MommaRosita

11/19/08: I am still slowly catching up, two past due swaps went out today and I will be getting one more out tomorrow. If I owe you a tag or swap please message me, I may have lost track (sorry!) thanks again for everyone's understanding and patience. I cant wait to get back into the groove =D

UPDATE 10/10/08: I am very sad to be suspended and so behind that I am hurting swapper's feelings! If you are someone I owe, please know that I am very sorry and working hard to get your swap together. I have been steadily getting caught up and sent several things out this past week, so if you are still waiting for a swap from me please let me know if you get it and make sure to change my rating (if needed), thanks to all the forgiving swappers!!

~ PLEASE NOTE: I have been a little behind the past few weeks, I just started a new full time job so things have been crazy, but to those who I owe swaps or tags, have no fear, I will get them out to you soon! I PROMISE not to flake!! If you would like to, feel free to message me if you are worried, but patience with ratings would really be appreciated! Thanks swappers!

Hello! My name is Rose. I am outgoing, intelligent, love to laugh, confident, hard to offend and easy to amuse. I come from a large, spread out family and although I only see most of them a few times a year, I consider myself very lucky to have so many people in my life to love and be loved by. I am a proud mother of a wonderful boy named Oliver (dob 12.10.05) who pretty much consumes my world, but crafting takes a close second! By day, I put on my serious face and work in customer service, but by night (and weekend) I love to sew, glue, cut, collage and all other things craftlicious. I also love to thrift store shop, garage sale hop, and recently discovered estate sales which I love! I have been doing collage crafts (as seen in my Etsy shop) for almost 8 years, but I am fairly new to sewing, and happy to report that I am loving it a ton. I am trying very hard to get more involved with the homemade revolution and connect more with fellow crafters. I am so excited to be on Etsy, and super glad to have found Swap-bot! I can’t wait to connect with people and swap great stuff!! Yeay!!

I constantly find myself crafting with no purpose, so I have several totes/purses, keepsake boxes, picture frames and other handmade things that are sitting here doing nothing...and I still have the urge to make more! So if you would like to do a one on one swap, contact me, I can send you something I already have made, or I can make something just for you and temporarily fulfill the urge to craft! :-D

Rilo Kiley, The Nylons, Julia Nunes, Rosie Ledet, Mandy Moore, Joss Stone, Matisyahu, The Dixie Chicks, Leona Lewis, Dirtie Blonde, Kanye West, Once Blue, Fiona Apple, Gavin DeGraw, Natasha Bedingfield, Regina Spektor, Pink, The White Stripes, Dave Matthews Band, Corrine Bailey Rae, Cat Stevens, Alicia Keys, D12, Kimya Dawson, Mott The Hoople, Mariah Carey, Barry Louis Polisar, Feist, Watermelon Jones, Ace of Base, Camille, Sara Bareilles, Incubus, Sublime, Reba McIntyre, Whitney Houston, Green Day, Maroon 5, Ozomatli, Celine Dion, Eminem, Sarah McLachlan, Aaron Neville, Barenaked Ladies, Moldy Peaches, Run DMC, The White Stripes, Michael Buble, Madonna, Lisa Loeb, Jack Johnson, and many many more...

Pineapple Express, Kung Fu Panda, Billy Madison, Chicago, Forest Gump, The Terminal, The Devil Wears Prada, Gladiator, Castaway, The Transporter, Snatch, Arthur and the Invisibles, Ratatouille, Patch Adams, Grease, Love Actually, A Walk to Remember, Transformers, Princess Bride, Just Like Heaven, 300, My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Footloose, Jay & Silent Bob, Juno, Knocked Up, Superbad, Bedtime for Bonzo, Hairspray, Bruce Almighty, The Sunshine Boys, Little Miss Sunshine, Accepted, Smart People, The Dark Knight, The Pursuit of Happyness, Brokeback Mountain, Beerfest, Finding Nemo, Cars, The Lion King, Hercules, Over the Hedge, Open Season, She's the Man, Memoirs of a Geisha, Mona Lisa Smile, Friends With Money, Jarhead, Monster, Fun with Dick and Jane, American History X, Napoleon Dynamite, O Brother Where Art Thou? and many many more...

I like to say that I hate TV, but the truth is, I'm hooked...

I love some reality tv (but not all reality tv is created equal)...the ones I love are: Jon & Kate plus 8, Little People Big World, Flip that house, Creative Juice, B.Original, Stylicious, Ellen DeGeneres Show, The Bad Girls Club, The Dog Whisperer, SuperNanny, Wife Swap, Man vs. Wild, Trading Spaces, Cash Cab, Antiques Roadshow, What Not To Wear, Dirty Jobs (I want to hump Mike Rowe!! =p)

Plus other tv I love: Weeds, Grey's Anatomy, Private Practice, Frasier, George Lopez, Roseanne, The Big Bang Theory, Will & Grace, My Boys, The Bill Engval Show, The Cosby Show, Friends, That 70s Show, Spin City, Til Death, House, Monk, How I Met Your Mother, Futurama, Family Guy, Back to You, Pushing Daisies, Charmed, Sex & the City

The Red Tent, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Way of the Peaceful Warrior, Big City Bright Lights, Are you there God its me Margret, & everything by David Sedaris

Sewing, Collage, ATCs, Card Making, Jewelry making, Photography, Recycling junk/revamping old items, Mosaics, Sketching/tagging, Scrapbooking, Throwing Clay

~fabric

~paper

~buttons

~stickers

~jewelry, especially costume

~magnets

~anything vintage/antique (like jewelry, fabric, books, newspapers, photos etc)

~anything from other countries or with foreign languages on them

~pinups

~nudity (preferably female)

~pirates

~dragons

~superheros

~music

~flowers

~the ocean

~sunsets/sunrises

~animals

~pictures of anything funky/random/pretty

~containers of all shapes and sizes (especially ones to revamp)

~anything with words like hope, faith, love, laugh, believe, etc

~Natural/Organic things

~Packer/Badger (WI sports teams)

~As far as food goes, I'm pretty open to anything, I love chocolate, candy, tea, coffee, gum, mints, etc. I do keep Kosher, so the only thing I ask you not to send would be non kosher items (like bacon or shrimp, although I'm sure those things are not up there on the popular list of swap items! lol)

~favorite colors: pink, brown, teal, green, orange, pastels

~favorite color combos: pink/green, yellow/white, orange/green, brown/pink, red/black, blue/white, green/gold, teal/brown, black/gold, black/white, orange/yellow

~Favorite Patterns/themes: PAISLEY! Houndstooth, vintage, asian, skulls (cute or funky, not dark and evil), anything pink

~Eras/Historical Events that fascinate me: Civil War, WW2/Holocaust, 20s, 50s, 70s, 80s, 1800s, prehistoric times, biblical times

~Places I am particularly fond of and interested in: Israel, France, England, Brazil, Austria, Australia, New Orleans, New York, Wisconsin, Canada, Mexico, Jamaica, Amsterdam, Hawaii, Caribbean, Bahamas, Germany, Italy, China, Egypt

~Also: anything that is unique, odd, random or funky is right up my alley :-)

~~My likes are NOT limited to things I've listed, I just wanted to provide ideas and a basis for my fellow swappers~~

~Jesus stuff (nothing personal against him or those who like him, I'm just not a fan)

~Red, white & blue (I'm not very patriotic and I cant help but see the American flag in that color combo...)

~anything or one who is dishonest or mean spirited

I know that it is hard to see because it is so small, but for those who are curious, it is actually a picture of me from a photo shoot that I did for my boyfriend's Valentines Day present, it was me as a 50's pinup. I had a blast, loved how they turned out, and highly recommend it (doesn’t necessarily have to be a pinup shoot, but getting pretty and posing is good for the soul!)! If you want to see more of them, there is a set of them in my Flickr :-D

If I send you something you don't like, want or won’t use, please feel free to re-gift it in any way, take it apart to make something new or donate it to a thrift store. I will not be offended and I happen to believe that you will get good karma for not being a pack rat and doing a mitzvah! :-D That being said, in the slight chance that you send me something I don’t like, won’t use or think would be better off in someone else’s hands, I will do the same, nothing personal. If you have strong feelings about this and don’t want your swap item to end up anywhere but with me, simply let me know and I will respect that.