U.S. POSTAGE RATE CHANGES:

• Priority mail, small box, $5.80; medium box, $12.35; large box, $16.85.

• Priority mail, regular envelope, $5.60; legal envelope, $5.75; padded envelope, $5.95.

• Delivery confirmation will be free on packages, including priority mail and parcel post, rather than being an extra charge.

Profile update=3/20/2013-For profile based swaps or if you just want to make me really happy I have a wishlist on items I'm looking for. Receiving something from that list will definitely get you a heart. I normally always check my partners profile to help me decide on what to send them even if it isn't profiled based swap.

Hello, My name is Angel. I have three boys---Brad (16)---Samuel (8)---Oliver (2). I have been happily married for 17 years. I live in Ohio. Two cats named Daisy and Zebra.

I love to listen to MUSIC. My fave is country. Sugarland and Taylor Swift are my faves. Also Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, Adele, Toby Keith, Keith Urban, Billy Ray Cyrus, Josh Turner, Dierks Bentley, Billy Currington, Carrie Underwood, Tim McGraw, Luke Bryan, Kenny Chesney, Brad Paisley, Miranda Lambert, Trace Adkins, Martina McBride, Darius Rucker, Gretchen Wilson,

FAVE AUTHORS are Jodi Picoult, Nicholas Sparks and Melanie Sue Bowles. My genres are mystery, romance but not too mooshy, scary, non-fiction, biographies (people, animals, ghost).

Please, NO to fantasy (not into Twilight or Harry Potter), historical fiction & Stephan King.

FAVE MOVIES are Joy Ride, Saw, Last House on the Left, The Last Song, Coyote Ugly & Pretty Woman, Christmas in Canaan, No Strings Attached, John Cena's movies (don't watch wrestling but he is a good actor), Just Like Heaven,

SHOWS: Love American Idol, Survivor, Two Broke Girls, Two And A Half Men (enjoying Ashton way better than Charlie), Master Chef and Kitcken Nightmares, The Talk, Young & Restless, Betty White's Off Their Rockers, Hot In Cleveland, Hollywood Heights.

 MY FAVORITE SWAPS ARE SO FAR
                      (1/27/2013)

• PHOTOS (USA AND DEFINITELY INTERNATIONAL),

• WHIMSEY JARS/BOXES,

• POST CARDS NAKED OR IN ENVELOPE (HANDMADE OR STORE BOUGHT),

• EMAIL SURVEYS,

• THRIFT STORE,

• PROFILE SURPRISES,

• SCAVENGER HUNTS,

• JOURNALS (THE WHOLE BOOK OR AN ART PAGE TO ADD TO JOURNALS (SIZE 5x7)

• I love things with horses or animals on them and animal print items.

ANIMALS: My two absolute favorites are HORSES & TIGERS but I also love cheetahs, leopards, monkeys and ladybugs.

I love all animals.

SCENTS: lilacs, baby powder, coconut, oranges, clean scents like linen, ocean, fresh rain

COLORS IN ORDER: turquoise/peacock, purple, orange, red and then neon green

FLAVORS: anything but coconut and peppermint

FOOD: mexican food, ice cream, Folgers or Maxwell House coffee (no instant please), Land O lakes or Swiss Miss hot chocolate, Pepsi, peanut butter m&m's, chewy sprees, rock candy, cadbury creme eggs, caramel apple suckers made by Tootsie

SEASONAL: snowmen, ornaments any are cool but I'm trying to collect smores ornaments. I found some at Menard's one year and they are so cute, photo Christmas cards, stickers (no teacher or rewards) or paper (can be adult or children), patriotic stuff FYI---(I'll accept red, white and blue items all year through), Rudolph and Frosty stuff (I love the two shows), cadbury creme eggs

MISC: store bought blank post cards of any kind, sock monkeys, body spray (check out my like and dislike scents), purses, books (check out my like and dislikes list), address labels, peace signs, tye dye stuff, pac-man, animal print, stickers (can be adult or children), Disney characters, re-useable canvas tote bags, metallic pens, black paper, new or gently used stamps, card stock, journals, unique pens, pens with colored ink

TRADES: I like to trade a variety of things :)

FLOWERS: lilacs, sunflowers, daisies. geraniums

JUST FOR FUN: taking pictures with my Nikon coolpix L120, Pittsburgh Steelers

FAVORITE FAST FOOD RESTAURANTS: Certificates from Taco Bell, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Arby's.OHHHH, I like Speedway cappuccino's, Bob Evans

(:I DON'T MIND USED STUFF ON CERTAIN THINGS AS LONG AS IT IS GENTLY USED:) not on candles, pens...etc. Stuff like that. I love Used books, loose stationary (doesn't have to be a full set), assorted stickers not on sheet, purses, even magnts that you no longer want are OKAY.

      I'm open to private one-on-one trades

Swapping at Cafemom and www.swap.com (website above) That is why I joined swapbot. Cafemom member introduced me to here. Thanks Mary!:)

FLAVORS: peppermint, coconut, cherries, pecan nuts

SCENTS: vanilla, pine, roses

COLORS:pink, white, gray

FOOD: NO tea or instant coffee single packets, white chocolate, coconut, peacan nuts

BOOKS: series, Twilight, Harry Potter, Stephan King, fantasy, sci-fi

)MISC: religious items, fairies, goth, skulls, I do not knit, crochet or sew but getting fabric squares, ribbon and buttons are fine. I could use them for my whimsey jars and other craft things. No Seed or wood beads. Also no cheap plastic beads like the kid craft kit kind and not from the dollar stores. ATC's, teeny tiny erasers or mini notebooks (I like little notebooks but not mini)

liars and drama and flakers. I swap at cafemom and swap.com also.

WILL UPDATE THESE WHEN NECESSARY

all kids change their interest as they grow

BRAD: 16 YRS OLD

• doodling---drawing pads

• red and black together or separate

• skulls

• flames

• checkered stuff

• video games---XBox games

• gum (any kind)

• airheads

• lemonheads

• sour candy

• gummy worms

• plain m&m's

• (any kind of candy really--he doesn't really eat much candy but eats it every once in awhile)

• action movies

• pens and mechanical pencils or regular pencils, lead for pencils

• listening to music (hip hop, rap---stuff like that,

• HOODIES or T-shirts-will gladly accept used as long as no holes or stains)---Size (16-20) or size (XL in men) because he likes them big, zipper hoodies

• baseball FLAT BILL

• COKE products

• Angry Bird products.

Thank you.

SAMUEL: 8 YRS OLD

• Likes to watch Word World, Spongebob, Super Why, Sid the science kid.

• Video games Wii

• the color green or orange

• books---level L, 2 or 3 (2nd grade) color by number books (loves I Spy and Marley by Grogan but any will do:)), books with activities---mazes, dot-to-dot, color by numbers, drawing pads

• elephants

• monkeys

• listen to music (he likes my country music.

• SZ 8/10 clothes

• Angry Bird products

• Mario products.

• Cool plastic cups with or w/o lids

• squinkies (He has

Toy Story series #1

Spongebob series #1 and #2

CARS series #1

Bubble pack with dice series #1

Skull Cavern Dispenser

Crazy Crane Dispenser

• Diary of a whimpy kid book series

• DVD's

Thank you

OLIVER: DOB---10/2010

• Sesame Street

• board books

• balls

• outside toys

• fake food or play kitchen items for his play predent kitchen that he got for his 2nd birthday. He also got a Melissa & Doug shopping cart.

• Spongebob

Thank-you

            Husband Kevin:

• photos from Germany

• old volkswagon bugs but none with flowers please

• XL T-shirts (pocket or ones with designs just no sports please)

• winter hat and winter gloves (XL size)

• red twizzlers

• sugar daddy's

• peanut m&m's.

My boys are always curious when I get a package in the mail so for them to get something would make them happy. Husband doesn't seem to , at least he doesn't show it, but I know he would appreciate very much.

FLAKERS

@love2crochetalot -Random 25 questions survey (Jan. 5th 2012) Thanks to @CricutMania for angeling her answers to me. on Feb. 5th. Great Answers:)

@SCBassetMom -I love my crockpot-March (March 14, 2012) angeled by @Institches on April 19, 2012-Thank you so much. Sounds yummy.

NONRATERS

@NinaDias for stationary swap A

I THINK THESE PRODUCTS ARE SMURFY

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DOVE---bar soap, shampoo and conditioner

PAMPERS---diapers and wipes

NINE LIVES---cat food

JUICY JUICE---drinks

NICE & EASY---hair color

SOFT SOAP---hand soap, bar soap

AVEENA---lotion

DAWN---dish soap

ALSO-Fresh Step cat liter, Kelloggs and General Mills cereal, Quaker Oats oatmeal, Pepsi, Hefty garbage bags, wipes-Cottonelle flushables and Huggies baby wipes, Mikes Hard Lemonade:), yogurt.

I really don't make homemade things but every now and then I like to make bookmarks. Sometimes they are magnet bookmarks.

===CRAFT ITEMS I WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE TO MAKE MY BOOKMARKS===

I also want to start making key chains with regular beads and letter beads.

Want to try making items out of duct tape too.

DECO TAPE AND DUCT TAPE HOW-TO BOOKS---any tape design or color (no gray though, please) and any how-to book.

SPLIT KEY RINGS

CRAFT STRING---clear or colored
LAMINATING SHEETS

MAGNETIC SHEETING

THIN RIBBON

LETTER BEADS---the black and white square beads please.

(NOT the little colored ones)

REGULAR BEADS---glass, bone, ceramic, clay, metal, shell, pony, plastic as long as it isn't the cheap plastic (like kids craft kit beads). The beads can be plain or decorated. Hobby stores like Hobby Lobby or Micheal's or Ben Franklin are a good place to find nice ones. Amazon or Etsy also.

(No seed or wood beads please) (No cheap plastic beads from the dollar store or cheap kid beads)

Also journals or the composition books with a picture on them. I'm starting to try journaling to see how I like it. 8-30-2012

  ---I enjoy receiving hand made 
              items of anything.---

A hand made cover for a 4-slot toaster-Thank you @sugarskull for giving me this gift in the Christmas Secret Sister swap at Information Central

Toaster cover is on my wishlist but I will gladly accept any hand made item of any kind.

MOVIES DVD's: Harper's Island DVD, Smurf's cartoons, SAW 5 and 6, Tom & Jerry cartoons, I like movies with horses in it (ex. Second Chance, Horse Whisperer, Flicka)

BOOKS: Taste Of Home magazines/cookbooks, Melanie Sue Bowles-Dogs of Proud Spirit, duct tape how to books, Ghost Whisperer (based on the show), Hunger Games (even though I put I'm not into series I want to give these a try), biography, mystery, I have quit a few Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks but I want them all :) (If you would like to know what ones I have I can let you know) so I don't get a duplicate. MAGAZINES-any celebrity, Taste Of Home, Birds & Blooms, any animal (I can use these for my journaling and page by page journal pages)

• Journals-3-19-13 (I'm going to do a MEMORIES scrapbook so I need scrapbooking items in that theme. (paper, scrapbook stickers,embellishments, sticker or cardstock sayings, etc...) It will be BIRTH 1973- GRADUATION 1992. So, school colors are blue and white, Falcon is the mascot, any horse or florescent items, NY or Niagra Falls because I was there as a kid and will be adding pictures from our trip there, I was into Pac-Man (I had a Sega) I know Nintendo makes Pac-Man but I had one of those mini tabletop Pac-Man arcade machines. Swimming, Hi-Tops, Care Bears, My Little Pony, Strawberry Shortcake, Cabbage Patch Kids, Smurf's, Tom & Jerry, roller skating, the game croquet, hop scotch, jump rope, kickball, hide and seek. I liked to ride my tricycle, bike and play on the swing set. Music like Aerosmith, Bon Jovi, Meatloaf, Paula Abdul, Mariah Carey, Reo Speedwagon, Poison, I was even into Michael Jackson, New Kids On The Block, NSYNC, 98 Degrees (you get the idea) I wasn't into country music until after I was out of school. My favorite place to eat out was Taco Bell (Mexican food is still my favorite food) and Friendly's. Any sister scrapbooking items. I have one biological sister.
• caramel apple pops (suckers)
• photos from anywhere taken by you. USA or International:)
• Smores Christmas ornaments-I'm trying to collect them all so I can eventually have a smores tree:)
• address labels that say...

swap-bot addict

Angel R Thompson

art3osb

and the peace sign, horse or tiger for the picture please

• Jennifer Anistan perfume (it can be new or used). Taylor Swift perfume (again, new or used)

MUSIC

Wii GAMES: Wii or XBox games

MISC: Bath and Body Works products (they have a lot of good scents )watch rings, Melissa & Doug products, any blank store bought post cards or HOMEMADE (PC)-state, city, animals, lighthouses, hot air balloons, trains, souvenir pc's from zoos, Disney Land/World...any vacation, Canada or International pc's- any kind at all...I decided to start a collection (12-25-2011). black paper and metallic pens, card stock, composition books or journals, new or gently used rubber stamps, craft paper punches

International cost too much plus it takes longer to receive items so I only do flat envelope swaps. I do U.S.A. swaps of any kind. Thanks for understanding

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When I receive my gift I promise I will rate it. I'm not going to give you a 3 or 1 because I don't like it.. I WILL rate it using the swap-bot rating rules. I appreciate every gift I get and I'm not greedy, selfish or hard to please so, as long as you mail by the deadline and the gift go with the swap theme then you will get a 5. You don't have to send me an extra gift to get a heart. I'll give you a heart if it is sent on time and the gift matches the theme we swapped for and I know you put time and thought into it. If for some reason you can't send by deadline then please message me and let me know. I will do the same. Sometime things happen in life. I realize I'm new and just want to be rated fair. I don't want a 3 or 1 because you don't like the gift. I put a lot of thought into my swaps and stick with the theme of the swap. Please, don't flake on me because I will rate you with a 1 and reply with a comment and make sure everyone knows. You will also go on my flaker list. However, like I said before, I will give you time to fix it. Communication and being honest will get you far. I'm not a flaker. I swap @ www.swap.com, & www.cafemom.com (in some groups) I have friends here @ swap-bot that are from Cafemom that I swap with. Cafemom is where I heard about this site. I already mentioned that earlier.

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I thought it would be helpful to post the swap-bot rating rules on my profile.

What are the rating criteria?

There are only three different rating criteria:

1. I got my stuff and it met posted swap requirements (5 points)

2. I got my stuff, but it didn't meet the posted swap requirements (3 points)

3. I never got anything (1 point).

Keep in mind that you are NOT rating your partners on whether or not you liked what you received, only on if it met the requirements of the swap. The fun thing about swaps is that you never know what you are going to get, and that means that sometimes you may not be thrilled with what you receive. Also, remember that everyone (including the person you are rating) can see who you are and what ratings and comments you gave. It is important to rate participants honestly, but it is also good to be kind even if you have to give someone the lowest rating.