My name is Jessi and I am 28 years old. I have a wonderful husband, a beautiful little girl and a not so little baby boy. They are my everything. I like to read a lot, do random crafty things, take tons of pictures and play video games. Nintendo DS is my drug, I mean system of choice.

My Family
Adam and I were married on April 1st 2005, yes April Fools Day. He does everything he can to support my crafty/gaming/swap-bot habits. He never tells me no even if we can't afford it so I've been trying to not go too crazy with the swaps lately. His favorite color is mint green. He likes Disney's Cars, Spongebob, growing plants, playing games on the Wii, coffee, peanut butter cups, pocky and gummi worms.

Paige is two and and was born on the 26th anniversary of Mount. St. Helen's eruption (5/18/06). (My brother told me this because his daughter was born on the same day the year before.) She loves playing with stickers and ribbons. She gets along pretty well with her brother (for now). She also likes playing with her puzzles and megablocks and sorting things by color. She loves Elmo, Abby Cadabby and It's a Big Big World.

Noah is one year old. He was born on Veteran's Day last year(11/11/08) and was 10lbs 11ozs! He loves following everybody around and crawling all over his sister. He likes anything he can chew on, especially if it's something he shouldn't have. He likes to push his toy cars around and says "vroom vroom!"

Our Pets
I have a cat named Jasmin who is 9 years old and thinks she is the queen of the house. My husband has a lovebird named Stitch and Paige has a goldfish named Nemo. No, the Disney theme was not entirely on purpose.

Chunky books/pages are my current obsession.

I love to cross stitch. I try to stick to smaller patterns so that I might actually finish them but I have a few bigger ones floating around. I don't have the attention span for the really big patterns although I really wish I did.

I've been crocheting for about 5 years. Again, I don't really have the patience for bigger projects. I have a lot of wips sitting around for both cross stitch and crochet. I seem to have a short attention span and like to jump around between different projects.

I do little bit of scrapbooking. I'd like to do more but with two sets of grabby hands around it's not easy!

I used to customize My Little Ponies but, like scapbooking, I don't have the grabby-hand free space. Someday I'll have room and time for everything!!

I got a sewing machine for Christmas last year and am teaching myself how to sew.

I will gladly do one on one swaps for just about anything, especially chunky pages, journals, profile surprises and candy.
Unfortunately this is not a good time of year for mailing chocolate.

Chunky page themes I'd like
-fairy tales
-easy recipes
-your favorite things
-traveling
-disney
-girly pages
-boyish pages
-Christmas

Books
Twilight, Watership Down, the Anita Blake series, The Davinci Code, Strangers in Paradise comic book series, the Xanth series, the Redwall series

Movies
Pirates of the Caribbean, The Fifth Element, Disney's Aladdin, Lilo & Stitch, the original Star Wars, The Princess Bride, Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Center Stage

Music
Rascal Flatts, Lonestar, Linkin Park, Toybox
Lots of other random stuff that I can't think of right now.

I collect My Little Ponies, mostly the original ones from the 80's but I like the newer ones too. I love Chococat! I also collect Disney trading pins and old keys.

I like
-purple, silver, blues, greens and sometimes pink or yellow
-cross stitch stuff (floss, fabric, patterns)
-disney (Lilo & Stitch, The Little Mermaid, Eeyore, Cars)
-the beach, sand dollars, starfish, flip flops
-castles, either sand castles or real -stained glass
-keys
-art nouveau
-pretty much any scrapbook paper
-beads, ribbon, buttons, yarn, embellishments, anything good for scrapbooking or chunky pages
-anything handmade by others, I love seeing what others can do and greatly appreciate anything that's been made especially for me!

Foods
-Chocolate!! especially dark chocolate, chocolate truffles and with hazelnuts, Kinder Surprise eggs!
-Candy like gummis or hard candy. I like orange, raspberry, strawberry or blueberry flavors the most.
-chocolate covered coffee/espresso beans
-My husband loves flavored coffee

I don't like
-anything scented with cinnamon or vanilla
-lime or cherry flavored candy, black licorice, mint
-white chocolate
-spiders, bees....bugs
-clowns
-anything with artificial sugars
-I don't drink coffee or tea but my husband loves it

Just some more specific things I'd like to have in case anybody is feeling especially generous. Please don't feel obligated to go out of your way for any of this stuff.

• a kitchen timer, my quit working and it's really annoying to have to remember to watch the clock constantly when making cookies

  • Any kind of souvenir, stamps, mascots from the Bejing olympics

  • I'd love any of these Bent Creek cross stitch patterns. Feel free to surprise me or I can send you a short list of my favorites.
    http://www.123stitch.com/bent.html

  • Craft magazines, especially cross stitch or crochet, can be old or new, any language

  • I'm sure this is wishful thinking but Nintendo DS games I'd like to have are
    Animal Crossing
    The World Ends with You
    Tetris DS
    WarioWare Touched
    Clubhouse Games

• another long shot but I could really use a color ink cartridge for my printer, a Lexmark Z22