Sandi

• Just came home at hospital, over 2 weeks there is finally over! Huge thanks for my swap-partners to be patient! I will send swaps at the end of this week, with little surprises! Great to be back here!!

• If you are from Great Britain and you send me something, can you use stamps of Wallace and Gromit? I just love them! I red one of the Finland daily magazines, that they got own stamps! And if they have a glossy pictures, I really would like to have them, also :-)

• I like eco-friendly stuffs, so please notice that, when you swap with me.

• I'm 31 years old woman from Finland. My birth town is Rauma, it is in southwest Finland. Now I'm living in Ylöjärvi. My education is an environmental engineer and I'm working in Jyväskylä (it is about 150 km from Ylöjärvi). I'm still an student in University of Jyväskylä, I do Master studies about environmental sciences and –technology. I can speak English, Swedish and German.

• I'm autumn child and I love it's beautiful colours! I also love sea - it is so peacyfull. I think, that's why my favorite colour is blue! I also like snow! Usually at the winter time, I go to Lapland to do skiing and downhill skiing! Summer time I swim and cycle a lot and rollerskate also hiking is nice! Next summer I will start practise paddling. I do like photography :-) I usually go and walk almost everywhere with camera!

• I enjoy travelling, but now I do not have lot of time do it. I have been in Hungary, Italy, Sicilia, Portugal, Greece, Austria, Estonia, Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Thailand, Myanmar, Sweden, Norway, Ã…land, Russia and Ireland.

• I sold my heart to patchworking about one year ago. I want to learn Amish quilting, so if you have some good advise or instruction, please contact me =)
• I like to do different kind of bags, pillows, etc.
• I do postcards, as Christmas, Valentine’s Day and birthday cards. Now I really like to do 3D-cards!

• 100 % cotton fabrics
• Glossy picture
• Postage stamps
• My mom like to do coffee package –bags and I have collect empty coffee package for her. I learn how to do coffee package –trivet – it’s so nice to recycle different materials!

• I'm not vegetarian, but I generally prefer vegetarian food. I also like fair trade –marked foods and materials.
• I love naturally bath and body things, without all the nasty chemicals..foot cream, shower gel, etc. which are mild perfumed. Favorite scents are almond, olive and chocolate.
• I tried to find here in Finland EARTH THERAPEUTICS body care treatments, I really loved those products!

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COLORS:

• BLUE is my favorite!!
• white
• black
• naturally colors, as green, brown, orange, yellow
• silver and blue mixed fabrics

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TYPES OF FABRICS I USE:

• 100 % cotton
• small pattern
• all-linen
• vintage

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CANDIES:

• dark and white chocolate
• liquorice allsorts
• salmiak

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FOODS:

• green tea
• coffee
• hot chocolate

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ANIMALS:

• cats
• dogs
• dolphins
• polar bears
• etc. I like almost every animals.. and their puppies =)

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FLOWERS:

• orchids
• lilies, etc.

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CHARACTERS:

• Hello Kitty
• Disney, etc. Tigger
• Moomins, etc. Little My
• Diddl
• Mutts
• Pucca

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OTHERS:

• lighthouses
• handmade soaps, candles, papers
• moon
• sea
• snowman, snowflakes
• angels

PLEASE, DON'T SEND ME:

• PERFUMED papers and candles - I just get really bad headache!!
• ATCs – it is not my thing!
• dotee dolls
• magnets
• plastic
• skeleton, skull, etc.
• dirty, smelly, torn items, etc. I hate cigarette smoke!
• religious materials

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FABRICS I DON'T USE:

• silk
• flannel
• velvet
• pure pastil
• pink (if it’s not include Hello Kitty)
• neon colors

FABRICS, I'M LOOKING FOR:

• I’ll do bedspread, I need fabric squares ¼ yard and colors should be brown, blue and white, but not solid
• I’d also like receiving fabric pieces like ¼ yard, ½ yard, 1 yard, etc.
• white in white, black in black and other fabrics like mixed this way
• black and white mixed fabrics
• marble fabrics
• pearly fabrics
• Japanese and Asian style
• Valentine’s Day
• little douge pattern (bees, flyes, spider, ants, frogs, etc.)

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OTHER THINGS:

• different kind of ruler (etc. hexagon, circular)
• pearl buttons
• sewing yarn
• Fair trade tea, coffee, candies
• Earth Therapeutics body care products
• Handmade soap, candles, papers
• Anything, which can use scrapbooking

2010 Christmas Card International Swap * Michelle Kania

Nov. 5" Charms * Wendy Byrne (WendyB)

Fabric Fat Quarter Swap #2 * Tara Read (Taraquilt)