dogfishsmum09

I am 63 years young with 3 grown up children and two grandchildren, I'm around 5ft 6inches.. I have been a vegetarian for around 25 years, I love all animals, in particular Dogs, cats and fish. I have two dogs a German Shepherd and a Labrador,a stray cat and a lot of fishes..I am a widow of 12 years now with a partner.

I read a lot, talk a lot I also enjoy doing jigsaw puzzles and love my small garden and pond. Cooking is another great interest to me I have loads of cookery books although with the family moved out I don't cook special meals and sweets as often as I used to, cheesecakes fresh and baked were my speciality. I collect bears inheriting my mothers collection when she passed away making me a very large collection now. I thoroughly enjoy photography, although still learning, I found from my first experience using digital I was totally won over, I upgraded my camera a year ago and carry my older camera in my handbag everywhere I go and have now just bought an even smaller camera, having been introduced to flickr by my family I regularly download my photo's, flickr has helped me to improve my ideas and presentation, it has opened up a whole new world for me. I learned about swap-bot from trawling through art/crafts photo's on flickr. Roses,pansies,daffodils and fuchsia are amongst my favourite flowers, but anything pretty and bright like trailing nasturtium to liven up my garden is good with me.

I used to have many collections, from candlesticks, pigs, porcelain and glassware, but have now been selling or giving a lot of this away, swapbot partners will no doubt receive some of my excess items when we swap, all part of my re-cycling regime..

I have a Dolls house which was an ebay purchase, and I love collecting items for it and am looking into ways to make dolls house trimmings.

I inevitably wear very long skirts, trousers only rarely and then mainly for work, with plain or floral tops (no frills) I love hand knits most specially Aran patterns, having some still in use that I made 15 plus years ago. I have hundreds of patterns ranging from dolls and kids clothes a few adults and piles of crotchet patterns, some of which I have sold on ebay but not with any great success. My favourite colours are red pink mauve/purple red green brown animal prints I wear earrings and have pierced ears, love wearing beads necklaces (not chains), earrings and bracelets brooches, to match my clothes although nothing expensive then I can change them often. Being new to craft work, as in altered matchboxes and ATC cards, I am having fun trying out new ideas, I have promised myself on retirement from work to buy myself a new sewing machine and try my hand at quilting, which I did many years ago by hand, I used to do a lot of embroidery and cross stitch before family and work consumed my time, I'm loving the idea of trying new crafts and swap-bot seems to be the way to share my new found interest, and such a great way to re-cycle which I am a great fan of.