astarael

PLEASE NOTE: I live in Australia so please make sure anything you send to me complies with Australian customs restrictions as they are quite strict. If you send something disallowed it may be confiscated and I may not receive it. The restrictions may be viewed here: http://www.daff.gov.au/aqis/mail/cant-mail

and in more detail here: http://www.customs.gov.au/site/page.cfm?u=4369#e1038

Although it's probably best not to at all, if you are sending food items (inc. tea and coffee) to me, please specify on the customs declaration that the food is "commercially packaged". Please also specify the value of your package as "NCV" or "no commercial value" or I may be charged an import duty tax on the package.

NOTE FOR POSTCARD SWAPS: unless the swap specifically requires it, I would prefer not to receive "touristy" postcards but rather more "arty" or handmade postcards. This is just my personal preference so it's really up to you! :-)

ABOUT RELIGIOUS ITEMS: please do not send me any religious items. I have nothing against any religion, but would just prefer not to be sent such items. It's not that I find any religion offensive, on the contrary I'm all for religious freedom, but do not believe swap-bot is the place to be heaping your religious values onto others who may not neccessarily share them. NOTE: I have no problem with people who share mutual beliefs swapping items relating to those beliefs WITH EACHOTHER, but I think that where a swaper (e.g. me) has stated a preference not to receive such items, or items only relating to a particular religious persuasion, then such preferences should be adhered to, out of courtesy, if nothing else. In addition to that, I'm not really religious myself so I don't really have any use for religious items.

I'm an 18 y.o. girl studying for a Bachelor of Pharmacy at Monash University in Parkville in Melbourne. Some fun facts about me: I'm a twin (have a twin sister Anna), I'm a vegetarian, I'm left handed and I share a birthday with Hello Kitty!! At some stage in the not too distant future I'd like to learn Spanish. My favorite colours are purple, green and blue.

My interests include
desserts and cakes, reading, listening to music, playing piano when i get the chance, Hello Kitty, Daria, origami, German, Germany, collecting postcards and nice paper, knitting, waffles, icecream, chocolate, strawberries, craftster.org, recipe books, cute things, baby animals, travelling, other countries and cultures, foreign languages, yoga and origami.

In my spare time, I like crafting, baking, eating desserts, drinking tea, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends, shopping when I have money lol and being a "check out chick" at Bunnings Warehouse in Eltham.

For a more detailed swapping profile, please refer to the following post of my blog: http://la--estrella.blogspot.com/2008/06/swapping-info.html

I love paper! I love anything to do with paper, but particular interests of mine include making and decorating handbound journals and notecards/postcards. I'm not really into scrapbooking. I'd perhaps like to get into it in the future haven't really done any before.

Other crafts I enjoy include knitting, origami and making things with beads.

NOTE: as far as postcards go, I prefer handmade postcards or "arty" postcards, I'm not so into touristy postcards.

Paper, postcards, stamps, cute/cool stationary, origami paper, accessories (e.g. small purse, scarves, some jewellery etc). Note: I don't really wear heaps of jewellery and prefer simpler things to really heavy stuff that looks like you have a chandelier hanging from your ear. On that note, I do have pierced ears lol.

Other nice things for me would be any thing to do with trees, birds, owls, deer, Le Petit Prince (in any language, not just French), Miffy, Elmer the Elephant, Babar the elephant, Hello Kitty, Felix the rabbit (German), things to do with Japan, things for my room (e.g. trinkets, decorations etc.).

My favorite colours include green, purple and blue. I especially like aqua/turquoise/teal type colours. Also, I love the combination of brown and aqua.

I'm also very interested in human rights/social justice as well as the environment so anything relating to this theme would also be nice.

Things I don't like include meat, spiders, cockroaches, dung beetles, apples, grapes, zucchini, icky poo brown, really 70's and 80's patterns and in general other yucky stuff. Also, I don't really like swear words.

Le Petit Prince (aka der Kleine Prinz or the Little Prince), Felix the Rabbit, Babar the elephant, Elmer the elephant, Hello Kitty, Chococat, Diddl (German)

The following a swappers who I would avoid swapping with in future:

@mississippi1965 - flaked on her partner in a swap I organised. Was very difficult to contact and then lied to both me and her partner.

@thehorses - flaked on me in the 3 Wishes International Swap. She read the messages I sent her but never responded.

I try my best to rate every swap I receive, but I sometimes get a little confused, especially if I don't get a chance to get onto swap-bot for a few days. If you think I should have rated you for something and I haven't, just send me a friendly PM to remind me!! Thanks :D