UKrebel85

All mail sent out this weekend will not be lifted until Tuesday as it is a bank holiday weekend and there are no collections or deliveries on Monday.

I am Shel, I am 38 and I am a mature university student. I am studying Speech and Language Pathology and in my 3rd year.

I live in a beautiful part of the world on the West Coast of Scotland.

I have 1 17 year old (18 next month) daughter who has disabilities. She will never live on her own, she is at the level of a 6-7 year old but is the happiest young lady you will come across. She loves crafting and we love to spend afternoons crafting together and scrapbooking.

I am getting married this year. Currently making all of our invitations.

I think I am a really happy helpful person and love to make a difference to someone’s day.

I am also a member of the Rebel Badge Club. It is so much fun. It’s like guides for adults!!!

I like most types of music apart from anything that has too much vulgar language in it. I tend not to have a favourite artist. It’s more I hear a song I like.

I absolutely love to read. I love psychological thrillers and crime. I like Agatha Christie, James Patterson, Freida McFadden, John Marrs and many more. I have just started reading a new author Anna-Marie Morgan and working my way through her DI Giles series.

I am taking part in the 52 book challenge this year to try and expand my reading into genres I haven’t really read. Not really doing too well with it as have so much university reading to do instead! Once exams are over I will be able to read for pleasure again.

I like who dunnits‘, anything from Agatha Christie to CSI to Vera and Death in Paradise and everything in between. I like true crime shows.

I also like quiz shows like The Chase, Lingo, Who Wants to be a Millionaire.

I love to craft. My main crafts are cross stitch and scrapbooking but I love trying other crafts too.

At the moment I am exploring pocket letters (if anyone would like to swap one/ receive one let me know).

I am teaching myself macrame right now. I also have a box full of new crafts to try including needle felting.

The two crafts I have tried to master are knitting and crochet and I just cannot get them. It’s something to do with the tension I think. My mum has all but given up on teaching me how to knit!!!

Mum and I are also making my wedding dress and the bridesmaids and flower girl dresses.

I also like journalling, lists, being organised, stickers, stencils, stationery, etc. My favourite time of the week is a Sunday evening when I sit and organise my week and set everything up.

Horror,

Snakes,

Spiders,

Cruelty,

People being nasty,

Clowns,

Skulls,

Ghosts.

I am not really into anything mythical.

This section will get updated as I think of more things.

A - Autumn, Autumn Colours, ATC’s

B - Books, Baking, Bookmarks, Board Games, Butterflies, Bees

C - Cooking, Crime, Crafting, Cross Stitch, Christmas (favourite time of year), Countryside

D - Dachshunds (we have 3 miniatures), Dragonflies

E - Eggs (love them in all forms!)

F - Family, Friends, Flip-books, Flowers

G -

H - Handmade Items, Happy Mail, Hedgehogs

I - Introvert

J - Journalling, Jade (colour)

K -

L - Lists, Logic Games

M - Mysteries

N - Netflix, Nature

O - Owls, Organisation

P - Paper-crafts, Penpals, Puzzles, Pocket Letters, Purple, Photography

Q - Quotes

R - Rebel Badge Club, Reading, Recipes

S - Speech and Language Therapy, Stickers, Stationary, Scrapbooking, Stencils, Snail Mail

T - Teal, Tai Chi, Turtles

U -

V - Vintage

W - Washi Tapes, Wedding Planning, Waterfalls

X -

Y -

Z - Zentangle

I live in Scotland so international post will take longer than regional.

I can no longer get proof of postage that I liked doing. I live in a small town and our post office is also used as a bank as 2 of the towns banks have closed lately. I was making a long queue when I was getting proof of postage receipts. However I always take photos of finished swaps and envelopes before I post.

Stamps are put on by the post office clerk. We don’t really get a choice of type of stamp or where it is placed.

If I get to the post office in the afternoon there is a chance it will already have been lifted. Its meant to be at a certain time but is frequently earlier. If I post at the weekend the chances are it will be post marked Mondays date. I mark sent once I have handed mail to post office clerk.

I’m sometimes away for a few nights during the week due to university. I will rate any swaps the night I get home.