TangleCrafts

I love books and fairy tales.
I love experimenting with crafts and faux postage.
I love writing zines about the things I love.

My crafting is a constant evolution of ideas, always branching off in random directions.
I love to discover new creative obsessions, but can never predict what will capture my imagination next. Currently, I am mythologising a world. I love to create new things.

Inside my head is a huge tangle of ideas, which seems neverending.
Everything's interconnected, somehow.

I'm not interested in swapping store-bought things:
handmade/handwritten = imperfect, original & far more interesting, in every way.

If you'd like to swap zines or mail art with me, just PM, & maybe we can work out a private swap. Otherwise, check out my group: Zines, mail art & other cool stuff .

Send me a good quality swap & I will be very happy (:-D see?).
Please don't bother with sending extra bits that bear no relation at all to the swap -
they're wasted on me.

I always use recycled paper, & my packaging is usually handmade and/or re-purposed.

I'm going to be taking a step back from swapping in the New Year (2010)
- lots of projects & people with claims on my time!
But I'll still be around (& of course fulfilling swaps I am signed up to),
so feel free to get in touch. :-)

rain > frost > mist > autumn > leaves > orange & brown > retro patterns >
swirling paisleys > rich colours > olive & aubergine > moss > heather > earth >
seed pods > dandelion clocks > daisies > simplicity > complexity

...and on a slightly less abstract level, I love anything postal related,
e.g. mailing labels, rubber stamps etc. I generally make my own, but I'm
fascinated by all the variations that exist from country to country, era to era.

Life is colourful; colours have a life of their own.

I like rich, vivid, earthy colours; I like soft, muted, dusty colours.
I dislike garish or pastel colours.

I have an irrational aversion to peach, both colour and scent.
It makes me shudder; I have no idea why.

I have heard blue is supposed to be a calming colour, but I have always found it cold and unsettling. However, I have mellowed in recent years, and now actually quite like blue when it comes in a variant of turquoise/teal, and/or when combined with brown.

I'm very fond of quiet space and time to think.
I'm a very grounded, earth-bound person who nonetheless
spends quite a lot of time in a world that's not quite this one.

I am very happy to live with my husband in a permanent state of 'creative disorder'.