ViridianMuse

this swap almost didn"t make it to me. my husband found it on the front lawn in this state.

Please know I hold all my swaps very high in priority and never "NO SEND" anything. That's just not my way. If I'm going to be late, I'll do my best to let you know ahead of the due date. However my life randomly likes to take the wheel and steer me right into a brick wall.

If you feel I've missed something or you didn't receive something from me, please pleeeease PLEASE let me know before rating me a 1. Thanks.

Thanks to those of you who I have swapped with who put their heart and soul into things! It's much appreciated! I love all the swaps I receive that have been made with attention, love and care. I swap for the joy of swapping, not to rate someone on their artistic skills. I love seeing what others do and make. It makes me HAPPY!

GIVEN UP HOPE ON A CHANGED RATING FOR MY 1 rating. Tried to contact person and no response. Three mailings later and my rating stays unchanged.

I liked seeing this on a few profiles I've been checking out recently. It's a nice way to have everything all together in one place so heres my swap progressions:

CURRENTLY WORKING:

.I've been a mailart hound since 1997..maybe even earlier, but I got really serious in 1999.

My name is Chelsae, though most of my friends just call me Chel, or Chels. I'm 36 and addicted to art.

I'm a mom, wife, daughter,sister, friend, and avid pack rat artist. I love finding fun things to use in art and have too many "junk" boxes to even use it all. I've actually started to pare down a bit by letting my artist friends pick over my stashes.

This is a year of great ups for us: My husband and I celelbrated our 15th wedding anniversary in October and welcomed our first child in July of this year. He's our special little miracle boy and we're just smitten.

This year couldn't have come at a better time. We had a year of downs last year, losing my mother-in-law to Lung cancer in November last year after dealing with a year of her being "ill" and not knowing what it was.

Knit,crochet, altered arts,sewing, making jewerly, making miniature fairy dolls, plushies, broches, felt creatures and wearable art, ATCS, I'm a SHARPIE ADDICT! I'm a dabbler..I'll try anything once....and get easily addicted to new things

I'm totally addicted to music. My music love ranges from classical,jazz, and the like to alternative and more. I totally love music.

My favorites currently are The Avett Brothers, Amos Lee, Iron and Wine, Tina Dico, Feist, Maroon5, Rufus Wainwright, Marvin Gaye, Norah Jones, Cake, Radiohead, Emogen Heap, Charlotte Martin, Jet, Steely Dan, Crosby Stills and Nash(and sometimes Young) Ben Harper, Regina Spektor, Charlotte Martin, and on and on and on....

manta/stingrays, aligators,bats,horses, bears, elephants, mice, rats, dolphins, otters, owls, capybara, the purple frog (not just frogs that are purple, dumbo squid, vampire squid, axoloti,

umm...LOTS of animals! there are very few I don't like! :)

Greens, Blues, Purples in various combination. I like most colors really though I'm not a huge fan of oranges. However oranges sometimes work and are needed. Favorite combos, Aqua or Turquoise and Brown, Pinks and Browns, Hot Pinks and Black, Grey and Aqua, Greens and Blues, Reds and Black

I love televison. I don't get to watch like I used to as I'm making healthier life choices (well sometimes) and tend to not sit in front of the "boobtube" anymore.

Favorites from the past: Firefly, Friends, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The Young Ones, Monty Python

Favorites currently: The Office, Lost, Eureka, Dirty Jobs, Modern Family (talk about a show that makes you laugh out loud! ) ugh I could go on and on...let's just say my dvr isn't large enough to house all my obsessions.

I'm a discovery channel addict I get the additional channels of discovery, the history channel and those sorts of things and I'm constantly dvr'ing something to watch. I love anything on Egypt, or ancient history