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Birthday:
August 3, 1945
Last Online: November 30, 2008 Country: ENGLAND My Flickr Photos |
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.
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Welcome to my Beginner Dotee Swap! Hope you have a GREAT experience!
Hi there, I am your swap partner for the vintage linen, I sorry it is running late, I bought some vintage linens then realised they were stained so had to hunt some more down, so it will be in your letter box soon, maybe make it time for your birthday! Tegan x x
Hi, I just wanted to tell you how much I liked the way you decorated my package with santas and snowmen. That really brought a smile to my face. Hugs, Mary.
Thanks for joining my "CROWNS" ATC Swap..I hope you enjoy!
-Artsy Athina
You make awesome matchboxes Barbara! If you ever want to do a private swap, let me know. :-)
Lots of Greetings!
Monika
Hi, thanks for joining Recipe-O-Rama! I look forward to swapping with you.
Thankyou Jox, I am looking forward to the swap and I really hope I get it right. Barbara
Hi Welcome to swap-bot and the quick seed swap, hope you have fun. Jox