tam2016

UPDATE from her daughter December 10th: my mother is still in the hospital but we are doing what we can to get all swaps completed and those late, we apologize and promise we will get this to you as soon as possible. We have withdrawn her from all future swaps for now.

UPDATE DECEMBER 2, 2021. I am currently recovering from a medical episode and I am attempting to catch up on all correspondence and ratings on swaps. Please be patient as I cannot process as quickly as normal yet but I PROMISE to get all corrected in a timely manner.

PLEASE READ: If you do not receive a swap or anything from me, or don't get the correct item, PLEASE contact me, before rating me. I promise I WILL make it right. I do my best to send items before the due date, the correct items and things you will like, but sometimes I might mess up, or the mail gets delayed or lost, etc...

September 2021: Looking for any kind of memorabilia/etc featuring the "Grogu the Child" from the Mandalorian

May 2021: I am diving into another adventure reading COZY MURDER MYSTERIES series books. I will be adding to my list of authors below.

March 2021: My new adventure is putting together fairy gardens. A few years ago I went to Rock City and they have a gnome village there that is all along the path around the park and I fell in love with the gnomes! Then we visited a friend of my mother's and she has created a fairy garden in her backyard and it leads through little paths in the woods and so such. So much fun!

January 2021: Happy New Year. This year I am working really hard to increase my score from past slip-ups from a few years ago so please PLEASE let me know if you feel my work is not up to your liking. I WILL MAKE IT AGAIN IF NEEDED, I PROMISE!! Please don't rate me down without messaging with me first.

Hello swappers, I am really excited to be a part of this group and have had some really wonderful times making and receiving swaps. I live in Northern Virginia not too far from Washington D.C. and love it. I have been married for a little over 25 years and we have 2 fabulous daughters. The oldest has graduated from college, and our youngest is in her 2nd year. We are an animal loving family and currently have 2 rescue cats, a calico/tabby and a "ginger" tabby.

I love making journal pages, cards, and working in journals. I am always looking for something new. I have re-discovered my love of Disney and learned that there is a lot of interesting shows on National Geographic channel.

I like all kinds of music. Some of my favorites are Bret Michaels, Queen, Carrie Underwood and so many more. I really love music from Musicals/Plays (i.e., Rent, Rocky Horror Picture Show, CATS, Falsettos, Joseph and the Technical Dreamcoat, etc.), and I am an "80s lady" and love the 80s rock/hair bands!

I do not watch alot of TV but I do catch up with a few programs: All the mystery shows on Hallmark Movies and Mystery Channel. Lately I have been watching MeTV in the mornings...Matlock, In The Heat of the Night, Perry Mason, Blue Bloods, etc.

My "likes" list would include any of the following themed items: (new adds happening all the time...) • A: Alice in Wonderland, artist trading cards, The Aristocats, Audrey Hepburn, anything Alabama (state or singing group); • B: butterflies, binder clips (decorative), Broadway related, Breakfast at Tiffany's, bookmarks; • C: cardinals, cats, decorated clothespins, cinnamon flavor, cinnamon scents; • D: dragons, daisies, dogs, ducks (cute ones), Disney-themed items; • E: • F: fairies, fantasy, flowers, Figment; • G: gel pens, goth fairies, goats, glitter, gnomes, (fairy) gardens; • H: hummingbirds; • I: • J: journals; • K: kittens; • L: llamas, ladybugs; • M: • N: • O: • P: puzzles, pandas, post cards; • Q: Queen (the band); • R: ribbon, rik rak; • S: sunflowers, sudoku, sharpie markers (colors), sweet tea; • T: teal, turquoise, Tigger, Tim Holtz products; • U: • V: vintage anything; • W: Winnie the Pooh; • X: • Y: yarn (learning crochet); • Z: zentangles;

Due to the pattern (see below) I am suspecting the ratings of 1s I received in 2019 were part of the mail items that were destroyed in the mail truck fire that occurred near my home at this time. It was an angry postal worker; on the news. I reached out to all swap partners and resent but no rating changes.

My ratings of 3s received in 2018/2019 are explained in the notes of my profile. Two of them were the post office not processing on time and other two I took responsibility of being late due to college exams.

Some of my all-time fav movies are Labyrinth, Princess Bride, huge fan of Disney/Pixar movies ~ Moana, Beauty and the Beast, Lilo and Stitch, Cars in addition to all those iconic 80s movies (The Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, St. Elmo's Fire, etc) Any Tim Burton movies

Also very much love Broadway plays and musicals: Cats, Phantom of the Opera, Falsettos, Company,

Alice in Wonderland (both animated and newer) Alice in Wonderland Through the Looking Glass The Aristocats Beauty and the Beast (both animated and new) Brave Frozen Guardians of the Galaxy Moana Monsters Inc. Monsters University Lilo and Stitch Peter Pan Pirates of the Caribbean (all of them) WInnie the Pooh (especially Tigger and Roo)

I have an obsession with postcards and would love any but some of my favorites would be anything Disney, Alice in Wonderland is one of my favs for sure, steam punk/goth theme, vintage, all the States (those cartoonish ones) I have none right now, cute animals, historical houses, pretty open on any right now, magical mystical dragon/castles

Books and series I still would like to read:: Anything by V.C. Andrews, Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Alice in Wonderland (novels, not kid books), Wizard of Oz (novels, not kid books), Anything by Agatha Christie, True Crime books, True Crime books by Ann Rule, Wicked series, "And the Sea Will Tell "by Vincent Bugliosi, James Patterson's Women's Murder Club Series, James Patterson's Alex Cross Series, Joanne Fluke's Hannah Swenson series (Murder She Baked series on Hallmark Channel), Septimus Heap series by Angie Sage Lillian Jackson Braun's "The Cat Who...." series more to come.....