Altered Rolodex Card Swappers: If you are making me an altered rolodex card, I have a rotary type holder, so I prefer the notches to be on the top edge of the card for the back side. Thanks!

I am energized by peaceful nature environments, but drained by noise, crowds and hubbub. I like growing plants in the garden. I like connecting with the Earth. I like art, crafts, graphic design and computers, and the combination of the four. I live with an awesome husband and cat.

I have an immature sense of humor at times (ok, all the time!) and am not offended at all by foul language, explicit music, fart jokes or anything like that. I just laugh and laugh at those things, heh.

Crafts

My latest crazed addiction is altered Rolodex cards. I am trying to fill my 2.5"x4" rotary style card holder, so if you want to mail bomb me with altered Rolo cards I will love you for it.

I am trying to learn needle felting and sewing. Threading the machine will be step one, hee hee. I am also addicted to making charms right now, to hang off of bookmarks, bracelets, journals, zippers, etc. Anyplace that needs a dangle. I like art journaling,paper crafting, and Tim Holtz crap.

Some of my favorite artistic mediums to work in are watercolor, pen/ink/watercolor journaling, digital graphic design, and pretty much will dabble with any type of painting and drawing.

I really love to learn new art/craft techniques of any kind, my mind grabs onto new things and it keeps me motivated to learn all the time (euphemism for ADD). It is safe to say that I am a craft and art supply addict.

I am a digital image and font hoarder.

My interests include (but are not limited to): organic gardening, nature journaling, boating, goats, nature, trees, birds, graphic design, art, computers, cats/dogs, learning craft projects of all kinds, animals, outdoors, hiking, decorating, landscaping, science, spirituality, the body/mind/spirit connection, fitness, nutrition, Spinning (indoor cycling, not wool:), learning about the history and origins of all religions of the world.

I really gravitate to the bright/saturated/vibrant/vivid colors.

A couple of my favorite color combos are blue and green, and also citrus colors combo of lime/lemon/orange

♥ bicycles

♥ Sea Turtles

♥ Toast with cute face

♥ Snails and garden slugs (cute ones, not actual slimy ones)

♥ Elegant mermaids, goddesses and fairies

♥ Postal Ephemera - postmarks, used postage, vintage postcards & letters (written on), vintage images of postmarks etc.

♥ Vintage Travel Labels, vintage fruit/veggie crate labels and vintage seed package art

♥ Goats. Goats. Did I mention LOVING Goats?

♥ Spiritual, yoga, mandalas, prayer flags, personal growth, inspirational things

♥ Any items/art/craft that you are passionate about creating by hand -- I love to see everyone's creative side come out (your handmade items are especially precious)

♥ The Sun, the moon

♥ Haiku written by you

♥ Vintage aprons, and anything with that theme

♥ Souvenier squished/elongated pennies

♥ Dandelions (both the flowers and the seed head); Daisies

♥ Food with cute faces

♥ Sock monkeys

♥ Just mentioning goats again

Specific item WISHLIST, just in case the themes above were too generic:

► (Empty) Starbucks collectible city and state "tourist" gift cards as seen here and here . Just swipe me one off the counter with no credit on it. (Tell them you are going to load it up on the internet if they give you the evil eye, but they never do.)

► Altered rolodex cards for my rotary style 2.5"x4" rolodex

► Rubber or acrylic stamps with bicycle images

► Wool roving from a llama

► Scraps of silk, any size, even teeny

► Polymer clay cane slices of anything

► No-show style socks (US size 9-11)

► Pink beads

► Bead caps

► Holiday dish towels, any holiday. Love these!

► Milk Chocolate in any way, shape or form

► Pretty patterned/colored binder clips

► "Talk Bubble" scrapbooking stickers in vacation themes (or blank talk bubbles that you write your own words onto)

► An orange bath body scrubby

Big Bang Theory, Chuck, Glee, Covert Affairs, PBS, Good Eats, LOST, Alias, Scrubs, Frasier, Seinfeld, Southpark, Jeopardy, Science shows, documentaries in general, Daily Show, Colbert Report

↓ No notepads (post-it type or otherwise) and no journals, I have too many!

↓ No crappy dollar store stuff

↓ Nothing heart shaped (unless its a valentine!), nothing star shaped

↓ I am not into the altered/colorized vintage/victorian photographs of people, nor the Zetti style. There is something about them that is just eery and disturbing to me. No children with wings, crowns or duncecaps. I am not trying to criticize these styles if you love them, but they just are not my cup of tea and I cannot explain why they creep me out, they just do.

↓ No chemically perfumed items, (essential oils are OK though!)

↓ No items that smell of cigarette smoke, or, especially don't try to cover it up with perfume (including scented dryer sheets -- triggers migraine -- sorry! I'd prefer to air out cigarette smoke than get a migraine!)

↓ No Caffeine

↓ No items that are the color "mauve" (I have a strange and passionate aversion to this color for whatever reason)

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Tagged @catherine on 11/4/11 for quality scrapbook paper in CPG Who Likes Global tag

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