HoolaTallulah

Hello :)

UPDATE 4th April - Hello, I am finally getting better and have started sewing LOTS to catch up with swaps. Thank you all for your well wishes and your unwavering patience, I am SO grateful for the kindness you have all shown me.

I am working through each swap one by one, and will PM partners incidividually to let you know my progress. I promise extra special swaps to all of you who have been so very patient and sweet!

I am 28, British, living in France with my wonderful family (DH and 2 beautiful girls). I love all things crafty, and have a particular weakness for cheerful, vibrant fabrics, both vintage and new.

I am a gatherer by nature, and love collecting random vintage pieces and weird and wonderful lil treasures and trinkets, hence France is a wonderful place for me to be!

I love nature and country living, growing veggies, tending the garden, caring for my family and many animals (4 cats, 2 dogs, chickens and goats). I live beside a Lake so as a family we do a lot of fishing.

I am so excited to have discovered Swap-bot, it seems a wonderful way to unleash some of my creativity and meet new people from all over the world.

Right now I am reading mostly non-fiction. I am loving Japanese Craftbooks especially!

I am always seduced by pretty photography, I love inspiring books about home and crafting with yummy pictures to inspire me. I also love cookery books.

I can eat books for breakfast, though don't find much time for fiction lately, I love everything by Oscar Wilde, and for easy reading, a good dose of chick lit.

I also LOVE magazines, especially Country Living, I receive the UK Country Living, but would love copies from the US (even back dated copies that you're done reading with).

I have just started embroidery... I also enjoy stamping, paper ephemera which I use for collage and scrap booking, I am new to scrap booking.

I love sewing things for my home and kids and enjoy cooking, basically anything relating to the domestic arts.

I am starting to draw again after a long long break, coloured pencils are my favourite medium, not so great at painting.

I have really broad and eclectic musical tastes, anything goes, really! I am always delighted to be introduced to new kinds and styles of music by friends, it is how I discovered some of my favourite musical artists.

Jazz, Acid Jazz, Motown, Classical, Pop, RnB, HipHop, Grunge, Indie, Punk, Rock.. pretty much everything else too!

I really like traditional music from all countries too, Spanish Guitar, French Accordion, Latin etc Anything that sums up the essence of the country from where it originated.

Everyone seems to have a wish list, so here is mine! As you can see I like lots of things... here are some things I desperately need right now......

Embroidery hoops, A tea infuser, A tea cosy and/or coffee cosy. Beads and sewing embellishments, all kinds, especially rocaille/seed beads as I am using these on my Dotee's alot and am learning Bead embroidery.

Also, I have just bought my very first Blythe doll, but the clothing for her is verrry expensive, so if you find any old Skipper (Barbies sister) clothes in the thrift stores for me or you can make clothes for her, I will love you forever more!

Things I like....

• Mushrooms - red and white ones, anything with mushrooms!

• Russian dolls (Matryoshka)

• Organic body products, especially handmade, soaps, creams etc.

• Fabric & fabric scraps, no pieces are too small! even a 2x2" scrap can be used! I love novelty prints, polka dots and vintage or vintage inspired florals.

• Ribbons, all kinds and colours

• Mixed CD's, I am lame and haven't worked out how to burn CD's yet (duh) but would love to receive music from other cultures.

• Little handmade art dolls, especially dotee dolls etc

• Holiday decorations, especially for easter, this is my favourite holiday, I love spring!

• Writing paper/letter sets, I am rediscovering penpals, I used to have hundreds when I was a kid.

• Crystals, any semi- precious stones, amethyst etc

• I love things from nature, even plain old stones from your garden! Pine cones, pressed flowers, pressed leaves, shells... just tell me where you found it!

• Face cloths and vintage hand towels

• Lavender hearts/sachets, any size or shape, as long as I can hang them, I love these!

• Buttons (vintage or new) especially cute themed buttons or sparkly rhinestone ones.

• Recipes, I eat most anything and really appreciate recipes, especially if it is one close to your heart/family/local traditions

• Paper ephemera, any old paper items, especially labels and especially PAPERDOLLS.

• I love 1920's/30's/40's Nursery illustrations and items.

• I collect pre 70's sewing patterns

• Vintage sewing notions

• cookie cutters

• Anything hand written, a poem, short story, or just a letter telling me about you.

• Home decor magazines, especially anything relating to country style.

• Hair Slides, I have long long long hair, so anything for my hair is neat :)

• Vintage brooches, pendants and trinkets or handmade of the same.

• knitted gloves/arm warmers/hats/scarves/socks

• buttons/badges

• Pure Essential oils, any scent

• Fresh flowery scents, jasmine, rose, bluebell, lily of the valley, all those old fashioned scents!

• Aprons, vintage, handmade or new

• drawstring bags and totes made from pretty fabrics

• anything depicting bluebirds or any cute chubby birds

• Handmade coin purses

• knitted sweaters/handmade coats for my dogs (14" sz S)

• Vintage napkins and hankies in pretty fabrics/prints/embroidered.

• Any art by you

• Journals and notebooks, blank or used - I love to read other peoples ideas and notes!

• Old photographs

• Anything with pom pom's or even just plain old pom poms on their own.

• Syrups, oils and spices/herbs from other countries.

• Random vintage pretties for display in the home, little mirrors or compacts, hand mirrors, silk butterflies/birds/flowers. Little paintings/framed photos, anything weathered!

• Cushion covers from pretty or vintage fabrics

• Any vintage nursery items, old hangers, even baby shoes, I especially love old wooden alphabet blocks, not necessarily a whole set, maybe enough to spell out a word. Old toys and oldchildren's books too.

• Fabric buntings/banners/flags

• Handmade Christmas stockings (you can send these any time of year!)

• Handmade mobiles/hangings

• Any interesting vintage books, especially about crafts, fashion, cookery, house keeping, child rearing, love those 50's housewife books! Books about birds and nature. Pocket books are best!

• Embroidery floss

• Artists paint brushes

• Slippers

• Seeds, any kind, or bulbs.

• Gardening gloves, any pretty design.

• I love hand thrown pottery/ceramics, especially with pale blue/aqua/green glazes and especially jugs, even tiny ones.

• Notecard sets

• Vintage Greetings cards/postcards

• Lip balms & Hand salves, especially home made.

• Any enamel items for the home, tins, jugs, plates, bowls... especially with pretty designs, florals, folk, polka dots

• Photo albums, old and new

• Linen waters

• Tea & coffee, and chocolate!

• Anything Mabel Lucie Atwell

• Vintage hats, especially berets or cloche style.

• Shawls and shrugs, all kinds.

• Vintage table linen or plain to embroider

• Vintage shoes, anything pretty enough to display

• Vintage wooden bobbins

• Vintage picture frames, even if they are battered! The more weather the better...

• Vintage or new beads/necklaces, especially bright colours/ethnic/pearls/glass, even the cheap retro plastic beads.

• Corsages, crocheted, sewn, all kinds!

• Any vintage children's t-shirts or dresses size 8/9/10

• Vintage pillow cases/shams, even plain white that I can trim or you trim for me! Embroidered, printed, anything goes!

• Beads for crafting, all kinds

• Vintage embroidery transfer patterns

• Yarn - I am just learning to knit

• Vintage or Vintage style baby clothing (little one on the way, yay for me!), especially any traditional WHITE items, nightgowns, booties, cardigans, mittens and bonnets.

• Prisma Colour Pencils

• Vintage embroideries/samplers or yours!

I love all colours, pastels and vibrant saturated colours, earth tones, everything goes! favourites are red/pink/white combos, pale blues, eau de nil greens.

WOW, that's lots of stuff, if I think of anything else I will add it :)

There isn't a whole lot I don't like, I can appreciate the beauty in most things, even when they're old and tatty and falling apart, old things have a story and charm all of their own.

However I do ask that you please send me things you would be happy to receive yourself, and old speckled mirror is charming, your old canvas sports bag with holes and sweaty smell is not.. LOL

I am allergic to Evening Primrose (random I know!). I don't have pierced ears. I don't use a cellphone, so no cell charms pleeease.

I am not so hard to please really, just send me something from the heart, I appreciate something that has been given much thought and consideration, anything handmade is always appreciated.

I will probably love most everything I am sent, I appreciate the time and effort more than the actual content of packages, it is just lovely to receive mail and a little piece of someones imagination.

I can't take on anymore private swaps right now, because I am up to my eyeballs in Dotee swaps! If you really want to do an Art Doll/Dotee Doll swap with me please get in touch and we can arrange it somehow :)