YooperHill

I love this site and the joy it brings! I try to send quality swap packages, and hope for the same in return. I love to create and give. I send out all swaps, so if you haven't received something from me, please contact me! I rate every swap I receive. I want to make your experience swapping on this site a good one.

Member since May 2006!

I'm always on the lookout for easy, healthy recipes that use fresh ingredients! I would also love a copy of your FAVORITE recipe - any kind! I prefer the 4"x6" card format or via email. Feel free to email me a recipe for any swap I am in. This includes "snail mail" swaps. I don't mind, and will not rate you down because of it. I've started keeping my recipes on the computer and it makes it easier this way.

I am a paper artist. I am a unique paper item/gift card/letter pressed/cool notebook/different envelope...freak! I love them all! (Please note...I'm only interested in unique paper, not run of the mill pads of paper, note cards, sticky notes, notebooks, etc.) I like pads of paper with graph lines, unique covers and I love small note cards. I also love paper and envelopes from non-USA countries, brands we do not get here.

I love angels for my flaked swaps, fountain pens with ink, shrines, cupcake toppers, matchbox art, rocks, assemblage art, hand decorated paper, bath bombs made with natural ingredients, bento, handmade books, beaded items, needle books, hand made headbands, digital art, handmade wallets/purses/bags, retro photos, art dolls, creative writing, bowls, pottery, glass, zines, graphic arts, bronze markers, felted items, ephemera made of something altered like game pieces, etc, and handmade household items.

I like retro, simple elegance, clean lines, modern, Christian religion, urban, bizzarro, quirky, clever, strange, off beat and dark humor. I like mermaids, gnomes, the moon, robots, the Northern Lights, dreams, sci fi, water, snow, the woods, lightning, birch trees, Lake Superior, and craftsman style.

I have pierced ears, and prefer silver to gold.

I like blue, blueish greens, lime green, orange, pink, and red.

I am not easily offended.

Matchboxes - I don't like filled matchboxes ..so feel free to decorate the inside instead. I promise I won't rate a 3 for not filling the box.

Beads...only if they are glass, paper or ribbon please. Small holed, CUTE, wood, and (yuck) plastic beads will get the heave ho at my house.

DISLIKES: CUTE, country or scrapbook styles, pastel colors, rust and PEACH! I prefer wilder, creative, bold, elegant, and thought provoking art.

** PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE ...At this time, NO pencils, ball point pens, sharpie markers (except bronze ), erasers, books, pages from books, sheet music, coffee mugs, scraps of paper, playing cards, loose sequins, confetti, dollar store/discount items, ankle socks, ATC'S, small stickers, kokopelli, or Disney.

Please do not send me decorations for my home. Thank you but, I have too much STUFF!

No food, tea, candy, lotions, makeup, scents, or consumables I don't ask for.

I don't like dirty, used, clean out your stash left overs of any kind! Although I would love to have a cigarette (I quit ages ago,) I don't like the smell on swap item.

I snarl at swaps that do not identify swap-bot, the name of the swap and swapper. I am in a lot of swaps. It's hard to figure out where a swap package came from with out your help!

It has become common place to send late. I have contributed to this as I have not been rating a 3 for a late swaps. Fair warning...I will rate a 3 for a late swap. I do not mean when a true emergency comes up...but over scheduling, and over commitment are not my idea of emergencies!

I give hearts for swaps that makes my heart sing, extras have nothing to do with it. I even give hearts on postcard swaps!

The Star Wars movies, Les Miserables, A Clockwork Orange, The Princess Bride, Overboard, Escape from New York, 2001: A Space Odessy, An Unfinished Life, and the Secret Life of Bee's.

Jerry Jeff Walker, Hoyt Axton, The Kinks, Led Zeppelin, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Lou Reed, bag pipes, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchel, the Doors

Atlas Shrugged, Ender's Game, Cain and Able, Nicholas and Alexandra, The King of Oil and Metal Men.

I''ve started quietly looking for angels. Be assured I have rated the flaker a 1, and contacted the hostess on the swaps below...

Michigan Mittens

1 flaker: @idkmybffjas She was also the Hostess!

5/13/09 @Loralyn offered to angel, I never received anything from her, and no further communication. Still looking for an angel here.