powderedtoastgirl

ATTENTION: I have been gone for a long time. I flaked on a bunch of swaps for reasons that I will not get into on the internet, and I apologize to those affected. I am currently sifting through all my messages - I will be sending notes to people for addresses and will work to send out the items that should have been sent months ago as quickly as I can. There are a lot of people that I need to ship out to, and I just wanted to let you all know that I will try to message each of you, but if you don't receive any correspondence from me it does not mean I'm not working on your item(s). That said, I will absolutely message you when I finish the items and am about to ship - it's just in the midst of this process that I may be unresponsive. I will go in order of simplest to most time-consuming, so postcard swaps and the like will be the first to go out. As far as I can tell, I've received the items from everyone I should have in the swaps, and I thank you very much. I will rate everyone after I've finished the shipping part of this. Again, my apologies, and thank you for your patience.

-C

I'm Carmen, 25, Anchorage, AK. I'm majoring in literature at uni, maybe double in art. I'm also the assistant editor of Understory, the school's undergrad art and literature journal. Significant other of 9 years to the always awesome Jake (you can tell he's awesome because he lets me place him in contrived photo positions with dead flowers):

...and worn out mom to our beautiful four-year-old daughter, Hazel:

Sometimes I fancy myself a photographer and illustrator, and I am a proud Etsy seller! :-)

Deer ● Sushi ● Owls ● Tattoos ● Coffee ● Ruffles ● Fairisle sweaters ● .5 lead ● Scarves ● Typography ● Tights ● Autumn ● Shakespeare ● Pinups ● Soy milk ● Mid-century modern ● Yoga ● Honesty, even to a fault.

A lot of my favourite bands fall into the '90s rock/alternative category (Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, Weezer before they sucked, etc.), but my taste in general is rather varied - lots of classical, indie, 70s rock, 70s-80s punk, some poppier stuff...I'm open to pretty much anything. Oh, gosh, except disco, anything but disco! EDIT: Maybe disco. Damnit.

∞Currently All Up in My Winamp∞
Arcade Fire
Silverchair The Kooks

∞Favorite Books∞
Little Women, The God of Small Things, Memoirs of a Geisha, Harry Potter series, Lord of the Rings series, most anything by Stephen King.

∞Poetry Love∞
John Keats
T.S. Eliot
Sylvia Plath
Anne Sexton
Maya Angelou
Anis Mojgani
Dylan Thomas
Allen Ginsberg
William Carlos Williams

∞What I'm Reading Now∞
IT by Stephen King (again...for probably the 100th time)

Frida, Amelie, Dogma, Kill Bill Vol. 1, The Princess Bride, Little Women, The Breakfast Club, A League of Their Own, Hook, Dan In Real Life, Born Into Brothels, Manic, David Lynch's short films.

Law and Order: SVU, Cold Case, Anthony Bourdain - No Reservations, Bizarre Foods, Futurama, NatGeo...and I've got to say, I watch quite a bit of Nick Jr. with my daughter, and Little Bear is kind of precious.

postcards, old sheet music, vintage buttons, interesting bits of ribbon, vintage pharmacy labels, unique postage stamps, vintage/antique photographs