Avi

🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻If you have done atleast 30 type 2/3 swaps and do not have any recent low ratings then please feel free to join my swap group for fun crafty swaps.

http://www.swap-bot.com/group/0815707caa55bb1b77ae913d1e2c8954/about. 🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻

I ❤️ swap bot! I love to send and receive Happy mail!! Love 'meeting' people all over the world with similar interests...love ' getting to know' a person by reading their profile and like to put thought into the swap packages I send so that it brings a smile to their face and brightens their day! And love receiving a thoughtfully put swap! It really really brightens my day! So please do put a little effort into the swap as I do the same.

Favourite crafts: Papercrafting mainly flip books, junk journals and cards. Love vintage, nostalgic, owls, butterflies,birds and flowers, coffee/tea theme

Love red, purple, mint green, silver and gold. Basically love colour.

Love pretty stationery and stickers ( no reward, stars and kiddie stickers please)

Pretty note cards

Love different paper clips

Love miniatures for crafting purpose

I'm married and have 2 kids...my son is 19 and off to university in Boston and my daughter is 12. I love to connect with people from all over the world...I feel that though we're from different countries and culture, we all share a common passion of paper crafting and that bonds us. I also love to travel with my family and have been lucky enough to travel world wide...we Usually travel abroad during summer and look forward to that...2 summers ago we visited Greece, which was beautiful! Last year was a bummer, travel wise!

FOR TEA/COFFEE swaps

I drink both tea and coffee...I also love hot chocolate....please do not send any of these without their sealed bags...also please do not send these in place of a profile gift! While I drink these, I really don't get excited to receive these in place of a profile surprise! I've actually had people send me a teabag in place of a profile surprise gift!

STAMPS: I collect postal stamps so please try to send your envelope with stamps instead of the digital one. Thanks

Things I would love to get...

9 Pocket letter sleeves as I’m running low on my stock and they are not available locally!

Would love to receive Daphne's Diary or Flow magazine, don't mind old or used ones

Graphic 45 papers/ephemera are always welcome

Tim Holtz stuff is appreciated too!

Bath and body works or lush products

Scented candles especially love the bath and body works 3 wick candles ( please no tea light candles)

Amazon gift card

Anything unique from your country for paper crafting purpose for card making or scrap booking like flowers, miniatures, fabric etc

Illustrated books for junk journals

Personalised address labels

Jolees stickers

Multi dimensional stickers but please, no cartoons or sports or Kiddie or itty bitty stickers!

Wax seals

Hand creams and body scrubs ( I love bath and body works or body shop) would love to receive a local brand too but please check the EXPIRY

Positive quote book

Washi tape

would love those hanging dangles for my JJ

Handmade cards ( but only if they are made with effort!)

Miniatures ( resin, ceramic etc embellishments)

Vintage or unique lace

Cute stationary set

Coffee/tea stamps, die cuts, stickers

As it's very hot here, please do not send me chocolates ( April to October) you can send between November to March...Love Chocolate with Hazelnut, marzipan chocolate, Belgium strooples, kit Kat, Lindt chocolate....but please don't send expired or close to expiry! Otherwise will give a straight 3! As I hate receiving expired edible stuff.

Instant ❤️ if you send me something from

If you are from U.K then I would ❤️❤️❤️❤️ To receive Daphne's diary magazine....I don't mind used!

My Amazon wish list as this is not available here.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/1MKE8HOTSH3OF/ref=cmwllisto2?

Or from my Indian Amazon wishlist, which I haven't gotten around to treating myself yet as shipping charges on these would be very economical...

https://www.amazon.in/gp/registry/wishlist/315JWSRDXYET7/ref=navwishlistlists_2

DISLIKES : please do not send me these

Religious items

Kiddie stuff

Cartoon stuff ( stickers, stationary etc) I've outgrown it long ago!

Beauty/body product samples

Handmade postcards unless the swap calls for it.

Clothes

Postcards ( I have quite a lot! unless the swap call for it)

Tea light candles

Almost Expired chocolate/candy/tea/coffee/hot chocolate

Your country flag or flag stickers ( I have no use for it)

Please note: Please remember that I live in India and postage can take anywhere from 2 weeks to over a month sometimes.

I will always click the 'sent' button when (and only when) I have sent the swap.

I will always rate as soon as I have received a swap. ( as I get really happy to receive happy mail)

I will always do my best to contact a partner before rating anything below a 5.

About the low rating....

I would just like to say that we all are here for the fun of it...let's not take things so seriously that instead of a pleasant hobby, this becomes something unpleasant....let's not act as if we have power over someone just because we can rate them down...you can be in the same boat tomorrow! I have always tried to be thoughtful and do my best while sending any swaps...for this particular swap also I did my best but she was not happy...I have messaged her and also resent her but gotten no response! Well, to each their own! Will chalk it up to a learning experience and move on....