BusyB

I love swapping! Been rubber stamping for 18 years and scrapbooking for 12. I love exploring new techniques and working with mixed mediums. I've been sewing since I was ten and have been bringing my love of fabric into my art world more. Be sure to check out my Picture Trail if you want to see some of my work.

I love to go 'junkin' as I call it. That means I scout out our local thrift stores, yard sales for some wonderful vintage treasures that others might call junk! LOL! Occasionally a flea market or antique store but I find their prices are really high around here compared to other places in the country.

I am learning to "go green" from my daughter. Not only do I like to recycle my envelopes when swapping and sending raks but I have learned to fill a 65 gallon container every two weeks of recyclable goods!

I enjoy reading, but don't have any favorite authors. Through the last few years I enjoy autobiographies, short stories and lots of art and craft books! Love music and dance of all kinds although I can't keep a tune or dance like I use to.

Last and certainly not least, I love my family! I have been married to the love of my life since I was 19 and we have 3 beautiful grown children. I love to cook and bake for them and they are spoiled on my home cooking! We have 5 cats, 3 are outside country cats and 2 very spoiled inside cats.

Did I say I have a sweet tooth? I love milk chocolate and rasberry flavored candies.

This is just a list of favorites but I am open to most anything and I'm not hard to please but.......no nudies please.

*Matchboxes, ATCs, Inchies, Altered Art, Art Journals, Chunky Books and Miniatures. I love anything tiny or teensy!

*my favorite color is blue although I love all colors

*do some hand drawing and painting

*mermaid, beach, sea ephemera

*fabric

*embroidery and cross stitch

*needle felting

*vintage fabric, lace, trims, buttons

*old buttons and tiny buttons

*quilling and origami

*vintage papers or ephemera including greeting cards or playing cards

*retro or like retro papers, ephemera, fabric, lace, trims

*small keys and interesting embellishments

*anything tiny and unusual

*beads (I have plenty of seed beads)

*things with wings; fairies, butterflies, birds, dragonflies and bees (don't like beetles and ugly bugs)

*objects to alter

*cats

*Holidays, especially Valentines Day and Christmas

*Love snowmen!!

*Some of my favorite themes are: Sea/Nautical The Color Blue Hearts Vintage/Retro Elvis Fashion Dance Faces and People Things with Wings (including fairies) Nature Words Bling and Glitter

*I love anything handmade that you take the time to create. Please don't be shy about sharing!

*brads or eyelets as I have plenty

*glitter in tubes or glitter glue, although I LOVE glitter!

*I don't care for little girl or cutsey lip glosses or make up. In fact I don't wear make up and buy a certain brand of lip gloss

*not into kawaii

My favorite weekly television shows are Heroes, NCIS, CSI (not the same without Grissom) Lost, Numb3rs, So You Think You Can Dance? DH and I watch Food Network together. Some of our favorites are 30 Minute Meals, Good Eats, Top Chef, Iron Chef America, Hell's Kitchen and The Next Food Network Star. I also record Rachael Ray every day. I just love her personality and cooking style! Favorite Movies of all time are: Star Wars and Lord of the Rings, but there are too many more to name!

Quick Little Inchies Swap angeled by VJPThank you for the fantastic inchies! They are really beautiful and also a big thank you to KatarinaNavane, our hostess for arranging an angel. I hope to repay the favor some day. :)

Oh my! Helen Joy, if you see this, thank you so much for being an angel in the Quick Little Inchies Swap!

Wowee! I was sent a very generous package from grannylove60 for the August 5" Fabric Charms Swap. Thank you so much!!

Thought maybe I had better add my two cents here so anyone who looks will know about my likes and dislikes! I love 100% cotton fabric and wools that I can use in fiber art books and other projects. Also found I enjoy making landscape fabric art so marbles, batiks, and landscape fabrics would be nice. Please do not send synthetics as I will not use them. :) Just about any theme and anything from my other lists and did I say I love vintage fabrics, novelties, florals, dots, stripes, cats, dogs and animals, 1930s repro fabrics are adorable! Love color, but not fond of earth tones as they are too dull for me. LOL! I only use flannel in quilts I am making for my 3 grown kids.They are 9" in size and this has been an ongoing project as I find flannels I can use for their rag quilts. I have been sewing a long time and made quilts many years ago. Guess it's time to get started again and also finish a few quilts I started for my kids!