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*Taking an end-of-summer break from Swapping, time for extra working and family time. I'll be back soon!

My name is Cynthia currently in the Pacific Northwest (Olympia, Washington). I am 44 years old and live with my husband, two young adult daughters, 4 dogs, 3 cats, and some chickens.

I work at a pack-and-ship shop. A dream job for a snail mail junkie! !

I love reading!! I am an avid reader, reading/listening to audiobooks up to 100 + a year.

I'll read just about any genre minus a few certain futuristic themes. I am open to all recommendations!

I have been crafting my whole life and have yet to find a craft I haven't wanted to try.

Favorites are (the list is constantly growing)

• Crocheting
• Cross Stitching
• Photography
• Pocket Letters
• ATC cards
• Geli Pressing
• Card Making
• Collage Art Projects
• Junk Journaling
• Bullet Journaling
• Small sewing Projects
• Flipbooks
• Watercoloring

I DISLIKE crude, rude, or vulgarity. Otherwise, my likes list can be endless. I am not religious but not against receiving religious-themed crafts.

I genuinely love it when others swap with their hearts in mind.

I do not have small children so please no children/school-age stickers, foam stickers or glitter.

I'm a big Lord of the Rings/Hobbit, Star Wars fan, and Classic Disney Movies.

I like classic black-and-white films, suspense/thriller (not horror), comedies, historical, and movies/TV shows based on books—too many to list. I'm not too fond of rom-com movies.

I enjoy watching documentaries (all kinds from crime to nature, but especially Ken Burns)

The ABCs of ME

A- Animals, Audiobooks, ATC cards, Agatha Christie, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Asterix and Obelix,

B- BBC TV, Birds/Birding, Books, Blue Cats, Book Binding, Beaches (rocky not sand)

C- Chickens, Cats, Crocheting, Cross Stitching, Coffee, Collages, Cottagecore, Children's Illustrations

D- Documentaries, Dogs, Daiso Stores, Disney, Daphne's Dairies, Dragons, DIY Projects

E- Eighties Pop/Country Music, Earth Tone Colors, Embroidery

F- Fairies, Flowers, Fabric, Flipbooks, Fountain Pens, Fairy Tales

G- Game of Thrones, Germany (I'm half German, Meine Mutter war Deutsche, aus Vonhausen/Budingen), German Foods, German Culture, German Language, Gnomes, Gardening, Green (the color), Geli Press Printing

H- Hippos, Hobbit, Hobby Farming, Hiking, Hygge, Houseplants, Handwriting, Hilda Pinup Model,

I-Inks, Illustrations, Inge Look (old ladies)

J- Jane Austen, Junk Journaling, Journaling, Junk Hunting

K- Ken Burns Documentaries

L- Lord of the Rings, Libraries, Lace

M-Moomin Trolls, Mountains, Max Hastings, Magazines, Mermaids, Musicals

N- Nature, National Parks, Nineties Rock Music

O- Organizing

P- Pocket Letters. Pen paling, Postcards, Photography, Pens, Postage Stamps, Pixar, Pippi Longstocking

Q- Quiet and Quality Time

R- Road Trips, Reading, Rocks, Routines, Rubber Stamping

S- Stickers, Star Wars, Snail Mailing, Sewing, Stationary, Sven Nordqvist

T- Trees, Tea, Thrillers, Thrift Stores, Traveling, True Crime

U-

V- Vegetables (eating them and growing them), Vintage EVERYTHING, Vintage Farmhouse

W- Washi Tapes, Wildlife Refuges, Wilderness, Walking

X-

Y- Yarn

Z- Zentangles