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I send most of my swaps out before the send date, so if it hasn't arrived by the time to rate plase contact me before rating so I can figure out what's going on and/or send again. If I am going to be late sending for any reason I WILL contact you.

I just started the process to become a foster, and hopefully adoptive parent. It is very time consuming, and remodeling the house to get it ready for another child is also quite expensive. I'm dropping out of quite a few groups and really limiting my swaps in order to get everything done. It's nothing personal and I don't want people to think I'm upset because I dropped a group or swap. Hopefully in the future I'll have more time to dedicate and can possibly rejoin. This has been a dream of mine for a long time so I hope you all understand and I'd love any prayers or warm wishes you want to send my way.

Here's what I pledged

Also I'm more than willing to set up private swaps with Newbies to help you get rated. Just pm me if you are interested. There is a thread of others in the forum here of others willing to do the same.

I'm a single mom of a beautiful 12 year old daughter. She is my world and I would do anything to make her happy.

I'm generally an easy-going person who avoids drama at all costs. The one exception to this is when someone hurts those that I care about, then the pitbull in me comes out.

I work two jobs in addition to taking care of little mama so my feet are always killing me and I'm tired a lot. Although I'm dedicated to my clients and my career it can be rather stressful so anything that would help me relax a bit would be great. I read anything I can get my hands on, and I also enjoy movies, penpaling, and photography. I collect shotglasses, kokapellis, Wonderwoman memorabilia, movie memorabilia, stationary, flags and magnets.

I'm one of those people who like the small things in life. A surprise letter in the mailbox. Just knowing someone is thinking about you, which is why I think swapbot is such a good thing. On that note, if I sign up for a swap and you're thinking, man she doesn't even like xyz why would she sign up... I often sign up for swaps thinking I can give them to a friend or family member and brighten their day. It's gotten quite a few people interested in the site and it makes me happy to be able to surprise them, and of course makes them happy to be surprised.

I'm non judgmental. I like learning about both sides of an issue, even though I may be strongly opposed to one. I consider myself to be a non-denominational Christian, but I'm extremely interested in learning about other religions.

I don't have really a favorite color, although I do tend to buy things in plum, silver, and black most often. The only color I really don't like is yellow.

I love the smell of fresh linen, and buy most of my lotions, candles, etc in that scent. I don't particularly like really flowery scents like rose, but my sister does so if that's what you have to send feel free.

I'm not into Winnie the Pooh, Disney, or overly cutesy items. However if they are altered or strange or harder to find I throughly enjoy them. For example I don't particularly like Grover from Sesame Street but I love, love, love him dressed as Super Grover. I'm odd that way,and once spent an entire afternoon taking a series of photos of Barney Gone Wild using the costume I'd rented for my daughter's 3rd birthday. We had him in bed with the SNL church lady, drinking wine while laying on the mantle place and smoking cigars among other things. That should give you an idea into my sometimes twisted idea of fun. lol. I love unusual items like the hip-hop Frogz, and movie character action figures. If you think it's quirky or strange I probably will like it.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND FOOD ITEMS UNLESS I HAVE SPECIFICALLY SIGNED UP FOR A SWAP OF A CERTAIN TYPE OF FOOD (IE: JELLY BEANS). BOTH MY DAUGHTER AND I HAVE SEVERAL FOOD ALLERGIES AND IT IS BETTER TO BE SAFE THAN SORRY. Exceptions to this are peanut butter products and homemade strawberry jam. If you ever want to send either of those to us I'd be thrilled. It is generally the dyes in processed foods that trigger my allergies.

If all else fails and you can't find something to send me, go for paper products or totebags. I am a stationary whore and receiving new stationary in the mail always brightens my day. :) I think in another life I was a baglady. Nothing delights me more than packing up things in my bags. I'm also always interested in address labels, I haven't figured out how to make them on my own, but I love receiving them, especially when they have USA printed at the bottom so I can use them when mailing to my international pals.

My goal in life is to learn something new everyday. You can help me accomplish that goal by sending along a random fact, or story along with your swap.

Hip-hop (Nelly, Ludacris for example)and R&B (Fantasia, Heather Headley) is my favorite, but lately I've been into kind of a soft rock (Matchbox20, Daughtry) kind of mood. I honestly will, and do, listen to every time of music except techno and screaming heavy metal. I love big band and jazz music with the singers but don't really know the names of any of the artists. I love discovering new artists to love so mix cd's of any sort are always welcome.

I tend to favor independent movies like American History X, The Power of One, Undercover Brother, Everything is Illuminated, Life as a House, Napoleon Dynamite, Crash, Little Miss Sunshine, The House of Yes, Juno. However, basically I just like movies. I'm not too much into sci-fi or slapstick comedy, but there is the occassional film in those genres that I do enjoy.

Prison Break, Law & Order, Lost, Desperate Housewives, The Sopranos, OZ (I'm still bitter those two are off the air), Entourage, The Boondocks, Ugly Betty, Cold Case, So You Think You Can Dance and all those VH1 celeb-reality shows.

I am by NO means crafty or artistic enough to feel comfortable sending anything I create to someone as part of a swap. I just lack the talent. I love receiving your hand crafted items though. The two crafts I do for my own particular enjoyment on a regular basis are painting and decopauge so if you want to send tools to help inspire me to create look for something in those sections of your craft store.

My parents just gifted me with a sewing machine and I'm trying REALLY hard to learn how to sew. So any tips, extremely simple patterns, material etc you want to send my way would be awesome.

I would be more than happy to receive your homemade crafts. I've recently developed a strong addiction to knitted/croqueted goods and squeal with delight whenever someone is kind enough to send them to me.

Baileigh is 12 going on 30. She loves clothes and fashion (especially shoes!!!) and anything related to that. She has gotten into fixing her hair and is always looking for new ponytail holders, brushes and mirrors. She has the thickest hair I have ever seen so no child hair items for her please.

She likes Happy Bunny, and other sarcastic humor items. She is really into the Girls Rule philosophy and loves David and Goliath and similar products just for that reason.

She likes make-up and collects tourist spoons. Her newest goal is to redecorate her bedroom. She is going for a hot pink and black theme so any shiny, feathery, cutesy wall hangings or picture frames you come across in those colors would be loved.

Between braces and allergies most candy and food items are out. She also does not like "baby" stuff like Hannah Montanna and High School Musical. When shopping for her think more like what you would buy a college freshman or high school senior.

Baileigh is also somewhat egocentric and LOVES to see her name on things so if you are the crafty sort and want to create something with her name on it for her you'll be her hero.

Random things I like:

• cookbooks

• shotglasses (I'm trying to collect all 50 states) I love them with the name of your town, country, state, or with national monuments, events on them.

• Anne Taintor items

• Items relating to Cartoon networks Adult Swim shows (My fave is The Boondocks and I'd love anything with Riley from that show)

• Movie figurines

• Books about Hollywood, true crime, etc.

• Kokapellis

• Stationary

• Address labels that say USA on the bottom

• Picture frames

• Magnets of state/country/towns

• Nice pens

• Silver jewelry

• Bobbleheads

• Talking/dancing action figures

• Political joke toys

• Books/items on the civil rights movement or anti-death penality movement

• Beaded jewelery in red/black/brown/plum especially

• Slippers

• Bath salts

• tote bags

• butterflies

• Poetry

• Wonderwoman

• Baking

• Journals

• Foot care products

• Hand knitted items

• Peanut Butter

• Homemade jam

• Swap cards

• Stand up comedy

• Chick-lit and Urban fiction

• Interesting glassware

• The Fraggles

• Scary or horror kawaii

• soft blankets or throws

• Buddhas

• Monkeys

• watches

• Things with my daughters name (Baileigh)

• Items that say Diva

• Fuzzy things in bright colors

• 18+ comic books

• Pampering products

• Barack Obama

• Smurfs

• Co-edikit products

• David and Goliath products

• Handmade items that are useful (ie: dishclothes, pencil pouches, blankets, bags, cd covers, etc.)

• Acrylic paint in fun funky colors

• Paint brushes

• Small canvases

• Decorated tissue paper

• Housecleaning

• Orange scented candles, products (gives me flashbacks to morning sickness)

• Most food products because of allergies

• Days when no mail comes

• Feet

• Birds (I'm terrified of them)

• Being cold

• Cutesy decorative knickknacks (this might be tied into that whole I hate cleaning thing)

• Close-minded people

• Yellow

• Gardening, I love flowers but don't have the patience to maintain them

• Blueberries

• I really don't care for dirty or used items other than books.

There are a handful of things that I can't get in the USA that absolutely love. If you are in one of the following countries and would like to trade for them I'd be forever in your debt. :)

Australia - Violet Crumbles

England/United Kingdom - Crunchie Bars

The Netherlands - Stroopwaffels, and Lan Janges

These are things that I know are hard to find. If you manage to find or create them for me I'll probably faint from excitement. :)

• Anything Fraggle Rock (stationary, address labels with USA on the bottom, figurines, etc)

• Anything with Riley from the Boondocks (see above)

• Anything with Smurfs (see above)

• Anything ShirtTails (see above)

• Anything Wonderwoman (see above)

• Anything Napolean Dynamite (see above)

• Anything with The Sopranos (see above)

• Anything with Barack Obama (campain literature, bumper stickers, signs, etc)

• A quilt and afgans. It has always been a dream of mine to own one, but I can't afford to buy one, and I don't have the talent to make one. If anyone wants to volunteer their time as a trade for something I'd be more than happy to buy the materials. Plus I'd owe you forever.