Japonicapopjoy2

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I am thirtysomething, married & have 2 children. I work part time at my local hospital as a Staff Nurse.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.

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 & polymer clay & Art Clay Silver.

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My favourite colours are purple & green in all shades & brown and teal is a favourite combination but I have no real dislikes except maybe neon oranges & yellows.

Things I use in my crafts;

All kinds of beads but especially Japanese seed beads, Delicas & any size 6,8,11 &15 japanese seeds (not Czech please) silver findings, gemstones with holes, polymer clay, Precious Metal Clay, wire, pearls, antiqued brass & copper findings, buttons, Swarovski crystals,lampworked glass beads, lockets ,KO thread, FireLine, silver charms & 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 like Moleskine journals- I like the small soft back plain pages ones. Stickers, fabric especially Liberty or any small prints like stars, hearts spirals,flowers,stripes. Ribbons, rubber stamps, silk painting & 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, sharpies, fountain pens.I love 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, fruit teas, Green tea especially with mint or lemon, echinacea tea, chamomile, ginger are favourites but I will give anything a try! My current favourite is sweet ginger peach tea made by Revolution I can't find it any more in the UK.

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

I would love to receive some ATC's,Inchies or zentangles, I've just started having a go at some but not quite ready to swap any myself yet! I love getting things by post ✉

Back issues of Beadwork and Bead and Button magazine. (I have a few copies of Beadwork now so PM me in case I have it already.)

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Antique cool toolsmoulds for precious metal/polymer clay.

A small face mould for polymer clay or some clay faces ☺ like these

Some skull beads or charms

A morsbag or similar - I have 2 fantastic morsbags thanks to @tcweikel & @pootle but would love some more!

Copper headpins

Reeses peanut butter cups

Crazybones (for my son)

anything Sylvanian Families (for my daughter)

A needle case.

A parallel pen

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 Children's fiction and the occasional girly novel.

Favourites - The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, I Capture the castle by Dodie Smith.

Currently reading Burning Bright by Tracey Chevalier.

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 films,CJ7! anything by Pedro Almodovar, anything by 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,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!), Nigella Lawsons & Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstalls' 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. Czech seed beads ~ I can't use them in my beadwork as they don't have regular size holes and they are not a uniform size. (Any other Czech beads are great though!)