PrincessLeia

I love crafting with textiles - mainly with paper and fabric. I am in three Australian Facebook swap groups, which have been a lifesaver in these past few months. I usually attend lots of craft fairs and retreats and workshops, but they have mainly been cancelled this year. My favourite colour is ORANGE and I use it a lot in my craftwork. If I work in other colours, my friends ask me “what’s wrong?” I’m usually making for someone else. I work in a vet clinic but I am semiretired - cos I need more time for crafting!

NOVEMBER 2020 - if you are looking for something to send me in a Swap, I really like Halloween stuff, so if you come across any post halloween sales keep me in mind,, especially any paper or crafting stuff. We don’t get a lot of craft halloween stuff in Australia.

My favourite movie series is STARWARS. I love them all and am anxiously waiting for the next season of the Mandalorian. My favonurite characters are Yoda, Chewbacca, the Ewoks, C-3PO, R2-D2 and the best is BB8! (cos he’s cute and ORANGE!) In the mandaloriam, Mando and the child are my faves. I also enjoy action movies with lots of speed, guns and explosions. I especially like it when good wins, even if they have to bend the law to do it. Loved the Dirty Harry movies. I like movies that have a lot of sequels, cos I like to see what happens next in the lives of the characters. My other favourites movie series are lethal weapon, mad max, fast and furious, twilight, alien, kill bill, Love any movies with The Rock or Sean Connery Don’t like scary movies. I loved the twilight movies - still haven’t finished reading the books - I’m more of a movie watcher than a book reader - except for craft books of course! I quite liked the two guardian of the galaxy movies and the Star Trek movies. I liked the terminator movies.

I’m a bit addicted to police type shows - NCIS, CSI, SVU, Macgyver, diagnosis murder, lethal weapon, tin star,, criminal minds I like the European ones on SBS Ondemand. It’s great because they are in foreign languages so they have subtitles - which is great for deafies like me! Haven’t really been a Trekkie, but have recently started watching season one and it’s a bit addictive! I like watching the old shows that are on 10 Bold. I don’t watch reality shows - I see too much of them just watching the adds! I LOVED Game of Thrones! Didn’t read the books, although I have listened to the audiobook for the first one. My fave characters were Arya and Daenerys and the dragons and of course, the tormented Jon Snow! Vikings was a favourite for the first few seasons, but I didn’t watch it so much after Ragnar died. I have however started watching “raised by wolves” so I’m getting my Travis Fimmel fix now! I also like “The Boys”

I like country and pop music. I like music where you can understand the words. My record collection Is mainly from my teenage years and includes: Slim Dusty, Kenny Rogers, ABBA, ONJ, ELO, Sherbet, Leif Garret, Cold chisel, Chad Morgan (the sheik from scrubby creek) Grease soundtrack, Xanadu soundtrack, Meatloaf Then we changed to CDs and I have boxes of them. I am slowly putting them onto my computer so I can give away the CDs and have more room for craft stuff! I’m not into music that you can’t Understand the words I really like Adele’s voice.

My favourite books are my art journals and craft books. The last set of novels i read were the twilight series, and I didn’t f8nish them!. I’m not really a fiction book fan. I have a big book collection, but they are mainly information type books.

I love. Sewing, scrapbooking (also known as “chat booking”!), art journalling, making “off the page” stuff with fabric and paper and loads of embellishments. I like to sew small projects that I can get finished. I have a lot of UFO quilting things. I prefer to use the quilting techniques and make them into bags! I have too many bags! But really, can a person have too many bags? I’ve just found Heidi Swapp’s memory files and am going to give them a go - I like the thought of not being restricted to a 12 x12 page! I like making ATCs and pocket letters. I have just got a memory dex And am looking forward to embellishing the cards. I love experimenting with pop ups in my journals and am working on a pop up treasure chest - it’s a Slow, long term project for when I’m not working on swaps or challenges. I do at least 4 or 5 swaps a month, with the FB swap groups that I am in. It’s really good making things for others and then receiving surprises in the mail! I belong to four local crafty groups and we meet weekly to monthly- most of them have omly just restarted since lockdown began in March. I like to mix up my crafts - which is probably why I love art journalling so much. I like the freedom of using loose pages and then binding them when I have enough to make a book.. It also means I can use lots of wet product because the back sides are not seen, so it doesn’t matter that stuff leaks Through to the other side.

I love CHIHUAHUAS and TURTLES (especially those with feet /claws. At the moment I have three chis and 3 Northern Yellow faced turtles, yellow rainbow fish, long armed Shrimp, some redclawed yabbies, guppies and a couple of red scats. Two of the chis and all of the turtles were rescues - a side effect of the job! I am a bit obsessed about BEES! Actually a lot obsessed about them - we need them to survive! I like ASIAN DRAGONS - they don’t have wings. I like GARDENING when the weather permits! My favourite colour is ORANGE!! I’m often called “orange Julie”. I Really like STEAMPUNK And I try it but I’m not so good at getting the effect I want. My stuff just looks too clean and I want the grungy look. I think that stems from my love of maths and wanting things to be straight and mathematically correct like if I divvy up a page, the margins have to be equal, but I am trying to let that go a bit.

My favourite all time actor is Sean Connery. I love action heroes : The Rock - he’s so cool and funny! Clint Eastwood - the rebellious hero type Daniel Craig - another guy who bends the rules for justice John Wayne - the ultimate cowboy. Jason Statham - driver extraordinaire! Vin Diesel- - Fast and Furious! More to come...

After looking at a lot of swaps, I need to write about what teas I like. I’m willing to try any tea. I don’t drink coffee- it makes me feel nauseous. I really like T2 teas. My favourite ones are creme brûlée and pumping pomegranite. I have large tins of these, so please dont send them to me. I like to make up big jugs of iced tea as I live in a very hot place! If we are swapping tea, I would appreciate fruity teas or chai latte - wherever I travel, I like to try new flavours.

I like all kinds of postcards, EXCEPT those with scantily clad people. I like touristy postcards and event postcards (Halloween, Christmas, Easter, and other holidays, book events, historic events, etc). My favourite colour is orange - if you find any mainly orange postcards, I’d love to receive them!