Amber

I'm married with 2 beautiful girls. I love kayaking, crafts, the color orange, the color green, reading, dark chocolate, Star Trek, and video games. I also have a major button fetish...lol

I do not flake!!! If for some reason you do not receive a swap from me it is due to the post office. Please send me a message so I can resend.

I love pretty much any craft but my favorite is anything to do with paper. I enjoy making cards or playing in my art journal. I love the look of sewing or embroidery on paper.

I also love making jewelry especially beadweaving. Lately I have been doing a lot of crocheting and embroidery.

Craft Items - paper ephemera (especially vintage), vintage photos, cancelled postage stamps, vintage gummed labels, buttons, stencils or masks, ribbon or lace, rubber stamps, anything with owls or birds but especially items I can use for collage or scrapbooking, prima flowers, die cuts (especially labels and frames, words, butterflies, or flowers), textured cardstock (would be really cool if it was made using an embossing machine), embellishments, journaling spots and labels, rub-ons, letter stickers, embossing powder, stamp pads, stationary and blank note cards, crystal or gemstone beads, silver findings for jewelry, embroidery floss, realistic butterfly or flower stickers.

Miscellaneous items - Tea, candy, chocolate, recipes for desserts, recipes for chicken, recipes for pasta made without beef or pork, bookmarks, foreign money, cd's, kid books, stickers for kids.

I definitely don't mind used things if they are in good condition. I also love handmade items :)

If I'm in a postcard swap I don't mind receiving handmade but I really do like the postcards I receive to be naked. My favorite postcards besides handmade would be vintage photos or images, pulp, pinups, birds, owls and butterflies.

I really don't like candles, incense, makeup, lip gloss, or fragrance

Most fantasy and anything that contains vampires, witches, or werewolfs. Lately I've also been enjoying historical ficton.

fav authors-Charlaine Harris, Kim Harrison, Laurell K. Hamilton, Elizabeth Hand, James Rollins & James Clemens (same guy), Brian Lumley, J.R.R. Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, and Lauren Willig.

Pixies, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Color Revolt, Magneta Lane, Tegan and Sara, Decemberists, Death Cab For Cutie, We Are Scientists, Grizzly Bear, The Black Keys, Minus the Bear, Modest Mouse, Vampire Weekend, New Pornographers, MGMT, Bon Iver, Iron & Wine, Fleet Foxes, Band of Horses, The Shins, Animal Collective, Cat Power, Stars, Arcade Fire, Phoenix, Gogol Bordello, Sex Pistols, Clash, Dead Milkmen, Cure, Ramones, Dinosaur Jr., Flogging Molly, Postal Service, Interpol, The Killers, Violent Femmes, Stereolab, Fugazi, Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, NOFX, Crass, Operation Ivy, G Love, Dick Dale, Dropkick Murphys, Toasters, Bernadette Seacrest, Nirvana, Sonic Youth, Suede, White Stripes, REM, Smashing Pumpkins, Horror Pops, Radiohead, Johnny Cash, Lead Belly, Billie Holiday, Ray Charles, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Smiths, Morrissey and so many more...

Amelie, Darjeeling Limited, Midnight In Paris, Quentin Tarantino movies, All of the Star Trek movies, original Star Wars trilogy, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Indiana Jones trilogy, James Bond movies with Sean Connery or Roger Moore, Thank You for Smoking, Little Miss Sunshine, Chocolat, Napoleon Dynamite, Natural Born Killers, Scarface, Blade Runner, Taxi Driver, Clerks, Godfather trilogy, first 4 Harry Potter movies, Raising Arizona, Animal House, National Lampoons Vacation, Sixteen Candles, Breakfast Club, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Interview with the Vampire, Lost Boys, Clueless, Starship Troopers, Hackers, Mars Attacks, Nightmare Before Christmas, Never Ending Story, Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Back to the Future trilogy, Dazed and Confused, Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Goonies, and well hell I just love good movies

True Blood, Haven, Alphas, Warehouse 13, Lost Girl, Once Upon a Time, Star Trek, Doctor Who, Covert Affairs, Parenthood, Rookie Blue, Downton Abbey, Teen Wolf, Awkward, Chopped