It's Summer!!!...I will be out in my garden not in my craft room :) Will back in full swap swing once the rain returns! In the mean time PM me for anything vital. Thanks

Call me what thou will but mainly I go by Becca/Bee/Birdie/ or if I've been especially naughty you can give me the full Rebecca :s I am 28 and live in Nottingham, UK with my fiance Christopher and our kitty Jarvis. I am annoyingly optimistic and cheery most days and on the other days I listen to The Smiths and swear a lot. I like hugging trees and people and will often do so even if they don't ask. I'm a comic book collecting, star trek watching super geek who is running out of books to read. I think Tim Burton is a Genius and Joss Whedon a god-like mastermind. Some days I'm quite gothic and dark the next I can be all rainbows and love songs. Apparently I'm "two-thirds Tinkerbell, One third Wednesday Adams" completely away with the fairies with a dark side.

I'm a girl and I play WOW :)

Jarvis :)

Zombie Sock Monkeys

When I'm not working at my boring day job in finance I am making these little sock critters below. For more info visit my Etsy Shop.

Rock/Metal/Punk/Emo/Screamo/Guys/Girls with just a guitar and some awesome lyrics. Breaking Benjamin, Coheed and Cambria, Morrissey, David Ford, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Paramore, Flyleaf, Kate Nash, Bon Iver, Avenged Sevenfold, Jimmy Eat World, Marina and the Diamonds, The Used, Bullet for My Valentine, Pink, Fall Out Boy, Leonard Cohen, Maria Callas, Prince, Tom Waits and REM. Funeral for a Friend, System of a Down, Incubus, HIM, The Cure, The Smiths, Soundgarden, Offspring, Feeder. I'm a lyric fiend, some songs/artists I can read their lyrics like I read a poetry book.

"To read makes our speaking English good" - Xander, Buffy The Vampire Slayer.

I have a joint BA Hons degree in English Literature and Journalism so I read ALOT and very fast, mainly novels and newspapers and Shakespeare was my main study focus. I'm not into chick lit shudders My favourite book is Perks of Being a Walllflower. Some of my other faves include: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Nights at the Circus, The Chronicles of Narnia, Time Travellers Wife, The Book of Lost Things, Secret Garden, Wuthering Heights, Jayne Eyre, Northanger Abbey, Interview with the Vampire, The Red Tent, Frankenstein, Dorian Gray, Catcher in the Rye, Angela's Ashes. I read a hell of a lot of poetry I have a book shelf entirely for poetry books, Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Anne Sexton, any from the Beat Generation. I could go on, but I wont :p

Perks of Being a Wallflower, Wizard of Oz, Anything Tim Burton, La Vie En Rose, Donnie Darko, The Company of Wolves, Breakfast Club, Little Mermaid, Saw, Pans Labyrinth, El Espinazo Del Diablo, Notebook, Grease, but mainly anything remotely scary! Horror FTW! V for Vendetta, I also like a lot of old movies: Boris Karloff/Vincent Price style monster movies etc and last but not least Amelie.

Buffy - I am a die hard Buffy fan!! Supernatural, Angel, Dr Horribles sing along blog, Firefly, Dollhouse - basically anything Joss Whedon has been in 3ft of!!!, New Girl, American Horror Story, Vampire Diaries, Doctor Who, Big Bang Theory, Scrubs, Greek, IT Crowd, My So-Called Life, Star Trek, Tin Man, Ally McBeal, South Park, Heroes, Xfiles. Oh and of course...The Walking Dead!

• Empherea
• Tiny things for Altered Matchboxes, Charms, buttons etc
• ATC's
• Art Journalling/Chunky Books/Altered books
• Favourite Colours: Greens, Purples, Blacks, Deep Reds
• Acrylic paints, watercolours, coloured pencils, charcoal.
• Stencils
• Scrap book paper,
• Rubber stamps/Clear Acrylic Stamps
• Sharpies!!! I'm obsessed with any pens and finding the perfect ones for different jobs I have hundreds eek!.
• Found objects, old photos and postcards.
• Interesting old book pages/Maps
• Ribbon/lace scraps
• Notebooks, I fill them so fast I'm surrounded by them...big ones, small ones, heart shaped ones just scribbled with ideas and notes and lists etc.
• Charms, funky buttons, broken jewellery. Embellishments
• Socks
• Ink Pads
• Postcards
• ATC backs
• Bookmarks
• Hair Accessories
• Hot Chocolate
• Baking Recipes
• Sewing stuff
• Fabric remnants
• Candy

Things I would really really love that I struggle to get in the UK....

• Individual Prisma Colour Pencils in Peach, White, Black, Cream, general people colours :p

• Tim Holtz Distress Ink Pads (any colours)

Really into crochet atm so if you have any spare remnants of chunky yarn for me to practice with that you can send my way to add to my growing stash I'd be forever grateful :) If you can make Ami's I'd love to trade for one just to see how they're done. I'd especially love a panda or a giraffe or dinosaur or a moomin!!!

Birds/Birds/Birds/Bird Cages!!!, Gothic imagery, Skulls, Maps/Compasses, Shabby Chic, Roses, Tattoos, Stars, Suns and Moons, Bleeding Hearts, Vintage postcards, Trees and Leaves, Umbrellas, Spiders and webs, Emo boys and Girls, Tim Burton style characters, Alice in Wonderland, Myths and Fairytales, Butterflies and Dragonflies, Sunflowers.

I'm easily pleased but I'm not into the following

• Girly Girly cutesy country style stuff.
• Tea or Coffee
• Religious stuff
• Dirty.Smelly/Junk - Yep I've actually received this!
• Touristy Postcards etc

@tuesday - for being an extremely generous and talented swapper and brightening my day :)

@Mar1l1ze for being amazing and for my Mario cross stitch

@dissolvedgirl - Great package from a great swapper

@egalite - Just amazing it made my week

@NaughtyElf - Received 2 amazing angelled ATC's - so talented and kind!!!

@tifffoster - First swap I ever received and boy it blew me away a very generous swapper!!!

A Message from Maggie....

@Whiskey - [K is for.....Kinky ATC](K is for.....Kinky ATC)

@AnnetS - Theme a Day Journal Swap (NEWBIES WELCOME!!)

@offthepost18 - Whedon-verse ATC Swap: #2 Angel **Angeled by the fabulous @NaughtyElf *

@Hornicorn - Newbie Surprises Quick Swap #1 International Version **Angeled by @17Papergoddess *

Flakers in swaps I've hosted:

@Laurenbujo

@shylittlegirl