Sammoning

( .)> My name is Samantha a.k.a. Sammoning.

~I'm from The Netherlands, and I'm currently 26 years old. I live in a little apartment on my own and have a job in administration for a few days a week. I live near The Efteling, a wonderful themepark and I visit it frequently!

Profile last updated on: 19-10-2018

For any Christmas card swaps I'm in: If you happen to have Christmas postcards , I would love to get one from you (sent naked/stamped/written on) wether the swap description explicitly allows it or not. I'm a postcard collector after all and the greeting cards usualy don't fit in my storage boxes and I often have to throw them away after the season :(

~~~The mailpeople

Mail gets delivered here on Tuesday to Saturday.

Mail gets picked up on Monday to Friday around 5pm.

~I noticed outgoing mail usually takes longer than incoming mail from the same location.

~I mark my swaps 'sent' when I finish writing. They will usually be picked up from the mailbox on the NEXT day, since I often prepare my swaps at night.

~~~My rating pledge

~You can count on me to fulfill swaps with my best effort and before the set deadline. I will inform you if I have to send late.

~I will never leave a bad rating without contacting you first and I will rate fairly and according to the rules. It often takes me a bit longer to rate after a swap arrives, but I do try to keep it within 1 week. And if it's more I try to list the date of receiving in my rating.

~Please contact me if you think something has not arrived, or in another way not going well, so we can find a solution together.

~Knotting friendship bracelets And not just your average summer camp stripy ones ;)

~I am interested in Private swaps to send away knotted bracelets! Or even to make a costum one for you, in colours that you like.

This could be in exchange for just about anything; your handmade bracelets, or other crafted items, or things from my 'Likes' section, even a simple naked postcard! If you would like to make me an offer, just send me a PM!

~Collecting erasers. This just happened one day, and now I have a few boxes full!

~Reading nowadays I mostly read in English, instead of my native language Dutch. See below for genres/titles.

~I play RuneScape, a multiplayer online fantasy game. I will always have very fond memories of it. Let me know if you play(ed) it too!

Feel free to recommend me something, or tell me about what you are reading!

~~~Genres: Fantasy, Sci-fi, Young Adult, Horror, Thriller etc.

~Recent readings

• Floating Staircase - Ronald Malfi
• The Girl on the Train - Paula Hawkins
• Front Lines trilogy - Michael Grant
• Vicious - V.E. Schwab
• A confusion of Princes - Garth Nix
• Throne of Glass series - Sarah J. Maas

~Forever favourites

• Vicious - V.E. Schwab
• Darker shade of magic series - V.E. Schwab
• The Abhorsen chronicles - Garth Nix
• The girl with all the gifts - M.R. Carey
• Gone-series - Michael Grant
• The Maze Runner series - James Dashner
• The Hunger Games trilogy - Suzanne Collins
• Artemis Fowl series - Eoin Colfer
• Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling.
• The Golden Compass trilogy - Phillip Pullman
• The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
• The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle

• My favourite colours: Purple, red, teal, turquoise, monochrome, rainbows, silver

• Small touristy souvenirs from themeparks, zoo's, museums, your area. (Specifically: erasers, fridge magnets, pin-badges)

~Miscellaneous (I love this word, it's so complicated!)

• Magnetic Bookmarks
• Embroidery thread-skeins
• Erasers (I collect)
• Fridge magnets
• Friendship bracelets made by you!
• Harry Potter (Ravenclaw/Slytherin)
• Hello Kitty things (for my lovely sister)
• Keychains
• Pin-badges
• Postcards
• Rubber bracelets
• Rubber duckies (I collect)
• Shaped paperclips
• Shoelaces with prints
• Stickers (no simple shapes or teacher, but alpabet/letters are OK!)
• Wristbands/sweatbands

~~~General Postcard Preferences

• Tourist-y likes: Collecting maps and flags, also interested in images of zoo's/theme parks/roller coasters/museums/touristy locations, skyline/night scenery.
• I prefer to collect naked: stamped, written on, without envelope. The journey, the writing, they really make a card unique and collectible to me! Blanks that fit my taste usually still go in my collection though :)

~If you are sending me a blank map card in an envelope, please consider writing and adressing it like you would do if it was sent naked! Thanks a lot in advance :)

• Zazzle postcards and the like are always welcome here! (Preferred naked)
• Free/ad cards: only in their specific swaps, AND/OR if they fit my other interests.
• Chunk of cardboard -style postcards (made from recycling packaging) are welcome for non-themed swaps, sender's choice swaps and the like.

• Handmade would rather not receive, esp. not-flat ones. Unless I happen to join a handmade postcard swap, ofcourse.

• Stamps: I do not collect them but I love seeing beautiful stamps from all over the world! I try to pass them on to collectors in other swaps.

• About religion:Although I'm not religious, I do believe in sharing and being respectful. So if you would like to share religious texts/images, you are welcome to do so.

~~~Likes: aka The completely optional list in no particular order!

• Maps & flags; world, country, state, city, underground, railways, parcs etc.
• Theme parks/amusement parks, esp. rollercoasters, rides and attractions
• London/England/UK themed
• Black&White/Monochrome, incl. single colour accents
• Some of my favourite animals; Rubber duckies, foxes, owls, cats/kittens, flamingo's, penguins, zebra's
• Unusual animals like okapi, platypus, koala, meerkats, red panda, arctic animals
• Nature; landscapes, rainbows, northern lights (aurora), night sky/stars/moon, lightning, clouds, sunsets
• Cityscapes, skylines, night views, castles, buildings, architecture
• Space/universe, planets, galaxies etc.
• Fantasy/sci-fi/magic; incl. movie/book franchises
• Horror/spooky, from cute skeletons to actual graveyards, blood and gore
• Shiny postcards (foil, holographic, glitter etc. (Storebought!)
• Unique postcards; Shaped, cut-outs, 3D effects, sticker cards, non-paper
• Images of and related to books/reading
• Images of crafting material (yarn, paint, pencils etc.)
• 'Keep calm' style postcards
• Just words; Quotes/lyrics/poems/single words etc., any language (and puns!)
• PostCrossing and Swap-Bot related postcards
• Mailboxes and stamps from around the world
• Christmas postcards (Blanks also welcome!)

~~~Dislikes (Applies to Postcards and Things)

• Tea/coffee stuff
• Big amounts of pink
• Loose glitter
• Disney Princess or Cars
• Beauty/fashion/make-up stuff
• Rings/earrings/bangles
• Strongly scented things

And thanks for taking the time to read all of this, I'm looking forward to swapping with you! Let me know if anything catches your fancy for a private swap, maybe we can set something up :)