I am having a really hard time in my life at the moment... again. And of course, my swaps are suffering. I have dropped out of all the swaps that don't already have partners assigned and have contacted all my partners, but I still want to apologise to all my partners for the lateness. I don't want to post too much personal stuff on here but if you want to know more about what's going on with me, PM me...

Update 21/09/1009 - I am FINALLY getting caught up on my swaps. Most of them are several months late... and for this I am truly sorry to all my partners. I only have two private swaps left now, and I will hopefully be able to complete them in the next few days

Once I get caught up on all my swaps I hope to start swapping again, but I will only join one swap at a time so that things don't get on top of me again.

I would like to thank everyone who has shown me great support in this very hard time of my life. You are all so wonderful and understanding. Thank you!

I'm Jenny and I live just outside London, England when I'm at home, and in Leicester, England during term time. I'm studying Biological Sciences at university, and I'm specialising in Genetics.

I love to dance, especially ballet!! It's so much fun and so beautiful, I love everything to do with it! I also love to write, I've been writing a diary since I was 13 and I also write stories and poems and things when I have the time and the inspiration! I've really enjoyed some recent journal swaps I've joined!

Please do not send me:

• Make up/skin products
• Jewellery (unless it's gold or silver - I'm allergic to other metals)
• Anything related to fish

Favourite colours: Pink, Purple, Turquoise blue/green.

Favourite time of day: twilight/sunset

Favourite time of year: autumn

Favourite animal: cats, dragonflies (especially blue dragonflies) , penguins and dragons

Pretty much anything indie/pop/rock... I'm not fussed, some classical is good too, because its great to do ballet to!

My Favourite artist of all time is Ben Folds

My Last.fm

• Collages
• Drawing and painting
• Jewellery making (beads)
• Writing (stories, diaries, poems, songs... anything really!)
• Zentangles - they're so calming!
• Crochet (Amigurumi)
• ATCs (although I don't make them as much as I used to...)

Favourite Films

• Center Stage
• Girl, Interrupted
• Lord of the Rings
• Romeo and Juliet
• My Neighbour Totoro

Favourite Authors/Books

• The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Sayer
• Susanna Kaysen
• Harry Potter series
• Marya Hornbacher
• Alice in wonderland
• Peter Pan
• Alice Sebold
• Mitch Alborn
• Sookie Stackhouse (trueblood) series by Charlaine Harris

Favourite TV

• Roswell
• Scrubs
• Casualty
• Invader Zim
• That '70s show

I don't think there's much I can do for the environment because I don't drive and I live at home so a lot of it is not under my control, so all I can do is to make sure that I always turn out lights and recycle everything I can! I always re-use bubble envelopes, as you can't easily recycle them and they're usually perfectly good for using a second (third or fourth!) time - so don't be offended if you receive a second-hand envelope!!

Well I've seen a lot of people have these so I decided to add one!

• Anything Invader Zim! I love Invader Zim but we don't get anything here in the UK!
• Anything Totoro or Studio Ghibli
• anything to do with ballet
• yarn to make amigurumi
• crochet stich markers
• scraps of yarn (at least 10ft) to make my quilt!
• I would love to get sharpies in funky colours as it's really hard to get the cool colours over here, only really get the boring ones (blue/black)
• I LOVE nerds (those little sour sweets) so anyone in america - I'd love some!!
• I love lucky charms!! Actually, I really just love those little dehydrated marshmallows!!

Olivier Blanc - I recently discovered Olivier Blanc, I saw some greetings cards with his work on and LOVED it, so I am currently making some ATCs altering his work, and some inspired by his work!

This is an ATC I made altering his work!