darzy30

I live in Ithaca, NY with my fiance, and I love my dogs (1 yellow lab, Harvey; 1 black pug mix, Walter), knitting, making jewelry, reading, and wasting time on facebook (aimeedars), ravelry (aimeedars), flickr (aimeedars), postcrossing (darzy30), and etsy (aimeedars).

I received a postcrossing postcard mentioning swapbot, so I signed up! I primarily joined to swap postcards, but I am venturing into sticker trading, too! ; )

My many collections include postcards, magnets, state zipper tags with my name, snow globes (from places only), beads, pigs, pugs, corn, and yarn. I have started making smushed pennies...we'll see how that goes. I enjoyed collecting the state quarters. I filled up my collector's book, and thought I was done, but I just saw a new quarter for Guam!

My favorite color is purple. I also like teal, burnt orange, magenta, and lime green. I can't say I dislike any colors, though.

I have been veg*n since 1997--became vegetarian then and vegan in 2005.

• Ellis Paul • Dar Williams • Lucy Kaplansky • Antje Duvekot • Slaid Cleaves • Ingrid Michaelson • Brandie Carlile • Girlyman • Indigo Girls • Meg Hutchinson • Patty Griffin • Mindy Smith • Brett Dennen • Lori McKenna • Jeffrey Foucault • Mark Erelli • Kris Delmhorst • Matt Costa • Gillian Welch • the Mountain Goats (thanks JD for supporting the Farm Sanctuary!) • The Decemberists

• A Very Long Engagement • The Virgin Suicides • Middlesex • Crooked Hearts • Asa as I Knew Him • He She It • Ender's Game • Speaker for the Dead • Church of the Dead Girls • Margaret Atwood • Michael Connolley

• STAR WARS • The Matrix • Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown • Galaxy Quest • Alien • Children of Men • The Corporation • Raising Arizona • Groundhog Day • Michael Clayton • Nashville • The Terminator • Parenthood • Grease • The Sixth Sense • Saving Private Ryan • Idiocracy • Sliding Doors

"You must be the change you want to see in the world"--Gandhi

"Only when the last tree has died and The last river has been poisoned and The last fish has been caught, Will we realize that We cannot eat money" --Cree Indian Saying

"Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let us not become the evil we deplore."--Barbara Lee

"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together."--Isaac Bashevis Singer

"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"--Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."--John Kenneth Galbraith

24, Law and Order, The Amazing Race, In Plain Sight, The Office, House, The Closer, The Wire, Homicide, South Park, OZ, The First 48, Criminal Minds, and a love/hate relationship w Grey's Anatomy...OK, you get the idea: I watch lots of tv and love every minute of it!

If there is a choice on a postcard exchange, I prefer my cards "naked"! I love having the stamps and postmarks on the card itself. When the swap doesn't have a theme, if you are wondering what to send, I love all postcards. I like touristy postcards, animal postcards (dogs, pigs, and cows are my favorite, though I love ALL animals), nature, art, quotations, maps, flags...you get the idea!

I love art cards, and some of my favorite artists are Modigliani, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Chagal, Cindy Sherman, Rothko. I like the early 20th Century artists a lot.

I also love images of illuminated manuscripts or books.

Unless it's a swap for them, in a sender's choice swap I would prefer no ad cards. In addition, I would hope not to receive cards depicting hunting, hunters, or dead animals.

I think stickers are fun to put on postcards and other mail, so I am often sending them out to other people, and for that reason, I don't have strong preferences regarding them.

However...my most favorite are animals, suns, moons, and stars. I also like SpongeBob, Richard Scarry, Oscar the Grouch, and Hello Kitty. I also like vegetarian/vegan stickers.