ChristineOMFG

11/12/17 I'm taking a break from Swap-Bot for a while, including hosting and participating in swaps. I'll be back soon!

I'm Christine! I'm 33 and from Cleveland, Ohio, USA! I live with my husband and our pets in a little mid-century house in the suburbs.

I love animals. I have two French Bulldogs, two gray cats, and a red betta fish named Roger Chillingworth (bonus points if you get the reference).

I am a hardcore knitter. Like, Secretary-of-my-Knitting-Guild hardcore. I also crochet, and sew a little, and I love crafts and doing handmade projects. In past lives I have also dabbled in scrapbooking, modeling clay, resin, and beading.

I love books and am an insatiable reader. Historical romance is my favorite genre! but I also love classics and am currently working my way through the collected works of Jane Austen.

I just graduated with a BA in Creative Writing and eventually I plan to start a freelance business as an editor so I can tell other people how to write.

I am a language and grammar nerd and a planner junkie. I am currently bullet journaling in a bright green Filofax A5 Saffiano.

My favorite pens are Pilot Hi-Tec C 0.3mm black. My favorite fountain pen is my highlighter yellow Lamy Safari EF. I would rather chop off my right hand than write with a ballpoint pen.

I love notebooks and journals and stationery and postcards and note cards and stamps and stickers and washi tape but I almost never buy these things for myself so please feel free to share.

Collections include tattoos (six) and vintage owl figurines (over 100) and lace handkerchiefs (I have no idea).

I love to swear and I wish I could cuss in more languages but alas, I speak English only. (Swap partners, please speak freely. You literally cannot offend me.)

I also love kayaking and camping and being outdoors. Once while kayaking the Chagrin Lagoons I caught a baby duck that had been separated from its mother. So I took a selfie with it and set it free because I didn't know what else to do with it.

My favorite colors are avocado green and harvest gold (straight out of the 1970s!). We painted our kitchen a color called Swamp Water.

I am obsessed with tea. I recently got one of those fancy tea kettles that whistles when the water boils, and a strainer for loose leaf tea. Is there anything cozier than a cup of tea and a smutty book? I submit that there is not.

I really really like patchouli and I don't care who knows it.

I just started gardening. Last year I grew broccoli, kale, cabbage, cucumbers, zucchini, two kinds of peppers, big and little tomatoes, and herbs: catnip, basil, cilantro, rosemary, chamomile, thyme, and lavender. We ate all the vegetables but the only herb I used was the basil. And a little catnip (for emergencies).

I love gangster rap and golden oldies.

I love love love Kawaii Japanese and Korean office supplies, stationery, pens, etc., especially the kind with bad English translations.

I love ugly vintage stuff. Chances are if you think it is old and hideously outdated, I will probably love it. My favorite decades are mid-century, 1940s through 1970s.

My husband and I like to trash-pick ugly furniture. Sometimes we refinish it in our garage; sometimes we just put it in our house straight off the street.

• "Ugly" colors (brown, puke green) and weird color combinations
• Neon colors
• Neutral colors
• Mid-century style
• Botanical illustrations (especially vintage)
• Owls and mushrooms
• Tea, teacups, & tea-related paraphanalia
• French bulldogs
• Classic literature
• Fountain pens
• Nature scenes & landscapes
• Questionnaires
• Hairless cats
• Kawaii
• Profanity & swear words
• Trashy romance novels

• Primary colors
• Pastel colors
• Puppets
• Unpleasant smells (ex. smoke, burps, kitty litter, bleach, etc.)
• Rude dogs with bad doggy manners
• Country music
• Religious imagery (unless it's vintage & ugly & creepy)
• Earl Grey tea

• Pens
• Owls
• Tattoos
• Vintage handkerchiefs
• Vintage Pyrex
• Houseplants
• Yarn
• Old hardcover books
• Antique glass bottles
• Vintage fabric
• Vintage romance novels with heaving bosoms on the covers

• Postcards (unused)
• Fabric (especially vintage or kawaii)
• Washi tape
• Stationery
• Journals
• Planner supplies (flags, sticky notes, paperclips, etc)
• Bookmarks
• Tarot cards/decks
• Stickers
• Nail polish
• Yarn (no acrylic... I'm a snob)
• Pens, markers, writing utensils
• Anything with owls or mushrooms on it
• Anything with French bulldogs on it
• Ugly old vintage stuff that you can't stand to look at because it is so hideous