ichabodhides

I'm a 29 years old girl, originally from Finland but moved to England in early 2008 to live with my boyfriend. Currently I'm living with my boyfriend and his family and their 6 cats near Birmingham, but we're hoping to get our own place eventually. I'm a fangirl with an unhealthy obsession to the tv series 'Supernatural'. I love reading, taking photographs, Aikido (I'm currently a blue belt), crocheting, cooking & baking, watching movies... I'm also a tea addict and drink silly amounts of tea.

• cats
• cherries
• chocolate
• ice cream
• the smell of rain
• stripy things
• rainbows
• stickers
• deco tapes
• kawaii
• vintage/retro
• Nemi
• Moomins
• Krtek
• teapots
• cookbooks
• postcards and letters
• surprises
• polkadots
• zines
• sushi
• bookshops and libraries
• lists
• Stephen Fry
• black ink pens
• squirrels
• cupcakes

anything by Haruki Murakami, Banana Yoshimoto, Tove Jansson and Astrid Lindgren, the Harry Potter series, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, 1984 by George Orwell, The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Anne of Green Gables by L.M. Montgomery, The Shadow of the Wind and the Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters, Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel, Poppy Shakespeare by Clare Allan, The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Nightwish, Sonata Arctica, Apocalyptica, The Cure, Depeche Mode, Kent, Belle & Sebastian, Rufus Wainwright, The Smiths, Interpol, Joy Division, Jeff Buckley, Mew, Tegan & Sara, The Ark, Tom Waits, Rasputina, Indochine, Ladytron, Metallica, AC/DC, movie soundtracks

pretty much anything by Tim Burton, Amelie, The Crow, The Last Samurai, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Tada Kimi Wo Aishiteru, Ruokala Lokki, ,Chungking Express, The Man Who Cried, the first Pirates of the Caribbean film, the original Star Wars trilogy, From Hell, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Chocolat, Velvet Goldmine, Hayao Miyazaki animations, Breakfast on Pluto, Girl Interrupted, Lost in Translation, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Dracula (the one with Gary Oldman in it), Benny & Joon, Battle Royale, Donnie Darko

Being Human, Supernatural, House, Torchwood, Doctor Who, Absolutely Fabulous, Black Books, The Big Bang Theory, A Bit of Fry and Laurie, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Q.I, Russell Howard's Good News, Gilmore Girls

I love to swap postcards. Some of my favourite themes include

• books, libraries, people reading
• maxi cards
• bicycles
• lighthouses
• trains
• people, especially in traditional costumes
• houses, cottages, windows, doors, narrow streets, street scenes...
• lavender
• maps
• mail boxes and post offices, anything mail related
• squirrels and chipmunks
• wolves
• autumn colours
• food, recipes, sweets, chocolate, berries, fruits etc.
• teapots/tea/coffee
• black & white photography
• Alice in Wonderland
• children's book illustrations
• waterfalls
• matryoshka dolls
• mosques
• Unesco World Heritage Sites
• sunsets/sunrises
• cherry blossoms
• beautiful nature views
• rainbows/rain

I prefer single view cards, although I do have a soft spot for postcards showing multiple items (like lots of different fruits, teapots etc). I like my postcards written and stamped, not unwritten in an envelope.