shirleyinCA

I love to do many kinds of paper art, scrapbooking and journaling. Jesus loves me & I am eternally grateful. I love being a wife, mom, Disneyland tour guide and former teacher.

Passions for Handel's Messiah, country music, zydeco, CS Lewis, e e cummings, Max Lucado, Gaudi, French Impressionist painters, The West Wing, Amazing Race, NYC, Broadway, France, Yosemite, Santa Barbara, art museums & history, the Tour de France. My favorite travels have been to France, New Zealand, Switzerland, Barcelona, London and the Cotswolds, Yosemite, Kauai and a Disney cruise anywhere!

I collect old and new Golden Books and pop up books for kids and adults, Disney and Disneyland items (the older the better!) Nativities and vintage 1930's, 40's & 50's Christmas ornaments & cards. (Maybe I'm stuck in the past!)

My happy place is the beach/ocean. Sitting in solitude on my verandah on a Disney cruise ship, enjoying the sea, clouds and sunshine is perfect!

One of my favorite things about my job is that I get to assist many precious families visiting Disneyland through the Make a Wish Foundation!

TRYING HARD TO COLLECT:

• City/state/international STARBUCKS CARDS (no $ left on them, just the cards) And they do change designs each year, so OK to send any.
• a postcard for each US National Park (I have the most popular - see postcard section below)

• watercolor
• 1950's & 60's
• Snow White, Mickey Mouse, Beauty & the Beast, Pinocchio & Dumbo
• vintage Disneyland
• retro/vintage
• elegant
• Paris, Provence & all things French

Currently crazy about:

• local Starbucks cards (with no value left on them, I just love different city/state/international card designs!)
• Barbie doll theme
• letterpress
• paper dolls
• pop-up cards
• anything by artist Shinzi Katoh
• anything by Rifle Paper Company
• Little Red Riding Hood
• Little Man of Disneyland Golden Book
• 3" square little Little Golden Books, too
• images of pens & pencils, bicycles & typewriters
• La Sagrada Familia
• anything by Graphic 45, especially ABC Primer and Mother Goose
• Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs, Dumbo, Bambi, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Belle
• the original Mickey Mouse Club
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Postage stamps/bookmarks/postcards featuring children's literature or Disney

Also:

• children's book ephemera: dust jackets, ABC's, Caldecott nominees, Golden Books, stickers & book marks based on classic characters, bookplates. Especially loving Paddington Bear right now!

• school theme, especially vintage: pages from readers, vocabulary/math flashcards, spelling & penmanship books, report cards, class photos, logos.

• Anything Disney, especially older items, pins, Mickey, Dumbo, Snow White, Dwarfs, Jiminy Cricket, Mary Poppins, Bambi, Thumper, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast

• Anything related to the Original Mickey Mouse Club and Mouseketeers from the 50's ( I got to spend a whole day as Tour Guide with 7 of them at Disneyland for a special event - amazing fun!)
• Anna Griffin
• Susan Branch
• Tim Holtz
• 7 Gypsies
• Stampington & Co
• for Kawaii I like owls, Hello Kitty/Sanrio and Mickey Mouse
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Eloise Wilkin
• Alain Gree
• twill tape (plain or with words)
• glitter mist
• pressed flowers
• glassine bags
• quirky little items to add to journal pages
• bookplates
• view master reels, especially Disney
• paper dolls
• anything cruise related

If you have rubber stamps, you could stamp or emboss some images of bicycles, typewriters or faces for me! If you have a Sizzix/Cricut type machine (I don't) I love the real intricate designs, like fancy flourishes, damask cartridge, etc.

any bug/insect themes, stationery, notecards, ribbon, lace, buttons, recipe cards, magnets, post-its, quotes.

My PREFERENCE is always BLANK CARDS SENT IN AN ENVELOPE (if you don't mind.)

My favorites would be:

• Maxicards (postcard with matching stamp and cancellation on image side of card)

• Cavallini postcards, especially eager for those from Paris Christmas Glitter Greetings - I don't have any yet!!!

• cards of watercolor art by Chihiro Iwasaki

• cards by artists Shinzi Katoh, Mila Marquis or Cathy Delannsay

• any from the Art of Urban Sketching postcard set

• map cards, especially foreign countries or unusual maps rather than states

• cards with cut-outs

• Mithila art

• watercolor cards

• Barbie doll theme

• sketch cards

• travel poster art cards (like Anderson Design Group art cards of National Parks)

• nouvelle images cards

• Gotochi postcards (especially doll, character, food) - previously mailed are OK, too

• Disney cards (especially The Art of Disney: the Renaissance and Beyond or the Golden Age, 1950's-80's series,Disney Princess Box, Disney artwork or international Disney cards)

• US National Parks (I have the most well known, including Acadia, Bryce, Glacier, Grand Canyon, Grand Tetons, Mt Ranier, Smoky Mtns, Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion)

• Hello Kitty, Kerokerokeroppi or any Sanrio (especially with words printed in foreign language on image side of card)

• postcards of fog, rain, amazing clouds

I'd also love these themes:

• Coca Cola
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Mary Engelbreit
• Richard Scarry
• classroom/teacher scenes
• 1950's
• artwork of Gauguin, Norman Rockwell, Andrew Wyeth
• France - prefer artistic but photo images are nice, too
• NYC prefer artistic, but photo images are fine
• Barcelona and Gaudi
• giraffes & owls, but art not photo
• dancers (any type)
• National Park art cards
• ocean, surfing
• fairy tales, children's literature
• typography/alphabet
• typewriters
• bicycles
• steampunk
• lilacs or lily of the valley
• Tour de France
• cards by Rifle Paper Company
• Flow magazine postcards
• Big Letter "Greetings from" state cards (have AK, AR, CO, MN, NH, NJ, NM, VA, WA)
• quirky, weird, odd, unusual postcards!!

• I do LOVE chocolate - mostly milk chocolate, or dark with caramel or peppermint or orange; dislike coffee and peanuts.

• I LOVE Christmas and put up 6 trees: an angel tree, a Mickey Mouse tree, a family tree with ornaments from our vacations, ones our kids made in school, etc., a vintage tree with ornaments from the 30's,40's & 50's and two smaller 3 foot trees -- one with ornaments from our trip to the Christmas Markets in Europe and a Disney cruise tree.

THANKS for taking time to read my profile!