Murmuration

Well, it has been awhile. I've been off of Swapbot for quite some time now, but I'm slowly get back involved.

I'm not a big swapper, I like to sign up for a very limited number of swaps so I can keep track of them, so please don't be alarmed if I only have one or two current swaps in progress.

Thanks for reading my profile information!

I would be extremely grateful for any ephemera related to The Year of The Dragon, or just dragons in general. I'm trying to create a layout. If you have Year Of The Dragon anything, or Chinese themed ephemera that you would like to share, I would absolutely love to have it!

If you haven't received a swap from me, please let me know. If you sent a swap I haven't acknowledged yet, please let me know that too.

If you are a swap recipient and haven't gotten your swap yet, please message me prior to leaving a 1 rating. It's either on its way, or possibly lost in the mail.

If I haven't rated your swap yet, it's because I haven't gotten your swap yet. If you think you sent something I should have gotten by now, please message me and let me know so I can keep a lookout for it.

If you are a swap participant trying to figure out what to send me for a swap, feel free to read on below for the specifics.

Thanks for stopping by!

I love pens, paper, stationary, post cards, postage stamps, markers, pretty much anything related to correspondence.

I am obsessed with junk journaling and travel scrapbooking.

I have no artist talent to speak of, so I won't be joining swaps that require you to make something. I'm fine with receiving handmade items, but I wouldn't want to disappoint anyone with something I've created.

I love all kinds of washi tape, all kinds of stationary, all kinds of paper and note cards, all kinds of post it notes.

I would love anything with a narwhal, Totoro or hot air balloon, clock, typewriter or carousel on it. I have no idea why I'm obsessed with these things.

I also collect shaped paperclips, envelopes, tiny houses (on washi tape, charms, postcards, drawings, whatever), fairy garden supplies, all kinds of ephemera but especially vintage, tags, pockets, die-cuts, pretty much anything flat that I can stick into a junk journal.

I am not fond of:

• Ripped out book pages - please don't murder innocent books!
• Strong odors - they give me headaches
• Magazine or Encyclopedia cut outs - the paper is too flimsy for me to work with
• sports themed anything
• Disney themed anything
• school or rewards themed anything
• hearts of any kind
• pictures of household animals (don't get me wrong, I love actual cats, dogs and horses, but I don't need pictures of them)
• smiley faces
• Barbie or other toys
• baby themed anything
• wedding themed anything
• Inspirational sayings. Honestly, I'd like to never read the words, "You go girl!", or "You got this!" ever again. I most certainly do not got this.

There is no bad Washi tape, but if you happen to have some in your stash, I would be especially happy to get anything with:

• gears
• fall/autumn
• clocks
• houses
• mushrooms
• hot air balloons
• flowers
• really pretty much any fun designs

Overall, I prefer patterns over solid colors. If you have a style or pattern that you think is unique to your area (i.e. did not come from Michaels, A.C. Moore or Target) I'd love to get that as well.

• Steampunk (Gears, Clocks, Goggles, Machinery)
• Fantasy
• Travel
• Vintage
• Tiny houses or cottages
• Paris
• Sea and Sea Creatures
• Clouds
• Gardens, Flowers, Plants, Trees
• Space
• Carosels/Circus
• Sky
• Fall/Autumn
• Beach

And just for full disclosure, some themes I'm not interested in at all include:

• Sports
• Babies
• School
• Weddings

Most of the stickers swaps I have signed up for are sender's choice, so by all means, send me your choice.

But I would be especially glad to get stickers that are decorative (think interesting shapes, swirls and designs rather than cartoons or pictures of animals).

I would be especially grateful for stickers depicting the following:

• tiny houses or lighthouses
• hot air balloons
• leaves, trees or feathers
• anything travel themed
• tags
• anything space themed
• mystical creatures of any kind such as mermaids and dragons
• clouds
• flowers
• vines
• dragonflies
• bird, bird houses or bird cages
• buildings and castles

Please, please, please, please do not send me touristy/destination/Greetings From type postcard unless it is a place you are actually from.

I've been participating in a lot of postcard swaps that involve sending blank postcards, and overall, I like to think I'm not too picky, but I keep getting similar touristy postcards that I don't know what to do with, other than send them off to someone else who probably also doesn't want them.

I knew it was bad when I sent off a touristy postcard in a swap and got back the exact same postcard in another swap from a DIFFERENT person a few weeks later.

I would LOVE to get postcards that feature artworks, carousels, lighthouses, Space, pretty much anything listed in my favorite themes area above. Fpr me, weird, creative and beautiful postcards beat tourist postcards any day of the week.

I read and collect:

• Cozy mysteries
• Mysteries in general
• Urban fantasy
• Science fiction
• Fantasy

Sorry, but these aren't for me:

• History
• Sports
• Biographies
• Romance novels

• I'm way better at collecting craft materials than using them.

• I buy nice things and then don't use them because I want to save them because they are so nice.

• I buy stuff I don't know what to do with just in case I someday know what to do with it.

• If I do finish a craft project, I tend to give up the craft entirely after that.