Mello

Hi there, I'm Mello!
I'm an Occupational Therapist, working mum of a 15 years old Boy and wife to a selfemployed taxadvisor. As OT I love everything creative I can get my fingers dirty with!
I'm very open minded and a strong believer of equal rights for everyone. I don't like people telling me what is right or what I have to believe - I want to draw my own picture and decide for myself. I'm a protester and speak up when I face injustice. I feel that I have to show my son that it is necessary to take a stance. I‘m proud to support my kid as a parents-for-future activist.

I love sewing and I'm knitting Socks (sometimes Hats or Gloves, but nothing bigger). 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. I like to doodle but I don't do scrapbooking or stuff like that, so I have no use for that kind of supplies.

I couldn't crochet if it meant my life! Whenever I try, it just turns out as a brick - good enough as a rough potholder, but that's it. So nothing crocheting for me pretty please.....

SciFi - I love Star Trek, from the original Series to the newest Enterprise Movie. Firefly to bad it never made it to another season..... Star Wars here I'm more for the classic 70s Trilogy though. Hitchhikers guide through the galaxy, Stargate Atlantis, Torchwood - Series 1 & 2 are my favorite. And Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant will always be my favorite Doctors!

Canada, esp. Toronto and anything Canadian

Snowflakes

Dandelions

Stars

Calvin & Hobbes

Krtek the mole

Pippi Langstrumpf

Heather Ross

Tone Finanger

Kaffee Fassett

Andy Goldsworthy

Mailart

Pirates, Robots and Rockets

Chocolate - milk chocolate is my favourite.

Handmade/crafty things

anthroposophic Crafts

Fabric - from japanese kids design over retro to novelty, anythings for me, I prefer cotton and cottonjersey.

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

Flavours: chocolate, orange, mango, pineapple, lemon.....

I like warm, bright and earthy colors -my favourites are the range from dark red to warm yellow, moss green, olive, chocolate brown and really dark blues. When it comes to clothing I prefer the dark colors - greens, blues, browns, greys and black.

Craft Magazines

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!

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

Jim Henson - simply everything he made!

Environment-friendly

Fair-Trade

Organic

handmade with love

Vintage is okay for me - just another form of recycling!

You might want to to get some more ideas.....

Red Tea, Chai Tea, Yogi Tea

dark chocolate, Marzipan or Licorize

Marshmallows (I know I'm weird....)

I have no use for Scrapbookingsupplies like Brads, Scrapbook Stickers, etc.

Crocheting stuff

Cinnamon-, Cherry- and Grapeflavoured things. I love the real stuff, but not the fake flavour that's found in candy etc.

Butterscotch flavour - yuck!

Acrylic Fabric or Yarn, such as in those fuzzy Socks - I can't even touch this Material without shuddering.....profoundly!

Flowery heavy scents, patchouli, opium, vanilla, Lavender, etc. oh, and though I love anything chocolate, chocolate scented stuff mostly doesn't work for me.

Hot Spices - I'm really a sissy here.

Neon Colours and anything in the range of Pink/Purple

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, bows and stuff like that.

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

Blythe Dolls are creepy.....

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 tastes are all over the place, just about everything except Horror.

BOOKS
- J.R.R. Tolkien - Douglas Adams - Robert Asprin - Dieter Kreutzkamp - Ellis Peters - Maurice Sendak - Eric Malpass - Oliver Sacks - Henry David Thoreau - A. A. Milne - John Seymour - Leo Hickman - Diana Gabaldon - J.K. Rowling :o) - Astrid Lindgren - Sven Nordqvist - Janosch

And of course anything Crafty....

MOVIES
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns - The Dark Crystal - Major League - The 70's Star Wars Trilogy - Brother of Sleep - Blues Brothers - Star Trek - Dances with wolves - Threesome - Le Dernier Trappeur - Seven Years in Tibet - Pollock - Avengers-Series - Loving Vincent

TV
Torchwood - Doctor Who - Cadfael - Firefly - Queer as Folk - Enterprise - Stargate Atlantis - Queer Eye - Good Bones - Documentaries about history, archeology, science and nature

Art
Hundertwasser - van Gogh - Monet - Gaudi - Larsson - Goldsworthy - Magrite - Klimt - Rizzi

Web
Check, Please by Ngozi - AO3 Fanfiction

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

• Scooby Doo

• Mice

• Romans, Greek and Egyptians

• anything The Hobbit

• Comicbook Heroes - he loves Thor, Ironman, Spiderman, Batman, Hulk, Captain America, Silver Surfer, Guardians of the Galaxy....

• Star Trek anything TOS, esp. Spok or Kirk, or anything Klingon or Borg from TNG on - why yes, I raise my own little geek! :o)

• Indiana Jones it startet with a Lego-Set.....

• Harry Potter

• Doctor Who

• Star Wars

• Lego though he is no fan of Lego Technic

• Astronauts, Rockets, Spaceshuttles and Space

• T-Shirts with one of the above-mentioned. He is skinny and short for his age, in German Sizes it's 164/170 by the time, probably Mens S would work out well.

He is a Fair-Trade and Fridays-for-Future activist.

He is quite good in english, so he would love to receive Magazines of the above mentioned themes.

He loves special edition Oreo Cookies - his favorites so far are the holiday edition with red filling - he hates anything with mint though

My husband Johannes loves Baseball (Toronto Blue Jays & Mainz Athletics). Here in Germany Baseball is quite an exotic sport, so anything related to it (Magazines etc.) will be highly appreciated! Also he likes anything native american/canadian. Canada is his favorite destination - likes anything Toronto and Algonquin Park esp.. He's quite a history geek (esp. the romans and WW I and II) and is passionate about genealogy. He is a TV Addict, can stay up all night to watch - has all the DVD Boxes of CSI (Grissom is his fave) , CSI Miami, NCIS, ER, Without a trace.....he likes SciFi as well, but anything Fantasy scares the crap out of him. (Nearly broke my hand while watching Harry Potter :o) He collects Baseballcaps and is loosing them constantly - so there can never be enough of them.

Oh, just to mention: he's a vegetarian! He is more for the salty/spicy side of food and he loves to cook. Soups are his favorite dish to make and he gets quite fancy with them. He loves Indian/Asian Cuisine as well as TexMex. He loves exotic and hot spices and is always the first to handle the Barbecue. He loves to cook over open fire - one of his faves is Pizza Calzone on the grid. He gets excited about new gadgets for his cooking - he even goes to a Mens-Cooking-Club and assembled himself a Hardware Toolbox with all his Gadgets to take with him. He cooks the field-kitchen of our local red cross section and always looks for new inspiration there. (last time he "cooked" Cake in Glassjars in the fieldkitchen, ha!) He has huge piles of cookbooks and -magazines.

He is a selfemployed Tax consultant, but also volunteers as Paramedic and collects Patches and T-Shirts (he is a 2XL) from Emergency Medical Services 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 (L), too. :o)

From the UK/Ireland:

• Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bars

• Seeds of change organic chocolate (I had dark with orange and figs - delicious!)

• Anything Torchwood - I have the DVD Box, but anything about it, like Magazines or else, will be highly appreciated! I'm a Jack/Ianto shipper - don't like Gwen.....

• Anything Doctor Who

• Doctor Who Character Building Micro Figures

• McVities Hobnobs

• Handmade Living Magazines

From France:

• Marie Claire Idees Magazines

From the Netherlands:

• Chocolate Covered Kruidnoten

• Tony's Chocolonely Chocolate

• Chocolate Letters "J" & "M"

• FLOW Magazine

• Fred & Ed melk vlokkies

From the US or Canada:

• Purity Peppermint nobs

• Hersheys Cookies'n Cream Bars

• Celestial Seasoning Tea: Country Peach Passion, Lemon Zinger, Sleepytime

• York Peppermint Patties

• Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate Flavour

• Wonka Candy - Kazoozles!

• Twizzlers - plain red ones, the rainbow version, Sourz or the filled ones - any of them! Twizzlers Twerps! oh my!

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

• Clover Flower Head Pins

• Living Crafts Magazines

• Uppercase Magazine

• Cloth Paper Scissors Magazines

• Cloth Paper Scissors STUDIOS Magazines

• Martha Stewart Kids Magazines

• Martha Stewart Magazine Holiday Issues

• ReadyMade Magazines

• Stitch Magazines

• Sesame Street Deco Tape

• 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..)

From Asia:

• Cotton Time Magazine

• Any of the Paumes Books, esp. the "Family Style" Editions!

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

• Pocky (we only have the plain chocolate ones)

• Shinzi Katoh designed stuff

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!

• I recycle envelopes and boxes 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. It may look nice, but I think, it is 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!

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

lunagodesswithin - Suns, Moons and Stars Swap II

fii - My Big Fat European Stuffed Envelope

ElizabethRollins - Boys Christmas Present swap @vidalia68 angeled this one - Thank you so much!

hjshort72 - Amazon Wishlist or Etsy Favorites + a postcard #7

Pinkfootballs - Something for a rainy day @kittenred angeled this one and added wonderful stuff for my little boy - Thank you so much!

Treksek - Big Fat Envie:Winter Wonderland Intl The wonderful @suessstoff angeled this one. Thank you so much!

giramondo - Cakes addict #2 @vidalia68 angeled this one, too! Thank you so much!

lilpuddin - Private Space themed Swap for our kids @Batmamma and @Morwesong angeled for my little boy - Thank you so much!

blacklamb - Happy Mail #8

SewSouthern - Special Delivery: Seeing Stars