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CURRENT NOTE I'm cutting back on my swapping for awhile. Going back to school:) So I'll be swamped with studies until May 2010. I'll keep peeking in to see if there's a quick swap I can turnaround in my "down" time but I'm not anticipating having that much available--full time student with old brain cells:P

INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS I love getting foreign mailing/stationery envelopes, not the fancy kind, just your everyday ordinary envelope and if you thrown in an extra postage stamp (can be used or new) from your country that would make a great goody for me:) THANKS:)***

Married, two furry children of the feline persuasion:) I love to travel, US and Europe (still need to visit Spain and Australia), enjoy time at the ocean or in a forest. Not a very good gardener but I love poppies and snapdragons, although of late, impatients have been my flower box choice due to their nearly indestructable constitution:)

Mixed Media, handdrawn art, Art journaling (Sabrina Ward Harrison, Teesha Moore, Danny Gregory), ATCs and anything I can make by hand.

I just recently obtained a 1" button machine...too much fun and MOO cards...love to trade MOO cards. Do you MOO?

I love doing handdrawn art with Sakura Pigma Micron pens (#02,#03,#05) and then using watercolor to add color to the drawings.

Things that have caught my eye recently:

--Anything hand-drawn or painted

--Color: Olive Green

--Other Things: Round or egg shaped rocks, Odd shaped paperclips (just found some that were word bubbles-like in cartoon strips:), Small stuffies, mini-zines (the ones made from one sheet of paper)

--VINTAGE: Snapshot photos (not the fancy studio-posed ones) just snapshots of people in the past, ESPECIALLY those posing with their pets, Record journals/record keeping books (blank or with writing on the pages), old receipts, cancellation marks, postal marks (like return to sender, first class mail, etc)

--Tea bag tags (not the bag of tea, just the tag with the string attached)

--Religious Items: Catholic prayer cards, rosaries (can be broken or in pieces), saint medallions, prayer books (or pages from), madonna pictures (NOT the singer please:), photocopies of Bible page that has the verse from John 3:16 (New Testament) on it (please don't rip the page out of a perfectly good Bible)

--Egg

--Heart

--House

--Gingko/Oak Leaves

--Letterform lowercase "g"

--The number "3"

--Crow/Raven

--Monkey (especially Fez Monkeys)

--Hand-drawn or hand-painted artwork

--Fabric, embroidered, stitched

--Rubberstamped (love to see what others have)

--Collaged (NOTE: if you use a magazine picture please, please, please don't use it as it was printed, alter it somehow (sandpaper, wash of color, rubberstamp over it, drawn on top) just don't leave it in it's original form, that's plagiarism. I love to see your own artwork:)

--Georgia O'Keeffe

--Joseph Cornell

--Robert Rauchenburg

--Nick Bantock

--Sabrina Ward Harrison

--Edgar Degas

--Antoni Gaudi

--Chris Van Allsburg

--Sarah Lugg

--Ed Young

--Donald Evans

SWAPS AS SOON AS I RECEIVE, I'LL RATE/CHANGE RATING:)

-- Mini-Zine #8 (SEPT): (ecoprincess)

-- 090909 Postcard: (duplessia3) THANK YOU (koolveg) for angeling this for me:)

-- Learn to how to Create a Mini Zine: (smoobs)

RATINGS FROM

--(sim8827) 090909 Postcard sent 9/3/09 & 9/9/09 NOTE: I did receive an email from her letting me know my card made it but I don't think she understand the SwapBot rating format. She did send her cards but hasn't marked sent.

--(biega) Mini-Zine #4 sent 5/20/09

--(alilpostal) Mini-Zine #4 sent 5/19/09

--(JennieHartKawaii) Zine Swap sent 4/8/09

--(OrangeDotcrafts) Mini Zine #2 sent 3/25/09

--(owlparade) Quote Zine sent 9/25/08