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I am a newbie to this site but have been swapping for about 15 years now. I always send out my swaps so please contact me before rating me if you haven't received anything!

Thanks @pgk for the awesome green badge :-0!!!

I promise to :

• send ALL my tags within 2 weeks of my post (this used to be 7 days but school is going to delay me sometimes, easy ones go out much sooner)

• send ALL my swaps by the deadline or if I am late (rarely happens) I will notify my partner. (This used to be before the deadline, but I'm finding my handmade swaps are sometimes taking me up until the deadline. Just be assured you will receive and if I'm a couple days late, it will be well worth it as I spend a lot of time on my stuff.)

• tell the user when I've received their tag

• rate a 5 when a swap was SENT on time

• rate a 3 when a swap was late and the user did NOT tell me the user would be late

• rate a 1 when I don't receive a swap

• adjust any ratings of 1 if and when I do receive that swap

• COMMUNICATE any and all relevant information regarding my swaps

REGARDING HEARTS: To sum it up, while it's a great idea, the heart system seems to be failing. Any hearts I receive I wish you to give me because you really feel I put heart into what I made or sent to you, not because I sent you a profile goodie to compensate for a crappy swap. I personally know I put my heart into everything I make and that's good enough for me. I will be using the same guidelines when giving hearts and even the grossest most offensive Happy Bunny magnet will NOT get you a heart for sending me crap! i.e. Sending me extras doesn't guarantee you a heart, and if you sent them and didn't get one it doesn't mean I necessarily thought your swap was crappy either.

Lastly I feel obligated to tell you that I am a smoker but I do not smoke in my house. I am also a scavenger and a lot of the supplies I use are not brand new therefore I'm not 100% sure of where they've been before they reached my hands. At best I got it for free or on clearance, at worst I've saved it from the trash or dug it out of the earth. If you have any health problems, allergies, or asthma please let me know and I'll do my best to accomodate you!

Above all else I am a mother to a wonderful 8 year old Bear Scout. He has been my absolute savior in life and brings me more joy than I've ever experienced thus far in life. He also would like to trade things in the mail!

I am currently in my last years of college working on two bachelors degrees. When I finish in the spring of 2010 I'll have completed a bachelors degree in Computer Engineering as well as a bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering. I absolutely love my classes and do very well in them! I love all things related to math, science, and computers. I'm a huge geek and proud of it!

In April of 2008 I met a wonderful man who has become very dear to my heart. Some say it's too soon to know but I truly feel he is my one as I have never felt this way about any man before.

My son's name is Tristan Thompson (01/23/00). He'd really like to find a penpal preferably around his age and another boy. He always has either some sort of food, a ball, a sketchpad, food, a book, food, or a video game in his hands. He's into all kinds of sports and loves to draw and write. He would like to find someone to trade sketches or short stories with.

Other things he likes or collects:

• Topps Baseball Cards
• Mail with his name on it (pm me for full name please)
• Crafts
• Gulp worms (it's a specific namebrand for fishing, quite smelly...not sure I'd want them in with my swaps though he listed it)
• Temporary tattoos
• Hot Wheel cars
• Mixed cd's
• Chapter Books
• He'd read just about anything meant for young readers and we gladly accept used books.
• TV/Video Games (big surprise there)
• Sketching (it's never called drawing anymore)
• "cool" bookmarks
• Legos
• Orange Tic Tacs
• Any kind of hooks for his new fishing rod, especially for hooks for worms.
• Money - he seems to have a truly unique appreciation/love for it. I don't just mean US dollars, any sort of unique coin or paper money fascinates him. He's also into collecting US state quarters. Thanks to some very special ladies Tristan has acquired some coins from Spain, Costa Rica, Malaysia, and Australia :D He polishes and displays them proudly everyday after he wakes up, before bed, and sometimes in between, lolol!!
• Watches - he owns four and always asks for more :/
• Candies from other countries.
• Postcards from all around the world.
• Magnets (all kinds)
• Keychains (all kinds)
• He'd really like to find a good compass since he doesn't have one yet.

Jack Off Jill, Pantera, System of A Down, Dew Scented, Sublime, Rage Against the Machine, Slayer, Skinny Puppy, Alice in Chains, Suffocation, Testament, Bjork, Daft Punk, and loads more.

Slams, scrapbooking, ATC's, decos, sewing, embroidering, handmade postcards, along with a lot of kid type crafts I do with my son.

I've also discovered dotees recently and am excited to make my first one! I've received some fabulous ones and am always looking for more!!

These are somethings I REALLY REALLY want:

• sparkly/holographicish contact paper (would love green, blue or silver esp., please no pink or gold)

• big free stickers - the kind you get at concerts/coffeehouses/theatres etc usually advertising a local band or show. I don't want any product advertisements.

• Happy Bunny Magnets or the quality Stickers - I have:

Magnets: (would trade this one -->>) "I love everybody, except you pinheads." My favs: "have a great day you worthless turd." "hey you made me throw up a little." I also have tried handmaking these magnets but my printer and supply of good images is not up to par :/

Stickers: "since you're gross shouldn't you be smart?" hahahaha love this one! I like the really gross ones and anything to do with stupid/smart/math/nerd/geek stuff.

These are other things I like:

• Green
• vintage advertisements
• ribbons & fibers
• anything unique to add to an ATC
• stickers (except holidays)
• magic mesh
• textured papers
• animal prints

Characters I Like:

• Gloomy Bear (basically non-existent in my area since my store closed pout)
• Hello Kitty (especially gothic lolita and the clovers I saw a year or two ago that sold out in less than a week around here)
• Tare Panda
• MonokuroBoo
• Keroppi (would LOVE a keroppi shaped notepad)
• Little Twin Stars
• that baked bread loaf san-x guy...name is escaping me at the moment
• Emily the Strange
• Pucca

Things I collect:

• Fairy Postcards (thanks to @MrsAnnaSue I have added 7 Cicely Mary Barker Fairy Postcards to my collection recently :D If sending one of these please pm me to see if I've already got it, much appreciated! Oooh make that 8!! Woohoo!!)
• Squished pennies
• Garbage Pail Kids (have 2 complete old sets and one new, will still take any as I love to use them on some of my crafts)
• Postcards (love map postcards the most but any and all are loved)
• Small sanrio or san-x notepads
• Stationery
• Animal Print fabric (any size/material/print)
• Bic lighters (anything with an image on it)

Things I've heard about and would love to discover:

• amigurumi
• lucky parcel (I think I'd like to do a private swap instead of a public one)
• biscornu
• chunky books
• inchies
• blind box toy

These are some things I'm not very fond of:

• Gold
• Fish
• Pink (unless it includes Hello Kitty or an above mentioned character :P)
• Typed letters
• Disney
• Religious material
• Dirty/smelly/torn items
• Flowers
• Jewelry
• Confetti
• Eyelets
• Brads
• Flakers (despise them actually)

• I have over 1000 slams to make, if you would like me to make some for you please pm for my address and send me up to 50 of your labels. The paper I have to make them on is not pretty, but I always decorate the covers of my slams very nicely. No need to send anything in return, but will accept anything from wishlist if you feel like sending as thanks.

• Any Phish fans? I somehow collected a bunch of album/bootleg inserts for some of their cd's. There are no cd's, just the inserts that have some great images. Some I may have used already but willing to trade.

I prefer my postcards sent naked without an envelope. Please also include the name of swap or tag you're sending me as well as your swap-bot name so I can rate you :D If I accidentally send you a double please kindly pm me and I'll be happy to send out a different one!

These are some of the kinds of postcards I like, but I really do love them all:

• prefer store bought to handmade though I do like nicely handmade postcards they just seem hard to find.

• Castles, maps, historical facts or figures, Albert Einstein, recipes, cute characters (especially Happy Bunny), Anne Taintor, bridges, architecture and more!

• I am not easily offended and I do enjoy gross/taboo/dark humor. I will most likely love any postcard like this!

• Please do not send me advertisement cards or "free" cards. I've seen a few cool free cards but they're few and far between so please use your best judgement.

Swaps I've sent out but never got rated on:

Long Letter Pen Pal Swap #2 - was not rated by either parter @yvonne1968 or @samscat

100 Things That Give Me Joy - Letter Swap - sent 09/30 to @jemki (made her a fun book too :/)

Swaps I got flaked on:
NONE! YAY!