lovetherain

I'm in my early 30s, and a stay at home mom to three little girls ages 8, 6, and 4 yrs. Crafts I love are altered matchboxes, decos, art journals, and some ATCs. I do some sewing, embroidery, crochet, knitting, and stamp carving. I have a shop on Etsy, where I sell vintage clothing.

• Anything with fairy tales. My favorite is Little Red Riding Hood. I also love Snow White and Rose Red, Rumpelstiltskin, and The Snow Queen. I like both dark and whimsical interpretations. For classic children's books, I love Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz, Peter Pan, Heidi, and Pinocchio. Please, NO Disney or famous movie versions
• Whimsical creatures - faeries, unicorns, gnomes, goblins, etc.
• Mushroooms (designs pls, not the food!)
• Mermaids, selkies, nymphs...
• Japanese obake (ghosts/monsters)
• Tiny trinkets, bits and bobs (charms, cabochons, beads, etc.)
• Stickers
• kawaii/Japanese fabrics
• Miniatures (for dioramas and matchbox shrines)
• Anything related to British Victorian and Edwardian time periods
• 1920s, flapper, art deco
• Vintage kitsch anthropomorphic animals (esp. fawns, poodles, lambs, and bluebirds.)
• Kawaii stationery - I prefer to receive whole or even partially used items as opposed to loose (unless I'm in a swap specifically for loose)
• Anything similar to/inspired by my Etsy favorites
• Surprises!

• Woodland/forest - esp mushrooms, deer/fawns, moss, and hedgehogs
• The night sky, stars, moon, and planets
• Matryoshka
• Ballet
• Items that are cute and quirky (ex. robots, mushrooms)
• Anything cute in a set of 3/trio like this or this
• Cute and creepy (ex. Gloomy Bear)
• Manga inspired art (ex. Junko Mizuno, Camilla d'errico etc.)
• Anything dark/creepy/maccabre, skeletons, vampires, zombies, graveyards, Krampus etc.
• Pin up girls both classic and modern (my favorite classic artist is Alberto Vargas, and Fritz Willis). I also like risque/adult images (Olivia de Berardinis) and fantasy art (Boris Vallejo, Luis Royo...)
• My favorite color is blue (esp. robin's egg and pale blues) and mint green.
• My favorite animals are cats, deer/reindeer, and foxes
• Christmas ornaments and small decorations
• My favorite season is winter
• Altered and filled matchboxes and shrines
• Washi tape
• German scrap/dresden foil
• Haberdashery (sewing notions)
• Vintage items (ribbons/fabric scraps, embroidered linens, millinery flowers, celluloid jewelry/barrettes, kitschy cute ceramic figurines, etc.)
• Korean brand skin care and beauty products
• Candles (I only use them in the winter months, and prefer floral/nature scents over sweets/bakery)
• bath bombs, bubble bars, etc.
• Things that are colorful, sparkly, glittery
• Items that are nice to look at and useful
• Ribbons
• Illustrations/artwork postcards
• Christmas postcards
• Winter accessories (gloves, warm socks etc.)
• Gel pens all colors
• Embellishments and matchbox fillers
• Crafting items for my kids (if you send something for them, please mention which item it is in your note)
• Tea
• For candy swaps, I prefer chocolate over candies whose main base is sugar with additives (ex. Nerds, Sweetarts, pixie sticks etc). I'm fine with anything that includes licorice, marzipan, nuts, raisins, etc. Pls just no mint, white chocolate, or anything with gum.

I love all Japanese brands, though I tend to avoid Sanrio and San-x since they are they most popular. Though I prefer San-x, if I had to choose of the two. I do like Little Twin Stars, Piggy Girl (lately I've grown to like her), Jinbei san, and any older San-x characters, like Nyan Nyan Nyanko, Kogepan, Mikan Bouya, Atsugari san, Sea Paradise etc. and test characters.

Other characters/designs

Unko chan (poo), Awawa chan (soap bubble), soda chan, pill chan, teeth/dental, food with faces, mushrooms, deer/fawns, ghosts/obake, witches, monsters esp anything with a Kappa, (green water spirit) Hanako san (the girl in the bottom left corner), and any winter/snow themed kawaii.

• I love Korean stationery. Especially anything from the brand Orange Story, particularly items featuring Lovely White or similar girl characters.

• Least Favorite characters - Hello Kitty, Rilakkuma (not a big fan of cute bears), Spottie Dottie, Pochacco, Pekkle, Batz Maru, Kuromi, Jewel Pets, Monokuro Boo, Jewel Cat, Afro Ken

• One of my favorite brands is Cram Cream. I love any of the cute animals or food with faces.

In search of : Night Capriccio by Mind Wave. I've been searching for this memo pad for several years. If you have it (even used) I'm interested!

• cigarette smoke
• dark and drab colors
• key chains
• pin back buttons/badges
• wooden pencils (kawaii ones are ok, otherwise I don't collect/use them)
• recipe cards
• Items for cooking/baking (ex, toothpicks, cookie cutters, cupcake wrappers and picks, sprinkles, etc.)
• chipboard or scrapbooking brads
• temporary tattoos
• Disney, cartoon characters, famous movies, celebrities
• Lisa Frank
• Items from Daiso
• Kawaii (Sanrio) purchased at Target, Walmart, Big Lots, etc. Example
• butterflies and teddy bears
• anything summer related (it's my least favorite season)
• patriotic items
• notebooks/journals
• monkeys
• piggies
• mint, white chocolate, gum

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