I will take a break from swapping.

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Just a hint for using a protection sleeve:

I always glue the stamp on the card, go to the postoffice to put the datestamp on it and THEN I insert the card into the protection sleeve. So I have both: protection and a naked sent card.

If you glue the stamp outside on the protection sleeve stamp and datestamp will go lost after removing the sleeve. So it`s the same like sending in an envelope and not sent naked anymore.

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Just a short note:

Our postoffice closes friday at 12.30 pm and opens again on monday. There is no mail pick up during this time or on bankholidays. So my envelopes may carry a later datestamp than my sent date says, because I click sent after I put them into the mailbox, if I don`t need to meet the postmistress.

I`m in my fifties, a quilter for 20 years.

A while ago I felt in love with paper crafting, mixed media and especially with mailart. I love to do collages, to play with colours and materials.

I spent a lot of time being creative and I always put time and effort in my swaps.
Making my art is very important for me.
I always read the profile from my swap-partner, hopefully to find something I can use for the swap, especially when the swap says sender`s choice.
Therefore I appreciate that my swappartner will do the same for me.
Honestly I have to say …. I always will give hearts for the swap, not for the extras, which are not necessary.

Things I love, collect or do........

°A°
Asatru, autumn, art dolls, altered items (just started to alter a book), art journaling, Avalon, Advent, ATC,

°B°
bears, beading, bright colours, beadwork (nativ indian style), books

°C° celtic history, cream tea, colourful things, crazy quilts, country music, Celtic Women-music, cemetaries, celtic mythologie, my car, my craftroom, collaging,

°D° druidry, dottee dolls, driftwood, Dia De Los Muertos (Day of the Dead), dragons, dollhouse minitures for a sewing room and witchy/halloween related, Downton Abbey, decorating my home, dandelions, Dina Wakley

°E°
elder, embroidering, embellishing, earthtones

°F°
my family, freedom, friends, fairies, fall, felting items, fabric, fabric postcards, fabric bookpages, fiber art, flea markets, forrests

°G°
Germanic Panganism, Goddesses, green in all shades, gargoyles, Glastonbury, Great Britain, gardening, graveyards,

°H° honesty, handmade items, halloween, handmade ornaments, hearts, hygge,

°I°
icycle dolls, inchies, Ireland, Iceland, irish folk music,

°J° journaling, junk journals

°K° kindness,

°L°
lovely people, layer cakes, laughing,

°M°
mini zines, mail art, myths, mini quilts, mug rugs, Mother Hulda - Frau Holle, Mother Earth, minitures for a witchy dollhouse, altered matchboxes, medieval time, the moon,

°N°
nature, nifty notions,

°O°
Outlander, owls, orange, one-by-one swaps

°P° panganism, patchwork, papercraft, primitive art, purple in all shades, private swaps, penpaling, paper dolls, pocket letters, paperart, cute paperclips, playing cards with nice backsides (especially: joker, 3, 7, 8, 9)

°Q°
quilting, quilt blocks,

°R°
respect, runes, redwork, reading, ravens,

°S°
sunny days, shrines, shadow boxes, Scotland, Sweden, scandinavian style, swaps, scraps, stiching, the sun, swapbot, spirituality, the smell after rain, sunflowers, steampunk, Spiritdolls

°T° The Old Path, tolerance, tarot cards, tree of life, trading cards, textile art work, Teesha Moore patches, every textile art, trees, tulips, Tim Holtz,

°U° unicorns, United Kingdom,

°V°
vintage, vikings,

°W°
witchy stuff, wands, wheel oft the year, wonkey house blocks, wool felt, Wales

°X° Xmas time

°Y°
yellow,

°Z° zines,

Please do not send:

• soaps, bubble bath, perfumes, lotions, nailpolish, make up or other things like this

• food, drinks or sweets of any kind

• postcards (except my interests above)

• keyrings

• fridge Magnets

• stickers

• childish items

• anything neon

• anything that smells

• scrapbook items

• stationary