BetsyPreston

I love mail and wanted to get more use out of my PO Box. Swaps are just the thing! My hobbies are reading, TV, movies, music, volleyball, sewing, and assorted crafty things.

I like reused materials, mail art, and sewing. For the last year or so I've been on a fabric postcard kick. I also like making paper cards and ATCs with found items and funky hardware store things. I love handmade/handbound books and pamphlets, but don't spend much time doing that kind of thing.

I absolutely can NOT draw or paint.

Please let me know if you were entitled to a swap item from me and didn't receive it. I generally tend to send things within a day or two of the list becoming available. The only way that I know if something has gone missing is if you tell me, so help me help you!

I also try hard to rate everything that I receive. If something slips through the cracks, my apologies, and feel free to remind me.

Generally, I like to use earth tones and natural papers and materials to make things with a rougher, darker look. But I'm a closet magpie for shiny things, metallics, bright cheerful colors, and girly cutesy things.

I'm no artist. I just like making things. I love to "wing-it" and see what happens. My inspirations include Nick Bantock and Gwen Marston's Liberated Quilting. Also, the "Take Ten" magazine collections of quick card making ideas, because their level of difficulty is in step with my artistic skill limitations. There must be some art in me somewhere cuz I feel it when it's working, but without much aptitude or training my results vary!

As far a swapping goes, I like to see what YOU like. It's fun to get things in a completely different style than what I could do. I think that you're more likely to make something great if you are following your own muse rather than forcing yourself to make something you think that I'd like. So let loose and show me what moves you!