Drachenfrau

Gung Hay Fat Choy! May you have a wonderful new year! :-)

profile update: January 23th 2012

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Please don't send any sweets/food! As much as I love them, I am diabetic and have to watch my blood sugar! Thank you! :-)

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Heya, my name is Moni. Well actually Monika, but since most of the people wrote Monica and all of my friends and family call me Moni anyway, I decided to change it in my address-box too. :-)

♫ And now for something completely different. ♫

Communication is the key!!!

If you can't send your swap in time, please tell me! I have no problem with it, as we all have lifes outside swapbot. But it's not fair, if you don't communicate! And that means before the deadline ends!!!

♫ Your highness, when I said that you are like a stream of bat's piss, I only mean that you shine out like a shaft of gold when all around it is dark. ♫

packages and re-swapping:

I recycle envies. Means, if they are not torn I use them again to protect the environment. You can do this too when you send to me. :-)

I also don't wrap the swaps I send, in nice papers. They may look nice, but I think, this is not necessary. Another way to protect the environment. So you don't have to do that either in the swaps you send me! That means not, that I don't wrap them up carefully if necessary!

If you don't like/or can't use something I've sent, you can reswap/regift it. I too will give things away, that I can't use or don't need. With that said, I will never claim that I created something, that I didn't!!! When I pass handmade things to someone else, that are not mine, I will say so and I will never send them as a replacement of my part of the swap, but as an extra!

♫ The BBC would like to apologize for the next announcement.♫

my view about hearts:

I don't expect extras in a swap! I mean, it's nice, but it doesn't guarantee a heart! I'll give a heart, when I see that a swap was made or sent with love! I don't send extras either with every swap. If I do, then because of something I have, that I know my partner will love or can use. I don't expect a heart for it, I expect a happy partner (with or without extras)! :-)

I'll angel all of my swaps I host myself.

groups:

there are many wonderful groups and I like the idea of a slightly better and safer way to swap a lot. :-)

However, I will not stay permanent in groups, if there is no activity. And with that said, I mean not the group-forums, but the group-swaps. Or if I discover that the theme is not my kind of theme anymore and I can't be active properly. Don't take it personal if I leave your group! :-)

I don't force people to chat regularly or participating in swaps and games in my groups. It's ok, when other groups have this as a rule, but it's not my cup of tea! Everyone can decide how active they want to be in my groups!

♥ I love: ♥

animals (my favourite: crab, dragon, wolf, sloth, snail, frog, hippopotamus, octopus, marabou, kiwi, polar/arctic animals, australian animals, ducks, especially baby ducks), Jane Austen, Australia (especially animals and landscape)

black&white photographs and movies, bracelets (see my etsy-faves for what I like)

colours (green in all shades, hot pink, petrol, lime, purple, aqua), cinemas, Cosmopolitan (the magazine and the cocktail), clutches

Dragons! I'm a dragon-lover and born in the year of the dragon (my name Drachenfrau means Dragonlady in German), Dad (June 27th 1935 - July 13th 2011), Diabetes-awareness-items

earrings (I love them dangly, silver coloured not gold, kitschy, folklore, long, crazy, colourful, extravagant. I have pierced ears, so no clips for me! And no studs!)

freedom, family and friends, Flower Power-era, freecycle, flickr-browsing, Feng Shui (I love to declutter and try to make our home comfy. If I get something new, another thing has to go. That works great for me!), fair trade items, flee-markets, flip flops (I wear a German 39, USA 8)

glittery things (I LOVE Glitter!)

Haikus, humor, House MD, handbags, Hamburg, Hello Kitty (especially dressed as any other animal)

individuality, indian-oriental-style

@Josietai (she's not only an awesome swapper, but a great friend and like a sister to me!) ♥, Janis Joplin

love, Lourdes, love of my life, laughing, libraries

moon, men who play the piano, mermaids, Monty Python (favourite Python: Michael Palin), Mum (March 2nd 1952 - April 28th 1995)

New York, New York-Souvenirs

peace, Paris, Paddington bear, Parkinson-awareness-items (my Dad suffered from it), postcards (see extra section below!), pink leopard print, polka dots (black&white-combination only!)

rivers (they run wild), Remus Lupin, rain, Reese's peanut butter cups

sea, spring and its smells, Sirius Black, sisters (I have 3 and love them dearly!), Sex and the city, summer, Swing, snow and snowmen, swapbot (I have "met" some wonderful friends here and I enjoy to travel all around the world without actually travelling by myself.)

tolerance, trees, Tarja (my niece, born on October 27th 2010)

Underwater world, things with rain and umbrella-images

Vintage (20's, 30's, 50's, 70's), Virgin Mary

walk barefoot where ever I can, wind, Wolves, Werewolves

Zoos, Zoovenirs (especially pressed pennies and postcards), Zoo-maps, Zen

♫ One day, lad, all this will be yours. What, the curtains? ♫

ATCs (except I do an ATC-swap, as I only collect very few themes), cats, Clowns, decotape, Diddl, Disney, dolls, dottees, erasers, food-items (except Reese's peanut butter cups!), gold (I'm the silver type!), Horror/splatter, Inchies, kawaii, letter-sets (I'm a very lousy penpal), scrapbooking and paper-crafting supplies, sock monkeys, yellow as only/main colour, scented items, christmas items, dust catchers in general!

Skid Row, Testament, Linkin Park, Kiss, Die Ärzte, Disturbed, Paradise Lost, Janis Joplin, Queen, My Chemical Romance, New Model Army, T. Rex, Iron Maiden, Duran Duran, Billy Joel, Gene Kelly, Gwen Stefani, Pink, Blind Guardian, Marlene Dietrich, Within Temptation, Sam Cooke, Comedian Harmonists, Ludwig van Beethoven, Depeche Mode, Dead by sunrise, Sam Tsui and lots of 70's and 80's. Flower Power and Swing in general.

Joolz Denby, Jane Austen, Paul Auster, John Irving, John R.R. Tolkien, Sophie Kinsella, J.K. Rowling, Anne Rice.

I love and read mostly biographies and autobiographies!

Frida, Amelie, The big Lebowski, Running out of time, Needing You, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Bin Jip, Becoming Jane; Sense and Sensibility, Naked, HP and the prisoner of Azkaban, Seven years in Tibet, Pirates of the Caribbean, Immortal beloved, The Odd Couple, Station Agent, It’s a Wonderful Life, Something's Gotta Give

David Thewlis, Steve Buscemi, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Andy Lau, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Gene Kelly, Dudley Moore, Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Gregory Peck, Jonathan Brandis, Gabriel Byrne, Jackie Chan, Gary Oldman, Charly Chaplin, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Audrey Tautou, Martin Short, Richard Gere, Rob Schneider, Johnny Depp

♫ I'm afraid I'm not personally qualified to confuse cats, but I can recommend an extremely good service. ♫

I believe some people like them sent naked and some, like me and many others, unwritten in an envie. I will respect and send both ways. I always take a look at my partner's profile or ask and I don't judge anyone about the way she/he likes it and so should you. :-)

My postcard-swaps are always recievers choice about the way of sending, so don't join, if you are a "send unwritten and in an envie"-hater! Thank you!

I'm not into touristic ones, map cards or handmade!

I prefer to get my postcards unwritten in an envie. Thank you! :-)

And please no postcards with perforation!!! They look very ugly with these ripped off edges!

I collect:

• Zoo postcards
• wild/native animals
• my favourite animals (crab, dragon, wolf, sloth, snail, hippopotamus, octopus, kiwi, marabou, polar/arctic animals, australian animals, ducks, especially baby ducks)
• animals in general :D
• baseball stadiums
• bicycle/s (for a friend)
• poodles (for a friend)

I don't travel much but I LOVE Zoos! So I like to learn all about Zoos from all around the world! :-)

• Zoo postcards (unwritten, in an envelope)
• Zoo maps and leaflets/brochures
• pressed Zoo pennies
• magnets from Zoos

I'm open for private swaps for these things! :-)

The word "gift" means "poison" in the German language.

The word "tag" means "day" in German