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Hi everyone, my name is Federica, from Italy. I'm 32 and I live near Milan. At the moment I don't have a regular job, but I work free lance as art critic and fashion writer. In the past years I've worked in Contemporary Art galleries, fashion magazines, models agencies, now I'ml ooking for a new job, in the mean time I'm the art editor of a new biannual female fashion magazine.

I have a boyfriend, Davide. He's younger than me and works as Vj in a club and does video editing as free lance, I love him, but he has to share my heart with Anita, my dog. She's an English Bull Terrier of 8 years. She's the most funny and loyal friend I have. when she was a puppy, she was poisoned, she risked her life, but after a week of coma, she was completely recovered!Now that she's getting old she suffers for the consequences of poisoning, she has a renal insufficiency and she can eat only specific food, she takes natural remedies like nux vomica, flower remedies, metallic and mineral elements.

I consider myself very openminded and without prejudice except in confrontation of people of extreme right wing. I confess I can't stand their ideas and behaviours.

I like travelling, reading, clubbing,playing videogames, surfing the net and learn a new thing every day. I try to do my best to preserve our planet, I really hate the fact that in the name of globalization we are losing the sense of local products, this really touches my heart, I can't undertsand why I can find cherries from Argentina in the winter and oranges from Israel during summer...this is just a way for waste money and penalize people, productions and territories!

I like anthorpology, I love to learn about religions and traditions from all over the world, I'm quite into alchemy, jewish magical culture, history of tarrots and pagan beliefs.

I love crafting, thanks to this website I discovered that I love making matchboxes and ATCs. My favorite craft is jewellery making I love to spend time looking for new materials to use in my crafts. I think my favorite things are charms, trinkets and miniatures.

I'm quite scared by dolls, but I'm obsessed by dolls' miniatures like Re-ment and Megahouse:)

I'm available for private swaps!

RANDOM THINGS ABOUT ME AND MY LIFE:contemporary art, good food, nature and animals, club culture, macintosh computers, bull terriers,gumball charms, Sardinia' sea, to travel, to spin vinyl records, movies, geek culture, asian food, vintage videogames, polymer clay, books, nintendo Tattoos, Re-ment, fashion,moleskine, desperate housewives, the Royal Family, south park, thinking green, respect the nature and more.

SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO KNOW:

• I don't know exactly why, but if I drop my swaps in the mailbox, often they're postmarked at the Central Office at the airport, so not in my hometown, but in Milan, please allow few days between the day I mark sent and the postmark date

-I re-use packages and envelopes

-If you send me something that I can't use or something that I know somebody else will love, I will probably swap it. THIS DOESN'T INCLUDE HANDMADE ITEMS, I'M VERY JEALOUS OF THEM.

If these things bother you, just let me know!

Of course you are free to use recycled packages and re-swap things I send to you

Music: I'm in love with electronic music, from Kraftwerk to all the new techno,minimal,house producers. I do love also some rock and pop music. My fav are David Bowie, Radiohead, the cure, Blur, Massive Attack, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Beatles, Queens of the Stoneage, the Strokes.

Reading is my first love!Random authors: Douglas Adams, Philp K. Dick, Johnatan Coe, Zadie Smith, Paul Auster, Aleandro Jodorowsky, Kurt Vonnegut, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles dickens, Michel houllebeq, James Frey, Hanif Kureishi, Nick Hornby,Bret Easton Ellis, Roald Dahl, Dave Eggers, Marguerite Youcenaur, J.K. Rowling , Jonatan S. Foer and more

Love movies!Random movies directors I like: Cohen bros., Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, Wes Anderson, Bernado Bertolucci, Paolo Virzi', Tim Burton, Michel Gondry, Quentin Tarantino and more...I'm also addicted to Ben Stiller & C.

I love videogames, my boyfriend is a hardcore gamer, I like to play and some games are addictive to me also, but I can control my self:) My boyfriend and I have Xbox360, Nintendo Wii, Game Cube and PSP, we are looking forward to buy the new Nintendo DSi. My favourite games are Mario Bros ' games. I love Viva Pinata! and Viva Pinata Trouble in paradise. I waste a lot of time playing Pac-man on the Xbox and Puzzle Bubble. I like to play Lips, Rock Band and Guitar Hero with friends. I collect anything related to Mario Bros, friends and enemies. Giant insects invading the world, fliying zombies, bleeding chain saw, cruel aliens, spaceships are my boyfriend's favourites in videogames.

We are looking forward to buy "Rock Band - The Beatles" wow!!!

I started playing videogames when I was very young. My favourite game was BIG TOP of 1983. If anyone has a copy of the game for the computer or is able to find it for less that 40 € (the price to import a copy asked by the expensive games shop of Italy) I'll be happy to trade it with anything I can send you.

I'm a food lover! I love cooking, I prefer fish instead of meat, I like natural, healty, good quality food. I prefer to buy organic and natural ingredients, but of course I have my weak spots: my worst addictions are Marmite, balsamic vinegar chips, Oreo, Kinder Country, dill pickles, Italian gelato, edamame, sweet and sour candies. I love Japanese, Vietnamese and Thai food and of course, Italian!

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my favourite colours are..rainbow! I love GREEN, fluo colours and pink. My fav combo are turquoise and brown, green and pink, pastel yellow and pink.

I love gloow -in-the-dark items, Kawaii is one of my biggest passions. My fav. characters are:Peanuts, Barbapapa, MARIO BROS(and friends and enemies), My Melody, Little Twin Stars and Sanrio charachters, South Park, Stich, Monsters&co., Nemo, Carebears, My Little Pony, Barbie, Poochie, RILAKKUMA, Monokuro Boo, Mamegoma.

I love tea, chocolate(except tablet with whole hazelnuts), recipes, religious items, MATCHBOXES, lighters, fabrics, ribbons, craft materials, stickers, erasers, beads, hama beads, buttons,dolls miniatures, bento-boxes and accessories, stationery.

I'm quite easy to please and I won't complain if I will receive something from this list, but if this doesn't bother you, please don't send me:

Disney classic

Pucca

Diddl

Nici

figures of fairy and gnomes(but I love images!)

Marvel comics

warner Bros (I hate Bugs Bunny)

Make up(but I love lip-balms)

thongs and strings(I never wear them)

angels

pout-pourry

dried flowers

ethnic things(unless I sign up for a specific swap)

PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE NO FEATHERS, I have a kind of phobia for them

THE SAME IS FOR CLOWNS

Please don't send me cheap incense sticks as I like their smell and I can't resist to them, but the smoke makes my eyes burn and I can't stop crying. natural incense made with essential oils are fine!

Not so much tv for me but I like: Desperate housewives, South Park, Little Britain, Ab Fab, X factor (UK and Italy), Supernanny, news, Six feet under,documentary films, Weeds, Gossip Girl and above all CHUCK, not Chuck Bass, CHUCK BARTOWSKY.

GUMBALL CHARMS OF ANY KIND!

RE-MENTS

penpal in English or Italian(even French but I'm quite bad with written French)

ANYTHING KAWAII

bento boxes and accessories

fabrics

vintage clothes and bags

books

stationery

stickers (always welcome!)

trinkets

funny and unusual things from your country

beads (I've never enought of them!)

a job at the Buy More :D

• Polymer Clay • jewellery making • sewing • Shrinky Dink • Crosss stich • knitting