KatarinaNavane

Update: I'm living in the dorms again which means for the next few months I'll only be getting my mail (and therefore I'll only be able to rate things) once or twice a week. I apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.

I'm a college Sophomore, art major (bet you could've guessed that one). I'm creative, intelligent and eccentric. I'm nerdy AND geeky (yes there is a difference). I like people but am not a people person. I'm too honest for my own good. I'm a realist. I'm hard to draw. I'm articulate and impulsive. I'm either extremely "quirky" or ever-so-slightly obsessive compulsive. I am pleasure-driven, but very rational in my quest for it. When faced with an absurdity, I respond with another absurdity, because that's the only logical response. I'm mature enough to know that I should continue to act immature for as long as I can get away with it. I have the demon-kitty critter thing that is my icon tattooed on my ankle. I'd rather people be honest than polite, and I'm nearly impossible to offend. There are three words that I will not use unless I mean them: Love, Hate, and Promise. I like fancy cheese.

I can angel most swaps that I host and if I can't I'll find someone who can. Let me know if this is necessary.

I'm interested in private trades for ATCs, just send me a PM if you'd like to trade ^_^

@chaosrocks is my mom. She's still pretty new here, so lets all welcome her to swap-bot!

If you don't receive something from me, please let me know before rating. The post office isn't perfect, and I can re-send for most things. Thanks!

I usually send extras with my swaps. I try to cater them to people's profiles so they get things they like, so if it says "no extras" in the profile I'll see it and not sent any. If I send anything you don't like/can't use, just forward it on to someone else with your next swap and maybe they'll be able to use it. And I'm not doing it for hearts so don't feel like you have to give one. Just hoping I can make people smile.

Also, if you're sending to me, and you're faced with a choice of doing a good job on your ATC/whatever and sending it late or doing a bad job and sending on time, I'd rather you sent late. To be honest I don't even notice when things are late most of the time, as long as it's by days rather than by weeks or months. I'd appreciate a PMed warning of lateness, of course. But don't be afraid I'll rate down for lateness. I'd only do that if it were really really late either with no communication/apologeticnesss or with BS excuses.

I really love this site, it's like christmas every day getting and giving things all the time. Thanks everyone ^_^

I have extremely eclectic taste in music. I like a little of everything, except for country and rap, but particularly like anything with fast violins, especially combined with more modern instruments and styles, and interesting vocal harmonies. My favourite bands right now are Les Yeux Noirs, The Fratellis, Foals, Enter the Haggis, The Decemberists, The New Pornographers, The Postal Service, and Dionysos

Books: The Princess Bride, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal, Anything else by Christopher Moore, The Pushcart War, basically anything by Neil Gaiman, the Abarat books, and the Youth in Revolt series.

Plays: Any of Shakespeare's comedies, Arms and the Man by George Bernard Shaw, and Of Widows and Vegetables.

Comic books: Sandman, Bizenghast, Godchild/Cain Saga, Nightmares and Fairy Tales, Fables, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, The Tarot Cafe

Movies: The Princess Bride, Stardust, The Prestige, 10 Things I Hate About You, Dogma, Real Genius, Pan's Labarinth, Mirrormask.

Videogames: Final Fantasy X, Okami, Legacy of Time, Syberia (1&2), Keepsake, Still Life, Black and White, Portal, Zeus: Master of Olympus

Firefly, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Futurama, The Simpsons, Digging for the Truth (and Into the Unknown), Mythbusters, Project Runway, Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, Dexter, and House.

Currently watching Six Feet Under

ATCs done in collage, drawing or a combination thereof, inchies, matchboxes, jewelry making and other metalworking. If you'd like to see some of my work, browse my gallery on deviantart, link above. I make a lot of steampunk jewelry, and some more basic jewelry as well, some of which is for sale in my etsy store (also link above).

Note: I don't want it to seem that I'm demanding any of these things. I give this instead to give you an idea of the sort of thing that I like and would like to trade for, possibly in a private trade.

THEMES:

• Victorian

• Steampunk (goes with the Victorian)

• pocket watches and anything clockwork

• History in general (ancient egypt, ancient greece/rome, medieval, renaissance, etc.)

• Fairy-tales (though not Disney)

• Mythology

• tarot cards

• top hats

• Sakura (cherry blossoms)

ANIMALS:

• peacocks (and peacock feathers)

• crows, quetzals, and just birds in general

• Dragons

• any mythological creatures (though not like super-cutesy/girly unicorns and fairies)

• dinosaurs

• woolly mammoths

• any long-extinct animal actually

• Octopuses (and yes that is the proper plural, "octopi" bugs me because it's pluralizing a word with Greek roots as though it were Latin)

• squid and nautilus

• Jellyfish and Ctenophores (comb jellies. Look 'em up, they're really neat)

COLOURS

• anything in the blue-green family

• silver

• dark purple and green in combination

FOODS

• I'd love to get foreign candy that I've never tried before. There's an Indonesian hard candy called "nano nano" that I like and can't really get here so more of it would be very welcome. European chocolate is much better than anything we get here--I'm particularly fond of kinder chocolates. Also, interesting flavours of Pocky would be wonderful--my favourite is Mango, which I can't find anymore. I'd really like any mango candy, actually. Also, anything maple or grapefruit (I just discovered tic-tacs come in grapefruit which makes me happy)

  • I fell in love which chicken flavoured potato chips (/crisps) when I was in Europe and I can't get 'em here

  • anything I've never tried before!

THINGS I'D LOVE TO RECIEVE

• Anything involving the themes I like

• I'm a casual kawaii collector and love things of that persuasion, particularly stickers. I like kawaii animals best, especially seals. Food with faces is cool, or anything random/weird, but not crazy about kawaii kids/people. Don't like hello kitty herself much but other than that no preferences as to brand or anything else.

• sealing wax (though not seals, I have a custom made seal and really don't use others)

• amigurumi's and handmade stuffed animals look absolutely adorable, I'd love to have one, although I can not crochet or sew myself.

• fingerless gloves. I wear 'em all the time because my hands are always cold

• metal bits and shiny things

• brads, esp. mini-brads

• broken/junk jewelry to take apart, particularly cameos, cameo frames, and lockets

• BPAL imps ears (particularly any from the steamworks collection)

• clock/watch parts

• hand drawn things

• ATCs, Inchies, Matchboxes, and anything that could be used to make them (though I have plenty of empty blank matchboxes now)

• embossing powders/supplies.

• Old things, particularly Victorian era (or older),

• vintage postcards and photos (reproductions are cool as long as they're nice prints, not all pixel-y)

• pretty paper esp. fancy origami paper (yuzen/chiyogami) or other fancy papers from other countries.

Note: I don't mean that I would be offended to receive any of these things, they're just probably not going to earn you a heart from me, though they won't keep me from giving one if I would anyway for the rest of the package. If I receive these things I will probably forward them on to someone who can make better use of them than me.

• I have athsma! If you are a smoker, please include an unscented dryer sheet with your swap (some kind of baking soda packet might work a well) as that does a lot toward getting rid of the residual smoke (even if you don't smell anything I promise you, I can).

• Not a big fan of really bright pink or orange, or of pastel colours in general, though all colours can be used well. Excessive pink like the barbie aisle in a toy store or like valentines stuff makes me cringe.

• anything baby related or little-kid-y (except dinosaur stuff and kawaii). Not planning on having kids anytime soon (maybe in a decade or so. Maybe.) and don't even want to think about it.

• Diddl. Just don't see the appeal.

• candy-wise, I don't like anything coconut or banana or anything licorice/anise-y, or artificial cherry or grape flavoured, and I don't really like gum or gummies.

• I don't drink coffee or tea and am not too fond of those flavours in other things.

• I don't really use sewing stuff. Thin ribbon and lace ok, I use 'em for ATC stuff every now and then, but I don't really use buttons, thread, yarn, fabric, etc.

• Scrapbooking die-cuts, letters, photo corners, etc. People keep sending me these and I don't know what to do with them.

• I have too many stickers so with the exceptions of kawaii or ones of dinosaurs, dragons, pocketwatches or top hats, I don't really need any more.

• I like religious imagery, but not when it's trying to convert me.

If you see anything here you are interested in and anything in the above wishlist section that you have and are willing to trade, PM me and we'll see about making a private trade. Note: Shipping costs are really an issue with me so I'd rather trade things in cheap-postage quantities.

• ATCs

• Inchies

• matchboxes

• paper goods/supplies for the above (I have a one inch square hole punch so cutting inchie blanks is easy for me as well).

• ATC sleeves

• Handmade jewelry

• Handmade pinback buttons/badges

• stickers

• marbles (though I'm leery of how much it would cost to ship a bunch of them)

• Postcards: I have lots of freebie art postcards from art openings including nearly unlimited ones of my dad's work (He's a professional printmaker working mostly in etching and mezzotint. You can view some of his work here: link ) Also, I have a book of American Girl postcards that I'm unlikely to use if anyone wants it.

• Any candy readily available in the US, and right now I have a decent selection of strange candy (mostly hard candies) from around the world of which I'm willing to share samplings. However, I'm a little afraid of postage costs for large packages so I'd rather do only small candy trades at the moment.