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My name is Soledad, I'm 43 and I live in a small village in the North of Spain.

Some of the things I like: fantasy, books, listening to music, watching movies and tv, writing letters and short fiction stories, having a cup of tea in a cold afternoon, incense, chocolate, London, stationery, history, learning languages, pens, art, Victoria Francés, Luis Royo, Yoshitaka Amano, Kukuxumusu, Amy Brown, Emily the Strange, Harry Potter, manga, yaoi (esp. Youka Nitta, Mika Sadahiro, Kazuma Kodaka, Shimizu Yuki), cats, expensive -fake- perfumes, travelling when I can afford it and lots more.

• Favourite scents: lilacs, musk, apple, evergreen, cinnamon.

• Favourite colours: dark red, purple, black.

• Favourite flavours: cherry, apple, strawberry, watermelon, capuccino, tiramisu, blackberry, amaretto, marzipan.

• Favourite animals: cats, bats, newts and dragons.

• Favourite city: London

The Smiths, The Cure, Placebo, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., Interpol, Franz Ferdinand, Editors, Morrissey, Death Cab For Cutie, Bauhaus, Joy Division, The Killers, My Bloody Valentine, Nine Inch Nails, The Smashing Pumpkins, David Bowie, Manic Street Preachers, Radiohead, Echo and The Bunnymen, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Puressence, And Also the Trees

J.R.R. Tolkien, Anne Rice, Neil Gaiman, Paul Auster, Nabokov, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, Oscar Wilde, E. A. Poe, Stephen King, Terry Pratchett

Donnie Darko, Blade Runner, Memento, LA Confidential, Sommersturm, Gattaca, Hellraiser, The Lord of the Rings, Brokeback Mountain, Lost in Translation, Miller's Crossing, Sleepy Hollow, Alien, The Company of Wolves, Chinatown, Remando al Viento, Rebecca, Lost Highway, Exotica, Elephant, Maurice, The Last of England, Arsenic and Old Lace, Life of Brian, Dark City, The Prestige

Lost, Grey's Anatomy, Prison Break, Dexter, CSI, Merlin, Doctor Who, Torchwood, Bones, Heroes, Queer as Folk, Mad Men, Pushing Daisies, How I Met your Mother, Sherlock, American Horror Story, Downtown Abbey, The Big Bang Theory, The Walking Dead

• gel pens (marble coloured or metallic, no more glitter), fountain pens or any funny ink pen

• rubberstamps

• tea infusers/balls

• hair accessories (hair pins, clips, bands, barrettes, etc)

• samples (like the ones you can find in any magazine)

• small note books and blank journals

• deco tape (see my etsy wishlist)

• tourist guide brochures and maps

• hole punchers

• bookmarks (handmade also welcome)

• anything on London/UK

• necklaces (gothic, victorian style, flowers, butterflies,.. but nothing too big or ethnic, please)

• anything on Victoria Francés (stationery, calendars, t-shirts, cards, etc)

I have many postcards for trade, especially from European cities, so if you want some private swap, just PM me :)

I'm especially looking for:

• Postcards from United Kingdom and Ireland

• Gothic/Romanic cathedrals and churches

• Medieval castles or ruins

• Art cards

• Forests, natural parks, rivers, lakes and waterfalls.

• Fantasy themed cards, especially by Luis Royo, Victoria Francés, Brian Froud or Amy Brown.

Tea: I love Earl/Lady Grey, chai and fruit flavoured black tea. Any black tea is welcome, even plain ones (English Breakfast, etc) but if you're sending green tea, I prefer flavoured ones. Rooibos and herbal teas are welcome too, specially anything with chamomile, lemongrass, ginger or cinnamon :) I don't like liquorice or jasmine.

My current top ten:

• Yogi Tea - Choco Aztec Spice

• Nordqvist - Valkoinen blueberry muffin

• Bigelow - French vanilla

• Twinings - cherry

• Twinings - apple and pear green tea

• Pickwick - Winter tea

• Pickwick - Orange & spices

• Pickwick - cherry with yoghurt flavour

• Pickwick - caramelised pear

• Stash - Holiday chai

Drink mixes like coffee, hot chocolate, kool-aid, etc are also welcome :D

*Chocolate: any milk or white chocolate. No plain dark chocolate, though. Specially looking for Cadbury bars (I used to be addicted some years ago, but now I don't find them anywhere).

*Other snacks and candies:

• Cereal/muesli bars

• Cheese flavoured crackers

• Nut mixes

• Crisps. I love Lay's, onion, vinegar, mushrooms, spiced,...any flavour except tomato or ketchup

• Not much into hard candies or gum.Jellies and marsmallows are ok.

• Cookies, my favourite are butter cookies

The things in this list are just suggestions. In fact I'm pretty much open to anything as I'm sure there are a lot of wonderful flavours out there I've never tried, so feel free to send me something new.

If you're looking for something from Spain and I can get it, I'm always open to private swaps :D

Some of the things I'm looking for:

• Options hot chocolate sachets (specially the cherry and the white ones)

• Kool-aid or other cold drink mixes (any flavour except orange or lemon if possible)

• Cadbury chocolate bars

• anything peanut butter flavoured (Reeses, M&Ms, etc)

• Bigelow teabags