Mello

I'm a working mum of a 6 Year old little Boy called Jakob. We live in a 1890 built house we bought about three Years 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 I'm an Occupational Therapist, I love everything I can get my fingers dirty with, so that fits!
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 burned my fingers more than once, but I feel that I have to show my little boy that it is necessary to take a stance.

I love sewing, doing my first steps in Patchwork and Quilting 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 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 - man, this one really got me hooked within 10 minutes!
And David Tennant is definetly my Doctor Who!

Canada, esp. Toronto and anything Canadian

Snowflakes and Snowmen

Dandelions

Stars

Calvin & Hobbes

Curious George

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.

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.

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! 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, 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 stuff is okay for me - just another form of recycling!

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

Green Tea, Red Tea, Chai Tea, Yogi Tea

dark chocolate, Marzipan or Licorize

Marshmallows and Macaroons (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

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/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, 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 - 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....

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

TV
Torchwood - Doctor Who - Glee - Cadfael - Firefly - Queer as Folk - Enterprise - Stargate Atlantis -

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

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

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

• Harry Potter I read him the first book, as it isn't as scary as the follow-up books. He has the Audio-book on loop and still I have to read it to him every evening before bed - that is how crazy he is over that story :o)

• Lego esp. Star Wars, Harry Potter, Cars and Pirates, but any Lego is cool really! We even like the Legos your kid has grown out of playing with :o)

• Star Wars he's esp. crazy over Star Wars Lego

• Soccer and Baseball

• Geocaching

• CARS now it hit us too: He is mad about Disneys Cars!

• Imagination Movers -we have nothing about those fab guys here in Germany.....

• Handy Manny

• Elmo & Ernie

• Miffy

• Astronauts, Rockets, Spaceshuttles and Space

• Firefighters and Emergency Medical Service

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

• T-Shirts with one of the above-mentioned (in German Sizes it's 110 by the time, probably 5T would work out well)

He doesn't like Sponge Bob - he refers of him as "The strange one"....... He passionatly hates Marshmellows.

My husband Johannes is very much into baseball (Toronto Blue Jays & Mainz Athletics). Here in Germany Baseball is not a common sports, 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. 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 nice Basecaps and is loosing them constantly - so there can never be enough of them.

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

He is a selfemployed Tax consultant, but also volunteers as Paramedic and collects Patches and T-Shirts 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, 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

From the US or Canada:

• Wilton Pretzel Molds and coloured Candy Melts

• Purity Peppermint nobs

• Hersheys Cookies'n Cream Bars

• General Foods International Capuccino French Vanilla Flavour

• Celestial Seasoning Tea: Country Peach Passion, Lemon Zinger, Sleepytime, Canadian Vanilla Maple Decaf

• 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!

• 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(

• Clover Flower Head Pins

• Nexcare Comfort Pals or Tatoo Band-Aids with Star Wars Clonewars, Winnie the Pooh or Handy Manny or any other boyish Characters (he doesn't like Spongebob though!)

• Living Crafts Magazines

• Uppercase Magazine

• Cloth Paper Scissors Magazines

• Cloth Paper Scissors STUDIOS Magazines

• Martha Stewart Kids Magazines

• 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..)

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

From Asia:

• Bento supplies for my little boy

• 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)

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 envies 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 for her, as this one was for my son! Thanx again!

lunagodesswithin - Suns, Moons and Stars Swap II

fii - ♥♥♥♥My Big Fat European Stuffed Envelope promised to resend, but never did.

thriftymermaid - stars & hearts LP

ElizabethRollins - Boys Christmas Present swap

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

Pinkfootballs - Something for a rainy day

Treksek - Big Fat Envie:Winter Wonderland Intl