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Date Joined: April 22, 2011
Last Online: April 12, 2021 Country: United States Postcrossing Profile Eclectic collection Etsy favs |
Updated April 6, 2021
My greatest regret over the last year is that I can't go anywhere. March 1st and last Monday I traveled 30 miles to Wyoming for my vaccination, the first time I'd been more than ten miles from home. Rates of infection will need to come way down before we visit my in-laws in central Wisconsin. My husband is most concerned now about the variants because we still don't know whether the vaccines are effective against them. Rates of infection are up here so we are back to curbside pickup for groceries.
I'd planned several trips before the lockdown: Glacier and Yellowstone in last May, Botswanna in the summer with my niece who's a primary school art teacher, and Amsterdam or maybe Japan with another niece. Of course those trips never happened. That trip to Africa may never happen, and Amsterdam is a long shot. I hear that the less popular national parks are not so busy. Maybe... eventually.
My husband, a university math professor, is working from home. He teaches remote classes and works hard on getting it right. Students are doing pretty well, though mental health is a big concern and counseling services are overwhelmed. And I'm quiet until 3pm each day so it's quiet for him to work. Cleaning and cooking and baking begin at 3.
Swap-bot is a blessing now. There's practically no one in our postoffice on Thursday afternoons and that's when I mail swaps with tracking because it's quick in and quick out. I purchase postage stamps online for a better selection and one less trip to the postoffice.
I swap for blank postcards in envelopes and written, naked postcards. I send the blank postcards I receive to family and friends and people on Postcrossing; I set them aside so I won't send them for Swap-bot swaps. I don't mind gently bent corners; I lop them off with a corner rounder. Please send nice postcards that you'd happily send your family and friends.
If you're sending me a naked postcard, please send one that's a favorite of yours, sender's choice or for a swap with a theme.
No, thank you. Sorry, no hearts. Postcards to color, postcards for Christian holidays and legends, and Zazzle postcards. Those cheap sepia 32-pcs Vintage Travel Sights Landscape Retro Postcards. I have many Pomegranate postcards because I buy their remaindered postcard books at Half Price Books for $3. (Lucky you if there's a Half Price Books near you.)
My favorite kawaii has a face. I love food with faces and anchovies with legs and animals in an unlikely milieu like cat servers at faux Starbucks.
I'd appreciate stickers and memos for mail art: faux postage, letters, writing implements, and stationery.
I enjoy most characters, especially San-X. My favorite characters at the moment are Corocoro Coronya, gudetama lazy (or depressed or fatigued?) egg yolk, Kogepan Burnt Bread, and pastel Sentimental Circus.
I'm looking for kawaii books with faces. And puffins. How could all the kawaii artists have never thought to draw puffins?
No, thanks. Poo and bottoms aren't kawaii to me. 3D stickers from sheets and sticker flakes, especially PVC and puffy. Real photos made cute aren't so cute to me.
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Comments
Wonderful Wishes - April Thank you so much for the cool washi tape and recipe pages for my journal - I might have to try a couple before I put them in my journal. Thanks so much, darla
Thank you for the slothtastic wish from Wonderful Wishes. Sloths are always welcome as with my chronic illnesses I can truly relate to their lifestyle.
Thank you so much for the sticker flakes and memo sheets! That was so very thoughtful of you! What a great surprise in the mail. Seely7
for the fabulous washi (squirrels!! ♥) and cute stickers you sent me for my March wish list. I'm excited to play with them. 🙂
Thank you for the postcards from my March WW list!
Thank tou so much for the pretty stickii club stickersheets and for the advice for a perfect pizza! I will try that in a few days! Thank you for thinking of me, you really cheered me up! Stay healthy!
Thank you for granting a Wonderful Wish for March! I think a map of Japan would be neat in Kawaii collage. Paper maps are definitely hard to come by in this digital age :)
TYSM for the birthday postcard for Wonderful Wishes March wish list. Love the squirrel! Also LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Your 'Third Hand Smoke FYI' at the top of your profile. Sucks to have to put it right at the top, but gracious ... I may have to do something similar! Happy almost spring!
Hi Meredith! Thanks so much for the maps for WW March! Very cool! I appreciate them all. The Berlin one is great! I use old atlases to make envelopes. The big, tall ones. Haven’t found any in a while. I always look at secondhand bookstores. I’m am not sure about new postcard boxes. I really haven’t looked lately but if I see anything good I’ll let you know! Thanks again!! (Love your envelope and washi!)
Hello, thanks so much for the postcards - I love them! (WW March Wishlist)