Moose

Hi ! I always put a lot of effort in the quality of the things i send out but i regulary get disappointed by the fact that not everyone does ...

Therefore i would like to do more private swaps. Please PM me if you are interested in :

• a sort of photojournal (Who am i. This is were i live, etc.) around 10-15 pages

• ATC's

• handmade postcards

• sort of journal collaboration (a +/- 20 page journal travelling between me and a partner, for more details, please PM)

• open to other ideas :-)

Big announcement ;-)))) I have a Flickr page. That is not so spectacular for most of you, but it is for me. I have never found it worthwile putting my drawings etc. online, but now I decided to do it to give you people an idea of what i'm doing .... Still figuring out how to organize my stuff there, but the start has been made :-)

Well, I'm an absolute beginner in this sort of thing ;-) I use all kinds of techniques : collage, printmaking, painting, coloured pencil... I would like to illustrate children's books, but so far, I'm just making things for my own pleasure.

I also love making photographs, but haven't been doing that much lately. Some of my Sweden-photos are on the link above.

The reason I joined swap-bot is mainly because I find it interesting to make contact with other artists all over the world. I always try my best to get things out on time and have absolutely not the intention to flake ! So if you are expecting something from me that doesn't arrive, please contact me before you give me a bad rating. I will resend things that get lost in the mail !

I'm Swedish, but born and living in Belgium. I'm married, no kids. Love animals and gardening

Favourate colours orange. I also like blue (ultramarine), lime green, red

I have a Spanish waterdog, Galileo and a few aquariums. I love my dog to bits ! He's not been very easy to train because he's quite insecure but people he knows love him ! He needs some time adjusting to people he doesn't know.

I love Swedish thrillers and I prefer reading them in Swedish. Favourate authors are Henning Mankell, Arne Dahl, Marianne Fredriksson and other Scandinavian authors such as : Unni Lindell, Anne Holt, Gretelise Holm, Leen Lehtolainen, ... I like to read them because I sometimes really miss being in Sweden which I regard as my "home". I have many books on art and techniques and a collection of children's picture books. Lots of books on nature and animals too.

Collage, drawing with oil pastel, painting (acrylics), printmaking (relief printing), drawing with markers, ... I don't like the scrapbooking style, but have recently discovered journalling. I've been drawing in sketchbooks for the last 15 years or so.

I also love working with clay, but have no kiln of my own. I mostly do coil based pots.

I'm very interested in graphic design and typography.

Collage materials I like : old snapshots (usually the ones other people think are bad ;-), things from the 60's and 70's, animals, flowers, children's illustrations (old ones preferably)

I love drawing materials, fountain pens, brushes, paper, etc.

Things I could send : collage materials : handmade paper snippets, book pages in Dutch or Swedish or French, music pages (have an old book containing 100's of pages of music for collage), old dictionary pages, postcards (the free kind you can find in public places). Let me know what you are looking for and I'll see what I have. I love nosing around in the second hand store, where they have all kinds of old toys, puzzles, etc.

I would like to make shadow boxes, but haven't started with that yet.

I do a lot of photographing, except for last couple of months due to not having a decent camera. I use it to document my life, and I like to find abstract composition around me. Don't photograph people so much, but I do take a lot of pictures of my animals (dog especially). Love not-perfect images, snapshot type where something is not quite right ;-) But I'm not sure what to do with my pictures yet. I will start using them in collages and journals, i suppose.

I just read about dotee dolls. Seems like something I would like to try, but not yet.

Oh, yes, I almost forgot : I do crochet, I made som keyholders (it turned out to be a kind of amigurumi, now that i looked it up on the internet). I'm making a blanket out of 100's (well about 140 actually) of squares, trying to crochet sort of a dotee doll right now.

I plan on making teddybears as well. I did that when I was young and already have some stuff I have been collecting for the past year or so. But I will wait a little bit untill I really can make the time for that.

I'm a big Star Trek fan, not the original series, but Next Generation and Voyager. Other older series I watched : X-Files Things I watch now (often and occasionally) : Lost, Criminal Minds, Judging Amy, Medium, The Simpsons, good Swedish detective series such as Beck, Wallander, Höök, ..., some older Swedish children's TV Also Belgian series, they make good ones nowadays.

I like animated films, digital as well as stop motion : The nightmare before Christmas, Corpse Bride, Wallace and Grommit, Monsterhouse and most of the popular Pixar & Co stuff

"Intelligent" thrillers. Since Seven there are a lot of badly made movies that try to imitate the original and I don't like those.

And almost forget : I LOVE Lord of the Rings, seen the trilogy at least a dozen times. At some point, i also reread the books almost every year

Other favorites : The Shawshank redemption, The sixth sense, Chocolat, A beautiful mind, The butterfly effect (1st one), and and and ;-).

Some drama, but not the romantic stuff, although when it's funny sometimes I can appreciate it.

Favorate actors/actresses : Jack Nicholson, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman, Michael Persbrandt, Peter Haber, Jake Gyllenhaal, Max von Sydow, Renée Zellweger, Patrick Stewart, Viggo Mortensen (a co-Scandinavian ;-)) and lots more

This is what comes into my mind right now, will have to be completed ;-)

Joseph Cornell, Milton Avery, Robert Motherwell, Ben Nicholson, Nikki de Saint-Phalle, Pierre Alechinsky, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg

(will have to be completed too ;-))

I often see this in other profiles and find it easy to see what people like or not, soooo :

Likes :

• those black&white coloured "marblish" notebooks that seem to be common in the US : i love them (you know, like the ones in the movie "the butterfly effect)
• old photographs, especially your own, with a story behind them (a good scan is also ok)
• vintage magazines (like Popular Mechanics and "lady magazines"
• vintage children's books/pages/illustrations
• handmade paper scraps
• unused US stamps covering plain international postage (for SASE's)
• amigurimi patterns
• all info about dotee dolls (really want to start making them)
• self carved rubber stamps (and (big) erasers to cut out myself)
• favourate colours : orange, yellow, red, lime green, dark blue, ... in fact i like most colours when they are well used
• kawaii vinyl figurines
• "oldfashioned" dymo tapes (you know, the kind with the letters lying on top). Seems i have to buy a large amount here if i want to order them here. (will have to think further, nothing else comes to mind ;-)

Dislikes : - overly cute things - gothic and dark stuff - religious items meant to convert me. I do like to use old bible pages and images of saints and angels in collage - stickers (except some) - embellishments, unless functional

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