FranieFrouFrou

Only just started taking part in Swaps this year (2007) but my first one is photographed here http://www.flickr.com/photos/franie/sets/72157594571141776/. I'm in the middle of a bunny swap (swapping goodies for bunnies not swapping bunnies that would be cruel!) so should have photos up of that one soon...

There’s not much I can think of that I REALLY don’t like, I’ll be very happy with whatever someone has taken the time and effort to send me but this is my list of favourite things…..

Anything Hand-Made or Arty

Baking (so a favourite recipe would be fab:)

Bags, Purses & Pouches (Tote Bags whatever size)

Birds (especially Robins and bluebirds)

Bracelets

Bumble Bees

Bunnies (I have a house rabbit, Barnaby)

Butterflies

Buttons & Badges

Card & Craft making things

Chocolate

Fimo/Polymer Clay

Flowers (All of them but Peonies & Cherry blossom are my absolute favourites)

Fridge Magnets (I collect cute ones)

Gardening

Kawaii Stationery

Ladybirds

Lip balms & Nail Polish

Little Notebooks, Sketchpads & Journals

Magazines

Music - can't function without it, I have very eclectic tastes listen to pretty much everything (apart from Country & Heavy Metal)

Penguins

Postcards

Rubber Stamps

Ribbon

Spices & Herbs

Stationery

Sweets/Candy

Vintage

Anything quirky, funky and creative

Just taught myself how to make brushes in Photoshop so anything with an image that would be good to turn into a brush would be fabby :)

Love pink, purple, blue, aqua colour shades. Also love Hot Pink and Vibrant Orange & Washed Out Blue/Brown Colour combo.

Probably best not to send me :- Eye make up – like it but have very sensitive eyes so sometimes a problem

Clowns & Dolls (ones with scary faces!)

Earrings – Can’t wear most earrings for more than 5 minutes

Aromatherapy oils/incense stuff (only because I’m a massage therapist and already have more than I could ever need!)

Liquorice (not really my cuppa)

I'm not a big ornaments/knick knacks person

Neon Yellow

Absolutely hate the sound of toast being scraped, gives me the heebeegeebies.....

Amon Tobin Andrew Bird Ane Brun Architecture in Helsinki Beady Belle Ben Kweller Blockhead Boards of Canada Bugge Wesseltoft Cardigans Cesaria Evora Cinematic Orchestra Cocteau Twins Cut Chemist Daedelus Damien Jurado Dining Rooms Dwele Ed Harcourt Efterklang Esbjörn Svensson Trio Feist Four Tet Fragile State Godspeed You Black Emperor Gravenhurst Hanne Hukkelberg Imogen Heap I Am Kloot Jaga Jazzist Jeff Buckley Jens Lekman Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter Jóhann Jóhannsson Jon Hopkins Kings of Convenience Laura Veirs M83 Max Richter Mew Múm Neko Case Nils Petter Molvaer Nuspirit Helsinki Orishas Phoenix Prefuse 73 Ray Lamontagne RJD2 Rufus Wainwright Röyksopp Savath & Savalas Sia Sigur Rós Sondre Lerche Sounds from the Ground Sufjan Stevens Ted Leo and the Pharmacists Teitur Telefon Tel Aviv The The Thomas Dybdahl Tom McRae Tom Vek Yann Tiersen

Alfred Hitchcock (dir) Amelie Being There The Big Blue Brazil Casino Cidade De Deus (City of God) Der Untergang (Downfall) 'Dr. Strangelove' Goodbye Lenin! Goodfellas Heat House of Flying Daggers The Jerk L'Appartement Léon L'Uomo Delle Stelle Martin Scorsese (Dir) Nadie Te Oye North by Northwest Nuovo Cinema Paradiso Once upon a Time in Amerira One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest Paris, Texas Raging Bull Shawshank Redemption Stanley Kubrick (Dir) The Starmaker. Taxi Driver Être Et Avoir Zatôichi

Photography (plus photoshop manipulation), Oil Pastels, Fimo, I Make my own Cards and will have a go at anything and everything. Still learning :)