parkermom

I am a 25 year old mother of a 10 month old girl. I love crafts, scrapbooking, painting, and drawing. I also love math and puzzles. I will soon be a high school math teacher, but right now I am a stay at home mom. I live in Arkansas, but I love everything beach-related. My heart lives in Southern California, where I was raised until age 9. My family is my life. I am a Red Sox fan :)

My favorite color is Red. However, I also love love love Brown. I love colors in general, except yellow. I don't really love yellow.

If you live in a lotto state, I LOVE doing scratch-offs! Unfortunately, we don't have a lotto (yet) so I can't join the swaps for them. If you would like to send me a scratch-off, I would love it! I can't wait until our lottery gets here!

I've never seen an ATC, so if someone wants to send me one so I know what they are, please do!

I love halloween, thanksgiving, and christmas! Really, I love all holidays lol.

My favorite scrapbooking supplies are the rustic vintage looking ones. I appreciate the clean-cut cartoon-ish styles, but I don't tend to use them ever. I love stamping, and I like vellum. I love quotes.... anything with quotes really, but especially vellum with quotes on it. I also love rub-ons.

I need everything. Here are some specific things:

• sets of letters... I can never get enough!
• mounting dots/squares.
• buttons
• beads
• ribbons
• stamps
• ink pads
• stickers with clear backgrounds/outlines
• rub-ons! (always!)
• patterned scissors
• photo props (for portrait sessions... could be letters, numbers, accessories, background, etc)
• glue sticks
• paint
• paint supplies
• scrapbooking paper
• blank cards for decorating (greeting card type cards, not ATCs)
• acid-free double-sided tape

I do not need photo corners, as I do not use them.

I like chick-flicks a lot. I also love suspense movies. I'm a hobby stage makeup artist, so I also like creative movies that are theatrically good.

• How to lose a guy in 10 days
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• The Wedding Date
• Dirty Dancing
• Casino Royale
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Rocky Horror Picture Show!

Anything by the following authors:

• John Grisham
• Nicholas Sparks
• Dan Brown
• Kaye Gibbons

I love books that make me think or feel... I like a good action suspense thriller, but I also enjoy the book equivalent of chick flicks. I pretty much love to read anything. Oh, and I also love anything military-related.

I love crafts. I enjoy box-decorating, making picture frames, scrapbooking, and home decor. I make decorations for children's rooms, and I decorated my daughter's nursery with some home-made items. Here's a bit about me and everything I do.

• Scrapbooking: This is what I do most. See my "Scrapbooking Styles" section above.

• Box-decorating: I love to make boxes for people that have a personal touch. I use my scrapbooking supplies in this area as well.

• Painting: I am a hobby painter. I deal mostly in acrylics, but welcome any type. I dabble in watercolor, but haven't really found my style there yet. I desperately need good brushes and palettes.

• Sewing: I have a sewing machine. It is still in the box. I hope to start sewing soon, and I have plans to make large floor pillows for my daughter's room. I need large amounts of light-colored fabric, anything alice-in-wonderland themed, and pillow stuffing.

• Card Making: I love making cards. I love anything that can be used to make cards.

• Knitting/Crocheting: This is one thing I do not do. Please do not send me anything for this.

• Stickers: I love stickers. All of them. No matter what the theme. I do prefer vintage or punk stickers to cartoon-ish stickers, but I like anything that sticks. I love 3-D stickers. Rub-ons are my favorite thing ever. If you send me rub-ons (with whatever the trade is for), I will give you a heart. Seriously. No matter what the trade is lol.

• Notebooks: I have a notebook obsession. I own 90 notebooks that have not been written in. Okay, maybe not 90, but I buy them compulsively. This doesnt mean that I don't want any. I love them. I want all of them. I especially love ones that are personalized to what I like or to represent the sender. Notebooks are personal on the inside when written in, so I think they should be personalized on the outside too.

• Jewelry: I like jewelry. I don't currently make it, but I would love to start, so feel free to send me beads or other jewelry-making supplies. If you want to send home-made jewelry, I desperately need earrings. I just got my ears pierced a few years ago, and I still forget about it. I hardly ever remember to wear earrings, so I only own like 4 pairs. I think if I had more cute ones to match my outfits I would wear more. I love necklaces, but not chokers. I like bracelets a lot, but I do not like rings. The only rings I wear are my wedding rings. I would also love some hairbows for my 1 year old daughter.

• Home Decor: I welcome home-made home decor. Most of mine is home-made and centers around my daughter. If you would like to send something for her room, her name is Audrey. Her initials are ARP. Her room is done in Alice in Wonderland and has pink and purple accents. If you would like to send something for another room, our bathroom accents are sage green. Our house has lots of browns. Anything that is any shade of brown would go great.

I'm an amateur photographer. I love children's photography especially, but I also enjoy senior and family portraits. I don't have a studio, so I do natural-light photography. Living in Arkansas makes that easy because there is so much beauty outdoors here. Please feel free to visit my photography blog at http://beautyoflifephotography.blogspot.com

Feel free to send food, especially something specific to your area. I love candy, just nothing coffee-flavored. No coffee at all, no matter the flavor. Also, nothing made with jalepenos, as I am allergic.

Please do not send...

• Coffee
• Friendship Books
• Anime or other asian-themed-cartoon styles.
• Items with glitter on them.
• Religious-themed items, including "inspirational" prayers. I am not religious and do not have use for them.
• Cats
• Western/Country themes
• Cartoon Items
• Musical Instrument-themed items
• Pirate themes
• Twilight

My daughter is 1, and she loves dolls, teddy bears, and anything stuffed really. She also loves cookies and breads. Her name is Audrey and her decor is Alice in Wonderland or just pink/purple girly. She wears size 18 months.

I have an 8 year old neice who loves Hannah Montana and HSM. Her room is decorated in Dark Blue with silver stars. She loves to write.

My husband is a huge Red Sox fan (as in from Boston huge). He loves candy, baked goods, and Beef Jerky. He also likes football (Patriots) and cooking, especially Bobby Flay stuff.