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Date Joined: July 9, 2009
Last Online: February 7, 2012 Birthday: November 19 Country: Finland My Flickr Photos |
I´m a woman at the age of forty-two with two children; a daughter (13) and a son (11). I work as a comprehensive school teacher and especially love teaching English and litterature.
I put a lot of effort on my creations and never send anything trashy, so I hope you will do the same :)! I don´t tolerate any kind of flaking! If you don´t receive anything from me, contact me before rating, please!
I love reading and read many kinds of books. Fantasy is one of my favourites; Harry Potters, LOTR, Twilight-saga etc. Also books related to history like the ones from Diana Gabaldon fascinate me. Jane Austen, Joanne Harris are Cornelia Funke are amongst my favourite authors too.
Children´s litterature is my passion. I collect children´s books, especially the classics; H.C.Andersen, the Grimm-brothers, Astrid Lindgren, Roald Dahl, Beatrix Potter, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Elsa Beskow and many, many others are on the list. Moomin-books in different languages are wanted too. Books with great illustrations attract me the most.
My favourite fairy tales are Little Red Riding-Hood, Alice in Wonderland, Hansel and Gretel, Princess and the Pea, Pussy in Boots, SnowWhite and the Seven Dwarfs and Thumbellina just to name few. But as said above, all the classics make me happy and I´m easy to please.
I try also to read books for young adults, mostly because of my work, but also as I want to.The Hunger Games-series by Suzanne Collins hooked me immediately, but this far have read only the 1st and the 2nd book. David Almond, Cornelia Funke, Eva Ibbotson, Neil Gaiman and Michael Ende are some of my favourites, but there are so many good books and so little time to read them.
I like Tim Burton-movies. Johnny Depp is my favourite actor :)! Fantasy-movies, romantic ones and historical films are my favourites too, not to mention Twilight-saga of course. But team Edward, absolutely!
Especially ATCs and bookmarks are my favourites. I´ve made some decos too and one altered book. They look great, but are really a lot of work and at the moment I don´t seem to have the time for them. Button fairies are cool too.
Rubber stamping, collage and mixed media are my favourite techniques. Recently I´ve found altered playing cards. I can´t draw at all, so don´t expect anything drawn from me! I also don´t like to receive drawn things unless you´re really good at it!
I love dogs and almost all animals. My favourite dog-breed is a German shepherd, a dalmatian comes second. I also collect postcards with dogs at work like guide dogs, rescue dogs etc. If you´re sending me pcs with dogs, I prefer realistic ones, not dogs wearing clothes or driving the car etc.
I enjoy travelling, but haven´t done that very much yet. I hope someday I´ll be rich enough to do that properly (LOL)! My favourite city is London. Also Australia and New Zealand, the USA and Canada are the destinations of my dreams. But what comes to travelling, anything goes. Last summer we visited Spain and I fell in love with that country too. Now I´m learning Spanish :)!
Swapping ATCs is my hobby no.1 right now. But I also collect bookmarks and postcards and I´m a postcrosser/ bookcrosser. Reading is so much fun! If you´re sending me postcards, I prefer them unwritten in an envelope.But of course written and stamped are welcomed too! And learning Spanish is my hobby too!
ATCs/ postcards: - children´s book illustrations/ fairy tales/ Alice in Wonderland especially/ fantasy; fairies, dragons, gnomes, vampires etc./ Twilight; team Edward/ London/ dogs; especially German shepherds, dalmatians, dogs at work( realistic ones, please)/ Johnny Depp/ books and reading people/ Ancient Egypt/ Russian mathryoska dolls
Only ATCs: - anything vintage/ time/ text/ quotes/ musical notes/ cemetary angels/ travelling/ oriental, esp. geishas/ birds, nests, eggs/ ladybirds, dragonflies/ zetti/ altered playing cards/ pin up-girls/ classic film-stars like Marilyn Monroe/ vampires (esp. Twilight, True Blood)/ Spain/ Spanish language/ Mexican loteria-cards
As I´ve already mentioned before, I collect Moomin-books in different languages. Here´s a list of the languages I already have. So if you have one not mentioned on the list, I´d be more than happy to do a private trade with you.
Languages I already have: - English (but a picture book for smaller children would be great, I only have a novel) - Swedish - Estonian - Dutch - Russian - Japanese (big thanks to whiterose) - Lithuanian
Comments
THANK YOU SO MUCH for the christmas present from your HAW-swap!!!! Loooove the Moomin-towel!!!! And it's purple!!!! Love you!!!!
Youre very welcome:). Ive just uploaded my contribution to flickr:D
Thank you so much for the lovely Moomin pouch -- it was wrapped in coordinating paper and is just charming! I appreciate it! Thank you for sending in the HAW 3+1 tag. :)
Thanks for being a member of the Crafting Queens~
you will LOVE the hunger games series. amazing story. My son braught it home and we read it at the same time. It kept such a great rapport between us!
Welcome to District 13! So glad you've joined us...please stop by the forum and introduce yourself (to the others, obviously :D ) when you get the chance.
Just realised I forgot to let you know the tagged Moomin keyring arrived safely. Thank you so much - and I loved that there was a Moomin stamp on the envelope, too! :)
oh thank you for the bookmark and atc... They are lovely! I appreciate the time you put into them. I can't record it on the group yet, because I am using my phone and I don't know how to copy and paste from it! But I will later tonight.