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I love to read, sew stuff, make art, do crafty things with paper, write, play with my kid, and cook.

Some of my favorite foods are avocados, iced tea (unsweetened), gyros, and tomatoes. I also have a salty/sweet tooth. I take my coffee with cream only, no sugar. I'd like to be a vegetarian but I love bacon too much.

I love all things hello kitty, pirate, and aqua blue. Garden gnomes rule.

I love school supplies, I buy them even when I don't need to. Fresh notebooks are the best.

I like to leave it up to the sender what to send-- picky profiles really irritate me-- but I do make the request that you do NOT send religious items. Thanks.

There are really too many to list all in one place, but a few artists that are in my ipod are:

Cat Power

Pixies

Morrissey/The Smiths

Death Cab

Adele

Tegan and Sara

New Order

Bloc Party

Snow Patrol

ETC ETC ETC

My all time favorite book is Frankenstein.

Other favorites include:

Perks of Being a Wallflower-Stephen Chbosky

Veronica-Mary Gaitskill

Don't Get Too Comfortable-David Rakoff

Anything by David Sedaris, Flannery O'Connor, Raymond Carver, Lorrie Moore

I like paper crafts. Not scrapbooking, really, although sometimes I do some of that too. But mostly I like to make cards and think of new and inventive ways to wrap gifts and send mail. Every so often I will try my hand at oragami.

AND of course, MAIL ART. I love decorating envelopes, mail ephemera, all of it. I recently started making my own envelopes, too.

I love Germany. I studied there and I miss it. I'm planning my next trip in my head and I cannot wait.

I have found that despite my son's almost neurotic obsession with forcing me to color WITH him, I kind of like it...crayons and paper give me a Zen feeling.

I hoard chocolate.

When I go to the zoo, I like to visit the giraffes, penguins, monkeys and zebras the most.

I'm a dog person.

I like hiking and swimming. Cold weather sucks.

I like all colors but my favorites are blue, purple, black, grey

Parks and Rec

The Office

Doc Martin

House

Parenthood

Six Feet Under

Pretty Little Liars

Always Sunny

Modern Family

Oddities

True Romance

The Graduate

Bridesmaids

Officespace

Dirty Dancing

Postal ephemera

Airmail!

Handmade envelopes

COFFEE

Germany/German Language

skulls, especially sugar skulls/dia de los muertos

gnomes

pirates

anatomy related stuff

Stationery/fun office supplies

Cool binder clips/paper clips

pretty papers for envelope making

Book pages

Instagram pics

cool photos you took of your area/vacation/weird random stuff etc.

touristy souvenirs of your city/state/country

unmounted rubber stamps/cling stamps

scraps of pretty fabric/unwanted fat quarters

buttons

thread

brads

any scrapbook stuff/cardmaking stuff from the Dollar Spot at Target

pretty much any and all embellishments for paper crafts

vintage stuff

miniature items. (i love teeny tiny things)

smashed pennies

articles from magazines or newspapers that you find interesting

funny comics cut out from the newspaper

I will always send and I will always rate. I might be a slow rater though. I try, but I have a small child and become distracted quite easily. ;) Please feel free to ask about your swap or your rating...I will always resend and I will eventually rate. I guess I just need a reminder sometimes. :)