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My favorite thing to receive in swaps is vintage stuff and antique/thrift store finds. I love kitsch...my decorating goal is to make my house something John Waters would be proud of. :)

For recipe/food-related swaps- I'm a vegetarian. I do eat dairy and eggs.

Favorite vintagey things: brightly colored housewares (think colors like bright orange and apple green), spacey things, funny little plastic toys, pretty much anything 60s, vintage pyrex (bright colors), christmas stuff...or any holidays, horror things, silent movie stars (Lillian Gish, especially), interesting illustrations from children's books, kitschy touristy stuff/cheesy souvenirs, enamel flower pins, vintage weird Baltimore stuff, strange religious things, linen postcards, cupcake toppers, pretty glass bottles, Bette Davis, old medicine bottles if they once contained something interesting and now illegal like opiates :), ephemera related to epilepsy or tuberculosis ("consumption"), jello things, love letters, victorian (or earlier) beauty manuals, amusing ads, pre-cinema optical toys, birds, plastic jewelry, children's hankies with cute characters on them, valentines, antique/vintage fairy tale books and illustrations.

Other things that are always nice: fancy coffee (whole bean), white hot chocolate, candy, anything with peanut butter, anything maple-flavored, holiday/seasonal stuff, ghost stories, funny socks, something from my etsy favorites, something from your town that I can't get here, anything to decorate my house, garlands, cute or seasonal kitchen towels/dish cloths/useful household things, holiday decorations, mexican folk art/day of the dead stuff, catholic kitsch, anything bright and colorful.

I collect any book version of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Snow Queen," my favorite fairy tale.

For my children's book-themed groups: I love weird old scary Puritan books for children (primers, alphabets, etc), any kind of fairy tale book, children's poetry books, conduct books, ghost stories. Favorite Authors or Children's Poets: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, L.M. Montgomery, Roald Dahl, Arnold Lobel (specifically the Frog and Toad books), Ogden Nash, Robert Louis Stevenson, Christina Rossetti, Walter de la Mare, J.M. Barrie, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Louisa May Alcott, C.S. Lewis, A.A. Milne, E.B. White. Favorite Illustrators: Dulac, Rackham, Caldecott, Kate Greenaway, Tasha Tudor, Windsor McCay, Bernadette Watts. The Little Prince is my favorite book.

SENT:

Etsy Addicts: Etsy Favorites Tag to @WonderlandCreature on 12/20

Etsy Addicts: Etsy Cheap Favorites to @ElizabethObviously on 12/16/10

Etsy Addicts: December WTA to @purpleladybug on 12/20/10

Spoiled Swappers "I wish for" tag to @id0be1ieve on 12/28

RAK to @slamophile on 12/30

I collect: @4smartmonkeys on 12/30

Stuff from my stash: @ladyaries7 on 12/30

Cheap Postage pay it back to @id0be1ieve on 1/26

NEED TO SEND:

RECEIVED:

Stuff from my stash tag from @4smartmonkeys

Spoiled Swapppers "I wish for" tag from @id0be1ieve

"I collect" tag from @id0be1ieve

Cheap Etsy Favorites from @WonderlandCreature

WAITING TO RECEIVE:

Etsy swaps are really fun, but please please be patient since we have no control over when the Etsy seller chooses to send out the items. I try to order items the minute partners are assigned, but I've had cases where the seller didn't send the item out until 2 or 3 weeks later! :(

As with all swaps, I will always always keep my word and send my part of the swap. If you do not receive an etsy swap or any other swap from me for some reason, please let me know and I will most definitely resend!