Desiree1962

Hello Crafty sisters! :D

I am a 52 years young female, owner & entrepreneur in Kids -Entertainment. Always creative, busy with my hands making something out of nothing or scrap.

Add a whiff of Romance, Shabby Chic, Vintage, Spirituality, Buddha, Offerings, Zen, FengShui etc etc ...and that's me! My inner child never grew up :) I still love vintage childrensbooks, fairytales and vintage illustrations.

Also I love Smashbooking... junkjournals...Mixed Media, Art Journaling and of course mail! I mean everything with snail-mail, vintage postage, postage stamps,REAL washi tape, Kraftbrown paper, Vintage Ephemera, oldletters or tickets ...vintage ,shabby chic designs, etc......

My latest addicition is Filofaxing ... decorating my planners with smashbook and projectlife stuff and treating it like in Art Journaling and I love collecting Postage stamps!

Stamps with - Japan, Geisha- Maiko and Japanese culture, - Old fashioned Fairytales (no modern Disney, but retro Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz Red Riding Hood ,Snowhite, Sleeping Beauty etc) - Movies (Esp Victorian Costume Drama like Gone with the Wind, Marie Antoinette and such) -Childrens Christmas

Stuff for my Filofax A5 Finsburry Raspberry or Pink Personal:

• Dutchies please no Hema or Action stuff!!
• In pink or mint, teal or pastels
• little memo papers / lettersets
• sticky notes to write on
• Martha Stewart pastel stuff
• stuff with pretty birdies parakeets etc
• seasonal stuff...stickers memos etc

Postage Stamps (used or mint) - Childrens book illustrations and characters - Fairytales worldwide (I have a RedRidingHood obsession) - (Childrens-) Christmasstamps

WASHI TAPE/ MT Tape I love Japanese washi tape, like MT ! Especially with letters, numbers and words etc on it, but any real washi tape makes me happy!! (Please no plastic decotape)

Vintage fairy tales: RedRidingHood, Alice in Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Vintage Disney * Drawing and designing cards * Mixed Media / Zetti / Art Journaling etc etc etc * Smashbook,making tags and Postcards / Paper art / Mail art / Snailmail * Art Journaling / Notebooks / chunky books

• Colors : Natural colours (Kraft) / Mintgreen/ Oceanblue / Turquoise / Teal / Coral / vintage Pinks, Pinks and pastels

• Mandala,Zendala, Zentangle drawing and colouring /Lettering, Quotes

40-50-60's Films (btw I saw every movie that won an Oscar from 1932 until 2012).

I like old fashioned Filmstars like Audrey Hepburn, Romy Schneider, Vivienne Leigh (Gone with the Wind), Doris Day etc.

Historical and Costume movies - like Marie Antoinette etc.

I only love the Disney movies upto 1970, the modern ones I don't like at all, the drawings in the earlier years were much better I think

Cute vintage flat buttons, mini enveloppes, old lace, any vintage embellishments, cute birds like parakeets, robins, lovebirds....Smashbook and Projectlife stuff and non childish seasonal stickers Pretty little memos to write quotes on

(I'm always happy if you add something small to a package or envie but please not 'tacky', baby, childish or plastic stuff)

Postage stamps - Japanese - Christmas/ Natal - Angels - Fairytales - Movies / FIlmstars - Childrenbook illustrations/characters - Geisha / Maiko

Clear or Rubber stamps - English or French poetry / poems / Quotes (not religious please) - Background stamps - Butterflies - Owls - Birds - Photograph/movie related - Old advertisements - Pin Up (related) - Movies related - Alice in Wonderland - Wizard of Oz

TAPE Any PAPER tape (no plastic childrenbright or Kawai please) - Masking Tape - Washi tape - old typewriterstyle, etc.

EPHEMERA - any! Adds, vintage receipts, old tickets, documents, nice zines, patterns etc) French texts / Jane Austen texts and such / Old poetry / old handwritten letters Very old photographs of children, couples, women, filmstars (before 1960)

• Teabag cards or teabag-art
• Pyramid cards / 3D cards
• Food,candy,chocolate... I am no sweet-tooth
• Napkins or Napkin - decoupage art
• Teacher reward Stickers
• Metallic Glitter stuff or stickers
• Religious texts
• Scents / Incense
• Hello Kitty
• Tea or other beverages
• Horror/creepy stuff
• Disney (except Vintage Disney) or Barbie
• Touristic or viewcards, with names on it
• Tacky and "pinkish plastic nylon 'tacky' stuff"
• Childish (and) pre-schoolstuff
• Baby stuff

If you haven't received a swap from me, please contact me. I'm a very reliable person, I always send :) The lowest rating I ever recieved is a 5

As I'm always sending the items and spending lots of effort and time on it, the package may look very interesting and it could be your package /card got lost or stolen. It has happened! Always mail me before giving up on me PLEASE!

Please write the swap name on the stuff you are sending. I am in more swaps and groups, not only on swapbot.

Thank you very much Let's swap :)

ART I like Romantic Women in art like the paintings of Bouguereau, Waterhouse and such .... Victorian style, Marie Antoinette style etc. please-please no unrecognizable 'modern' art

BOOKS I loved The Hungergames - Susanne Collins Lord of the Rings - Tolkien Pilars of the Earth - Ken Follet Clan of the Cavebear - Jean M. Auel books The Secret History - Donna Tartt Pride & Prejudice / Emma / Wuthering Heights - Jane Austen and other Historical Books - Traditional Fairytales - "pre - Disney"

FILMS Costume movies like Marie Antoinette, Gone with the Wind, Sissi, Sabrina etc. The Piano Black Swan Lord of the Rings Wizard of Oz Twilight Historical

SERIES Soprano's Homeland Dexter 24 Pilars of the Earth

CULTURAL Movies Musicals (all kinds) Cirque de Soleil/ Old Circus Theatre

MUSIC Robbie Williams Coldplay U2 Al Jarreau Kane (Dutch)