fairyprincess

I am very excited to be a member of swap-bot! I must say thanks to my buddy in Toronto who told me about this neat idea and that she gets mail almost every day - wow, who doesn't love mail! (Unless it's a bill, of course)

A little bit about me... well, I'm a French teacher by day, and I love speaking and writing in French and traveling to Paris, where I used to live for 3 years, but moved back to Canada when I realized that my boyfriend, who lives in my hometown, was the man that I was going to marry. (We've now been married for 4 years.)

making lists!

writing pen pal letters

wearing black (my favorite store is H&M, cheap but chic!)

Eiffel Towers & anything & everything relating to Paris and France (my husband recently pointed out to me that there is some sort of Eiffel Tower in EVERY room in the house!)

notebooks & journals (I've been journaling since I was 13 and I recently labeled and organized all my journals and I have 35 of them!)

Bazaar fashion magazine and the Fashion Television channel

any type of sticker with French or different languages on them

organizing things and organizers of all types

the color pink- bright pink, blush pink, sparkely pink... all types of pink!

boxes of all shapes & sizes

charm bracelets

purses, purses, purses (and pictures of purses and things with purses on them)

wearing MAC makeup & OPI nailpolish

sugar-free gum of all kinds (I seem to chew a pack a day!)

my brown lop-eared pet bunny (she's almost 5) and anything with cute little bunnies on them

being a member of Peta and eating vegetarian

traveling all over the world (but I've only been France, England, Holland, Italy, Spain, Switzerland and some of the Northern U.S... I've certainly got a lot more to see!)

CUPCAKES - my most recent obsession, thanks to swap-bot... I'm like the cupcake monster!

I just discovered kawaii too! I like the pictures of food and objects with the little faces on them

Stationery and cute letter sets with matching envelopes

Quatchi! What's that you may ask? He's one of the Vancouver 2010 Olympic mascots! Go to http://www.vancouver2010.com/mascot/en/meet.php to see an adorable video all about him!

Reading swap-bot profiles and doing my best to tailor the swaps I do to try to give you something that will make YOU smile!

working out at the gym

working out at the gym (yes, the fact that this in on both lists is not a mistake)

things with pictures of cats on them (sorry!)

Disney decorated stuff

Hello Kitty (but I like all other kawaii style characters!)

floral type patterns or ANY stationary with flowers on them (I can't stand to garden, and I don't like spending time outside in nature... I'm much happier in a bug free environment)

Victorian style things or lace

negative people & complainers

When I'm not teaching or marking, I'm usually watching a movie, I go to the theater at least once every weekend. (I also keep a journal of all the movies I see or rent and rate them on a scale of 1 to 5!) Some of my favorite movies are Saving Private Ryan, Gladiator, The Departed and most recently WallE and the French film "Ils" which scared the bleep out of me!

I'm trying to break a TV addiction because I have a tendency to watch whatever is on but my favorite shows are Intervention, Biggest Loser, America's Next Top Model and anything on Discovery Health Channel.

I love to read and buy books. I just wish that I could read faster because the list of books that I want to read feels like it's longer that the list of book that I've actually finished! Recent reads are The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett which I really enjoyed, and another fav is Between A Rock and a Hard Place by Aron Ralson. I really like crazy adventure/survival stories and memoir/biographies. I also just finished reading The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon and it was wonderful and so moving. I highly recommend it!

Anything by The Arcade Fire, Coldplay, (I've seen both of these bands live and they were amazing) electronic and techno music, anything that gets by heart pumping when I need to work out.