update Dec.6th Please be patient with me right now. I am dealing with some personal issues and I'm late in both rating and sending some swaps out. I will try to get caught up when I can. Thank you all for understanding.

I am married with 2 teenage children which are independent homeschoolers. I live in a rural area in a home we built. We are off grid using solar power. So all my computer correspondences are solar powered yeah! We lived for a year with no electricity at all before we were able to get solar power system up. It was fantastic experience.

Nature is very important to me and I like arts and crafts that reflect nature.

I like stationary, sachets, address labels and fancy STICKERS, LOTION, soaps ANYTHING Scented, ribbon, teas, homemade or store bought spice blends, candles (all kinds votives and jar candles ect...),candy I like fruity candies, carmel, coconut, nuts, chocolate ( but between May through September it is HOT here) I like victorian style postcards/cards, Celestial (stars and moons and suns) style, Cats and Dogs All animals especially Bears (real pictures of bears not teddy bears) Not that there is anything wrong with teddy bears :)

LOVES: Anything Handmade

Pen-Pal letters and swappers that include a personal note with swaps makes me happy!

Decorated envelopes

silver tone jewlery or handmade earings, bracelets, and necklaces

colored natural gemstones

butterflies

cookbooks

cozy socks

candy

tea

Fairies

stationery it is hard to find nice stationery here I like floral,nature and artstic kinds not Kawaii or diddle

learning about people and cultures

scented soap

magazines used is great! I really like to unwind with a magazine cooking, gardening, womens, crafts, science anything!

postcards

Always in need of Kitchen towels

trying new recipes

flowers and flower imagery

SUNFLOWERS

SUN,Moon and Stars imagery

shopping at thrift stores

all shades of yellow (execpt really bright garish)

Good quality incense. not dollar store

Rubber stamps and ink pads

Here are the things I do NOT like to receive:

Pink girly things

Kawaii

cartoon characters or Disney stuff

scrapbooking but some of the stuff I can use for my card making

patriotic USA stuff or camoflage stuff

Christian stuff

world music epecially music from Brazil, Cuba, and Africa. Jazz of all types and Rock from Indie to oldies with a soft spot for 80's music.

I love watching all kinds of movies. My guilty pleasures are action/ adventure films and scifi where the good guys always win. Will Smith rocks! I also love more sutble and complex films as well. I just love Dance movies also like Strictly Ballroom and Step up We get no TV so I love movies and I'm fine if you send me any "back-up" copies you've made.

Here is a short list of favorites: Meet Joe Black, Dan in Real Life, I am Legend, The Illusionist, Princess Bride, everything Star Trek, all the LOTR movies, The list could go on for a very long time

cooking and preserving food, gardening, reading, herbs for cooking, healing and crafting, knitting ( I like cotton yarn) I started to make notecards and postcards so I would enjoy biggish (not ATC size) patterned papers and card making supplies So I like embelishments, nice stickers (themes I like in stickers are : flowers, clouds,leaves,trees, snowflakes, Victorian, butterflies& dragonflies, stars,moons,suns,animals,but not too cartoony animals, I like decorative sticker borders, fairies & other fantsy and just pretty designs or intersting things. I don't like childrens stickers or cartoon characters or kawai stuff like hello kitty. I also like brads, rubber stamps, and fine tip ink pens for my card making. I've been drying a bunch of homegrown and wild collected herbs for tea blends, herbal bath bags and potpourri.

I really enjoy reading non-fiction such as real life adventures or how-to books also books about great people. I do love engaging plot-driven books too. Here are a few of the books I've read recently: Catch me if you can (about a infamous con-man) Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes mysteries, My Guantanamo Diary, Not by the Sword and..... I have a horrible time remember the titles of the books I've read.

I like all kinds of foods spicy and exotic Indian, Mexican, Thai,Chinese, all asian ect.. I love trying new recipes and I recently have been getting into more healthful eating and whole grains. UPDATE: my daughter is becoming vegetarian so all the rest of us have cut down drastically on eating meat. I would love more ethnic and vegetarian recipes or cookbooks. I still have my sweet tooth and love baked goods and candies I like all fruits. I drink more tea than coffee. But I do like coffee mixes.

I really love scented stuff and prefer things scented with natural essences. I like clean scents like lemon, honeydew melon, herbs such as lemon verbena,lavender, rosemary, sage, Spicy scents like cinnamon and pumpkin are fantastic too!! I also LOVE florals such as rose, jasmine, honeysuckle.

I'm not really crazy for food smells or vanilla.

I love yellows! pale yellow to sunflower yellow to golden wheat. I like all earthy tone colors and also jewel tones I like the combinations of Red and yellow, Blue and yellow, and turquoise and brown.You can make me happy with most colors. I do not like pink or neon colors

owls (stickers, notecards, stamps, ect... with different types of qwls

ric-rac baby size I would really like some black colored

cloth tote bags or shopping bags

Aprons (someone sewed me a beautiful one once and I just love it and would love some other ones. I'm ample so make it big)

sharpie thin line markers or similar in black and other colors

I just want to say THANK YOU to all the wonderful swappers I've had the joy to swap with. It is because of the great and generous people on swap-bot that this is such a fun past time!!

Create the world you want to live in.