BusyB

I'm a country girl stuck in the city!

Hello friends. I am still taking a hiatus from swap-bot. It has been a long gruelling summer for us. Lots going on and more sad news in our family. At last we are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. For now we are still calling the place we live home. We are waiting for the last of the maintenance and repairs/replacements of things like roofing, AC, furnace, mold remediation in the attic space, and lots of different companies for inspections and signing off on electrical work etc. Also moving things around in our garage and in home so they can have access to crawl space, attic and garage. Too many interruptions for me to be creative so I spent time going through more of our storage boxes in garage. My husband still works from home and running our household takes up a great deal of time for me. Soon I hope to be participating again in a few swaps. Hope all of you are doing well.

💙KINDNESS MATTERS💙

💙Updated September 2024

💙 Still adding to my gluebooks! July 2023, my first color gluebook! It's an altered composition book with 10 colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, black, pink, white and rainbow. I love it so much I altered another one with less pages for genuine vintage only. My 11 vintage colors/theme are red, orange, yellow, vintage olive green, powder blue, purple/lavender, black, pink, white, mixed vintage color and Christmas. (was Mom's favorite holiday)

💙 I enjoy my art and junk books/journaling. I work in small journals, 6"x8" Dyllusions art journal (got a great deal on these when I attended art journal classes locally a few years ago) and travelers notebook size that I've made myself. I write in my journals, add photos of my photography and family. I enjoy genuine vintage ephemera especially colorful; bright or pastel. I enjoy artsy, mixed mediums in art journaling; gelli prints, paint, watercolor, inks, rubber stamps, hand drawing, collage, fussy cuts..so much fun! Best way to describe my style is "eclectic" from cute to vintage, zetti to whimsy weird/cute, colorful.

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💙 We have one cat who has our hearts. Our beautiful Yuki Maru. In Japanese it means snowball thus her white fluffy coat. It suits her. Our little 'sack 'o sugar" At her first health check years ago the vet told her that. It's true, she's the little princess in our home. We lost her sister Oni in March 2019. Our hearts are broken. RIP little one. February 17th 2024 We had to say goodbye to our cat, our beautiful Yuki Maru. 😭 She would have been 20 years old in March. A cancer mass was found in her abdomen and she was so very sick. So hard to say goodbye and we are heartbroken. 💔Now she will fly high over the rainbow bridge with her Oni Kitty and Blondie! Running in a field of daisies and chasing butterflies. ❤️❤️❤️

💙 We enjoy many other activities as you can read the ABCs of me. My husband has been 3D printing items. In 2019 he bought his first printer from Craigslist. We've had more fun with this new age machine! Lol And making fun gifts for family, friends, and swap-bot pals. He now has a few customers he 3D prints for. Hubby and me use to travel but we are slowing down and focusing on retirement in the next 2-4 years. We're both looking forward to growing a vegetable garden again. Gardens don't do well where we are now, too many evergreens surrounding us.

When growing up there were always animals in our family. I had a horse when I was 14 but I was not a good cowgirl! Lol We've had rabbits, rats, horses, chickens, an 'onery little black rooster named 'Chuckles' who would chase me all over the yard! Lol My brother had a horse named Shawnee and a 4H hog one year. I miss our little dog Blondie, One year when Christmas shopping Blondie came home with us! She was well loved by her human children and our home was hers for 17 years. Animals are amazing!

Humor is good for your soul! I love it when we can laugh and one of the things I love about my sweet husband of 41 years. He always makes me laugh, he's my best friend. ❤️

💙💙 ABC Easy as 1-2-3...OH wait that's a song..lol This is the ABCs of me. Reading these on others profiles so thought I would add one as well.

• 💙A Art by you Autumn ATCoins Art junque Alice in Wonderland my Art journals Artists (fave art journal artists, Dyan Reaveley, James Burke) Adele (singing artist) Love all animals!! Except most reptiles, snakes, bugs and ewwww spiders!! forest/woodland creatures, sea creatures, wild animals, pets, especially cats and dogs.

• 💙B Bath & Bodyworks products, love Vanillas and Lemon, Honeysuckle Peach Tea, Into the Night, Gingham, and Into the Stars scents Barbie Blackberries Blue my fave color Baking Breakfast Beaches Beatles, Boston as in the singing artists Botanicals Betty Boop Bohemian

• 💙C Claude Monet Cats Coffee Children's book illustrations COLOR, Colorful Bright happy Colors Cookbooks Christmas Collage Campfires Cookies Cooking Cross Stitching Circles especially in art Casper the Friendly Ghost Craft Warehouse store Cupcakes Cinderella COLOR (neon colors in small amounts) Some of my favorites are blue, pink, purple, aqua, and autumn colors

• 💙D Daffodils (fave flower) Vintage Dolls; Dawn Dolls and Barbie Paper Dolls Disney Dogs doTerra essential oils Dyan Reaveley Dance Drawing

• 💙E Eighties music Embroidery Elvis Estate sales, Earrings; silver, small dangles

• 💙F Fabric Foodie Forest Food preservation Flowers Fresh Fruit Farmer's Market Fussy cutting Fairies

• 💙G Garfield Glue book Gardening Gnomes Glittery Gelli prints

• 💙H Hello Kitty Halloween Handwriting History Hand drawing Humor Hubby of 41 years Holly Hobbie Helen Reddy Heart, as in the singing artists Hearts (collected since I was a teenager)

• 💙I Instant Pot (got one for Christmas 2020) Iris Folding

• 💙J Jewelry I have pierced ears and like pretty dangle earrings in silver, not gaudy, necklaces and bracelets same. I have small wrists. Junk journals Johnny Cash the word JOY Julie Nutting Paper Dolls Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

• 💙K Kefir Kindness in many forms... Kate Greenaway Katy Keene

• 💙L Lace Letters (Penpal) Lightening storms Lemon Lilacs Lilies I ❤️ Lucy Little Golden Books

• 💙M Magnets for my fridge Marjolein Bastin artist Claude Oscar Monet Mail Art Mickey Mouse Magazine cut outs Movies Matryoshka Dolls the Moon Mountains Maya Angelou Marilyn Monroe Mushrooms Mixed Medium

• 💙N Nature Notes from pals interesting Newspaper cutouts Nature walks

• 💙O Ocean "Mother Ocean" Origami

• 💙 P Paper dolls Postcards, anything from my ABC favorites list Playing Cards Princess:Cinderella Pink my second fave color Painting Pockets (JJ) Peanuts (comics) Pansies Poetry

• 💙Q Quilting by machine and hand stitching Quotes Quirky Quilling

• 💙R Reading Raspberries Rubberstamper for over 30 years Rain Recipes (tried and true) Retro Rock n Roll Retro Anything

• 💙S Squirrels Sewing Sea Animals Strawberries Sunshine Snoopy Scooby Doo Snowmen Suzy's Zoo Star Wars Saint Patrick's Day, my Mother was Irish

• 💙T Textiles, new and vintage Thrift stores Thomas Kinkade Tulips (was mom's favorite flower)

• 💙U Umbrellas Unicorns

• 💙V Vincent van Gogh Vintage real ephemera Vintage valentines Vintage paper dolls Vintage 1930s 40s 50s 60s 70s Vintage stickers Valentine's Day Vintage fabric & sewing Vintage textiles

• 💙W Wind Chimes Wild animals Wildflowers Whimsy Wool roving and fibers Willie Nelson Woodland animals Walks

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• 💙Y Yard sales

• 💙Z Zoo (Oregon Zoo) and Zoo animals Zentangles Zines

I have tried a lot of art and crafts in my life. I do have an eclectic style and appreciation of art in many forms. Handmade is always appreciated and treasured.

💙 Sewing was the first craft I learned when I was ten years old. My angel mother taught me and I designed my own shirt. lol After 50 years I still enjoy sewing. Although I made my own prom dress, wedding dress and clothes as a teenager, Halloween costumes for my kids and granddaughters I don't sew many clothes now.

💙Quilting, My Grandmother, my Dad's mother was an amazing quilter. Still have one of the last quilts she made for my Dad. What a treasure! I've made several quilts since 1980. Working on one now for my granddaughter for her birthday in 2025.

💙 Art Journaling. In 2017 I started attending monthly art journal classes at a local store. I loved it so much! Pandemic took that away! Sure do miss it! Also attend a monthly paper craft club(they brought it back, yay!) with challenges and incredible peeps' creations, prizes and coupons. I still enjoy working in my journals and learned a lot from our wonderful teacher, Lori. She has forever inspired me!

💙 LOVE true Vintage ephemera and fussy cuts! My favorites are 1970s and earlier....vintage textiles, fabrics and scraps, sewing and hand stitching items, vintage magazines, fashion and sewing magazine pages or vintage sewing books, cookbooks, children's books, readers and song books, old medical, geography or encyclopedia pages, wallpaper and wrapping paper, vintage ads and pamphlets, sewing patterns from 1970s or earlier, vintage rhinestones and costume jewelry, old type written letters and documents, forms and envelopes, old handwritten letters are a favorite

💙 I enjoy "junkin'" for art junk /vintage treasures My bestest pen pal gave our goodies the name "art junk" lol Love that!

💙 My favorite artist is Marjolein Bastin (née uit den Bogaard) (born 1943) is a Dutch nature artist, writer, children's author and illustrator. She is the creator of the character "Vera the Mouse" I discovered her 25 years or so ago when I use to buy Hallmark cards that featured her beautiful watercolor artworks including Vera the Mouse. I have a large framed print "Nature's Sketchbook" hanging on the wall by my art desk that I love!

My husband and I watch TV together through the week but I also watch shows while he plays computer games. Lol A few of my favorites are; World's Funniest Animals, Young Sheldon, Survivor (since the beginning) NCIS, NCIS Hawaii, Americas Got Talent, La Brea, Wednesday, Dateline, 48 Hours, Netflix. Sad to say some of my favorites are no more. Old favorites; Grease, Ghost, Dirty Dancing, Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Avatar, Breakfast Club, Original Ghostbusters. Old shows: I Love Lucy, That Girl, Gilligan's Island, Mork and Mindy, Welcome Back Kotter, Laverne and Shirley, Happy Days, Lassie, Bewitched, Little House on the Astroid, I mean Prairie. Sorry I had to, my hubby hated that show! Lol

My favorite music is from1970s, 80s, 90s. Also love Elvis and music from the 1950s. I like old school country; Johnny Cash and Willie Nelson. Easy listening, James Taylor, Gordon Lightfoot, Jewel, Enya, Adele, Ed Sheeran. Also love Boston, Bon Jovi, Coldplay, Jason Mraz, Peter Frampton, Heart, Sir Elton John. I grew up with a country music loving family, but I'm a rock n roll girl! In 1980 I met my dear hubby at an under 21 club, a disco-tech called "Fat City" in Medford Oregon. Yes I still enjoy disco music and love dance! The days of our dancing together, what magic!! I enjoy watching dance reality TV, ice skaters and ballet, hip-hop It's just wonderful live art to me!

• WISHLIST

Make me a 4x6" gluebook page for my gluebooks, any theme

Something for my junk journals or art journals

Fussy cuts from magazines and vintage books for my color gluebooks and collages

Die cuts

Punchie Art made by you

Gelli prints and art made with them

Handmade envelopes sturdy for mailing 4x6 postcards and gluebooks pages

Large washi stickers

Postcards: written from you about where you travel or live, animals, animals, animals, anything from my ABCs of Me.
I collect any postcards of my home state of Oregon. Vintage would be so fun! (Oregon new or used)

Blank new or vintage postcards of post offices, libraries or bookstores, flowers, animals, zoos, or anything from my profile likes, ABCs of Me,

• DISLIKES

• NON-RATERS are my biggest pet-peave! I'm tired of chasing down ratings! I don't send junk swaps!

• 🚫I have sensitive skin and sensitivity to strong perfumes and fragrances so please no make up or body products unless it's Bath & Bodyworks. I use those products with no problems.

• 🚫Please don't send me anything with nuts, seeds, popcorn or peanuts. Slowly adding nuts back in my diet. The last few years has been a nightmare with intolerance to foods and other health issues. Ugh.. I am lactose intolerant. Plain dark chocolate, jelly beans or fruity candy I can have.

• NO paper scraps. I do like vintage wrapping paper for collage in my glue books and collage.

• While I l love my junk journals please don't send me your everyday trash.

• pencils, erasers, reward stickers, window clings for children

• socks (someone sent me a children's size that I couldn't wear) make-up or make-up bags, mug rugs/coasters. I appreciate all the handmade coasters but we now have plenty AND I use and enjoy all of them! All around our home. My BFF has also made some for hubby and me.

• Spiders, eeek! Bugs, snakes and lizards eek! I guess I do like a lot more reptiles than I admit. Lol I love to watch anything about the animal world on TV or Netflix. So interesting and entertaining! Bees especially honey bees are okay. :-)

I always send my swaps and rate promptly and say thank you. Same for wishes, tags, and RAKS. If I don't it means I didn't receive. I always communicate with my partners when needed via the swap-bot messenger system. Sometimes an occasional email message. Please do the same for me. This is suppose to be fun, not stressful. Giving a bad rating is awful. I've had my share of bad swappers too, but thankfully few. Mailing has not been the best the last few years, but let's not let it ruin something we love! Are you with me? ❤️

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