JINANNE

Dear Swap family, I promise to write more as soon as I am able. Following a long battle with AML Leukemia, bone marrow stem cell transplant and 6 years remission I was unexpectedly admitted to Vanderbilt Hospital, Critical Care Tower, Room 10609, to begin a new fight. I want to write more, but truly cannot right now. I ask your grace and your prayers.❤

June 7, 2017 Please pray for new chemo regime, for wisdom to navigate the difficult days ahead, and for healing. Thank you for your loving kindness in lifting me before our Saviour. "Thou will keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusted in Thee." Isaiah 26:3

Jinanne Sundstrom Green

John 14:27, Psalm 121, Psalm 23

"Where Feet May Fail," Hillsong United" "I Will Rise Again," Jason Gray

"Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." Scott Adams

"Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes."
Carl Gauss

"I am going to try to pay attention to the spring. I am going to look around at all the flowers, and look up at the hectic trees. I am going to close my eyes and listen." Anne Lamott

Native Tennessean living in Nashville,
Follower of Jesus, mother, teacher, writer, artist

Work history: Corporate sales trainer, motivational speaker, writer, editor, English adjunct professor, small business owner (Plant leasing and maintenance), antique dealer: "Antiques and Other Elderly Things"

Enjoy art and friendship in all forms of correspondence. Love making new friends and learning about others

Everything from classical to pop country, Beethoven to Sting and all in between and beyond. Not a huge country music fan, though I live in Music City USA. Contemporary Christian, Big Band, 60s, 70s, 80s, Jazz, Chris Botti, Adele, Willie Nelson, Need to Breathe, Crowder, Switchfoot, Enya, Audra Day, Natalie Grant, Sam Smith

🌟My anthem: "EVERYTHING COMES ALIVE" and "MAGNIFY," by We are Messengers

Prefer non-fiction, but also like fiction and poetry; anything Shakespeare, Jane Austen, 18th/19th century lit/poetry, Emerson, Twain, Paul Theroux, Isabelle Allende

31 Days of Praise, (Ruth Myers)

Big Magic, (Elizabeth Gilbert)

The Artist's Way, Vein of Gold, (Julia Cameron)

The Bible

Master and Commander, (Patrick O'Brian)

Brain Maker, (David Perlmutter, MD)

Jane Eyre, (Charlotte Bronte)

Life and Death in Shanghi, (Nien Cheng)

Snail Mail: Rediscovering the Art and Craft of Handmade Correspondence, (Michelle Mackintosh)

Always First Class: The Pleasure of Personal Letters, (Lois Barry)

Jane Austen's Little Advice Book, (Minchon/Norris)

What on Earth are You Wearing? (Chloe Quidley)

POETS: E.E. Cummings, C.S Lewis, Frost, Emerson, Dickinson, Whitman, Neruda, Wordsworth, Browning, Plath, Austen, Bierce, Cather, Donne

It's A Wonderful Life--Schindler's List---Master and Commander---Gladiator---Elizabeth---We Were Soldiers---Last of the Mohicans---Dances With Wolves---Braveheart---The Mission---Lonesome Dove---Shawshank Redemption

TV series: (not a big TV fan)---Seinfeld---Downton Abbey---Call the Midwife---Reign---Hell on Wheels---Kurt Seyit and Sura, The Crown, foreign films

Paper . . .(I'm pretty much a one sheet away paper hoarder.) I read magazines and all paper mail, etc. more for graphic design, art, paper, and photography than for the magazine's content.☺

Calligraphy, snail mail, mail art, postcards (especially foreign), paper dolls, ephemera

Postcards and stamps: especially foreign, (nothing goofy), vintage, small towns, unique advertising, flowers, nature, cars, architecture, ships, fashion, quotes, winter scenes

Art, photography, music Hand-written notes, letters, memorabilia Vintage autograph books, Ornithology--haven't met a bird or tree I didn't like,
Vintage correspondence, esp WWII

Mail art: envelopes as design

Fav colors: red, pink, all blues and GREENS, black/white

Fashion: vintage and contemporary, luv hats every era

Furniture/design: antiques items, shabby chic, retro

Repurposing: Give ordinary/old stuff another chance! Reclaim and restore . . always an adventure

Gardening: Herbs, flowers of all varieties---especially white and pink. Vegetables, huge MOSS and TREE fan

Interior design: antiques, post modern, minimal, shabby chic

Cooking: wishy-washy vegetarian, meat as desired, always up for trying new recipes, focus on nutrition, but eat processed poison as "needed" :)

Tea---Black teas (not Earl Grey), PG Tips (a fav), Lipton for daily pick-up, Rooibos for dessert, lemon teas Coffee---fav: Mayorga organic Costa Rican

These things I hold dear, interest me, make me smile, intrigue me, bring joy:

The King of Kings, my children, friends X 1000, my health, the health care givers and blood donors who helped save my life

Fashion "Inward story, Outward glow" (see Pinterest board) Men's fashion: vintage, especially J. Peterman style, Gatsby

Nature, TREES, clouds, sunsets, gardening, vegetables, herbs, flowers, ladybugs, frogs, MOSS, vines, ornithology

Thrift store junkie

Western, cowboys

Gibson Girl, Alice in Wonderland, Betty Boop

VW Beetle, vintage and classic cars/trucks

Clocks, watches

Steampunk

Vintage photographs, especially portraits and large groups (wedding, athletes, clubs, families)

Recipes for DIY lotions/potions, essential oils

Feng shui

Quotes

Journals, diaries, zines, zentangle, vintage letters/correspondence

Postage stamps Letters and PCs. Please tell me about YOURSELF, and share your stories.

Holidays: Christmas, Valentines, July 4th, Thanksgiving

Worthy, fascinating, historical women

Tiny houses, chinked log cabins

Travel....esp Alaska, Italy, Switzerland, England, France

Ships, esp tall ships

Architectural design

󾓦 󾓪 󾓫 󾓥 󾓩 󾓦 Patriotic themes /art---Vintage PCs---Ephemera---Vintage ink wells---Religious icons---English Tobys---Single S/P shakers---Vintage autograph books---vintage etiquette books---vintage linens/handkerchiefs

Thoughts about Swap-bot:

Swap-bot is a genius idea and a fabulous forum for creatives. While explaining the site to a friend, she commented, "Sounds like a bunch of people spreading love all over the world via crafts." Pretty much sums up how I feel. It's my way of connecting and sending out love and goodwill. Realizing we'll probably never meet adds to the special quality of unknown like-minds and fellow crafters.

I love surprises, and I like thinking I'm surprising my partners. The mailbox is somewhat my adult version of the tooth fairy.

Many are techno addicted . . I'm Swap-bot addicted...either joining, planning and executing, or rating. ☺

Horror, gore, vampires, sci/fi themes, excessive glitz/ sparkle/bling, goofy silliness, excessive stickers, too cutesy