Murmuration

Greetings, and Welcome to my profile page!

If you haven't received a swap from me, please let me know. If you sent a swap I haven't acknowledged yet, please let me know that too.

If you are a swap recipient and haven't gotten your swap yet, please message me prior to leaving a 1 rating. It's either on its way, or possibly lost in the mail.

If I haven't rated your swap yet, it's because I haven't gotten your swap yet. If you think you sent something I should have gotten by now, please message me and let me know so I can keep a lookout for it.

If you are a swap participant trying to figure out what to send me for a swap, feel free to read on below for the specifics.

In general, I'd love to get something that represents you, your aesthetic, and/or the place you live. I'm looking to expand my horizons, and that's not going to happen by getting things I already own. :)

Thanks for stopping by!

I love pens, paper, stationary, post cards, postage stamps, markers, pretty much anything related to correspondence.

I am obsessed with junk journaling and travel scrapbooking.

I have no artist talent to speak of, so I won't be joining swaps that require you to make something. I'm fine with receiving handmade items, but I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone with something I've created.

I love all kinds of washi tape, all kinds of stationary, all kinds of paper and note cards, all kinds of post it notes.

I would love anything with a narwhal, Totoro or hot air balloon, clock, typewriter or carousel on it. I have no idea why I'm obsessed with these things.

I also collect shaped paperclips, envelopes, international postage stamps, tiny houses (on washi tape, charms, postcards, drawings, whatever), fairy garden supplies, all kinds of ephemera but especially vintage, tags, pockets, die-cuts, pretty much anything flat that I can stick into a junk journal.

I am not fond of:

• Ripped out book pages - please don't murder innocent books!
• Strong odors - they make me quite ill
• Magazine or Encyclopedia cut outs - the paper is too flimsy for me to work with
• sports themed anything
• Disney themed anything
• school or rewards themed anything
• hearts of any kind
• pictures of household animals (don't get me wrong, I love actual cats, dogs and horses, but I don't need pictures of them)
• smiley faces
• Barbie or other toys
• baby themed anything
• wedding themed anything

There is no bad Washi tape, but if you happen to have some in your stash, I would be especially happy to get anything with:

• gears
• fall/autumn
• clocks
• houses
• mushrooms
• hot air balloons
• flowers
• really pretty much any fun designs

Overall, I prefer patterns over solid colors. If you have a style or pattern that you think is unique to your area (i.e. did not come from Michaels, A.C. Moore or Target) I'd love to get that as well.

• Steampunk (Gears, Clocks, Goggles, Machinery)
• Fantasy
• Travel
• Vintage
• Tiny houses or cottages
• Paris
• Sea and Sea Creatures
• Clouds
• Gardens, Flowers, Plants, Trees
• Space
• Carosels/Circus
• Sky
• Fall/Autumn
• Beach

And just for full disclosure, some themes I'm not interested in at all include:

• Sports
• Babies
• School
• Weddings

Most of the stickers swaps I have signed up for are sender's choice, so by all means, send me your choice.

But I would be especially glad to get stickers that are decorative (think interesting shapes, swirls and designs rather than cartoons or pictures of animals).

I would be especially grateful for stickers depicting the following:

• tiny houses or lighthouses
• hot air balloons
• leaves, trees or feathers
• anything travel themed
• tags or label shapes
• anything space themed
• mystical creatures of any kind such as mermaids and dragons
• clouds
• flowers
• vines
• dragonflies
• bird, bird houses or bird cages
• buildings and castles

I'd rather get a variety of loose stickers than a sheet of multiple duplicate stickers. I like variety!

Please, please, please, please do not send me touristy/destination/Greetings From type postcard unless it is a place you are actually from.

I've been participating in a lot of postcard swaps that involve sending blank postcards, and overall, I like to think I'm not too picky, but I keep getting similar touristy postcards that I don't know what to do with, other than send them off to someone else who probably also doesn't want them.

I knew it was bad when I sent off a touristy postcard in a swap and got back the exact same postcard in another swap from a DIFFERENT person a few weeks later.

I would LOVE to get postcards that feature artworks, carousels, lighthouses, Space, pretty much anything listed in my favorite themes area above.

I read and collect:

• Cozy mysteries
• Mysteries in general
• Urban fantasy
• Science fiction
• Fantasy

Sorry, but these aren't for me:

• History
• Sports
• Biographies
• Romance novels

• I'm way better at collecting craft materials than using them.

• I buy nice things and then don't use them because I want to save them because they are so nice.

• I buy stuff I don't know what to do with just in case I someday know what to do with it.

• If I do finish a craft project, I tend to give up the craft entirely after that.