101, a site steward at Helium.com, and a contributor for MileHive.com.

My hobbies include art, crafting, and photography. I have two step-cats who inspire me and keep me busy. I am in Raleigh, NC for the time being, but grew up in Northern Indiana. My blog about crafting and cooking is on xanga and feel free to stop by my website.

Former Etsy Sellers

I am in the process of gathering links and deciding on a picture to represent this lens. If you know of any fitting links please share! This will be a list of former Etsy sellers and current sellers' main sites or alternative shops. It should be eas...

EtsyBloggers

EtsyBloggers is a street team made up of members from the handmade site Etsy. They are Etsians who blog, appropriately enough. If you are a member of Etsy and have a blog about crafting/crafters you can join the team too! Visit Etsybloggers.com for m...

AliciaMae on Etsy

Etsy is a venue for crafty people and artists to sell their wares. I have three shops there myself AliciaMae, AliciaMaePrints, and and randomsupplies. There is a large community and over 75,000 shops to browse through! They only allow handmade items,...

My love of acrylics

I love to paint. Wood has been my most common medium though lately I have also done canvas, plastic, and paper and in the past I have worked on glass. I have tried various paints over the years and acrylics are what I keep coming back to. They are ea...

eCrater - AliciaMae

I setup this shop to sell my handmade items and photographic prints. I think that it shouldn't cost a fortune to decorate your home and to give great gifts. AliciaMae.ecrater.com Listed currently are pinback buttons of my original peace sign marble p...

My writing on Helium - Health and Medicine

Helium.com is a site that allows everyone to voice their opinions, their experience, and their knowledge. They have titles you can write to or you can submit your own. Each member receives stars, not only on how much they write, but how well the writ...

Buying Handmade

An alternative to buying recalled, lead-containing toys is to buy handmade! Here I will give more information and links to places where handmade items live. That is, if you can't make them yourself. A part of the Squidoo Handmade group!

Photography by AliciaMae

I have posted other lenses about my experiences with shops and my crafts, but I made this lens to talk specifically about my photography. I use Snapfish for my prints because of their use of archival quality photopaper!

Idiocracy the Movie

And this movie shows what it could be like. Ok, yeah it's really funny for certain senses of humor, dark for other people, and dumb for the rest...but it wasn't put into theaters and it should have been! I wanted to share with you the opportunity to...

Handmade Masks

One of my passions is making masks. Whether they're decorative, functional, artistic, or for children or adults, I love to glue feather and sequins to plastic. And I like to paint and play with ribbon too! I show you here mine as well as some of my f...

My writing on Helium - Crafts

Helium.com is a site that allows everyone to give their opinions, their experience, and their knowledge voices. They have great traffic and tons of topics. Each member receives stars not only on how much they write but how well the writing is rated b...

My writing on Helium - Politics and Society

Helium.com is a site that allows everyone to give their opinions, their experience, and their knowledge voices. They have great traffic and tons of topics. Each member receives stars not only on how much they write but how well the writing is rated b...

Evolution happens

Evolution happens Every day evolution occurs. Bacteria and viruses offer a small scale example of what occurs on a larger scale over millions of years. Over time things change. Darwin's observations of natural selection were never about monkeys becom...

Woodburned and handpainted home decor

I love to paint. My mother passed along her woodburning tool to me years ago. I combine those two things to make beautiful trinket boxes, magnets, wall plaques and unique home decor items.

Pfizer's Shame

A Seattle rowing club mentioned that one of their members was the body double for the doc in the Lipitor ads. Congress says "what?" and Pfizer got in trouble...whoops! Doctor Robert Jarvik isn't even a practicing doctor and he wasn't taking the drug...