22nd July 2009 : I am currently doing my degree in university and am putting all swapping activities on hold. Too much assignments, tests, reports and tutorials for me to have much free time and the small town I'm currently situated at does not have much to offer for swapping. Hope to get back to SB again once I'm free. Have a good day and God bless!

Hello! I am a Chinese girl from Selangor, Malaysia. My name is Isabelle but my friends think that it is too long to pronounce and just call me Belle. Some call me Izzy as well and I shorten it to EZ. =P In real life, I'd rather be called Belle but Izzy is the name I use when writing. Weird no?

I like collecting a lot of stuffs from bookmarks, currencies, stamps, to books, mangas, and silk pillowcases (love the feel of it on my face!)... My room is always stuffed full with lots of things my parents would consider unnecessary but those are the things that I actually treasure the most.

I like handmade stuffs (I'm very particular!) and I do like to make/try out new things and draw (at times) but due to time constraint and studies, had to limit myself if I do any of those which I like. I like writing and roleplaying and I do write poems as well. Some of my works are shown in my flickr photos. =)

I'm an avid reader and...a little bit book obsessed. Okay, I am VERY obsessed. My books must always be in mint condition if I buy them from the store and I open the book as small as possible so as to not get lines on the spine. I love my books THAT much and would not tolerate anyone who mistreated my beloved badly.

I love the Phantom of the Opera... The soundtrack is absolutely stunning! Gerard Butler is so good looking in the movie and his voice is so powerful that I and my friends find ourselves rooting for the phantom instead. I am also a VERY big fan of the Lord of The Rings. =)

I collect stamps and foreign currencies as well. It's amazing the work of art on a small piece of postage people can do, no? I have a vast collection of coins and currencies that I would like to expand. I would love to swap for coins from your country. I have a lot of US coins but would like to swap if you have any State Quarters or President Dollars. (I just discovered what they are!)

I've just started collecting postcards as well and would love to have any sent to me. I'm not picky. Send me something you'll love yourself! And I do appreciate it if you can send it with some unique or beautiful stamps.

(I'd like my swaps to come with stamps as well if it is possible and please do not overlap them.)

I really do like origami. It's amazing what one can do with a piece/a few pieces of paper. And I love trying out new ones.

I love mythical creatures especially pegasus, phoenix and dragons. Animals such as wolves, horses, and pandas are my favourites as well. I love BUNNIES!!! I like the maneki neko too (beckoning cat).

I wanted to have a pet at home but my parents are against it and I don't really have time to take care of it too so I just have to make do with make believe ones and pictures. I love bunnies and enjoy all bunny themed items.

I enjoy a cup of tea especially Earl Grey. Juices are a hit with me and sometimes when a bit of caffein is needed, coffee works wonders for me too although I tend to get slightly hyper when I drink coffee in the morning. ^_^

My favourite holidays are Halloween and Christmas and Easter. It is not easy to get Halloween and Easter items here and I'd welcome any of them. =)

I'm not an obsessed kawaii fan but I do enjoy kawaii as well. My favourite kawaii character is NYAN NYAN NYANKO and would love to have more items on it! I just bought my first nyanko item, a file!

I always rate the swaps I received so please if you receive my mail or package, do rate me back.

Lets all of us go green and make an effort to save the environment! Please reuse/recycle envies and packaging when sending to me as I will do that as well, There is no need to wrap the items in beautiful wrapping paper as it will get crumpled along the way anyway and can't be reused again.

I LOVE reuseable shopping bags as well. Plastics are not biodegradable and therefore I'm starting to bring a bag out with me whenever I go out shopping to reduce accumulating plastic bags, especially the small ones which are just of no use at all at home.

BOOKS

Inheritance Trilogy, Twilight Series (Love the books but hate the movie. Rob Pattinson is SO not Edward...), Lord of The Rings, Harry Potter, Jane Eyre, The Black Magician Trilogy, The Age of Five Trilogy, A Tale of Two Cities, Artemis Fowl, Jane Austen's work, and Tamora Pierce's... Garth Nix... Lee Child, Jeffrey Archer, David Gibbins. My faves are fantasies and classics...

MANGA/ANIME

I am currently in LOVE with Gunter!

Ouran High School Host Club (Tamaki my prince...), Full Metal Alchemist, Kyou Kara Maou (Gunther, Gunther, you're so cute and amazing!), Saiunkoku Monogatari (Unrequited love...), Fate/Stay Night, Shaman King, MARS (Rei Kashino is HOT HOT HOT!), Eternal Sabbath, Boys Over Flowers (RUI HANAZAWA!!!!!)

My favourite colours are blue, black, silver, gold, white, red, purple, brown... I like other colours as well. Autumn colours and earthy tones. I dislike pink intensely. My fave colour combinations are silver and black. Gold and white. Black and blue. Brown and green maybe with gold. Shades of yellow-orange-red, yellow-green-dark green.

• unique trinkets (dream catcher, etc...), vintage & modern charms (bell/cross)

• soft toys, plushies, matryoshka, kokeshi, daruma dolls, did I say PLUSHIES!? All small and big ones... =) Wish to get a kawaii one... (Wolf/Bunny/Panda/BUNNIES/NYANKO)

• felties and everything felt! I made a few felt items recently. Just started! Check it out in my flickr photos!

• pressed/squished pennies

• decorated notes (I love receiving handwriten notes decorated by YOU!)

• stamps, coins/notes/currencies, mini calendars (I have a lot of duplicated stamps, pm me for a private swap for them if interested?)

• stickers (never too much to have)

• notebooks, journals, papers, memo pads (I love writing down stuffs!)

• origami (I'd love it if you could get my even a sheet of origami instructions)

• cute collar pins (check my flickr photos. I love collecting them)

• unique earrings (I love earrings with unique designs. No studs though. I like dangling/drop ones) No plastic please.

• pendants (not too chunky, big or shiny), rosaries (not plastic ones)

• anklets, bangles and bracelets (beads) (Love them)

• charm bracelets

• keychains & magnets (any type of keychains or magnets especially touristic/souvenir type. I'm starting a collection) I love bottlecap magnets too!!!

• postcards (city views, landscapes, Unesco sites, lighthouses, castles, temples, animals, flowers, art, toys, kawaii, any Japan postcard!, MAPCARDS)

Kawaii likes :

• NYANKO!!!

• food with faces

• tenorikuma

• kuromi

• chococat

• kogepan

• cinnamonroll

• pankunchi

• tokidoki

• rilakkuma

• gloomy bear

• pigs

• Pucca, Monokuro Boo

• bright pink (a little is fine but not too much of it)

• cigarette smoke (can’t stand the smoke and smokers' breath)

• liquorice

• gore/scary movies

• rudeness

• rain/wet

• UK STAMPS! Stamps from this country are my faves and takes up a very special place in my collection. The more the better!

• felt, buttons, beads, brads, embellishments, lace, ribbons, dotee

• whimsy jars

• ** cute bento boxes**

• local/unique trinkets from your country/state

• vintage & modern charms

• anything with dragons (toys/keyrings/etc...)

• anything Lord of The Rings

• anything pirates, medieval, vampires, bunnies, red apples

• LOTR elven pin

• Bella's charm bracelet (I'll love you for it!)

• Masquerade masks

• stamps and coins from everywhere in the world!

• reusable shopping bags I do not like those with rounded bottoms. I prefer sharp corners. Preferably with logos and/pictures. If you can find one with a wooden handle all the better! (I'll be using it mostly to carry my books to and from lectures when I enter university so it should be able to carry books comfortably. I'd like one or two larger bags for when I do grocery shopping too. They should be slightly stiff and not lose their shape easily. (I'd love those from bookstores too!) I'd love you if you can get me one made from jutt material! hearts

• Whole Foods Reusable Bags, Trader Joe's Reusable Surfboard Grocery Bag

• penpal supplies such as stationeries, postcards, envies...

• anything Ouran Highschool Host Club, Fate/Stay Night, Full Metal Alchemist, D-Gray Man, God Save Our King, Colourcloud Palace

• bookmarks or bookthongs (Can’t get enough of these!)

• profile surprise

• Any "petales de rose" items from this Etsy shop : Sybile

• ADDRESS LABELS (It was terrible writing my address for more than 10 packages in a day...)

• ty bears/beanie babies (I especially love those that come with a poem on them!)

• dried leaves (Especially dried maple leaves that fall down during autumn in all shades of orange, yellow and red...)

• anything bunny related (Don't send me a live one though! I do not have space enough to take care of it. ;-) ), Miffy Bunny items

• keychains/magnets (fantasy, animals, wooden, touristic/souvenir with a trademark of your town/state/country, Disney, angels, vampires)

• amigurumi, stuffie, matryoshka, kokeshi, daruma dolls, microbead beanies

• anything kawaii, ESPECIALLY KAWAII NYAN NYAN NYANKO!

• ANYTHING BUNNY!!!!!

• Postcards sent naked affixed with a real stamp (Postcards are 3in1s. They have soul, stamps and postmark. They have everything a collector looks for!)

• MAPCARDS!

• various blank art postcards

• Harry Potter/LOTR/Eragon/Twilight Postcards (I will LOVE you for this!)

• Apple cider mix (A friend once gave me a packet of this from a swap that she received but I can’t find it anywhere here)

• rock candy (I received this from a swap and its delicious! Same as the above, I can’t find this in Malaysia...)

• rubber stamps and ink pads

• FQs (Christmas, country, kawaii, food, matryoshka, Halloween, bunny, skulls, vampires, pirates) (I'm starting to make morsbags though I have a different style than the norm and would love to have some cute fabric for my work =))

• Easter, Halloween and Christmas decorations

• Blindbox toy (Never seen this before. Would love to have one)

• Tokidoki Cactus Pups

• Yummy Breakfast Keychain/Zipper Pull

• Ye Olde English Dunny Series

• Dunny Series 5

• Friendly Forest Goodies

• Bunny T-shirts

• Souvenir T-shirts from your country!

• Handmade notecards/cards

• Handmade felt bookmark

• Souvenirs from my country (magnets/keychains/etc...)

• Coins

• Cancelled Postage Stamps

• Things related to Asian Chinese culture

• Postcards

• Decorated matchboxes

I love food! Especially those that looks too good to be eaten and dessert! I'm always raving for food but I do not necessarily eat them. I just like to look at them. Send me pictures of dessert if you like taking pictures!

Tags :

Tag You're It! - 5th & 2nd June 2008 - matchbox tailored to my profile and wizard and dragon bookmarks by weeatcrayons

Aterling supplies Tag UR It!! - dotee based on profile by Kimh (ANGELLED BY TerryF)

DIY Kit PIB - 4th July 2008 - dotee DIY kit by Kimh (ANGELLED BY magicjessnrach)

What Ive always wanted but cant get in my Country tag! - 5th July 2008 - by 7Bar7

Swaps :

Newspaper ATC Swap - by PaperPassion and Lory

Private swap with riah11479

Gnome/Fairy/Owl Matchbox and mini ATC's - by mbforyou

I have mapcards from the following states and am looking for those not on the list, please help me expand my collection!

• Alaska
• Arizona
• Florida
• Massachusetts
• Nevada
• New Mexico
• New York
• North Carolina
• Ohio
• Pennsylvania
• Tennessee
• Utah

State quarters I have are in the following list :

• Arkansas
• Alabama
• Connecticut
• Idaho
• Iowa
• Kentucky
• Maryland
• Massachusetts
• Mississippi
• New Jersey
• New York
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Oklahoma
• South Dakota
• Tennessee
• Texas
• Utah
• Vermont
• Virginia
• Washington