AmyMarie

My parents are settling into their new home. I am glad they live closer to me and I enjoy being able to see them more often.

I am getting back into doing improv comedy and having a ball playing and meeting new people.

I am on the hunt for a functional manual typewriter.

Still purging art/craft supplies and finding a functional configuration for my art "studio" (ha); rearranging the house a bit to accommodate furniture from my parents and making things more home-y.

I am willing to do one-on-one trades/swaps for the following:
* mailart
* artistamps / faux postage
* zines
* art journal round robins
* postcards
* ephemera (game pieces, vintage images, travel theme, watch parts, maps, ticket stubs, decorative/fancy paper, etc.)
* ATCs/LTCs

open to other items too...

I love to travel - domestic and international. I enjoy trying new things, seeing new places, and learning about other cultures/regions and people. I have a goal to visit all 50 states and 5 of the 7 continents. I love being in nature and especially near water - waterfalls, lakes, oceans. I am married and have 2 rescued cats. I love performing short-form improvisational comedy (improv) - like the TV show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?".

I enjoy creating art - collages, altered items, rubberstamping, paper arts, bookbinding, ATCs/LTCs, greeting cards, scrapbooking (more simplistic style focused on the photos to remember people, moments, events, and trips instead of using tons of embellishments).

Things I enjoy making:
--hand-bound books
--recycled homemade paper (from shredded bills/junk mail) --artistamps (faux postage)
--mail art
--zines
--hand-carved rubber stamps -- greeting cards

I collect the following items:
- pressed pennies / elongated coins (EC)
- cast iron trivets (antique) - postcards
- faux postage/artistamp/artist's stamps
- postal "paperwork": Airmail/Hand Cancel/Fragile/Priority etc. stickers, custom forms, other forms, etc. from other countries (outside the USA) or in languages other than English
- (envelope) wax seals and wax seal stamps - old inkwells and writing sets - ATCs/LTCs
- I love paper and "collect" more than I use - as is the case with most of my art/craft supplies... rubberstamps, embossing powders, inkpads, paints, dies (Sizzix, Quickutz, etc.), embellishments, etc.

traveling, waterfalls, mail art, improv, postal / mail themes, fountain pens & ink, milk chocolate, hand-bound books / book arts, paper engineering, autumn, trees, nature, connecting with people, learning, other perspectives and cultures, ancient civilizations, playing board & card games, hanging out with friends, antique & vintage items, earth tones and shades of purple and green, rubber stamps, embossing powders, fun pens, interesting blank journals & sketchbooks, small/miniature items, papers/flat items with different textures, foreign coins, travel tokens (bus, subway, etc.), dragonflies, unique designs, candles [votive & tealights], books, celestial/astronomy, trying different foods & cuisines

cigarette/cigar/pipe smoke (I am allergic)

foods and lotions containing wheat (allergic)

neon or florescent colors

overly glittered items

black licorice and anise

dill weed

caraway seeds

coffee

3-D Collage like shrines, cigar boxes, and matchboxes

Book Arts

Paper Arts and techniques

Paper Engineering

Altered Art

PostCrossing.com & collecting postcards

The Environment and ways to lessen my "footprint" and save energy (and $$)

Trying ethnic cuisine from different areas and countries