Please Note...

I just changed my work hours to 9am-5pm, which happens to be the same hours that the post office is open. So if you are in the USA I can use the post office's mail machine to send out your package, if you are international to me I can't send until Saturday.

Before you rate me a 1...

Sned me a message! I do my best to send all swaps out -well- before the due date to ensure receipt. I certify or do a receipt of confirmation on larger packages or track them via UPS so I can tell you where they are. If something hasn't arrived and it has been a couple weeks since the send date please ask me before rating a 1. If there is a problem or something seriously wrong I will let you know before the due date, please show me the same courtesy. Knowing there is a delay and why is much better than seeing nothing and not knowing why.

My list of recently sent swaps can be found at the bottom of this page.

Hmm... what to say about me... I love animals, have 3 (2 dogs (Shelby & Skye) and a cat Zoe), I am terrified of snakes and spiders, have an unusual compulsion to collect refrigerator magnets and notebooks (especially hardcover ones) of various types, and ladybugs creep me out.

Duff Goldman is totally my hero...

I love butterflies and collect related things like unusual pins, stickers, jewelry etc. I prefer unique butterflies like my profile pic, that is the butterfly tattoo on the back of my neck. I'm not into cutsie ones.

I'm a yard sale & thrift store addict (and I love sales).. I love unusual jewelry, odd glass pieces and those sort of strange things you only find when you aren't looking for them.

I recycle envelopes and packing materials, alot. If you don't like it... you are going to have to get over it. Its really all about what's on the inside anyways, isn't it?

I like most things and love getting packages, especially handmade items and those from people in other countries and of other cultures. Love learning about others, their foods, lives, entertainment, crafts and anything else you enjoy.

Do you love magnets?

If so check out my new group: Here

I am currently looking for coloring books in Spanish, easy word finds or crossword puzzles in Spanish or used children's books in Spanish. If you have these and would like to trade please let me know! :)

• Black, silver, purple & turquoise

• Postcards (unusual, abstract, scenic, sunsets, etc.)

• Unusual stamps (cancelled ones)

• Colored gel pens

• Anything with paw prints on it

• Anything with black cats on it

• Anything with black dogs on it

• Anything with rottweilers on it

• Clear acrylic stamps

• outdoors/nature

• notebooks/journals

• anything in Spanish (menus, books, children's books, word finds, crosswords, coloring books (the subject doesn't matter)

• notepads (not magnetic.. can't use them around my computer)

• the ocean/streams/water

• candles (vanilla, rain, and other fresh scents)

• shells from the ocean, unusual driftwood or rock finds

• sea glass

• silver earrings (pierced) rings necklaces or bracelets

• dogs (I have 2)

• cats (I have 1)

• beads (the more unusual the better)

• plastic canvas

• plastic lacing/boondoggle

• unusual vases, buttons, glass shapes, baskets, tins, containers, bottles, frames

• vintage buttons, brooches, purses, bottles

• stamps

• stickers

• stationary

• cookie cutters

• music (rock/pop/country/rap/dance/popular)

• nuts

• notebooks

• unique purses

• leather worked pieces

• unusual paper

• sunset waterfront pictures

• abstract art

• black cats

• rottweilers

• black dogs

• pens (not a big pencil fan)

• handmade items

• pictures and notes from people all over the world

• colored markers

• magnets

• craft magazines

• items in languages other than English (newspapers, advertising magnets, postcards, coloring books, magazines, menus,etc..)

There's not much I don't like except these:

• Colors: red/yellow/orange/gold/pink

• Not into cutsie things (ie hello kitty, etc)

• White chocolate

• Strong potpurri, perfumes or smells (causes headaches)

• Gold (the metal)

• Bar soaps (I only use the kind my mom makes, many others make me itch).

• Things that smell like cigars or cigarettes

CSI, COPS, Without A Trace, Bones, Who's Line is it Anyways, Ace of Cakes, Parking Wars, Operation Repo, Throwdown with Bobby Flay, Iron Chef America, Food Network Challenge, House, half of whats on sci-fi and true tv...

Pottery/Ceramics, Polymer clay, Fused Glass, Plastic Canvas, Recycled/reclaimed projects, Boondoggle/Lacing, Building/Creating Various things... and anything else that strikes my fancy.

I love handmade items... :) Don't worry if it isn't something on my likes list specifically, if you made it with love.. I will like it.

If you flake on me, or on someone else in one of my swaps, your name goes here:

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These swaps were recently sent, the date sent is listed at the end and how many partners I sent to. The USPS sucks IMO, so if you are looking for something and it says here I sent it, keep looking out for it. I am putting delivery confirmation on almost everything lately due to mail delays.

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• Private Magnet Swap to magicjessnrach 11/29/08

• 3P's Christmas Card Swap (2 partners) 11/17/08

• Holiday Hoopla Christmas Card Swap Swap (3 partners) 11/22/08

• Postcards by color - BLUE (4 partners) 11/22/08