augustmoon849

SUMMERTIME and things get slow...you might not see much of me until the fall.

Altered books, collage, making books & journals, knitting, photography, cooking, gardening, beading, stained glass, collecting ephemera (asian, international, southwestern, beach/ocean themes), carving rubber stamps

Kauai, Hawaii; San Juan Islands, WA; Mount Desert Island, ME; Tucson, AZ; Copenhagen, Denmark.

Places on my "GO TO" list: Alaska, Tibet, Japan, China, South Africa, Australia, The river country of France & Germany.

Upcoming needs: Asian coins or paper money, mini vials/bottles, bonito box, images of the sun or moon, blank accounting sheets, miniature folded origami items, iron-on art (anything white), Asian rubber stamps, miniatures for a diorama with Japanese theme, old tissue dress patterns, images of fall leaves, nautical scenes with raging storms or shipwrecks

swimming, sailing/boating, walking, letterboxing, listening to books or reading, beach combing, shell collecting, smelling the ocean and listening to the waves, pondering the power of the moon

pale yellow, blue, (blue & white china); oranges, reds & blues from the southwest; Mexican colors & prints, Asian (pacific rim) prints

I am a collage and altered book artist, recently semi-retired from a graphic design career. I am a supporter of SPCA's and have spent many years fostering pregnant cats and kittens. (I no longer do that right now since my extra space has become an art studio!) I am also a hospice volunteer.

I live in New England, but spent last winter in Tucson, AZ and fell in love with the southwest. My husband and I spend the summers on Mount Desert Island, Maine where we relax after a long school year and run a small cottage rental business. I have 2 grown children.

I have participated in numerous altered book round robins, but am new to the "swap" concept. I have no shortage of things to add to almost any swap and look forward to creating an interesting one of my own.

PLEASE NO: things fru-fruey, victorian or lacey, incense, overly powerful soaps, skullbones, pirates, piercings, spikes, coconut, stickers, chewing gum, anything religious; NO frilly, eyelash or acrylic yarns, anything with nuts, seasonal rubber stamps

anything blue and white, saltwater fish images and tokens, glass icicles, snowflakes, miniatures for an old type set box, anything Japanese/Chinese (eastern), unusual rubber stamps, international papers, playing cards, prints, vintage nautical ephemera, old letters and samples of handwriting, netsuke, artistic wine labels, sea glass, anything Danish, handmade rubber stamps, postage stamps, items with ginko leaves, pakistani/indian wood blocks, brightly colored 100% cotton yarn [Regatta, Newport Light, Metro--mercerized cotton]: fingerling weight 4 ply, Opal, merino, alpaca, fixation - am happy with partial skeins (1/8 of a skein) of nice yarn as I make crazy colored sox! letters (press-on alphabet, scrabble tiles, other individual letters), rubber stamp alphabet (not the smallest), keys, almost anything semi flat for collage, hand dyed ribbons, blue willow related items: china, napkins, paper,

Textured metal for rubbings, old coins with interesting images, images of mermaids, fairies, geisha, samauri warriors, maps, navigation charts, old accounting book pages, graph paper, paper punches (other than round), background rubber stamps, non-seasonal rubber stamps (nothing cutsey -- polymer acrylic stamps good)

chai and green tea, handmade or handcrafted paper, colorful yarn, (the more natural, the better {no acrylics, please}, handmade books, booklets and journals and envelopes, charms, totems, river stones and shells, items related to the sun or moon, socks, simple picture frames (black or silver, nothing embellished), candles, anything with dragonflies.

SPECIFICALLY LOOKING FOR:

armz and legz (metal or plastic) to make a felted girlz doll

woodblock prints

SPECIFICALLY HAVE and would love to swap:

sheet music

P.S. regarding the USPS - I mail all swaps and have confidence in the US mail system, however, once the item leaves my trusted hands, I have no control over it's destiny and can only hope it makes it to your door in a timely fashion. PLEASE let me know if something seems amiss and kindly send a PM or rating immediately upon receipt of swap. thx :-)