Lexidh

May 20th: I know it seems like I'm not around much, but I'm here, I do the bare minimum to keep my swaps going and that's all I can handle at this point =( Keeping up with drama and groups and all that is too much to ask right now. I'd love to talk to you guys one on one, but I really don't know who would understand how I'm feeling right now. I hope most of you haven't got a clue! I try to be somewhat normal, but a weekend of being social leaves me completely out of order for 1 1/2 weeks, so it's not easy. (it was totally worth it!) Spent an hour in an MRI machine earlier this month, hopefully that will give the specialist I'm seeing soon some answers about my leg pain, but that's not what's really bothering me, it's just an "added bonus"...

March 6th: In serious pain, adding a new diagnosis to the list... Brain fog unavoidable, please let me know when (not if) I f*ck up something.

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My Christmas swaps are mostly hosted ---> here

READ THIS BEFORE CONTACTING ME:

• Know that I suffer from Fibromyalgia and answer messages sporadically. I never know how much pain I'm going to be tomorrow or next week. You can read more about this further down in my profile, just know that I'm not ignoring anyone on purpose, me logging in to check on things does not mean I'm up for answering messages =/

• If I send mail late on Friday it's probably not postmarked until Monday. You would think that with our postage prices everything would go quickly, but it's just the opposite =(

• Try to communicate with your partner before contacting me as the host.

• I do not need to know about swaps that are being sent on time, but if you are going to send late I need to know up front.

• If I haven't rated I haven't received. Asking about it won't help with that ;P

• Read the site FAQ if you don't know how this site works. I'm not an admin, and I'm not a helpdesk. I will not, and can not, help you swap. You have to make an effort!

If there is something else; contact me, please =)

I take swapping very seriously. Much of my time here on swap-bot is spent hosting swaps, and keeping up with the goings on so I can protect the participants in my swaps safe from flaking and drama. I'm part of the SB Detectives group and I'm a very active member of the Flakers and Other Problem Swappers (also known as FOPS) group. I don't do drama, I do honest swapping, and if you can't do that, just stay away from me and all my swaps and groups.

Swapping is about trust. If I don't feel like I can trust that someone will behave themselves and/or send their swap on time and according to the swap requirements, I will ban them. I despise flakers, double profilers, drama queens and self absorbed bitches like you wouldn't believe it, but if you REALLY want to piss me off; just lie to me. I can hold a grudge forever and a day, so don't even try it.

If you have a problem with how I host, please write it on a piece of paper, fold it nicely and shove it up your @$$.

My address is no secret:

Lexidh Solstad

Lotterudvegen 11a

2390 Moelv

Norway

My e-mail is: lexidh@gmail.com

If you need a phone number for a shipment trough a needy carrier, use: +47 90788378 (replace the + with any number of 0's needed if it doesn't handle the + or has to have a certain number of numbers)

I'm a sci-fi loving, crafty, full time geek (and crazy cat lady), married to another strange individual (crazy cat man), with no kids (by choice), but of course a lot of cats that makes me crazy. We have found our limit at four cats at once, after trying to live with six at a time for shorter periods of time.

Most of the time I like my cats, but a lot of the time they are like this:

Cats only a really crazy cat lady could love. I'm not always crazy enough.

I live in Norway, a weird country in northern Europe, where everything is expensive, everyone is a socialist and the winter is 6 months long. Moving from Norway is not an option, but I do need some nice, long vacations to warmer places.

I LOVE Christmas, although we celebrate Jul, which is kinda the same with gifts and food and lights and trees and all, but we open our gifts in the evening on the 24th and it has nothing to do with religion. I love advent calendars with gifts in them. I give out lots of them to friends and family, so I use a lot of time and effort on that during the year. Shopping for them is an all year event, I can't help myself! Thankfully I've met some just as crazy people here on swap-bot that likes to swap advent calendars with me =)

Defining my love of life: ** Sleeping cats ** Games where I have to build something ** Android ** Star Trek, Stargate and other long sci-fi series ** ASMR videos ** Norwegian (hot) chocolate ** Strawberries ** Animated movies (not Asian) ** Bathing in a tub of a bit too hot water ** Chewing ice cubes ** Dogs that does not know me, but loves me anyway ** Walking out of a plane that just landed in a place that is 30C warmer than where you departed from ** Fulfilling a week long craving ** Cold water on a hot scalp ** A cat purring so hard you can feel it in your whole body ** Fresh linens on a warm body ** The “5 more minutes” of sleep ** Opening a present ** The owl in The Sword in the Stone (Disney) ** The last stitch on a huge cross stitch project ** How predictable my cats are ** Big German cars ** Eeyore mugs ** Watching fish swim in an aquarium ** Traveling to London ** A finished Sumdoku board ** Capybaras ** New craft supplies ** Living in a place with no natural disasters ** Green and purple ** Spoiling others ** Reading in the bathtub * MAIL!

I've now been a member of swap-bot for over three years!

This is my stats for the first year:

Completed 328 swaps with 496 ratings of 5. Perfect 5.0 rating score, 367 hearts and 101 stars.

My stats after two years:

Completed 1196 swaps with 1565 ratings of 5. Perfect 5.0 rating score, 1247 hearts and 606 stars.

My stats after three years:

Completed 1911 swaps with 2620 ratings of 5. Perfect 5.0 rating score, 2089 hearts and 1155 stars.

If I get an item in a swap I don't feel the need to keep, either because it's not my style, I don't have space for it, I have too much of the same thing and so on, I will send it to someone else. I am not a hoarder of things I see no use for in my future, that is why I'm swapping! I expect others to do the same, and I will not get mad if I get something back I've sent out before. I try not sending something back to where I got it from, but I can't guarantee it not happening.

I also reuse packaging, not so much because of the earth needing saving (the planet is fine, it's the people that are f*cked), but it saves money. EVERYTHING in Norway is expensive.

If you get a swap from me you are not happy with what you got: please contact me. But remember: Norway is one of the most expensive countries on the planet. You can hardly get anything worth sending for 5$ here. It's very hard to know what someone expects to get for $5 when you haven't even been to the US. Example: One big glass bead for jewelry making will cost more than $5 here. I'm not trying to rip someone off, I just need some guidance from time to time!

Postcards - I have stopped doing postcard swaps other than a few animal card swaps and Christmas themed ones, and that leaves me with a lot of cards I don't need. Let me know if there is something you are looking for, I have a lot of different themes!

Tea bags - I've got tea from all over the world, but I don't collect.

Drink mixes, hot and cold - Got a lof of these from all over the world too!

Norwegian book pages - Unlimited supply!

Postage stamps - I have loads and loads of Norwegian postage stamps, more than you can imagine, and I've also got a LOT of stamps to trade by theme; Olympic Games, Christmas and all kinds of animals.

Almost anything from my Etsy-like store (it's a Norwegian site) is up for private trade! Link at the top of my profile! I'm hoping to add new stuff to the shop quite often in 2013! Here are a few photos from that shop:

I do a lot of arts and crafts:

• Scrapbooking (Cats in 12x12", vacations in both 12x12” and 8x8", recipe book in 8x8")
• Card making (Christmas, birthday, confirmations and weddings mostly)
• Photography (Not much anymore because of health issues)
• Jewelry making (Anything!)
• Candle and soap making (in molds)
• Cross stitching (mostly Christmas and cute)
• Sewing (stuffed animals, cat toys and other small projects)
• Resin, embedding my photos on small items (only pill boxes so far)
• All kinds of Christmas ornaments
• ATC’s (if I have the time, I usually don’t...)

And a lot more! I make about 90% of all Christmas presents I give to friends and family, usually a big box with different items for decorating and using around the house for Christmas.

Not at all into: All things that include yarn (I’m hopeless at it all!), baking pretty things (food should taste good, doesn’t matter what it looks like to me), all things confetti (what a mess...).

Books

I read a lot, 4-10 books every month, mostly crime and thriller novels in bed, and short stories and cartoons in the bathroom. The more gory and horrible the better when it comes to crime and thrillers... I also adore the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, and I've read the Stephanie Plum series which I loved. I've also read the House of Night series, really liked it, but one vampire series is enough for me thankyouverymuch. Right now I have about 40 books in my "read this"-list on my Kindle, and 2 meters of book-shelf to get trough, so I'm not really searching for new reading material at this point. I've got a goal to read 100 books by 2014, so hopefully I've managed to make some room by then.

I love books about animals, mostly cats, and I have a quite large collection of cartoons, mostly from Norway and USA. Combine the two and I'm in heaven =) Like Simons Cat!

I can't stand romance novels, books that don't get a chuckle out of me at some point in the first 50 pages, and series where the "hero" is in life threatening situations all the time, because you know he will survive.

Music

I'm the kind of music lover that annoys the crap out of most people working with music, I usually never like more than one or two songs on an album, and that's not enough for me to buy the whole thing ;P

Common for most of the songs that I love is that it has either very good lyrics, or a good baseline that keeps me moving. My favorite songs fluctuate from month to month, so I'm not giving you a list, but I'm into almost all genres, heavy metal, country, classic crooners, techno, soul, pop and rock. But if I have to choose a decade I'd go with the 80ties.

Listening to music has become harder, I don't have VH1, last.fm does not work in Norway anymore and I'm not driving too much.

Movies

I love Disney Classics (have almost every single of those), other animated movies, sci-fi, thrillers, action and some old classics. I also like musicals (old and new), and long sci-fi and detective series.

I don't have many funny DVD's, so that would be great to receive =) I do NOT need any subtitles/subtext, as long as the spoken language is English/Norwegian/Swedish/Danish, and my DVD player is zone free, so it can play DVD's from anywhere in the world without a problem. (if you google your own DVD player's make and model you will probably find a code to make it zone free too!) We also have a BluRay player =)

TV

We watch a lot of TV, much of it news on news channels (mostly CNN and the Norwegian Nyhetskanalen) and VH1, some sports but also a lot of TV series. Here is a list:

Sci-fi. Chrime and thrillers. Sci-fi. Reality like Kate + 8 and Sister Wives (people who have very different lives of our own). Sci-fi. Science without fiction And a bit more sci-fi. Did I mention sci-fi?

Of course, all my favorite shows are canceled. Because they are sci-fi! Stargate and Star Trek are most missed, but my collection of DVDs are growing. One can always see it again and again and again and again...

I'm not very well actually... I've had pain in my arms since I was 12, back since 15 (although my mom insists that this started much earlier, I don't want to listen) and the rest has just followed... I have the irritating diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, which is like having the flu all the time, just not any snot. You feel terrible, need a lot of sleep, everything is painful and you can't do stuff you want to, and there is the trouble of not knowing what days are going to be good or bad. Planning is hard. Some days my only activity during the whole day is a trip to the toilet. I usually manage to get out of bed, to the couch, but getting out of it again is harder. In february 2009 I fell down some stone stairs in a shopping mall, and broke my spine. That is not helping with anything... I have to take lots of pain killers, some of which numb my brain. But it's -so- worth it, if I don't take them I just cry and cry and cry. I'm not getting any better, the fracture in the spine probably did some nerve damage, and fibromyalgia isn't possible to cure. I was also hurt in a fire in our house in december 2009 (what a year...) My burn wounds are going away, as of now all my wounds (both arms and face) has healed nicely, except some scars on my left hand that I probably will have to live with.

So... I can't work. And I can't do much of anything else really. But since I have a lot of hobbies and friends I don't get bored. I can chat with my friends online, and make stuff when I have a good day. I can't sit still on a chair for long, but I manage to get some things done anyway =)

I have to concentrate on the little things in life, and getting mail is one of my favorite things in the world =) Swap-bot makes my days better!

This wish list is long. I’ve sorted it into themes, I’ve also got a Please don’t send-list, it's at the end. With a wishlist that long I would be quite disheartened to get something from my don't send list...

MOST WANTED!

• I'm adding stuff to my etsy wish list all the time. Anything from or inspired by my etsy wish list would make me very happy =) http://www.etsy.com/people/Lexidh/favorites
• Loose Lady Grey tea in a tin and/or a tin that says Lady Grey!
• Mail themed rubber stamps.
• StazOn blue stamp pad to stamp "Airmail" on my envelopes (so not light blue)
• Wire to make jewelry with, like 1-2mm thick, coated would be great too. Especially in silver color!
• Chocolate covered raisins
• VitaKraft and Whiskas Cat Sticks. Figaro does not eat them, he more like inhales them, and he is getting a bit too skinny. The old boy needs some extra care =)
• Patterns for making plushies, especially animals (cats, snails, dragons and sea creatures are my favorites)
• Knorr Burritos spice mix. Only that brand, and both packages from the box! No need to send the box or the tortillas. This is not for sale anymore in the northern parts of Europe, but the Netherlands has it!
• Pink glass beads, any shade. Not tiny seed beads please (large seed beads are more than welcome!), anything from 4mm and up are great!
• Lemon ice tea drink mixes, I haven't met any I don't like. Any size, sugar free or not!
• Seed beads that are big. 3-4mm in diameter, size 6/0 is my favorite! I can never have enough of them. Any color, any mix of colors! Like these: Hobby Lobby (damn you Hobby Lobby for not shipping outside of the US!)
• Silhouette CAMEO stuff, like cutting blades, mats, vinyl, fabric stuff, everything off their site really. Only thing I have got is the CAMEO itself, regular blade, mat and a few pens. Other than that I'm just drooling. I do not need download cards though, I've got a subscription!
• Snowflake, heart and tag paper punches in all kinds of sizes.
• Cross stitch kits that is turned into something, like an advent calendar(!), a pocket mirror with a decorated back, trinket box with decorated lid, stuff like that. Anything but bookmarks really (got lots of patterns for those). I love those small projects that easily become something pretty and useful =)
• Invasion - The Complete Series (2006) on DVD, any zone.
• Thread from DMC and Anchor in any colors (for cross stitching)
• Tapestry needles in size 26 and 24
• 2 and 4 hole buttons in white and purple =)
• White aida to cross stitch on. I'd like other colors too, but white is the color I use the most.
• Enchanter and Fizzbanger bath bombs from Lush! I can't even get the Enchanter here in Norway, and the nearest Lush store is not exactly what you would call near...
• LEGO kits and any loose parts. Hey, I'm never growing up, and LEGO keeps me firmly at 9 years old. My husband is just as nuts about LEGO as me. I haven't got any of the current small kits, the ones I have are from the 80ties! Lego City and Creator are my favorites. I'm currently putting together all my old kits.

CRAFTS WISHES

• 8x8" and larger (scrapbooking) paper.
• Aqua markers from Promarker. I have none. And any other pens that blend with water really.
• Chains for jewelry making, any size and lenght
• Elastic molds for candle and soap making, especially 3D molds in a Christmas theme! No ice cube molds!
• Chunky alphabets for scrapbooking. Large or small, in any color and material; fabric, plastic, wood, cork, metal, chipboard and so on. I also make good use of leftovers and single letters. If I could I would use chunky letters on all my scrapbooking pages!
• Any kind of medium/small thing I can embed my photos in and seal with resin. No tiny pendants please, I want to show off my photos!
• Wedding texts/sayings/poems/quotes/anything text to put on a wedding card, fun ones too! Anything from vellum to rubber stamps is wanted =) I do NOT need any kind of other wedding scrapbooking supplies, my own wedding album is finished!
• Scrapbooking paper and embellishments for my albums, I make scrapbooks in three themes; Cat, Travels and Food.
• Lobster clasps from 11mm and larger (anything up to 50mm would be useful!), all types of colors
• Gold, black and brass colored pins for fastening beads. Any length, width and tips!
• Metal charms and pendants for jewelry making.
• 6mm and 7mm jump jump rings for jewelry making, silver is good, but everything else is better, especially black!
• Glass beads for jewelry making. Any color or shape, just not too small, I can't use the tiniest seed beads because I can't hold them steady.
• Prima-type flowers for scrapbooking. From the smallest up to about 6cm in diameter.
• Stamp carving blocks
• 2 and 4 hole buttons in all colors! Especially white and purple =)
• Self adhesive half pearls in any color
• Christmas craft items, anything!
• Aida, any size, color and count
• Towels of any size with a strip or patch of aida to cross stitch on. Any color, but white and christmas colors are best.
• Penny Black Birthday stamps! They are just the cutest!
• Ultra thin sharpies in any color (also black)
• Tape runners for scrapbooking, any kind
• Cotman Water Colors, those tiny tiny aquarelle pieces, especially reds, greens and browns.
• Xyron 150 Create A Sticker refills
• Post extenders for post bound albums. Anything, up to 50mm! My albums are thick!
• Glue Dots items, any sized dot/vellum glue. Only permanent ones though, when I glue it's meant for life, so no removeables!
• Rubber stamps. Anything really, it's an obsession. I reswap what I don't put into my collection quite easily =)
• Ribbon, all colors and most themes (please no Halloween, US flag patterns and baby)
• Stuff for making jewelry, anything goes really, I try it all!
• Cross stitch kits (christmas/cats/cute), patterns, magazines (I have a lot of the ones from the UK), needles and thread. Even that cross stitch project you never will finish (the whole thing, no matter if you have started to sew or not). The only thing I don't need is hoops.
• Cute fabric, especially with hearts or cats on it.
• Organza bags in all colors and sizes.
• Blank, sturdy notecards for decorating. If they have envelopes it's even better!
• Felt in sheets, any color, but white, green, red, brown and black would be super!
• Plastic clear ornaments for decorating

HOUSEHOLD NEEDS:

• A floating ladle
• Herb scissors
• Big cups/mugs, especially tea, sci-fi and Eeyore themed
• Band aids that are not plastic, but more like the tape you use to fasten the cotton ball after taking a blood test. If they have a cute motive it's even better =)
• Lady Grey tea
• Fun tea infusers
• DYI tea bags (the kinds you fill with loose tea)
• Cat toys with catnip in them
• Happy Hippo Kinder candy for my husband
• Hershey's Take 5 Pretzel Milk Chocolate Candy for my husband
• Bath fizz/bombs. The bigger the better! Any fruit smells would be perfect. My favorites are the Fizzbanger and Enchanter from Lush, but I know they are expensive. I'm sure others have made cheaper versions!
• EOS lip balm (those round ones) in Tangerine or Lemon
• Green things to keep in the bathroom and/or put in the tub. My bathroom is white with green details =)
• Funny things to put in the aquarium
• Licorice for my husband
• Magnetic pads to write shopping lists on (no more Christmas themed ones please!)
• Hot chocolate and tea discs for Tassimo coffee maker! Any brand and taste, I'll find my favorites at some point, but I still haven't found something I dislike!
• Socks size regular womans foot. All kinds but those short socks that hardly sticks out of a running shoe, they just slip off! I like soft socks, fluffy socks, funny socks, striped socks and especially warm socks! Favorite colors on socks: black, grey, green, purple, blue and brown. Other colors will have a hard time finding something to be washed with...
• Magnetic tins like the "BoBunny Magnetic All Stuck Up"-tins. Empty or full, filled with something other than it where, split into several rooms inside, it does not matter to me. If it's a tin with a magnet under it and a lid that has a window I'm happy =)

SWAPPING NEEDS:

• Wide packing tape of any kind (paper/fabric/duct/plastic/washi and so on) with some kind of pattern, especially mail patterns!
• Christmas wrapping tissue paper
• Very small sticky notes, with room to write a word or two.
• Address lables with my address and e-mail on them
• Stickers, any theme really, but cute is good! I use a lot of stickers on my mail =) Cats and flowers are my favorite sticker themes. And smileys! And hearts. And dogs... and and and!
• Tape with any kind of pattern (deco tape)
• Envelopes, any size. I have a label writer, so I don't need them to be in a light color =) Go wild!
• New ATC sleves.

COLLECTIONS:

• Postage stamps from any and all countries (or fake places) in the themes I collect; Cats (any cat, wild or domestic), Olympics (and Paralympics and all other stamps with the Olympic rings on them) and Christmas (not religious, but Santa and snowmen and all the nice happy stuff).
• Cat themed ATCs!
• Capybara themed ATCs (most people go "capa-what?!”, don’t feel stupid if you do too ;P)
• Norwegian postage stamps. Even those I've used to send a swap to you! I have huge holes in my Norwegian stamps collection.
• Money banks shaped like a cow. Any size! I also like money bank frogs, but they have to be green, and pigs, but they have to be small. Cows can be any color.

OTHER OBSESSIONS:

• Advent calendars for/with gifts, or postcard advent calendars, and any vintage and elaborated reusable ones, like with small books or drawers and such. Also any pattern or kit that makes an advent calendar would be great =) I love to learn new crafts, and I'm hopelessly addicted to advent calendars of all types.
• A Charmmy Kitty plushie or figurine or snowglobe. I'm NOT into Hello Kitty!! But one of my cats (the one in my avatar) looks quite like Charmmy Kitty (if he is in the right mood), that's why I want some cute white kittyness =)
• Christmas snowglobes (wrapped and sent like they where to be sent trough war, which is similar to how they treat mail in most countries)
• Books about and with cats/dogs/pets in general
• Stuff from thinkgeek.com, especially the bacteria plushies!
• Easy Photo Packs for Canon Selphy ES printers. Any kind =)
• Diddl figurines, snowglobes and fridge magnets
• Tatty Teddy/Miranda bear/Me to you bear figurines, plushies, ornaments, snowglobes and mugs
• Eeyore plushies, socks, jewelry, fridge magnets, mugs and snowglobes
• Discworld items that are not books (I have those!)
• Mauri Kunnas Christmas themed items. Not into the rest of his stuff, it's Christmas for me!
• Tiny books (on anything)

NO THANKS! PLEASE DON'T SEND!

• Postcards and notecards, I'm swimming in them, and I hardly use any.
• Calendars and date books. I've got my phone, my puppy wall calendar that I get each year (from seeing eye dog donations) and my super cute Simons Cat book, that's all I need!
• Stuff with an L on it, it can be cute, but it's not something I use. Having changed my name several times I'm just not that "connected" with my initials.
• Candy and other things to eat unless it's on my wish list (if it's on my wish list it's probably for my husband, you are of course allowed to spoil him!)
• Paperclips
• Key rings. I have 3 keys, my house, my mothers apartment and my car, and at least 50 key rings...
• Bookmarks. I have so many beautiful hand made book marks made by swap-bot crafters now! And I also have a Kindle...
• Bags, purses and pouches
• Candles
• Lip balm that is not EOS lip balm from my wish list. I only have one set of lips!
• Soap (bubble bath and fruit smelling body wash from Body Shop not included!)
• Tags, all kinds, including luggage tags!
• Confetti, fimo slices and other teeny tiny things like that. Can't use them because of my hands not being steady enough =( And my cats eat it.
• Bag clips, don't you think we have that in Norway or something?
• Drink mixes, tea bags, hot chocolate, coffee, all kinds of hot and cold drinks, unless they are on my wish list.
• ANY kind of traveling bags or lists or sheets that are not about postage stamps. I don't even want to pass them on.
• Recipes, especially those who include some kind of brand of something that I can't get here. I usually can't, we don't have the same brands in Norway as most other countries.
• Packs of tissues, I have sooooo many!
• Nail stickers.
• Sudoku mags/sheets (I have way too much, and I prefer Sumdoku, but no sheets of that either please!)
• Souvenirs of all types! (Absolutely no need for them, I buy my own when I travel!)
• swap cards. I've got boxes and boxes from Vistaprint!
• Notepads and notebooks (I'm swimming in them!)
• Cosmetics like makeup, creams, masks and such, unless it's on my wish list (usually not). I hardly use any.
• Coffee or things tasting and smelling like coffee.
• Huge earrings
• Gold colored jewelry
• Mouse pads (I use a trackball mouse)
• Rubons (I hate them, they hate me)
• Eyelets (never found a use for them, I like brads!)
• Strong magnets (fridge magnets are ok, magnet toys and jewelry is not)
• Religious items (I think religion is a very personal matter and I am not into sharing, sorry!) That includes angels and religion based Christmas stuff.
• Knitted things and knitting supplies (unless it's socks!)
• Highlight pens, normal pens, pencils, erasers and pencill sharpeners. I have a big box of extras of these things already.
• Baby and princess scrapbooking stuff
• Embroidery that is not half or cross stitch (I suck!)
• Things smelling of smoke. It's not about hating cigarettes, it's about the memories of the fire I've been trough.
• Things smelling of peppermint, or banana. Peppermint = tooth paste, Banana = never good as a fake smell.
• Dust bunnies. I have my own herd, thank you very much ;P
• Napkins that are not in a full and sealed package.
• Halloween stuff, all kinds. I don't do halloween, it's not part of our culture at all, even though the shops tries to insist that it should be.
• Bubble stickers, unless they are made for scrapbooking. I use a lot of stickers on the outside of my mail, and bubble stickers tend to just fall off in transit. That's no fun!
• Embroidery hoops. Never used them, probably never will. I can't use my shoulder when stitching, so I fold the fabric.
• Embroidery cloth that is not aida. It's never pretty when I'm done ;P I need those big holes!
• "Pens" for phones and such. Whatever would I need these for in this day and age?! Touchscreens people! Fingers! Some are usefull for crafts, but let me assure you; i have enough.
• Iphone and other Apple stuff. I'm an Android kind of girl.
• Tiny seed beads. I love them from the size 6/0 and up (3-4mm), but the tiny ones I can't use, because I can't hold them (bad hands).
• Ice cube molds. I don't use them for crafting, and my lovely big shiny fridge has an ice maker.

When sending a package to Norway it's important to add a custom declaration sticker, and fill it out right. There you tell what is in the package, and it's value. If the value is to high (above 30 US dollars) I have to pay taxes if it's not marked properly as a gift. And if there is no custom declaration someone will open the package and sort trough it to see if I have to pay for it. As you can imagine; that takes a lot of time. If you can't get these stickers; let me know, I'll send you some =)

I also ALWAYS send out the packages, mostly as soon as I get my partner(s), or save up to send a huge batch at once, trying to save on postage in case I get the same partner for more than one swap (that happens very often!). So if you haven't received a swap from me; tell me! I will resend if it's a month since I sent it, no worries =) Unless I'm dead (or in a coma) you will get your package, one way or the other. I think I proved that in 2009 while I was badly burned and left homeless by a fire and still managed to get everything in order.

Communication and trust is very important here at swap-bot. I know that many are afraid of the drama and hostility that is involved with rating down to a 3 when the swap has been sent too late according to the send by date, but there shouldn't be any drama involved at all. If a swap isn't sent on time it didn't meet the swap requirements, and that's the end of it. It doesn't matter if you have a reason for sending late or not, your partner might give you a break, but don't expect it, especially if your partner has no idea that the swap is late before he or she see the postmark on the envelope/package. Rate fairly! It is the most important tool we have here at swap-bot.

NO FLAKERS (yet) IN 2013 ;P

Hall of shame (not angeled swaps) from 2012:

@starrynite4ever - QUICK paper craft swap #44 (at least 5 different paper craft items, about $5 value)

Any and all angels would be very much appreciated! Thanks to @Happygirl , @Lizard , @Miabiff , @toothteri , @Pookledo , @patumma , @annim and @hanjiwest for angeling flaked swaps from 2012!

Hall of shame (not angeled swaps I would still like to get) from 2011:

@ILOVEbuttons - No-Spending Swap, at least 5 items and value of $10

@sickodoodle - Scrapbooking Supplies - at least 15 different type of things for scrapbooking

@sickodoodle - QUICK Cross stitch charts swap #10 (at least 2 medium sized charts)

@VanillaBabe - QUICX-mas Cross stitch kit swap #19 (medium sized kit)

Thank you @Lizard , @Miabiff , @avarenity , @rhynah , @keahirada , @patumma , @toothteri and @Marryth for angeling swaps from 2011 at some point in 2012! And extra thank you's to @Miabiff for continuing to make this list shorter and shorter in 2013 =)

There are a lot of people that are making this site so much more enjoyable for me! I'll list some of them here =)

@notme78 - Her help with the QUICK swaps keeps me sane!

@patumma and @toothteri - It's always such a treat to get mail from them, even though it takes forever for it to get here ;P

@Miabiff - Most awesome advent calendars, and angels in 2012!

@annim and @hanjiwest - Thank you so much for angeling that whole advent calendar, and making it such a great one!

@Moosecastle , @VivaLaDiane , @cajunhillbilly , @Paige1900 , @WystericalViolets and @kittenred Just you being you is more than awesome enough to make this list =)

@TC - What would this site be without you? We don't want to figure that out. Ever. If you ever leave, it's over.

2013 extra lovely swaps received:

Peas 2013 Sweet-Pea swap #1 from @Pazia82 - Sent the most awesome craft supplies and a water bottle cozy. The beads where so pretty I wanted to eat them. (that could have been interesting, but I didn't ;P)

QUICK 5 somethings #52 from @Lizard - Did not only send the most awesome selection of awesomeness (cat book, paw stickers, pet shampoo, travel themed paper, a set of the cutest little ornaments, funky big buttons and a necklace), but also angeled 4 swaps in the most heartwarming way =)

not-so-QUICK Happy mail x2 #29 from @anicka22 - The lyrics to my version of "these are a few of my favorite things" song would include 6/0 seed beads, chipboard alphabet and Knorr Burritos mix =) Happy mail indeed!

not-so-QUICK 50 stamps x5 swap #120 from @Yahen - Sent more than 50 stamps for my collections, mostly Olympic themed stamps, and I hadn't even seen any of them before! Doesn't get any better than that when it comes to postage stamp swaps =)

QUICK Happy mail #30 from @Eveline - Sent a bit of everything that I love, stamps, craft supplies of all sorts, burritos, and totally made that day for me. Some days you need happy mail more than others, and this was absolutely one of those days.

QUICK 5 Somethings #57 from @lexfrog - Sent a truly great package with aida, beads, 3D paper flowers, travel themed embellishments, ATC sleeves, buttons and the coolest cat fabric ever!

not-so-QUICK flat destash x2 swap #63 from @ReneeK - By far the most useful flat destash ever, with lovely craft supplies, envelopes and just the kind of stickers I love the most to use on my mail =)