darzy30

I love picking out postcards and preparing packages almost (if not) as much as receiving them. If there is an issue with what you received, please let me know before rating! I will work with you to resolve it! If you have not received a swap, please let me know!

Request: for swaps in envies, please do not put post-it notes on the back of PCs. I've received several like this, and they leave a sticky residue which ruins the postcards.

I live in Burdett, NY with my husband and my dogs (a black pug mix, Walter - 10 yo, a black pug named Lily - 4 yo, a black puggle named Norman - 3 yo.)

I love knitting, making jewelry, reading, and wasting time on facebook (aimeedars)--especially playing Bejeweled Blitz, ravelry (aimeedars), flickr (aimeedars), postcrossing (darzy30), and etsy (aimeedars).

I received a postcrossing postcard mentioning swapbot, so I signed up! I primarily joined to swap postcards, but I occasionally venture into other swaps as well.

My many collections include postcards, magnets, state zipper tags with my name, snow globes (from places only), beads, pigs, pugs, corn, and yarn. I have started making smushed pennies...we'll see how that goes.

I enjoyed collecting the state quarters. I filled up my collector's book, and thought I was done, but I just saw a new quarter for Guam! I am also collecting the National Park quarters. I just got a collector's book and realized that my collection is completely incomplete! I only have NP quarters from 2015, so if you happen to have any from earlier years, I'd love to take them off your hands and am happy to do a private swap!

I like Spongebob, Picachu, Richard Scarry, and Oscar the Grouch.

My favorite color is purple. I also like teal, burnt orange, magenta, and lime green. (Mostly jewel tones.)

Scents: I love lavender, eucalyptus, cucumber/melon, tea tree. I am less fond of floral scents.

Stickers: Animals, Flowers, Oscar the Grouch, SpongeBob SquarePants, Paul Frank, Abstract shapes

I have been veg*n since 1997--became vegetarian then and vegan in 2005. I love farm animals!

Walter is 10 years old and king of the castle. He has attitude, but I guess he's earned it!

Lily is 4 year's old and is the middle in terms of age, but we just adopted her in 2013. She had been used as a breeding dog, so now she is enjoying the life of luxury.

Norman is wild, crazy, and goofy. At 3 year's old, he's the baby of the family. He is cuddly and funny and loves to play.

• Ellis Paul
• Dar Williams
• Lucy Kaplansky
• Antje Duvekot
• Slaid Cleaves
• Brandie Carlile
• Indigo Girls
• Meg Hutchinson
• Patty Griffin
• Mindy Smith
• Lori McKenna
• Jeffrey Foucault
• Mark Erelli
• Kris Delmhorst
• Gillian Welch
• the Mountain Goats
• the Great Lake Swimmers
• Lera Lynn

• A Very Long Engagement
• The Virgin Suicides
• Middlesex
• Crooked Hearts
• Asa as I Knew Him
• He She It
• Ender's Game
• Speaker for the Dead
• Church of the Dead Girls
• Margaret Atwood
• Michael Connolley

Find me on Goodreads!

• STAR WARS
• The Matrix
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
• Galaxy Quest
• Alien
• Children of Men
• The Corporation
• Raising Arizona
• Groundhog Day
• Michael Clayton
• Nashville
• The Terminator
• Parenthood
• Grease
• The Sixth Sense
• Saving Private Ryan
• Idiocracy
• Sliding Doors

"You must be the change you want to see in the world"--Gandhi

"Only when the last tree has died and The last river has been poisoned and The last fish has been caught, Will we realize that We cannot eat money" --Cree Indian Saying

"Don’t say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary."--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Let us not become the evil we deplore."--Barbara Lee

"As long as people will shed the blood of innocent creatures there can be no peace, no liberty, no harmony between people. Slaughter and justice cannot dwell together."--Isaac Bashevis Singer

"What is it that should trace the insuperable line? ...The question is not, Can they reason? nor Can they talk? but, Can they suffer?"--Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832)

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking."--John Kenneth Galbraith

• The Walking Dead
• The Amazing Race
• Survivor
• Brooklyn Nine-Nine
• Doctor Who
• Orphan Black
• Game of Thrones
• How to Get Away with Murder
• The First 48
• Forensic Files
• Major Crimes
• Limitless (new in 2015!)
• Louie
• VEEP
• Law and Order (RIP)
• The Wire (RIP)
• Homicide (RIP)
• OZ (RIP)

Unless the swap specifies enveloped, I prefer my cards "naked"! I love having the stamps and postmarks on the card itself.

I love postcards, and I've seen very few that I didn't like. But, if a swap doesn't have a theme, if you are wondering what to send, these are some of my favorite types of cards:

• Animal postcards (dogs, particularly pugs, pigs, and cows are my favorite, though I love ALL animals)
• Buddha/Pagodas/Buddhist Temples/Buddhism
• Lantern Press Postcards
• Art and Photography
• Museums (PCs with photos of the actual museum building)
• Colleges/Universities
• Interesting architecture
• Colorful postcards
• Funny/tacky roadside attractions
• Exaggerations (Like "world's biggest potato")
• Nature/scenic/national parks
• Collages
• Quotations
• Maps
• Greetings From / Large Letter
• State License Plates
• Flags
• Vegan/Vegetarian related PCs, Vegan Restaurants

Some of my favorite artists are Modigliani, O'Keeffe, Picasso, Chagall, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, Mark Rothko, Jacob Lawrence. I like the early 20th Century artists a lot.

Special Requests: * Golden Driller (Tulsa Oil Man) * Baltimore Domino's Sugar sign * Tate Museum exterior * London Eye * This postcard from London: https://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/GB-654760 * Merilion Park (Singapore) * Great Wall (China) * Nelson Atkins Museum of Art exterior (Kansas City, MO) * Tuk Tuk * Sydney Opera House

I need the following state capital cards, and am looking to complete my collection!

• Alaska
• Delaware
• Iowa
• Georgia
• Hawaii
• Idaho
• New Mexico
• North Carolina
• North Dakota
• Rhode Island
• South Carolina
• South Dakota
• West Virginia

POSTCARD DISLIKES perforated postcards, meat, hunting, hunters, dead animals, animal races, fishing, bull fighting, etc.

In addition to modern postcards, I collect vintage postcards of pugs, pigs (and other farm animals), the University of Chicago, and Ardmore, OK, as well as sent vintage postcards with interesting messages.

I have no problem with Zazzle or Cafe Press postcards - in fact, I like just about all of the postcards I've seen made through these sites. As for other handmade cards - I've been lucky to receive some that are beautifully made. Unfortunately, I have had even more that have not survived the mailing process. They've been afflicted with tears, missing pieces, etc. A few have arrived with the glue making the card wavy or the rubber cement seeping through creating a sticky surface. I suppose I am saying, I am wary about handmade cards and think they require a high production value to get through the postal system.

• Dogs, especially pugs
• Cats
• Farm Animals, especially pigs
• Windchimes
• Purple (and, coincidentally, the smell of lavender)
• Books
• Beads
• Yarn (vegan)
• Vegan treats
• Magnets
• Place-specific Christmas tree ornaments
• Star Wars
• Christmas tree ornaments