I'm Becky, and I live in the beautiful city of Bath in the UK, where I run my handmade candle and soap business. I also work part time in a beautiful garden which is open to visitors. I live with my husband, we just got married in May 2010 after three years together.

I am very into interior design and home decor, although to be honest, I mainly sit and admire pictures of other peoples homes and just dream of having a home so lovely! I'm a crafter through and through, and I live in such a mess! I love gardening too, although I'm not very green fingered - hopefully I'll improve this year! Working in a garden is very inspiring.

I love art, I love shabby chic and cottage style and I love cupcakes more than most! :-)

When I get time to relax, my favourite thing is a hot bubble bath, a glass of wine and a good book that I can lose myself in!

I collect alot of things. At the moment I am crazy about vintage crockery, teasets, teacups and saucers, vintage fabrics and vintage greetings cards and postcards. I love pretty much all crafts, the main crafts I do to relax are papercrafts, altered art, beading and creating/decorating miniatures. I also love my art and do lots of mixed media collage, and I'm trying to improve my drawing and painting.

crafts, candles, cupcakes, kitsch, rainbows, dolls, fabric, toys, charms, stationery, soaps, bubble baths, wine, chocolate, vintage buttons, jewellery & accessories, vintage ephemera, sugar sweet decor, cottage style, collage, painting, shabby chic, collectables, scented goodies, seals, ducks, deer, stickers, art, scrapbooks, cards, atcs, candy, lollipops, fizzy sweets, hot chocolate, lattes, american candy, bows, plushies, perfume bottles, buttons, spiritualism, angels, magazines, sugar sprinkles and baking suppies, things for the garden, fabric and scented hearts, scarves, accessories, postcards (especially vintage / arty cards), alice in wonderland, handmade, roses, atcs

I have totally eclectic tastes and love kitsch, kawaii, bright rainbow coloured goodies, to shabby and whimsical pastel items, to the esoteric and natural earth themed items. I love it all :-)

My favourite colour is purple, and I love things that are sparkly :-) I have pierced ears and prefer silver or bronze jewellery to gold.

Wishlist

• Ribbons, trims, ric rac
• Altered tags or tags for altering
• Vintage Fabric
• Love shabby and cottage style, so anything to do with this.
• Inspiration kits
• Etsy faves
• Art supplies, coloured pencils, paints
• Rubber stamps, inks, embossing powders
• Pens and pencils
• Stickers
• Dotee Dolls
• Lip Balms
• Bubble bath, shower gel/cream, body scrubs and lotions - I love foody and sweet scents.
• Papers and embelishments for papercrafts and matchbox decorating
• Scrabble tiles, images for scrabble tiles, diamond glaze,
• Findings for jewellery making, especially things like bobby pin blanks or kilt pin blanks, memory wire.. *Buttons *Cute fabric, kawaii fabric
• Miniatures for dolls houses
• Anything cupcake themed!!
• Crystals
• Candles and wax tarts - again I love foody and sweet smells
• Sugar sprinkles for decorating cupcakes
• Socks (I'm size 7 UK)
• Magazines - I especially love magazines from other countries, although preferably in English
• Colourful rainbow goodies
• Anything shabby chic, cottage style, for my home
• Glass beads
• Hand altered notebooks/trinket boxes
• Or blank notebooks, old tins/boxes etc that I can alter!
• Craft kits
• Vintage or vintage style papers etc for altered art.
• Boston baked beans, the candy covered peanuts! I just received some of these in a swap and loved them, although I only got to eat a handful as the whole box disappeared when my other half got hold of it!
• 'Tymes' lotion, soap, gel, whatever they do, in the 'Kimono Rose' fragrance. I've just received some of this in a swap too and it's stunning - but not available in the UK! :-(
• Cute erasers. I collected these when I was little and have recently rediscovered the collection, so it would be great to add to it!
• Anything vintage
• Inspiration Tags
• Anything Alice in Wonderland themed (although probably not the disney version..)
• Vintage Greetings Cards

I LOVE cupcakes. Anything to do with cupcakes or featuring images of cupcakes. :-)

I love anything featuring vintage pin-up girls, postcards, ephemera, altered art etc.

Dislikes

I'm grateful for anything you choose to send me, but I don't really like spicy or citrus scents or flavours and I don't use bath bombs, I much prefer bubbles! :-) I also would prefer not to receive teas as I'm quite boring with my tea - it's PG tips every time! I also dislike liquorice.

My favourite film ever is The Godfather. I also love M. Night Shyamalan films, The Village, The Sixth Sense, anything that draws you in with a good twist! Oh.. and Sex and The City. I love that :-)

A tough one to answer, so many different themes! I must admit I do love chick lit, and craft books of course, but I also love true life stories. I've recently read the Stonewylde series by Kit Berry, which is pagan fiction and I absolutely love it! I also love ghost stories and pagan books - true life or fiction! I love historical and nostalgic fiction.

Candle and soapmaking, jewellery making and beading, papercrafts, felt crafts, hand sewing, painting, collage, matchboxes, miniatures, hairclips and other accessories.. and pretty much anything I haven't listed!

I love going to car boot sales and charity shops and picking up things that I can hopefully upcycle into something wonderful, or supplies to help me do it! I'm always trying something new. The candles and soaps are my first crafting love, and everything else is play time! At the moment I'm into hairclips and scrabble tile magnets, although that is likely to change into something else soon..

I'm not into knitting, or embroidery, buy that's just for the simple reason that I don't know how to do them! One day maybe :-) I have attempted crochet as I'd love to be able to do that, but I wasn't very good at it, I'm hoping to try again soon!

what I pledged

I will always rate as soon as I receive a swap. If you are waiting for a swap from me and you haven't received it, please send me a private message before rating. Trust and communication is very important, and I'm friendly, honest! :-)

Please also send me a message if you'd like to do a private swap, I love those too!

These are the swaps that I have unfortunately not received. The term 'flaked' always makes me want chocolate..

for your lips 2 edited by @Rydia

Pick 2 Fun Swap by @Debimrtn

Friendship Card and Tuck-In Swap by @marie61

Trick or Treat! by @kokorilakkuma