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My little boy broke his arm! So, any mother can tell that this is no fun for anyone, but for a three year old very active kid it is hell! I always have to tell him not to do this or that....it's no longer allowed to puddle in the water, or play in the sand, or climb up the treehouse cause he can't hold on the ladder propperly......so, anything that keeps him entertained in an "hazard-free" way is very welcome these days! And yes, he smiles here, but only because his mom told him to do so for the camera.......

I'm a 34 Year old mum of a 3 Year old little Boy called Jakob. We live in an 12o Years old house we bought just about a Year ago and we are still renovating. As far as it is nothing risky (like electricity or work on the roof) I try to do as much as possible on my own. My Husband is really a sweety, but he isn't really good with his Hands :o) As my profession is Occupational Therapist, I love everything I can get my fingers dirty with, so that fits!

By the time I'm very much into sewing, doing my first steps in Patchwork and Quilting and I'm knitting Socks (sometimes Hats or Gloves, but nothing bigger). I recently started Needlefelting and already love it! I'm totally mad about Fabric and craft magazines, I'm so glad we have a big Attic I can store all that stuff! I love anything about Color: Pencil, Crayons, Watercolor, Brushes, no matter what.

Canada and anything Canadian

Toronto

Snowflakes and Snowmen

Stars

Calvin & Hobbes

Winnie the Pooh (my fav. is Tigger, my son loves Eeyore)

Curious George

Krtek the mole

Marjolein Bastin

Pirates

Robots and Rockets

Chocolate - milk chocolate is my favourite.

Handmade/crafty things

anthroposophic Crafts

Fabric - I'm especially in love with those japanese kids fabrics and the old reprints! As I sew mostly small things, I like smaller prints better then big once. I like stripes and tiny Polkadots.

Ribbon

Scents: everything green and natural, like lemon, orange, green tea, fresh cut grass......

Flavours: chocolate, orange, mango,.....

I like warm, bright and earthy colors -my favourites are the range from red to warm yellow, moss green, olive and dark blue. This is for things that are in one color. I also like things that are crazy colored, e.g. something like stripes in Pink/Orange/Yellow/Turquoise although I don't like Pink and Turquoise as single color.

Herbal infusion Teas(no Mint or Sage please, still on homeopathics..)

Crafting Magazines - They pile up on our Attic!

T-Shirts with cool prints - I bring at least one T-Shirt from every Trip. I prefer the ones with room to move - XL mens is fine - but not those tight girly-Shirts! I recently like chocolate brown T-Shirts....

Did I mention the 80s? I like all stuff with Magnum P.I., The Fall Guy, A-Team, MASH, Fraggle Rock, Muppets, Flash Gordon, Ghostbusters, Goonies, Gremlins, Indiana Jones, The dark Crystal, Star Trek, Star Wars, Back to the future,....

Jim Henson - simply everything he made!

Environment-friendly stuff

Fair-Trade stuff

Organic Stuff

Vintage stuff is okay for me - just another form of recycling! But please, nothing with stains or holes.....

Coffee - I occasionally drink decaf.....

Black and green Tea

dark chocolate, Marzipan or Licorize

Peanut butter or thing containing peanut butter.

Cinnamon flavoured things. I love real cinnamon, but not the fake flavour that's found in candy etc.

Flowery heavy scents, patchouli, opium, vanilla and musk scents

Neon Colours and anything in the range of Pink/Purple/Turquoise

Any kind of Jewelry

sparkly/shiny/glittery things

Alcohol - I occasionally drink a Beer, but most time Alcohol free. I just don't like it.

Plasticbags

I'm not a girly girl so I don't have any taste for Make-Up, "Barbie" pink style, puppies, kittens, dolphins, and stuff like that.

I'm not really fond of Dotee Dolls, Blythe or sewed ATC's.

It's not really that I don't like them, but after just a few swaps I have a biiiig stash of Stickers, so no more STickers for me please....

My book tastes are all over the place, just about everything except Horror. My Faves are: - J.R.R. Tolkien - Douglas Adams - Robert Asprin - Dieter Kreutzkamp - Ellis Peters - Eric Malpass - Oliver Sacks - Henry David Thoreau - John Seymour - Leo Hickman - Diana Gabaldon - J.K. Rowling :o) - Astrid Lindgren - Sven Nordqvist - Janosch

And of course anything Crafty....

In case you want to send something for my little son, here is what he likes at the time:

• new: anything Wall-E!

• Elmo!

• Miffy

• Astronauts, Rockets, Spaceshuttles and Space (Anything with Corious George in Space is a big hit, we only saw some pictures on the internet)

• anything with construction sites and construction machinerie

• Firefighters and Emergency Medical Service

• Garbage Men and Garbage collection Cars

• Bob the Builder

• Animals, by the time it's Donkeys, Moles, dogs, cats, ducks and cows

• Anything with Cars, especially if they have a trailer

• anything his Mummy sews for him in boyish fabrics, such as with cars, excavators, Rockets and so on.

• T-Shirts with long arms (due to season reasons :o) with one of the above-mentioned (in German Sizes it's 92 by the time, probably 3T would work out well)

Otherwise I like to see him play with creative, imaginative Toys. I believe in good-old-fashioned make believe and in children's need to interact with simple, natural toys and crafts. ( This is where the Therapist comes through...)Many examples here

My husband Johannes is very much into baseball (Toronto Blue Jays). Here in Germany it is quite unknown, so anything related to Baseball (esp. Magazines) will be highly appreciated! Also he likes anything native american. He's quite a history freak and loves anything related to that.

Oh, just to mention: he's a vegetarian.

He is a selfemployed Tax consultant, but he is also a volunteer Paramedic and collects Patches and T-Shirts from EMS's around the world! We can set up a private Swap on that any time!

By the way, my little brother is a police-officer and a volunteer firefighter, he loves patches and T-Shirts, too. :o)

• Japanese Kids Fabric (something like the ones on superbuzzy.com :o)

• A Nasa T-Shirt - I had a dark blue one wich I bought Years ago in Houston, Johnson Space Centre, but it is totally worn out now....:o(

• Fabric with tiny Strawberries

• Clover Flower Head Pins

• Ribbon

• Bakers Twine

• Food with Faces

• a Bentobox for my nearly 3 Year old Son (so nothing pink, please, but also not those odd Manga-Anime-Action-Heroes, he would be afraid of those. Just anything cute....)

• Totoro or Domo-Kun T-Shirt (If it`s Asian Size, Mens XXL, please)

• Winnie the Pooh Band-Aid, the Paper-like or Tatoo like ones (I think that was NexCare, unless I'm mistaken), not this Plastic/Waterproof Stuff

• Cloth Paper Scissors Magazine (already got March/April 2008, Issue 17)

• Cloth Paper Scissors Studios Magazine

• Martha Stewart Living Magazines (already got Feb. 08)

• Martha Stewart Kids Magazines

• Country Marketplace Magazines

• ReadyMade Magazines

• Sesame Street Deco Tape

• Feltbeads any Size and Color

• Twizzlers - plain red ones ore the rainbow version - any of them!

• Nestlé Toll House Chocolate Morsels (Milk-chocolate, semisweet, white and of course chunks!)

• brown sugar, firmly packed (you can't get it here in Germany, just like them Morsels..)

• Topsy Turvy Tomato Planter, really want to try this!

• Blackbird Jubilee Fabric from Timeless Treasures - just love those cute dancing Blackbirds in their red shoes....

• Samba Fabric from Clothworks - I love just everything in this collection!

• Alien Invasion Fabric from Moda - I'm not to much into the big Aliens, but all those bright coloured Stars and Dots and Stripes and Chains.....

I can always and easily get anything Diddl, german candy, german gummibears, Kindereggs, Kinder Happy Hippos, german or swiss chocolate (e.g. Milka, Lindt, Toblerone, Ritter Sport), any german souvenir, german Diddl and Hello Kitty magazines,...... So, if you're interested in a private Swap, just send me a mail!

Found this one on the Profile of Drachenfrau and thought it was really good Thing to mention:

• I recycle envies and boxes. Means, if they are not broken I use them again to protect the environment. You can do this too when you send to me. :-)

• I also don't wrap the swaps I send in nice papers. They may look nice, but I think, they are not necessary. Another way to protect the environment. That doesn't mean, that I don't wrap them up carefully if necessary!

• I collect used stamps for Charity. They are payed per Kilo, so I would really appreciate it, if you put loooots of real stamps on the envies and boxes you send to me! Thanx!

Just because I was asked why so many Swap-Partners talk about getting two packages for one swap in my ratings: The stupid german Postsystem lets me mail out everything under 2kg for about € 12. Anything more than 2 kg just goes mad with the postage, like about € 35! So sometimes it is cheaper to mail out two parcels under 2 kg than 1 parcel with more than 2 kg. Hope that explains all those "strange" comments ...... it's not that I have to resend constantly!

BeccaBecca - Forums Tag: Profile Surprise and BentoBox Senddate February 2008- Weeatcrayons angeled for her, as this one was for my son! Thanx again!

lunagodesswithin - Suns, Moons and Stars Swap II Senddate March 18th 2008