MicheleoneL

I MUST APOLOGIZE FOR THE LACK OF PARTICIPATION. I HAVE BEEN FEELING VERY ILL AND WITH NO EXPLANATION FROM TESTS. I WILL SEND SWAPS ASAP AND CORRESPOND AS I CAN. PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH ME. THANK YOU!

About me. I'm a married Mom living in southern WV. I'm Mommy to a very handsome 7YO boy who is in 2nd grade. He loves Transformers, Star Wars and anything dealing with Playstation 2 or 3 and Gameboy games. He enjoys playing soccer and is in cub scouts. He loves to draw and swim and is reading on a 6th grade level!! I work full-time in higher education. I wish I was a teacher but I'm only staff for now. I'd love to go back to school to be a K-2 teacher or study further in agriculture/forestry!

When I'm not Mom, cook, wife, maid, driver or entertainer, I enjoy making ATCs and other paper crafts. I used to rubberstamp in my scrapbooking and cardmaking so I have a HUGE collection of them (mounted and UM). I have gone through the beaded jewelry phase and the dotee phase but they passed quickly. I just don't have the patience for it. I have lots of fabric and felt that I'd be willing to trade other things for, just message me! I love photography and all aspects of it! I enjoy looking at magazines for home decorating and country living. I also love dollhouses. I hope to build a scale dollhouse one day and welcome any furniture/supply/decorating magazines for them.

Flowers, I love flowers! Sunflowers, irises, yellow roses, orange poppies, lillys, irises, asters, daisies, clematis, echinacea, morning glorys, moon flowers and lupines. In spring and summer, I love to have a vase of fresh flowers in my kitchen. Sometimes in winter, I'll pay the little bit extra cash for flowers from the grocery store to put in my vase. Oh, I welcome any of your flower seeds if they'll survive the WV winters. I'm a nature-freak and love hiking. I have AND love cats! I have Grey ones, tiger striped ones, a tuxedo one and a solid white Tom cat. My son recently acquired a Redbone Coonhound that he named Tracker so puppy treats for training are welcomed any time. If you have a leash that you no longer use and it's in working condition, let me know. This puppy has gone through 2 and he's not even 4 months old! He weighs close to 45 pounds now! I am obsessed with Holstein Cows (black and white), and hope to have one named Mabel one day. I'd love to live on a farm! I really enjoy dragonflies and fairies. I love vegetable gardening and like to preserve the veggies that I grow by canning and freezing.

Favorite colors: dark brown, teal and forest green. I am "earthy"!! I like black and shades of grey too. I like deep purple and I often wear reds. Most of my clothes are these colors! Pastels just aren't for me. Light denim or grey is just about as light as I go.

I wear lots of beaded bracelets, earring and necklace sets. I don't have my bellybutton pierced but i want to get it done! I'm also tattoo-less but would love to find a pretty sunflower, dragonfly, iris or sun/moon/celestial tattoo. As soon as i find the perfect one I'm getting it! If you sketch and would allow me to use your work as a tattoo, feel free to draw me something and I'll send you something happy! I must have my toenails painted at all times. Again, darker colors only. I love my Birkenstocks and my sandals!!

I like using the following in my crafts: ephemera, odd images, black and white photos (even the ones found at yard sales that you don't know who they are), maps, etc. I still have yet to try button fairies.

I enjoy fantasy, fairies and fae. Love anything moon and sun/celestial theme. I like advertising magnets from your town/country, candles! (Yankee Candle favorites: Midsummer's Night, Sugar cookie, Cranberry or Mulberry, baking or fall scents esp.), Home/handmade things, visiting etsy shops, new postage stamps but have plenty of used ones. I COLLECT ANY TYPE OF NEW WOODEN PENCILS. I love socks! rocks too!

I love Napoleon Dynamite and I'm an Alice in Wonderland fan! I like funny and/or feminist postcards. I'm on the lookout for some sort of feministic tea cup! Not a lipgloss fanatic but love Blistex, Victoria's Secret and Burt's Bees.

I'd love a map of your city/state/country/park, etc. I love to learn a little more each day! I even enjoy the brochures that travel booths have for free.

I collect seashells. I have a huge jar of miniature things, my own tiny whimsy collection. I hope to build a tiny dollhouse one day so mini artworks to frame would be great!! If you have a dollhouse kit that you'd like to do a higher stakes trade for, contact me!

It's a sort of obsession I guess, but I love buying new panties (size medium or 8). All styles but no granny ones please, lol!

I enjoy bubble baths!! I'm always on the lookout for hairbands and accessories for THICK hair, in particular, pony tail holders.

NOTE I do have furbabies living indoors with me so sometimes a cat hair or two will end up on my packing tape. I try my best not to include them inside the package though! If you're getting a big package from me and I accidentally include one of my cats, just send her back to me postage due!!

Another thing, I always rate when I receive a swap and I always leave a comment on your profile for a tag. I would hope that you'd at least send me a message and thank me if you received a swap/tag from me. I don't care if you rate me, just a simple thanks is appropriate and lets me know that the postal people aren't enjoying it. If something isn't received in a timely manner, message me and I'll be happy to track it or re-send.

Just so you know I don't have anything against pcs or atcs involving nudity or "bad words". I'm not offended easily and when I'm not around my little guy, I may let a few words slip out that my my Momma wouldn't like, lol.

I have a dear friend who loves anything Jimmy Buffet so anything for her would surely please ME!

Greys Anatomy, Lost, How it's Made, Deadliest Catch and anything else on Discovery, History and The Learning Channels. Bizarre Foods, cooking shows, Andy Griffith, American Idol. Documentaries are wonderful. I love to watch PBS (free tv here)! I like some of the reality tv shows but they bore me pretty quickly.

ATCs and altering boxes/tins. I enjoy making and altering postcards also.

I enjoy older 80s hairband music, anything Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin, The Doors. I don't care much for rap, disco or country. I like relaxing Celtic/instrumental music when I'm crafting and like to exercise to the 70s!

I love these: cows, sunflowers, birdhouses, farm scenery, postcards, notecards, large stickers, college ruled notebooks, Celestial Seasonings Sleepytime tea, homemade bath items, . dollhouse magazines/catalogs, coloring books, unsharpened pencils, nailpolish and eye make up(dark colors/must be sealed), photos of just about anything that you want to share, food-scented candles, clean cotten or clean air scents for my SUV, beaded bracelets, handmade jewelry. I like old photos, old pieces of broken jewelry, etc., library books leftover from booksales/trades that I can cut photos from are welcome as long as they don't smell moldy or like cigarettes. I enjoy surprises and even a simple card in the mail. Please don't let my lists deter you from sending something that you may enjoy too!

I'd love to know more about button fairies. I love whimsy jars, glass or plastic!!! Oh and I enjoy receiving in-date coupons for Friskies brand dry catfood, capri suns, fruit roll ups and buy one get one coupons!

Gift certificates for Chick Fil A, Subway, McDonalds, Dairy Queen, Burger King, Arby's, Hardees, Wendy's, Cracker Barrel, Blockbuster, Bath & Body, TJ Maxx, Target and GAS FOR MY SUV (lol) are welcome!

I don't like cigarette scented items, please. I don't like many girly cutesie things except for t-shirts or tank tops. I do wear earrings but have plenty already, unless they are handmade beaded earrings, not too dangly but not stud-like either. I do have religion but prefer not to receive this type of items in swaps. I don't collect any type of angels! I don't collect magnets but if you have a sunflower, farm, cow, domino or one with your city/state/country, I'd love it!

I don't need: Post its kawaii eyelets or brads ink pens (unless cow themed!) *address books (unless its a BIG one for many addresses) *NO baby themed items *NO neon colored things (unless pencils) *NO wedding themed things *glitter glue *no rose or vanilla scents *nothing light pink or yellow in color *no rubberstamps unless they are sarcastic, cows or "odd"

*anything for my son would be appreciated!

*photos of your veggie/flower garden and note about what's growing

*sandalwood oil

*any sort of chapter books for my son to read, 3rd - 4th grade level

*Discover Kids or other kid magazine for Zach (already read by you/yours is ok)

*bath soaps and teas

*a private swap set up for a flat rate priority box or envie swap (scrapbooking, ATCs, etc)

*anything Led Zeppelin! Esp a thrift store T-shirt or tank in size M or L!

*postcard trades

*new unused wooden pencils

*other clean thrift store T-shirt or Tank top in large (I'm a medium but like to sleep in L), especially those with advertising or funny sayings

*dotee dolls

*button fairy

*ANY handmade tote (big or small) or morsbag or zippered pouch

*ATCs made by you or those you're tired of looking at :)

*Dentyne Wild Winter gum

*(thanks to Bubblygreek, I know now that) I LOVE KINDER HIPPOS!

*copy of the following cds, burnt is fine- Leona Lewis, Plain White T's, 30 Seconds to Mars, new Breaking Benjamin, Puddle of Mudd, Ratt, Cinderella, Led Zeppelin, Ozzy, older Genesis, Phil Collins, Mudvayne, Theory of a Deadman

*free postcards for altering

*large address book for lots of addys and ph. #s