Tarabell150

5/27 Update: I got a job!!! So, this means I may not be coming back to do swaps as soon as I thought. With school ending and then with my new job starting, and a busy summer I may just be a fall/winter/Spring swapper. I do check in almost daily still to see what is going on.

Update: I have had to recently re-do my complete profile after it got deleted somehow by my ridiculous computer. I don't have the time to make it as wonderful as it once was, so if I left something vital out that you would like to know about me, please PM me. :o)

Update 2: I am sloooooowing down on my swaps. I started commuting a hour and a half north for school again, which costs more $$ and time than previously when I was just taking classes online. Once the term is over I should be back to my old swapping self!

Hi! I am 25 and I live in the lovely yet almost always rainy Pacific Northwest (Oregon) with my boyfriend and my toddler daughter. I worked for 6 years for a giant sports and outdoors store until June of 2009 when it closed its doors. I am currently looking for work, a student at the Art Institute of Portland for Fashion Marketing, and a SAHM. I am glad to have found SB and have met so many wonderful people!!!

Randomness... things I like:

*Crafts *Fashion *Country Living Magazine *Friends/family *My daughter, Isabella *Shopping *Anthropologie *Ruffles and Stuff (blog) *Love Maegan (blog) *Road trips *Wine *Brunches *Cooking *Project Runway *Phil Collins *Etsy *Tea *Summer *Snowboarding *Button Fairies *Lifetime movies *Murder She Wrote *Oregon Coast *Vintage *Estate Sales *Peanut Butter M&Ms *Collage *Mixed Media *Tim Holtz *Records *Stampington & Co. *Pictures *Ephemera *Gesso *Accessories

Rating: I promise to always rate. I also rate based on a swap, not the extras, although extras are always a nice surprise. I love when someone makes something and it shows they cared and they take a look at my profile and see what I like. I won't rate down if it isn't something not profile related though. I love things handmade and I love to see other swappers creativity. There are many things I can't do myself and I love to see how others do those things. It your swap to me will be late, please contact me. I am not part of the postmark police, but I appreciate the communication. If I haven't rated you it is because I haven't received the swap yet. I will always contact before rating down.

If waiting for a swap from me: If international, please give it a month before contacting me and rating me down. I have done a lot of international swapping and have seen swaps take a week all the way to a little more than a month. You never know what holiday can be slowing the mail down somewhere. I appreciate your patience.

Likes

-Handmade anything

-Altered anything (art, accessories, etc)

-Mixed Media

-Thrift Stores

-Antique stores

-Anthropologie-like anything (a lot is very easy DIY)

-J. Crew-like anything (accessories are also easy ish DIY)

-Cooking (recipes, healthy, vegetarian, slow-cooker, drinks, etc.) Please no beef or items with cream cheese.

-Craft supplies (no dollar store items please)

-Stickers (no rewards stickers please)

-Stampington and Co. type crafts and/or back issues.

-Victorian or Romantic Homes back issues

-Wooden fold-up rulers (vintage? antique? whatever you would call them, I collect them)

-Vintage fabric measuring tape (collect it too)

-BUTTONS!!!! All kinds! I love those random, different, something special about them kind of buttons best! But all buttons work, I won't turn any away :o)

-Vintage flower frogs (with spikes or holes)

-Tea. I love to drink it and dye things with it!

-Yikes pencils (from the '90s)

-All colors. There are no bad colors, just bad color combos.

-Junk jewelry

-Jewelry made for me to wear. I love it all, rings, necklaces, earrings (both post and dangling), and bracelets. I am really into the Anthro-type jewelry like bib necklaces, show stopper pieces. Some are so simple yet so freakin' cool to look at.

-Crafts using recycled materials. (Green Craft magazine)

-Ephemera!

-Old books, books in foreign languages, old children's picture books and old children's school work books.

-Stamps and stamp pads (clear, mounted, unmounted) new or used is fine

-Keys (can be old or new)

-Rusty crusty things

-Crafts based on Murder She Wrote and Phil Collins :o)

-Button fairies

-Cleaning supplies recipes (window cleaner, etc)

-Jewelry-making supplies (wire--all sizes, clasps, crimps, etc.)

-Beads (no plastic please, unless real pretty can't tell its plastic beads)

-Shabby chic type items

-Bath/beauty products (lotions, bath salts, etc)

-Candles

-Kitschy

-Seeds (flowers, herbs, and so on)

-Something from my Etsy wishlist

-Craft books/magazines -- new or used is fine

-Something you think I will like but I don't specifically have it typed down on here

-Fabric (vintage or new)

-Canvas

-Watercolor pencils (new or used)

-various embellishments

-Jelly Roll gel pens -- all colors

-The letter "S" or "I" in any form (I collect them and hang them up around my home)

Dislikes

-Please don't send me these items. I either have a lot of it, or just don't care for it. If I am in a swap that has to do with one of these items, then don't worry about it being here in my profile :o)

-Cutesy things (Kawaii, Precious Moments)

-Rewards stickers, tiny stickers

-Swaps thrown together with no thought

-Rude drivers

-People who read your PM and don't respond despite you needing their response on something.

-Non-raters

-Cigarette smell on things (please air out the best you can before sending it!)

-Kate Gosselin

I am about double my age in what music I like. I love 60s, 70s, and especially 80s. I should have grown up in the 80s instead of being born right in the middle of it. I do like some music from today but music is definitely not as good as it used to be. Some favorites of mine include Genesis/Phil Collins, Don Henley/The Eagles, Tears for Fears, Howard Jones, Bruce Hornsby, Ambroisa, La Roux, ELO, Bread, Lady Gaga, David Cook, STP, and Enya.

I really like all types of music as well. I love everything from Dance (Abercrombie type music) to Hard Rock such as Disturbed. I also love smooth jazz and country. The only music I don't listen to is pretty much Gospel, Bluegrass and Big Band.

I love books! I don't get to read as much as I would like but when I do I usually am reading:

-Craft related books

-Mystery (Love Nora Roberts)

-Cookbooks

If you have any of the above that you don't want anymore, please send 'em my way! I would really like to read Ann Rice. I heard they are great.

I love all kinds of movies. I don't think there is a genre that I haven't cared for. Some favorites include:

-Christmas related (Christmas Vacation, Elf, Home Alone)

-The Holiday

-Airplane

-Dumb and Dumber

-The Langoliers (Steven Kind flick)

-Book of Eli

-Castaway

I love a great TV show, but with my television on Sprout majority of the time, I don't get to watch them as much as I would like to. Some favorites include:

-Murder She Wrote (own all available seasons on DVD, just waiting on season 12 to come out)

-CSI (all of them, I watch every episode every week thanks to on demand!)

-The OC

-Curb Your Enthusiasm

-The Young and Restless

-The Marriage Ref

-MacGyver

-Lifetime anything

-Project Runway

-Survivorman

-Glee (a new favorite of mine)

I would love to dabble in every craft out there. There are crafts I love and crafts that are just not for me. Although I may not list a particular craft here as a favorite, probably because I don't do it myself, doesn't mean that I won't love it if you send something made by doing it to me. I would really like to get into card making and someday scrapbooking. I love altered art and mixed media. I love to make jewelry and I love fashion/accessory DIY. I can always find a handful a day that I want to make. I also love to make button fairies and work with buttons in general. I am in the process of learning to sew on a machine. I am looking for good websites and books on the above crafts.

Since my profile recently was deleted by my ridiculously slow computer (bug?) I lost my list of tags that I have received and have sent out. So this list is starting from April 2010.

To Send Out:

Sewing Notions and surprise to @lovestosew

Sent Out:

Button Fairy to @Chinacat for the Tag in SOS (5/11/10)

Waiting to Receive:

Received:

Handmade mini journal from @smokeyquartz1980 for the Tag in SOS (4/20/09)

Since my profile was accidentally deleted I lost my entire list of flakers and non-raters. I will have to go back to my past swaps and see who has not rated me and re-type it out here since there is a lot of them!

Flaker:

@Countrywoman

Non-Rater:

@maliksmom for Pin-Up Girl Button Fairy (not active member)

Will update at a later date.