kittymojo

Hi All

I am taking a break from swapping to due some family issues. I am not in any active swaps at the moment and not checking my profile regularly.

I am more than happy to resend if you let me know that you haven't received your swap from me - This still stands, but I would ask that you email me directly if possible ([email protected]) as my Swap-bot inbox is flooded with group messages and I just don't always see PMs'.

If the original ever does turn up eventually just pay it forward :)

BEHIND on ratings. That is my bad. I will get there eventually....

Now, about me:

I am a happily married, child free, woman in my late 30's living in domestic bliss in Australian suburbia.

I have a job that I really enjoy, doing data warehousing and analysis (I know, NOT everyone's cup of tea!) for a Not-For-Profit organisation providing mental health support services.

I'm generally a happy person, a bit lazy and love love love domestic life - gardening, cooking, growing food and preserving it, making cheese, crafting...anything for the home done at home. I even quite like housework.

I have Autism (at the Aspie end of things), Social Anxiety and Generalised Anxiety - so I tend to be a real homebody. I enjoy pen palling and swapping as a way of making friends without having to leave the house.

I currently foster cats for a local rescue group, which is incredibly rewarding and wonderful, and a bit dangerous as I never want to let any of them go.

I also have chickens, snakes, and turtles.

I LOVE gardening!

I spend a lot of time reading, writing,hoarding up delightful goodies and crafting supplies.

I like making craft items and 'arting' about :)

When I get the chance I like board games, card games etc - this doesn't work so great with a small social circle!

Please no holiday themed stuff, especially Christmas/Easter/V-day/Halloween unless the swap specifically calls for it.

Pagan stuff is fine but no other religious themed stuff unless the swap specifically calls for it.

I can't have caffeine so please choose caffeine free teas.

Preferences: not into sparkles, angels, fairies, cherubs, kids, kid stuff, Disney....however it isn't all bad news, in the next box you will find HEAPS of stuff I would love to receive.

I am always happy to receive anything in the following categories:

Favorite themes/styles:

Bees,
dragonflies,
herbs/plants/flowers,
sci-fi/retro futurism,
mushrooms,
movies,
books,
art nouveau,
art deco,
Tim Burton,
Shaun Tan,
Edward Gorey, Tim Burton,
vivid colours/jewel tones,
Japanese prints,
woodland animals,
linocut/woodblock,
old propaganda images,
day of the dead,
naive art (especially hillside cottages), mythology
whismy

I like whimsical stationery (especially animal/flower/plant themes) that is cute without being kawaii/childlike.

Love washi tape, and washi paper even more.

Love quirky, strange and retro postcards - perfectly happy with Zazzle, and ad-cards or home made so long as they are pretty, colourful or interesting.

Looking to start collecting ATCs and inchies - especially fabric, embroidered, hand drawn or hand painted. Would LOVE these :)

Stickers are fun, especially if something a bit different.

Home made envies are always welcome, as are postcards or ATCs.

Most crafting items welcomed - especially washi paper, rubber stamps, inks embossing powders, embroidery thread,

I don't collect postage stamps but pretty colourful bird/animal or plant themed ones can be used in crafts and would be welcome.

Walking Dead,
Modern Family,
The Americans,
Homeland,
Archer,
Bojack Horseman,
The Office (UK),
House of Cards,
Ripper Street,
Arrested Development,
Penny Dreadful,
Rectify, Santa Clarita Diet, Frontier, Vikings, The Killing

Anything at all that Joss Whedon has had a hand in!

ATCs - Hand Drawn/Hand Painted Painting
Colouring
Postcards
Mail art
Letters
Stickers
Dies cuts
Paper embellishments Postage stamps
Photographs
Journal pages

Valeriane LeBlond
Shaun Tan
Tim Burton
Li Chen (extraordinary comics)
Edward Gorey
van Gogh
Klimt
Egan Schiller
Bobby Chiu
Edward Chan
Kei Acedera Carmel Jenkin

Nation - Terry Pratchett,
Anathem - Neal Stephenson,
Gone With the Wind - Margaret Mitchell,
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn,
Watership Down - Richard Adams,
A White Merc With Fins - James Hawes,
High Society - Ben Elton,
Feersum Enjinn - Iain M Banks,
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep - Phillip K Dick,
To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee,
The Colour Purple - Alice Walker,
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen,
Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte,
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen, Wool - Hugh Howey,
The Course of Honour - Lindsey Davis,
Last Chance to See - Douglas Adams
Watership Down - Richard Adams

Sci-fi and fantasy, occasional thrillers, things that make me laugh or make me think.