skinny52
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Date Joined: February 26, 2015
Last Online: March 30, 2025 Country: United States My Website |
About Me
- I love the beach...and anything that brings to mind!
- I am retired (2-14-2014) after 40 years of working...the last 34 years with the same company.
- I love ephemera!!! I like postage stamps...new and used... and postcards. I also like old greeting cards and wrapping paper.
- I love miniatures and recently bought a secondhand dollhouse to play with in retirement.
- I sew; mostly quilts and smaller crafts. I'm the one in the family that everyone brings their mending to!
- My favorite meal is anything with cheese! I like chocolate, but not white. Sea salted caramel anything is my current favorite!! I am grain free 😁
CHRISTMAS...about the only holiday I decorate for and I lean towards Christmas trees...any size and style 🎄🎄🎄 I put them in every room of my house 🎄🎄🎄
Postcards
VINTAGE!!! Even if a swap says new postcards only...if you have a vintage card (especially linen!!) that meets all other qualifications I will be happy to receive it with no complaints!!!
My favorite postcards are anything coastal...sea creatures...boats...lighthouses...beaches...seafood recipes...you get the idea!
I also love vintage linen postcards with any theme
Japanese woodblock art...Asian architecture
Books, book themes, libraries, and literary characters
I like views of rooftops
Dolls, dollhouses, and miniatures
Foggy scenes
Clocks and compasses
You can send me good quality ad cards if they fit the theme of a swap
Books
I love to read!
I get completely obsessed when I find a new mystery series. I must read them in order! I'm currently reading Jonathan Kellerman, Timothy Hallinan and Robert Crais. I also love fantasy...Twilight, Harry Potter, Repairman Jack , Game of Thrones...just to name a few! A few more...Elly Griffiths, John Sandford, and Fred Vargas
I love to alter books for journals and I have no qualms about ripping out pictures and print pages to use in other paper-craft projects!
Ephemera
I love ephemera!
I enjoy going to thrift stores and yard sales...I cannot pass up old cards and wrapping paper and vintage advertising! I use them in junk journals and albums and atcs...LOVE those old crinkle edge photos from the 60's
Fabric-Ribbons
I love vintage fabric! Doilies, embroidery, needlepoint, handkerchiefs...all good!
I prefer embroidered patterned ribbons, especially vintage!
Another reason to go thrifting! I make pillows and altered clothing and I use old and fancy fabrics and buttons in my albums and journals too!
Really like
Wish list:
- Vintage paper or cards
- Blank or used postcards from anywhere
- Washi tape
- Library cards
- Beach glass...tell me where you found it!
- Cancelled stamps
- Lighthouse anything
- Foreign language ephemera
- Nautical labels, paper, ephemera
- Vintage handkerchiefs
- Old buttons
- Bark cloth
- Embroidered ribbon
- Doilies
- Vintage linen kitchen towels
- Old photos
- Nautical anything
- glimmer mist
- used postage stamps
- decorative book end paper
- stickles
- mod-podge
- colored sharpies
- sparkling H2o's
- roll-on adhesive
- 18mm rotary blades
- ink pads
- glue sticks
- gutterman brand thread
Really don't like
Dislikes:
THINGS! I'd so much rather have items that I can craft with...paper or fabric...books or cards...labels or funky paper. Not just something that sits on a shelf
- NOTHING SCENTED, I'm sensitive 🙄
- NO stickers
- NO address labels
- nothing racy
- nothing religious
- NO friendship sheets.
- NO DIE CUTS
NOT A FLAKER
Yikes!!! I just got my first ONE rating and I'm devastated. (June 2015) I was not contacted first so that I could attempt to make things right!!!! It was an international swap and my assumption is that it was never delivered. (This was successfully resolved by resending) I'm ALWAYS WILLING TO RESEND!!!!! Please, please, please message me if you think that you should have received a swap from me and I will resend. Thanks!!!!
Playing Cards
Vintage, well played with by many hands are my favorite. My next favorite are the type with designs on both sides. I use them for crafting, not playing!
Postage Stamps
I'm very intrigued by postage stamps...I always look at the stamps on my mail no matter where it comes from! I especially like the postal art of Asian countries...also I really (really!) like any and all beach-nautical-marine animal-seabirds-shells, anything along that theme line...Thanks
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Comments
I am so pleasantly surprised by 3 packages of padded mailing enveloped you found for me for TF May '24 Stocking Stuffer. They will come in so very handy. You did GREAT. Thank you, thank you. Hoping your Christmas went well and may 2025 bring much peace and happiness your way.
I am tickled pink with the tea cup and saucer you gave me for the TF March '24 Stocking Stuffer. I put it on display already. Thank yo so very much.
Today, I opened your present for TF Sept '24 Stocking Stuffer. Thank you so so much for these beautiful petite long candle tapers. It is perfect for my log cabin feel of a home here in the mountains. I have exactly the wrought iron wall candle holders I will use them in. Such a perfect present for Advent. Thank you again. Have a joyous Christmas---Michelle in Clarington, PA
Mar--thank you for the bonus happy mail for the "Happy ALL Month Long" swap, you didn't have too, but I really appreciate the cool Japanese stationeries you recently sent me, they are amazing! :) ~kizzlets
Thank you - Thank you.....Wow, what a wonderful gift......... Merry Christmas..... will use all & so many, many colors!!!
Now how did you know exactly what I wanted this year? Thank you Mar for my 3 Christmas CD's..One of which is Exactly what I have looked hard for and could never find any... A handbell Choir with Christmas songs. I grew up where our church had a handbell choir so is so very special with fond memories. This is for the TF March Stocking Stuffer. I open a present each day of Advent.. Thank you again~~Michelle Merry Christmas
So happy you're enjoying the envelope countdown! Did you DIY the box? :)
I am over the moon with RAKs #3 and #4! I adore the darling vintage books about dogs and butterflies! And I will keep the seashell journal in my purse for writing down my 2022 musings! Thank you so much!
Your RAKS arrived today! I opened #2 and am so thankful fir your thoughtfulness! Can’t wait to paint! May also use a couple to make Christmas presents with my nieces!
Mar,
I am over the moon with RAK #1! What a wonderful surprise! I am so happy to have this advent calendar, and I don't mind playing catch up at all! :D :D
All the best,
Jessie