caregvr1

I'm a 45 yr. old , married, SAHM to a 17 yr. old boy who is autistic,diabetic, and has adhd,ocd,odd and hypothyroidism. My boytoy/husband is 38 years old and a truck driver. We live in River Rouge,Michigan with our crazy yellow lab mixed dog named Goldie. In my sparetime I enjoy reading (lots on history and biographies),writing to my snail mail penpals (been doing that for 33 years now) and swapping fbs,slams, postcards, stickers,stationery (Sanrio,San-x,Diddl,Disney,Snoopy,Betty Boop,Garfield) and bookmarkers. I also collect just about anything on Royalty (past & present) and Anne Frank.

I took a break from Swapbot but am so glad to be getting back into the swing of things!!!!!

The White Stripes,Red Hot Chili Peppers,Linkin Park,Coheed & Cambria,Chevelle,'System of a Down, Tool, Shinedown, Cold Play, Kings of Leon, Eminem, Lady GaGa,Insane Clown Posse, Lacuna Coil,Tantric,Sex Pistols, Souxie and the Banshees,Depeche Mode,New Order,Iggy Pop, the Ramones,the Police,Cheap Trick,Andre Rieu, Helmut Lotti, Mozart, Emerson,Lake and Palmer, and so many others.

Amelie,Snatch,To Kill a Mockingbird,The Diary of Anne Frank, A Place in the Sun, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Little Women, The Full Monty, Frida, GoodFellas, Marie Antoinette, Memoirs of a Geisha, Sissi, and others.

Coronation Street,Emmerdale,Eastenders,ER, CNN, BBC World News, Keeping Up Appearances, Are You Being Served?, Last of the Summer Wine, Jeopardy,American Experience, Masterpiece Theatre, The History Detectives, All Creatures Great and Small, The Big Bang Theory, and more.

I enjoy card making , rubber stamping, making fbs and slams.

Sanrio,San-X,Q-Lia,Crux,Diddl,Pooh,Garfield, Snoopy, Blue Bear, Hello Kitty,Tinkerbell, Emily the Strange, Art Box, stickers,stationery,postcards from around the world, chocolate,scented candles,key chains,bookmarkers and anything to do with Royalty,cardmaking supplies,memo sheets,paper scraps,and good recipes.

These kinds of stickers(Religious,teacher reward,advertising freebies,Pokemon), badly made fbs meaning the pages don't stay together and I have to fix it!!!!, any kind of religious mailings, and cheap stationery. Also getting flaked on swaps!!!

I also don't swap label bags,decos or messy fbs!!!!

stickers, stationery , deco tape and pens/pencils themed with: Hello Kitty, Keroppi,Afro Ken,Diddl,Betty Boop,Garfield,Snoopy, Emily the Strange,Tinkerbell,Eeyore,Pooh,and pretty much any Sanrio/San-X character, scenic postcards from anywhere in the world, cardmaking materials, card stock and ,anything I can use to make greeting cards.

I love scenic views, buildings, art,animals, people, famous people, Royalty, Military, and popular tourist destinations. Old,new, used...it all works!!! I don't care if they come in an envelope or with a stamp on them either.

'Friendship books (also known as "FBs" in their abbreviated form) are small booklets made by stapling paper together, or are sometimes just sheets or strips of paper. They are usually decorated and the person who starts the book writes their name and address as the first person sending the book. People often include a list of interests as well. The FB is then passed around from penpal to penpal, and can often also become a way for one to meet new penpals. Most people hope to see the book again once it is full so they add their return address to the back cover of the book too, or inscribe "Return to Sender" on it. People also sometimes make FBs for someone else rather than themselves, in which case they write the name and address of the recipient on the front/at the top. Some people find friendship books fun because you can see where they have been in a trail back to the original sender/recipient.'

Slams are friendship books that include a theme of questions, either "Sign if you did/like the following", "What is your favorite" or other similar questions. These usually include one page as a "sign in", several pages of questions, and then a "sign out" or "shout out" page at the end. Slams can be themed or regular. Typically they are usually small like a standard friendship book. Often they have a "sign-in" page where you put your label or name, then each page will often contain a question which you answer (i.e. When was the last time you said "I love you") and the signer would write the appropriate response. At the end there is often a sign-out page as well where it's dated. Slams have many variations and can be "sign if" slams (you sign only if the statement or question applies to you). These are handled in a number of ways, but most of them become more clear when you have it in-hand.