tiptoefairy

I'm Stephanie, an early 30 something mommy who loves to swap. I used to participate in swaps on a couple of "mom" type of sites until I started working from home full time as a medical transcriptionist, but then I just didn't have time to really keep up and make stuff anymore. Now 2 yrs later, I'm in a better groove with my work and I'm dying for some swaps, so I was so excited to find this place.

I am mostly into sewing and altered art and altered jewelry. I have had 3 different sewing businesses since I became a mom 9 yrs ago. My first business was a very busy cloth diaper business that I closed down because it was too successful and I just didn't want to take the next step to make it even bigger. My second business was a dollmaking business, SnuggleBees, that grew large enough that I was approached to sell it and did so when I was pregnant with my second child. And my last business I keep very small, I design my own sewing patterns and offer them for sale on my blog. I also put up a lot of free tutorials on my blog. Soon I will be starting an etsy store to sell my sewing and altered projects.

I inhale books. I stopped reading after having my first child. I just didn't have time, and by the time baby #2 came along a few years later, I was desperate to get back to reading, so now I make it a priority to read. My favorites are: The Time Traveler's Wife, The Thirteenth Tale, The Stolen Child, Blood for Flowers, Midnight in the Dragon Cafe, The Other Boleyn Girl, The Boleyn Inheritance, The Queen's Fool, The Constant Princess, Promise Not to Tell, The Double Bind, Island of Lost Girls, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Lovely Bones, Lucky, Mirror Mirror, The Devil Wears Prada, Jemima J, Good in Bed, Goodnight Nobody, Everyone Worth Knowing, The Bonesetter's Daughter, The Joy Luck Club....anything by Amy Tan.

Sewing, sewing, sewing. I love applique. I love altered art and altered jewelry. I wish I could knit better, but it makes my hands go numb, which goes for crochet too. I am trying to learn how to embroider.

Jason Mraz - love his new album, John Mayer, Sia, Blue October, Boys like Girls, Frou Frou, Rooney, Sara Barellies, Blink-182, New Order, Finger Eleven, Imogen Heap, Evanescence, All American Rejects, Roisin Murphy, Liz Phair

Lost, Chuck, Damages, Heroes, House, Jericho, Project Runway, any Star Trek, Cold Case, Ugly Bettey, CSI, Without a Trace

Steel Magnolias, Garden State, When Harry Met Sally, The Village, Lady in the Water, Never Been Kissed, Signs, Memoirs of a Geisha

• NO FLORAL SCENTED THINGS - allergies • anything with fertility goddesses - especially charms, jewelry, altered art • anything pink – i love pink, my hair is even pink. • fairies and pixies • witches, halloween ephemera, vintage halloween • collage sheets • hot fix rhinestones – any color any size • just about anything sewing related • altered journals • scrapbook paper scraps • mostly altered anything • sets of altered tags • fat quarters - munki munki fabric, Michael Miller fabric, Moda fabric, • bento boxes and those japanese boiled egg shapers • japanese crafting books and magazines • I love dressforms - especially mini altered ones, • Vintage ephemera – old postcards, old letters, old pictures, old ads • altered silverware • embroidery – nice flour sack towels, patterns like sublime and pimpstitch • vintage charms and buttons • altered dominos or game pieces • altered jewelry, altered pins