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sapphirestitching

sapphirestitching
Date Joined: September 3, 2008
Last Online: February 10, 2012
Birthday: September 25
Country: United States
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About Me

Well back to doing my public swaps done running group swaps since it is always the same swappers all the time. But, keep in mind I do have strict rules to my swaps to keep it safe for those that are swapping. So see to the right the current swap I am hosting!

So since my coming back from my trip - I actually while on my trip fell and broke/dislocated my elbow so now that cast is finally off and beginning my PT I am able to start the swaps again. Most right now will be non-crafting type till I am really able to put that crafting pressure on my elbow.

Well been doing only occasional swaps - since I do run a Yahoo Group and have swaps there going for the members don't want to have anyone bored.

Since taking on a new position at work - the hours I work really stink! Smack in the middle of the day - so only have either early in the AM or late at night to work on my swaps - which I call my stressfree period. But only limiting the number of swaps I am doing each month so as not to get caught up in the "only have 2 days to get my swap together"

All swaps within the US - I ship through my Paypal so you will receive a message with the tracking number so you will know when it will be arriving to your home. International partners you will know when I send cause I will make sure i click on SENT on the swap. So if you do not receive in a timely fashion recommended time period by our postal service please send a message and I will see about getting another one out to you.

Been busy with my thimble collection - added another vintage civil war site dug one. Collection growing slowly right now. Currently have approximately 700 of them.

My 2 large cross stitch projects are on hold right now for about 5 months - so busy with work need to get the mojo back so doing a cross stitch cow swap. Go here if even if you are not a cow lover you will love stitching these - typically can be stitched by a season stitcher in 8-10 hours really!

Love my Circut - but have not had a really chance to use it lately - but starting to get some card swaps on Spoiled Swappers have so many new carts need to break them in! LOL!

Well I am a Cross stitching Fanatic that did one exchange for hand dyed fabbies and have been hooked ever since and now have turned it into a business.

I have a line called "Lil bits of Fabbie"© - package hand dyed cross stitching fabric that can be used from Bookmarks to 8 x 10 charts. All package in assortments from 2-1/2" x 8" to 9 x 11, and then I have Limited edition fabbies that I dye up for Stitch Alongs(SALs)and sell the remaining out in larger pieces for those that have downloaded my chart and decide they have to have that fabbie! LOL!

My fabbies have gone in all corners of the world from here in the USA to Down under! Have a lot of repeat orders so I must be doing something right!

I also create my own charts for sale and some I just plain give away as bonuses to my group memebers/customers.

Sell books of all types through Half.com, so looking for a good read at a great price check my site out!

So this is another reason I am so busy all the time. Swaps, selling, yahoo group, working and taking care of my family. Just trying to keep the chi!

I have been married for 32 years to a wonderful man, 3 children, a dog and foster dog (which I think will be coming a permanent part of my family)

Blog

Well on my blog you can see the many pieces I stitched out on my own fabbie in my Halloween ornie Album, My SAL pics, and my original designs.

You can also see other pics of my SAL items that were my original chart designs. Stitched out by gals from all over the world.

Have many links to wonderful blogs contain free charts - patterns and tutorials!

Favorite Music

Well I love from the time I get on the pc till I am off listening to my Pandora Box radio station found on my Blog. Feel free to click on one of the stations there and listen to my music selection or create your own account. Who needs a radio when you can listen commercial free all day!

I love from Folk(any) to Country to 60's-70's music. I do like contemporary Christian.

I even found out listening to my DD music I like some of the punk groups with that Folk punk sound. She is always making me listen to something new! Teens gotta love 'em!

Favorite Television

Love anything on the Scifi channel(well just about) EUREKA! - Disaster movies - love and tenderlovings stories. Old movies - Cary Grant is my FAV Love to sit and cross stitch while listening to the old movies. Love the old comedy teams like Abbott and Costello, Laurel and Hardy, The Marx Brothers. Mysteries and old sitcoms like Lost In Space, McHales Navy, The Munsters to name a few! Current shows! Monk, Pysch, Deadlist Catch!, Ice Road Truckers, Cash Cab, Ghost Whisper, and way to many to list!

Favorite Crafts

Well my passion is Cross stitching But I also do crocheting, decorative painting, some scrapebooking. Making handmade cards.(Newest Addiction)

Love taking pictures and then converting them into cross stitch charts, making photo cards, posting them to FB and making Scrapbook DVD's for Family and Friends! Machine and hand Embroidery sewing and taking that embrodiery fabric and making recyled demin purses. And my NEW favorite is making Origami Bags(thanks to my last swap LOL!)! And Making handmade Cards as you can see from my Swap Profiles!

Wish List

More over dyed threads from Speciality companies like Weeks Dye Works, Dragon Floss, Carrie Threads. Open to trying all kinds. Unique threads for embelishing projects.

My favorite Hand dyed threads - actually silk is from Hand Dyed Fibers. they are so smooth to work with. From solids to varigated. Use them exclusively in my designs.

Love Batiks, genuine African Print fabbies Would love to have some Australian printed fabrics and other regional prints that are from where the sender is mailing from. EVEN YOUR HAND DYED FABBIES!

Beads, buttons all kinds. Needles for my embroidery machine, go through a lot of them. (Brother machine). Charms to add to my cross stitching projects.

Well anything for Card making!

NEW! Acrylic Stampers and embossing folders! New obsession!

Beads

Buttons - fun ones, antique ones

Antique sewing implements

Anything from Nightmare before Christmas - Ice Age and the Pirates of the Carribean

Fabric Quarters and/or 5-6" fabric charms

Love The books by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child and only in hardbacks - I just don't know love the feel of a hard back book when reading it! Looking to collect all of them! Started with the Ice Limit and was just hooked!!!

Currently finishing up Dance of Death and then will be moving onto Book of the Dead.

Have Tyrannosaus Canyon and Blasphemy by Douglas Preston. By both co-authors need to get: Cememtary Dance Dance of Death Mount Dragon Riptide Thunderhead The Cabinet of Curiosities Still Life of Crows Brimstone and the Book of the Dead Fever Dream And the new Current release: Gideon's Sword

New or old Cross Stitchning magazines - especially the UK ones.

Collect

Thimbles from all over, all kinds, does not matter, collection up to 630+ and growing! Current collection of States needed:

ARKANSAS

DELAWARE

LOUISANA

MICHIGAN

MARYLAND

NEBRASKA

NEW HAMPSHIRE

NEW MEXICO

NORTH DAKOTA

SOUTH CAROLINA

SOUTH DAKOTA

VERMONT

WISCONSIN

Any from Canada

Have from around the world currently: ARUBA

AUSTRIA

BAHAMAS & NASSAUA

BERMUDA

BRUGGE(BELGIUM)

BELGIUM

BERLIN (GERMANY)

CANADA - 2

CESAR MANRIQUE(FROM THE CANARY ISLANDS)

CROATIA - CITIES IN CROATIA; OPATIJA, PULA, VRBNIK

CUBA

DENMARK - 3 OF THEM DIFFERENT

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC - 4 DIFFERENT ONES

ESTONIA, TALLINN

FINLAND

GENT (BELGIUM)

CRETE GREECE

ONE MARKED WITH HOLLAND ON THE INSIDE

5 FROM ICELAND

ISAREL

KIRKENES(TOWN)

KIRUNA(TOWN)

LOFOTON, NORWAY

LONDON(RED PHONE BOOTH ON IT)

MARBELLA

MAROC(MOROCCO)

NAUSSA, BAHAMAS

NORDKAPP, NORWAY

OSLO, NORWAY (CAPITAL)

PORTUGAL - SEVERAL

SAMPI, NORWAY

TRUMSO, NORWAY

PARIS

POLAND

NORWAY

VIKING IN NORWAY

SCOTLAND

SINGAPORE

ST THOMAS, VIRGIN ISLANDS

ST VINCENTE ISLAND

SWEDEN

SWITZERLAND

VENEZUELA

WALES

Love antiques sewing tools - pincushion and thing sewing related Love hand made cards Biscornus, needlerolls and scissor fobs Handmade from exchange partners All kinds of speciality threads for cross stitching projects. Not much of collection but do like receiving post cards with the exchanges/swaps

Also collect snowpeople. Especially the smore snowmen.

And anything that has to do with Rudolf the Red Nose Reindeer! Fabric, figures, ornies and so on

Dislikes

Anything gross, distasteful. There is not much that I do not like except receiving items that are smokey, musty or mildewy smelling.

No ATC's - do not swap them - thanks don't need another addiction! LOL!

Items Shipped or Expecting

EXPECTING FROM:

SENT OUT TO - WAITING ON RATINGS OR COMMENT TO PROFILE:

FOR THE 11-11-11 SWAP - 3 PARTNERS

FOR THE 100,000 SWAP

FLAKERS - ON THEIR WAY

NEVER RECEIVED FROM:

@funkepunkemonke for FAD GROUP: Another Fat Quarter Sewing Challenge mail out date was for April 2, 2009

Ratings

jones rated for Dog Themed Scrapbook Kit on Jan 30, 2012
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Comment: OH MY GOODNESS! Your package brightened my day! Best kit swap received yet!!! I I could a million heart I would!
akhilpreeti rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Jan 16, 2012
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fnt123 rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Jan 2, 2012
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Comment: Sorry for late rating;) i got your pc!! Thanks!
BlueBelle rated for 100,000! on Dec 15, 2011
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Comment: Sorry that I didn't rate sooner! Have a great holiday!
Response: that's okay, holidays and life do get in the way
pacificquest rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Nov 18, 2011
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Comment: I love your photograph! Our leaves have been awesome here! I have taken some barn and orange maple leave pix, grab combo! Thanks for including a photo you took!
Response: you are so welcome - enjoy - I can't wait for my upcoming trip to take wonderful pictures to include in my postcard making process - from the caribbean.
latentsmile rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Nov 17, 2011
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Comment: Hi Joan. :) Thanks for the recipe PC - I am a fan of bean soup, so this one will be used as it gets cooler here! I will definitely look into the Preston and Child novels - I'm always looking for a new adventure in words. :) Have a great weekend!
Response: so glad that you got your card! and enjoy the bean soup!
nlgrudis rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Nov 15, 2011
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Comment: Thanks for the recipe. I have never mastered pie crust, but with all the premades out there I don't have to! Peach pie is now on our Thanksgiving menue!
Response: So glad that you enjoy the postcard - key to flaky crust is to refrigerate the crust before rolling. have a nice holiday
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Comment: Absolutely gorgeous! Thank-you so much for the wonderful skull ornament Joan. It really is stunning : )
Response: I am so glad that you like it. Even though the medium was different from what I planned I was pleased with the results! Enjoy!
VioletFaye rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Nov 14, 2011
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Comment: Love the card ! Thanks so much.
Response: you are so welcome - glad it arrived safely
cacking rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Nov 12, 2011
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Comment: I LOVE the beach! I think I would like to live on some beach. I do collect thimbles, but wow I have nowhere near 650 that is awesome. I don't have any to swap right now but I will keep you in mind when I can get some to swap and message you. I cant get any around where I live, I usually get them when I go on vacation and stuff.
Response: no problem when you can! going away in 3 weeks so will be loading up!
widelo123 rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Nov 10, 2011
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Comment: Thank you for the lovely note. I am putting your postcard aside, so after the holidays I can get in touch with you to share some Polish recipes. Hope your holidays will be blessed. We will be leaving for Massachusetts for Thanksgiving. I haven't seen my children or grand children since last Thanksgiving due to hip replacement and other ailments. It is not pleasurable getting old.
Response: here you there - have my old vintage recipes to share with you as well.
JenniferJuniper rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Nov 10, 2011
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Comment: Thanks for the postcard. I am going to look into those books that you had suggested. Can't wait to read 'em. Thanks!!
Response: Glad to get you interested into some other authors! :)
judee0624 rated for 11-11-11 Postcard Swap on Nov 9, 2011
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Comment: Thanks!
Response: that was quick!
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Comment: Thank you ever so much. This was a great package to receive. I LOVE them. You are the greatest.
Response: so glad that you like them - first ones I made!
reauk rated for 24 days of gifts advent calendar #21 on Oct 4, 2011
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Comment: arrived today thanks joan
Response: Glad to see it arrived safely~
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Comment: Received thank you very much! I dont know if i can handle the suspense till December!!! Love Love the labels especially!!!
Response: Glad it arrived and know actually what you mean - mine are all in a box for the start of advent. Feel like a kid!
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Comment: Thanks - looking forward to opening all the cute packages in December!
Response: Glad to see to see the package arrived safely
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Comment: Im sorry for rating late.. the package was great... Lesa
Response: that's okay just was concern that someone may have taken it - happen to another swap I sent to.
Lexidh rated for 24 days of gifts advent calendar #21 on Sep 29, 2011
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Comment: Got them! Now I need to hide them!
Response: Know the feeling - mine are all in a box so that I don't get tempted! Love this idea!
thebragal rated for Handmade Postcard Swap on Sep 20, 2011
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Comment: Thanks for combining so many of my profile faves. The cupcake Cardstock is so cool!
Response: So glad that you liked it - had fun putting it together. Little worry with the raise design getting thru with out being mashed

Rating Overview

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Comments

widelo123 on Jan 26, 2012:

Thank you so much for angeling the crochet scrubbies and cloths. You are an wonderful angel and host. I love them all and they are going to be special because you took the time to make all of them, which was not a day or week project. Again thank you, Shirley

TerryF on Jan 15, 2012:

terrileigh on Nov 15, 2011:

Hope your 100,00 package arrived safely!

TerryF on Oct 27, 2011:

Could you please add to/update your list here? Thx. (";)

pickleme on Oct 5, 2011:

Thanks for all the great ribbon and the FQ for the I wish for sewing tag. I'll be making lots of bookmarks with the ribbons!

id0be1ieve on Sep 4, 2011:

Thank you for the pretty Christmas tree decorations (for the 'Spoiled Swappers > I Wish For...TAG!' game)

Saucyknits on Aug 5, 2011:

WOW!!!! Thank you so much for the very, very generous WTA package for NFS #47!! WOW! Thank you!

Saucyknits on Jul 28, 2011:

Don't forget to sign up for NFS WTA #48 :)

cajunhillbilly on Jul 25, 2011:

I forgot you were on swapbot Joan!! ((((hugs))))

angkb on Jul 15, 2011:

THANK YOU! I'm thrilled I was a winner in the envie of envies giveaway! WOW - so many different envies and other goodies! ♥ How generous of you!

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