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**** UPDATE 10/20/2022 DUE TO A FAMILY EMERGENCY MY SWAPS THAT I HAVE ALREADY SIGNED UP TO (and the partners have already been assigned) WILL BE LATE. I HAVE CONTACTED MY PARTNERS **************************************************

I can't emphasize this enough: PLEASE DO NOT POST ANY FLASHING OBJECTS ON MY WALL, THEY MAY CAUSE ME SEIZURES

A big, friendly grin from the capital of Finland! I have also lived in the USA (Missouri), England and India.

Pet household - I try my best to prevent an occasional cat hair traveling with my swaps, but those seem to have a life of their own so sometimes they just decide to travel and I apologize for that.

My obsession #1 is traveling. 43 countries so far :) My obsession #2 is fall (autumn), I love anything fall related :) My favorite holiday is Halloween, especially anything pumpkin related :) Other than that, I love anything nature-related: hiking, camping, picking berries and mushroom, fishing...

My favorite place in the whole world is New York, I travel there a few times a year. Boston is a close second :)

My favorite colors are bright yellow, mustard, lime, grass green, red, terra, orange, brown, teal, turquoise, rainbow (yeah, I know rainbow is not a color, but I love rainbows :)

I was flaked on in a private swap by @hmscm - so, I didn't get a host star :(

I prefer things I can USE. I don't want to collect anything.

Asta's wishlist items and themes A-Z

A - Autumn; American magazines; American candy

B - boho

C - Cats; cinnamon flavor/scent; coffee (different flavors); cherry flavor; cute stuff; Catbus (Studio Ghibli); Cheshire Cat

D - Dishcloths (themed, handmade, cute...)

E -

F - Fall (autumn); Frida Kahlo; feminism

G - grape flavor anything

H - Halloween; hot chocolate with different flavors; hygge

I -

J - Japanese stuff

K - kawaii; Korean stuff

L - lighthouses; LGBT+

M - maple syrup anything

N - nature (and nature theme, especially with fall foliage colors); New York

O -

P - pumpkins :) Pumpkin lanterns, pumpkin spice anything, pumpkin decorations, pumpkin anything :) ,peanut butter; pumpkin spice anything

Q - Quirky twist in everyday objects (for instance, I have a dish brush that looks like a 70's disco dancer - think anything that looks like it would be sold in a Pylones store)

R - rainbows; retro

S - Starbucks; Sakura; Swiss Miss pumpkin spice flavor, socks (Very colorful, funky or cartoon socks: EUR size 34-36 / U.S. + Canada size women's 5 / Japan size women's 21 / Australia size 3,5 / Britain size women's 2,5... / yeah, children's size...NO TOE SOCKS); scented candles

T - trekking/hiking; tea (flavored); Tim Hortons' flavored coffee/tea; tote bags (fabric, with pictures of my favorite themes)

U -

V - vanilla scent; vinyl stickers

W - Wonka brand candy; watermelon flavor; Wonderwoman (Marvel)

X -

Y - Yankee Candle brand

Z -

• blackcurrant, hibiscus, aloe vera
• plain black tea
• Hershey's chocolate
• romantic books / chick-lit
• gothic, gore, pagan, wiccan
• skeletons
• Mustaches
• fridge magnets
• TOES!
• I don't appreciate male beauty, so nothing with men on them.
• phone cards
• postage stamps
• junk and badly/hastily made items
• colors: black, gray, neon colors
• any drug-associated things
• religious, homophobic or racist ephemera / propaganda
• Lalaloopsy, Diddl, Dora the Explorer, Donald Duck

Severe allergy !!!! KIWI FRUIT

PLEASE, DO NOT POST ANY FLASHING OBJECTS ON MY PROFILE WALL!!!

...doesn't go anywhere during the weekends. If I mark my swaps sent on a Saturday or a Sunday, or after 5 p.m. on a Friday, I have mailed them but the stamps aren't franked/cancelled and the mail isn't sent forward from the post office until the following Monday. This, at it's most unfortunate, may cause a false impression that I haven't sent my swaps in time :-( However, I try to drop everything to the post office during the week days. Also, there are some bank holidays in Finland, and on bank holidays the mail doesn't travel either.

****NOTE: Finland uses the DD.MM.YYYY date format, so a postal stamp marked 12.9. means it was sent on September 12th****

I am a mad recycler, so I will reuse package material and use cardboard boxes which originally held something else often, unless the swap requires something fancy or specific. I hope this is not a problem :)

...please send me a private message before getting mad. The reason is not that I have not sent my swap, the reason must be problems in the mail chain.

I am still waiting a swap from @stephania27 (deadline December 1, 2018)

I am still waiting to be rated by @Sunnylightmode @rimbar