Japonicapopjoy2

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I am thirtysomething, married & have 2 children. I work part time at my local hospital as a Ward Sister.I live in the South of England.☆ I think I'm quite easy to please & have joined swap bot because I enjoy the giving as much as receiving, If I get something I don't like / can't use I'm a hoarder so I'm sure it will come in useful someday.☆ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉ ❉

I don't mind if things are second hand as long as they are clean and still useable. I re use all my packaging. I don't mind if things are sent late as long as you let me know. I always rate as soon as I receive and only mark 'sent' when I get home from the Post Office.

I love making jewellery & have been collecting beads for nearly 20 years! Beadwork is my main craft at the moment but I've recently been dabbling with a bit of sewing and some papercrafts.

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My favourite colours are purple & green in all shades. I also like red, brown and turquoise. I like colour in general and have no real dislikes except maybe neon oranges & yellows. My favourite season is autumn.

Things I use in my crafts;

All kinds of beads & broken jewellery to take apart & re use. I love recycling!

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I also love paper making, doodling, botanical drawings, pressed flowers and leaves, notecards & plain paper notebooks/ sketchbooks like Moleskine journals - I like the small soft back plain pages ones. ( I don't expect anyone to buy me one, just describing the kind of thing I like!)

I've been doing a lot journalling lately so anything papercrafty is good.

I've just made my first Dotee dolls with my daughter and can feel the addiction coming on!

I like cotton fabric, especially any small prints like stars, hearts, spirals, flowers, stripes, polka dots and tiny dots.

Ribbons, sticky ribbons, anything to do with nature especially insects, butterflies & leaves. Skulls, 4 leaf clovers, Derwent/Cumberland pencils, Staedtler fineliner pens, any 0.05 fine line pens, any gel pens, fountain pens.hand made soaps.

I love Tea & drink loads- my favourite wake up tea is Bewleys Irish tea or Sussex Blend but I also love Earl Grey, Lady Grey, fruit teas, Green tea especially with mint or lemon, echinacea tea, chamomile, ginger are favourites but I will give anything a try!

I could always do with some more recipes to prevent the WTHFDBs (what to have for dinner blues)

I love getting things by post ✉

Back issues of Beadwork magazine or any other jewellery related magazine you think I might like.

Just getting into sewing so any kind of magazine related to that.

Just discovered the somerset magazines so any related to papercrafts, journalling or sewing.

Revolution Tea in travel tins

Anything handmade is always appreciated.

I've always got 2 or 3 books on the go at the same time, I like to balance a lightweight with something heavier and go from one to the other depending on how tired I am or how brainy I'm feeling!

I like anything by Alexander McCall Smith,Iain Banks, Kate Atkinson, Margaret Atwood,Tracey Chevalier, Phillip Pullman, Garth Nix, Mavis Cheek.Tony Parsons. Also love Sci-Fi, Fantasy ie David Eddings, Pat Murphy, Iain M. Banks, J K Rowling, lots of children's fiction and the occasional girly novel or 3.

Favourites - The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, I Capture the castle by Dodie Smith & a million more!

I will give most things a go.

Amelie, House of flying Daggers, Bridge to Terabithia, Shaolin Showdown, Career girls & anything else by Mike Leigh,The Great Escape, Howl's moving castle & other Miyazaki /studio Ghibli films,CJ7! anything by Pedro Almodovar, anything with David Attenborough. The sound of music. Mamma Mia!

♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ ♫ The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Kate Rusby, Jimi Hendrix, Joni Mitchell, Joan as Police woman,The Magic Numbers,The Weepies, The Stands, The Rifles, The Lucksmiths, Morrissey, The Smiths, Aberfeldy, I am Kloot, KT Tunstall, Belle & Sebastian, Radiohead, The Cure, REM, Ocean Colour Scene, The wombats, Stevie Wonder & many many more......

ER, Casualty, Holby City, Green Wing, No Angels, (can you see the theme here!) Six feet Under, Spaced, Lost, Heroes, Weeds, Dr Who, Torchwood, Lead Balloon, UK Big Brother-(this is my dirty secret addiction!), cookery programmes. Flight of the conchords.(I watch too much TV)

I don't wear make up so would prefer not to receive any except lip balm/gloss.

Instant coffee packets.

I have no allergies.