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Date Joined: September 3, 2022
Last Online: January 28, 2023 Birthday: January 18 Country: United States My Amazon Wishlist |
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💖LIFE: I'm a 44 yr old single mama living in the city of Portland, Oregon. I grew up in the country, but now am a city girl simply because Portland is where I've landed.
I spend most of my hours enjoying life with my 3 year old girl, as we explore the world around us. When I have free time, I like to get my creative juices flowing by what has inspired me.
I enjoy receiving homemade items from artists & crafters. I am not artistic, but I do like to get my craft on.
✝️I'm a Christ follower who tries my best to do as He asks, love God & love others.
I am an extroverted HSP (Highly Sensitive Person) & an ENFJ-T. I'm overly sensitive & a worrier, but I am optimistic & appreciate the little things. I tend to give everyone the benefit of the doubt & forgive incredibly easily.
♻️I'm a bit of a "hippie" & big on recycling/up-cycling & reusing items when I can. Being a single mama means funds are tight, so being thrifty & refreshing second hand stuff is an adventure of its own as I find & create new treasures.
🐱I have an old calico cat (Talulla) who has been through many years with me & we are good for each other. She enjoys eating houseplants, shredding papers that were left out & playing with toys & my kiddo. I never expected that they would get along so splendidly.
💌 I have chronic pain & have dealt with it longer than not; so I'm totally used to it. However; sometimes it's difficult for me to get the big stuff done. This is when I like to bless others with HAPPY MAIL!
🌈I like bright, BOLD & FLUORESCENT COLORS & SPARKLY things.
I LOVE anything that is GLOW IN THE DARK!
🐾I adore animals, especially CATS🐱, Sloths🦥, Flamingos🦩, Pangolins, Orangutans🦧 & other animals considered "strange/weird".
❤️I love anything Jim Henson created; THE MUPPETS just make me happy, especially KERMIT THE FROG.
☕️ I enjoy a good cup of black tea. I like my tea with honey & creamer (eggnog if available). I do drink other teas, although fruity flavored tea I have never been a fan of.🫖
I grew up with HELLO KITTY, so I adore Sanrio stuff.
I also like STUDIO GHIBLI & KEWAII cuteness.
💟I have always enjoyed STICKERS. I like most anything that can be used to make paper crafting items.🔖
💕 I like FABRIC scraps, lace, ribbon, ricrack or anything that can be used to embelish clothes to make them more "girly".🎀 My kiddo has hand-me-down "boys" clothes that I like to "girly" them up.
🗺️I love TRAVELING as well as planning the trip prior to going. I like the touristy sight seeing spots & any place with natural beauty.
✈️I have yet to do much traveling outside of the United States, but I have so much more to see in the US. I have been to 46 states. Hawaii, Florida & The Carolinas are on my bucket list.
🤣I like JOKES, even elementary school jokes. Laughing is so important!
🤗TINY THINGS: rocks, charms, miniatures & anything small.
🧵🪡I love EMBELISHMENTS, anything that I can add to my girl's clothes to make them girlier. She has a lot of hand me downs that are "boy's" clothes & she is a complete "girly girl" & adores frilly, sparkly, pink stuff.
My girl is a mini me. She loves books, crafting, stickers, animals, cooking, drinking tea (herbal), playing board games & enjoys lots of time outdoors. She is super smart, silly & kind. Her laughter is the best & her smile & squishy cheeks make my day. She is a joy to be around.
🧵🪡SEWING! I'm new to sewing, but enjoy adding embelishments & re-fashioning hand-me-downs & thrift finds. I look forward to expanding my skills now that I have a craft area dedicated to sewing.
✂ PAPER CRAFTS of all sorts, especially cards as I enjoy sending them to spread cheer.
📿BEADING of all kinds, but earrings are my favorite. I like being able to create a pair of earrings that I can pass on to someone who will wear & enjoy them.
🎨KID'S CRAFTS, any type really. I'm not a huge fan of the messy stuff though. I like kid's crafts b/c they're a great way to upcycle items that might otherwise go to waste.
🧶KNITTING, which I have been doing for some time now. I enjoy yarn & the calmness that knitting brings to me... as long as the projects I work on are somewhat easy & small projects.
📚Indoor:
🖍️Crafting, 📖 Reading, 🎶 Music, Lego, 🎮Lego Video Games, 🎲 Board Games, 🎬 Movies, 👩🍳Cooking, 🐌💌Snail Mail & 🌱Indoor Plants m.
🌲Outdoor:
🏕️Camping, 🥾Hiking, Backpacking, 🌠Star Gazing, 🪨Rock Hounding, 🦅Bird Watching, Exploring.🌳
🔠ABC's
The alphabet of some things I love (in no particular order)
A: Animals, Adventures, Adult Coloring, Academics
B: Bible, Birds, Butterflies, Books, Bookmarks, Beads, Backpacking, Baking
C: Cats, Camping, Care Bears, Crafting, Craft Supplies, Crime Dramas, Chocolate, Creativity, Cooking, Crystals
D: Desserts, Donuts, Dandelions
E: Embellishments, Exploring, Envelopes
F: Fabric, Flowers, Forests, Friends
G: Games, Green, Glitter, Galaxies
H: Hearts, Honey Bees, Hiking, Hello Kitty, Hobby Lobby, Hot Air Balloons
I: Inchies, Ice Cream, Instant Pot Recipes
J: Jesus, Jokes, Journals
K: Kermit The Frog, Kawaii, Kid's Books, Kittens
L: Lace, Lego, Ladybugs, Letters, Library
M: Muppets, Miniatures, Mountains, Music, Motivation, Moon, Musicals
N: Note Cards/Pads, Nature, Newts
O: Outdoors, Oceans, Organization, Orangutans
P: Photos, Paper, Plants, Pinterest, Puzzles, Postcards, Planners, Pen Pals, Pens, Podcasts
Q: Quotes, Quilts
R: Rocks, Recycling, Reading, Rainbows, Rivers, Ribbon, Ric Rack
S: Snail Mail, Smashed Pennies, Stamps, Stickers, Stationery, Stars, Sushi, Sanrio, Sunshine, Squirrels, Succulents, Sloths, Sea Shells, Self Care
T: Thrifting, Traveling, True Crime, Trees, Tea, Typewriters, Teachers
U: Up-cycling, Unique, Unusual
V: Vintage, Vacations
W: Weirdness, Wilderness, Washi Tape, Wizard Of Oz (books rather than movie)
X: Xerox printed items, Axolotls
Y: Yarn, Yellow
Z: Zines
I Love Broadway shows; 🧹Wicked & 🎭Phantom of the Opera, Hamilton!
📚BOOKS📚
I love CHILDREN'S books & YA fiction 📖
🍿MOVIES🍿
MOULIN ROUGUE! (Best movie EVER made)
THE LEGO MOVIE
KISS KISS BANG BANG
Favorite Genre: Suspense Thrillers, Musicals, Comedies & Dramas.
Favorite Director: Baz Luhrmann
Favorite Musical Score Composer: James Horner
🎬TV SHOWS🎬
Random assortment:
Gravity Falls, Pushing Daisies, Alone, Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist, The First 48, Veronica Mars....
CRIME DRAMAS / MYSTERIES / THRILLERS
It can be True Crime or Fictional, I enjoy watching just about anything that is crime drama. British shows are my favorite as US shows tend to have too much drama. I basically like any British crime show on AcornTV.
📌PINTEREST📌
I have to limit my time on Pinterest because it is the most perfect site for me & has so much that interests me. A site full of inspiration & a way to save and organize the things I discover... for FREE!
Pinterest is just too good to be true for me.
📔CHILDREN'S BOOKS 📖
Most books geared towards adults tend to bore me & I can't get through them. This might be due to my short attention span, or the wordiness of them.
I like picture books, beginner reader books & chapter books. I like young adult books that are coming of age stories or Dystopian Sci Fi. I guess I don't have a favorite genre, I just like to read books that are good & preferably a quick read.
I also like to read craft books & cookbooks to get inspired.
🏫The Library is one of my favorite places, I spend hours each week exploring what books they have that interest me.
Wish List:
❤️Fabric, even scraps. I'm new to sewing so I do a lot of small projects to improve my skills. I'm currently into embellishing hand-me-downs for my little girl so she can enjoy her new to us clothes. Lace, patches, buttons, fringe, etc. no matter the length is precious to me.
❤️Muppets / Sesame Street / Jim Henson stuff
❤️Children's book memorabilia
❤️Cat stuff
❤️Sanrio: Hello Kitty, Mimmy, Monkichi, Chococat, Little Twin Stars, Keroppi, Badtz-Maru & My Melody are my favs.
❤️Studio Ghibli: especially Kiki's Delivery Service
❤️Kawaii items, It makes me smile when I see those adorable little faces on random things like food!
❌Strong scents 🤢
I do LOVE a good Scratch 'N Sniff sticker though!
❌Coffee and Dark chocolate 🤮
❌Anything disrespectful or political 🙅🏻♀️
Comments
Cheers to a wonderful year ahead!
Happy New Year from USA Happy Mail
Thank you for the Christmas card (AAW)...and the sweet sentiment!
Thank you for the AATW Dec card and goodies. Happy swapping and Happy Holidays
Thank you, Renee, for the wonderful holiday card--I absolutely loved the message you wrote in the card. Thanks, too, for the great enclosures--I'm in love with those vintage airplane pages. Ah . . . the scent of old books! It's like a rare perfume!
Thank you for the AATW cute Marshmallow figures Christmas card and the great tuck-in's. May your Christmas be merry and bright, also!
TYVMb for the AATW card exchange: Cute Christmas card and great goodies tucked inside. Merry Christmas to you and your little one !
Thank you for the Christmas card and goodies. Mele Kalikimaka!
AAtW