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Hi! My name is Sara and I am an italian girl who lived in France for 5 years. Now it's time to go back to Italy.

Here in Bologna I live with my boyfriend Sergio. Hopefully he'll soon become my fiancé and then my husband! Can't wait.

I'm catholic but I am pretty critical about the Catholic Church. I'm much more open minded than what it would force me to be...

I am graduated in History - which is of course one of my biggest interests within literature (I love reading).

When I was younger I always enjoyed writing and recieving colourful letters and I have been lately introduced to the great world of swapping...which has pushed me to improve my crafty skills. I mostly work with paper.

About common swapping stuff, I like swapping stickers, tea (I drink hot tea even in august ;), candies and chocolate, stationary, letter pad kits or sheets and everyting related to Sweden, Christmas and snow/wintry time. I recently discovered to enjoy decorating matchboxes and I am not that bad I have to say!

I love swapping and I always give my best to put nice packages together, which means that of course I ALWAYS send. If I am a couple of days late in sending, I always PM my partner. PLEASE contact me if you don't recieve a package from me, I am always ready to prepare a new one and re-send it.

KAWAII stuff (my favorite carachters are Cinnamoroll, Mamegoma and My Melody). Where I live it's extremely hard to find kawaii stuff else than Hello Kitty, it was shocking to discover the huge quantity of kawaii carachters and stuff existing! I didn't imagine that! I don't like goth-dark kawaii stuff though, such as skulls or so.

CUTE STICKERS and DECOTAPES. I make a large use of stickers to decorate everything and for my paper creations (bookmarks, cards, letters, etc.). No stickers with animals if possible (I am not hard to please but I wouldn't use them that often).

HOT CHOCOLATE, TEA and tea-related items. I drink so much tea! I love discovering new tasteseven if I get quickly addicted to a sort I really love. My favorite are green and black teas. I like black chocolate tea and apart from it I like fruity flavors. My favorite are strawberry, peach, cherry, lemon, pear, apple, coconut. I also like them with other flavors such as vanilla, caramel, cinnamon, etc. I am less keen on red fruits mixes, orange, tangerine, or hot spices flavored teas, but I like trying new stuff anyways. I do NOT like mint-flavored teas at all.

BAKING GOODIES of any kind. I enjoy so much baking cookies, muffins, cakes, cupcakes and stuff but here in Italy we don't have as much baking nice goodies as you can find for instance inthe US. So if you send me anything to bake you'll make my day!

BOOKMARKS, both handmade and storebought. I sort of collect them, which means, I like to have a certain bookmark stock from which to choose the perfect one for the book I'm reading!

RIBBONS and FABRIC cut-offs. It means that I don't often buy them but I do use them for some creations. I could swap ribbons but not fabric. So, if you have some little pieces of ribbons and fabric you don't use, I'd be happy to use it!

CHRISTMAS RELATED ITEMS, like decorations, giftpaper, ribbons, boxes, stickers, recipes, anything you can think of that is related to Christmas!

CANDIES, CHOCOLATE, JUNK FOOD from other places. Luckily I am a quite reasonable person! :) Here again, nothing mint-flavored (unless it's mint candies). And here I have to say that I try to boycot multinationals like Nestle and Coke. I am quite into fair-trade and ecology (and here you must be aware that I REUSE PACKAGING)

I love reading and I dream of becoming a writer since I was a little child and I used to read Roald Dahl's books dozens of times. Growing up, I just kept on reading and reading hundreds of books. I enjoy european literature in general, and some great american authors such as Raymond Carver. Some of my favourite authors ever are Stig Dagerman, Heinrich Böll, Alberto Moravia, Marguerite Yourcenair. Being a history-lover, I also read historical books and magazines. I am a fan of Harry Potter as well! :o)

To name bands and singers everyone has heard about, I am a huge fan of Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Muse, Peter Gabriel, Pearl Jam and Sigur Ròs. To name a swedish band I just LOVE but that is less known, well, it's Kent.

Some of my favourite movies ever: Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain, Titus, Festen, Birdy, Amadeus, The big Lebowski, The Blues Brothers, Four Rooms, The Royal Tenenbaums...

I always post when I recieve a tag in the sticky recieved threads in al the groups and I always PM or drop a profile comment to thank the sender. I'd be glad if you'd do the same if you expect something from me, just to reassure me about getting your package safely.