ladydy5

UPDATED 2011:Being a senior citizen, I am retired with five grown children with 9 grands. and 2 ggrands. Love the mountains where I live. Worked for years at the telephone company. After retiring went 3 yrs. full time rving around the country then settled down (for awhile at least)

I love God, my country and am very patriotic. Please remember to vote this year, we need to make America strong once more.

Check our my daughter-in-laws page www.jenniferrothschild.com. Inspirational.

Tony Bennett, Bett Midler, Rod Stewart, Jennifer Rothschild. Saw Mamma Mia and Abba is now one of my favorites. Try walking with that music! Some old timers playing Jazz

Grease, Ghost,Dirty Dancing (I remember those days) old movies with Kate Hepburn and Spencer Tracy . If anyone has any of Kate's movies I would love to have them. Got a subscription to NetFlix from son at Christmas and I love it.

CSI, anything mysterious, HGTV of course. any of the crafty programs, Food TV, TCM, Top Chef, Top Designer. Bones has become my favorite.and I love the Mentalist - Mr. Jane, adorable man.

. My colors are mostly green shades and some blue. My kitchen and breakfast room are in pumpkin. . .. I also love to write. I keep journals, scrapbooks of my favorite things (don't need anymore).I write short stories and some of those are stories I made up for my grandchildren at bedtime when they were little. . I usually take pictures of what I make.My flikr account has a few on there or I putthings I do on my blog. www.ladydy5.blogspot.com. I like to photograph gravestones that are magnificently carved and take photos for people who are doing ancestry and requests them from cemetary places near my town

Like to do small fabric art 6 x 6 or 12x12 inches with themes or just abstract. I paint in watercolor or acrylic and love miniature art there also.

I love abstract art or Vincent Van Gogh's work. I love Metropolitan museum of Art in N.Y.C., it is unbelievable to walk thru. Favorite flower is the daisy Favorite colors are blue and green Favorite writer is Jennifer Rothschild (shes' my daughter in law) and for mysteries Patterson. Nicholas Sparks for romance. Love anything Boston Terrier I love semi-long pieced earrings. I can always use nice pens for writing . ONE MORE IMPORTANT THING:: I no longer do ATC's so I don't need any stickers at all. Still like note cards and postcards. Do not need any more FABRIC either. Some are sending me stickers, please don't there are other small items that can be sent in a general swap. I do not like cute little things or disney stuff either. Am I a pain?

POSTCARDS I started getting a few state postcards and decided to start a collection to see if I can get them all. The ones that have the shape of the State on them. This is my project for my little grandson and I hope to complete it before he becomes my big grandson. :)

I HAVE THESE:

Arizona,

Florida,

Tennessee,

California , Hawaii,

Louisiana,

Massachusetts,

North Carolina,

Indiana,

Nebraska,

Missouri,

Maine,

Georgia,

Alabama,

Colorado,

Michigan,

Oklahoma,

Oregon ,

Pennsylvania,

Ohio,

\Viriginia,

Maryland,

Washington ,

Texas,

New York

That is 25 states only need 25 to go. HELP! I would love to have the rest of the USA if anyone wants to trade a state map postcard for others I have animals, birds, cities etc. Please send in an envelope too, thanks.

EDITED because I am angry: I just asked a swapper who had a long list of Quick swaps international if she would mind if I did it but for USA. She told me NO! I could not take her idea. i THOUGHT I was giving her a compliment but she became rude. So, I told her she had no right to tell me I couldn't do certain swaps thus I have put up my own. They are listed as Fast Send and Return - USA. I hope USA swappers sign up.

People who commit to a project but disregard it. Cheats, people who say one thing and will do the opposite. Takers instead of givers. Hate ignorance as it is so easy to be swayed by others when you don't know the truth. People who are rude and make up their own rules about what they receive from other swappers.

In my swaps that I coordinate I am very interested in seeing that swappers receive.Saying this, I check profiles and keep up with the send date and send reminders. THRIFTSTORE SWAP followers. Great swap. If you get me to swap I just love anything that is from the 40's - 50's , jewelry too. Just send something neat.

April 17 2010, I had to put my beloved sweet Miss Kitty to sleep. She was 20 yrs. old and hurting. It was a difficult choice to make. . I had a darling boston terrier that I adore and she was 16 yrs.August, Petie, short for Petunia. Pets are wonderful but losing them quite difficult.

My beloved Petie is gone. She is resting or playing with all those others that have gone before her. It so difficult to let go. 11/10/08

12/30./08 For those who love our pets I just want you to know that I couldn't stand not having my Boston. Got another one 6 mns. old named Katie and now I feel better.

Mostly sewing now as I just love the color and prints fabric has. Would love to bead but just haven't had the mood to do it.)

Find making quilties fun. There are like small quilts that can be sewn together to make a wall hanging. Gives me incentive to make a lapquilt .Prefer to do small stuff rather than large quilts as I am not a perfectionist,and I get intimidate by them. I need instant gratification in my work and large quilting takes too much time. Love doing quilt blocks using selvages from fabric or making string blocks. Have made a top of a lap quilt out of selvage stringts, love it. Going to do another. I have made lap quilts for all my grandchildren - Whew! Thats done now on to myself. But how many can a person have?

I started to use wax to stamp my envelopes close. I would love it if someone found stamping wax or a stamp to use on the wax. I received one in a swap and love it, so now I am hooked.

Things I would like:

Sealing Wax and/or stamps (see crafts)

DVD of ' Old Movies,

Miniature art,

Writing pens colors or just black,

Sargent Watercolor Fabric crayons (for painting on fabric

Gray cats (not real of course or stuffed),

Boston Terrier anything,

Pie Birds( used when baking pies to let steam escape in the old days),

Pretty Computer stationery

, Homemade envelopes , 40's or 50's tablecloths,

Love anything vintage.

Aprons,

Tea,

State Map Postcards (SEE THE LIST i HAVE)

Old Postcards (Vintage)

and ......

Chocolate