augustmoon849

hummm.. it's pretty much summed up below

Altered books, collage, making books & journals, knitting, photography, cooking, gardening, beading, stained glass, collecting ephemera (asian, international, southwestern, beach/ocean themes), carving rubber stamps, making hand made paper or paste paper

Kauai, Hawaii; San Juan Islands, WA; coastal Maine; Tucson, AZ; Copenhagen, Denmark.

Places on my "GO TO" list: Alaska, Tibet, Japan, China, South Africa, Australia, The river country of France & Germany.

Asian coins or paper money, mini vials/bottles, bonito box, images of the sun or moon, blank accounting sheets, miniature folded origami items, Asian rubber stamps, Asian miniatures, anything with a Japanese theme, old tissue dress patterns, images of fall leaves, nautical scenes, ships, southwestern rubber stamps, alphabet rubber stamps, anything made of or with indigo blue

swimming, sailing/boating, walking, letterboxing, listening to books or reading, beach combing, shell collecting, collecting seaglass, smelling the ocean and listening to the waves, pondering the power of the moon

pale yellow, blue, (blue & white china); oranges, reds & blues from the southwest; Mexican colors & prints, Asian (pacific rim) prints

I am a collage artist and love making altered books and handmade books/journals as well as handmade or hand-crafted papers. I am an amateur photographer who collects photos and then can't decide what to do with them all! I have no shortage of unfinished projects involving yarn, paper, thread and paper!

I live in New England, spent a winter in Tucson, AZ and fell in love with the southwest but still prefer to have the ocean nearby.

I have participated in numerous altered book round robins, but am new to the "swap" concept. I have no shortage of things to add to almost any swap and look forward to creating an interesting one of my own.

PLEASE NO: things fru-fruey, Victorian or lacey, incense, overly powerful soaps (or anything with smells), skull bones, pirates, piercings, spikes, coconut, stickers, chewing gum, anything religious; NO frilly, eyelash or acrylic yarns, anything with nuts, seasonal rubber stamps

anything blue and white, saltwater fish images and tokens, glass icicles, snowflakes, miniatures for an old type set box, anything Japanese/Chinese (eastern), unusual rubber stamps, international papers, playing cards, prints, vintage nautical ephemera, old letters and samples of handwriting, netsuke, artistic wine labels, sea glass, anything Danish, handmade rubber stamps, postage stamps, items with ginko leaves, pakistani/indian wood blocks.

Brightly colored 100% cotton yarn [Regatta, Newport Light, Metro--mercerized cotton]: fingerling weight 4 ply, Opal, merino, alpaca, fixation - am happy with partial skeins (1/8 of a skein) of nice yarn as I make crazy colored sox!

Letters (press-on alphabet, scrabble tiles, other individual letters), rubber stamp alphabet, keys, almost anything semi-flat for collage, hand dyed ribbons, blue willow related items: china, napkins, paper,

Textured metal for rubbings, old coins with interesting images, images of mermaids, fairies, geisha, samauri warriors, maps, navigation charts, old accounting book pages, graph paper, paper punches (other than round), background rubber stamps, non-seasonal rubber stamps (nothing cutsey -- polymer acrylic stamps good)

chai and green tea, handmade or handcrafted paper, colorful yarn, (the more natural, the better {no acrylics, please}, handmade books, booklets and journals and envelopes, charms, totems, river stones and shells, items related to the sun or moon, socks, simple picture frames (black or silver, nothing embellished), candles, anything with dragonflies, woodblocks and/or prints

WILL COORDINATE SWAP IF INTERESTED: (just give me a nudge...)

hand carved rubber stamps handmade journals or books ephemera hand crafted papers

P.S. regarding the USPS - I mail all swaps and have confidence in the US mail system, however, once the item leaves my trusted hands, I have no control over it's destiny and can only hope it makes it to your door in a timely fashion. PLEASE let me know if something seems amiss and kindly send a PM or rating immediately upon receipt of swap. thx :-)