CluckRN

Please no glitter!!

Due to COVID-19, there will be postal delays. If you are in a country other than Canada I imagine these delays will be worse. Please message me before you rate if you have not received the swap goodies. I can resend if the mail has not reached you. Otherwise, please be patient because if I marked the item as sent I have sent it! I also take pictures of each of my swaps ☺️

Hello, my name is Emily! I am studying to be a high school teacher. I will be able to teach English, philosophy, social science and fine art. The subject I enjoy most is philosophy, especially metaphysics, with fine art as a close second. I also enjoy science, especially quantum physics.

I moved to a Christmas tree farm on April Fool's Day in 2020. It is my first time living in the country. It has always been my dream to live in the country and I am loving it! I enjoy ATVing, hiking, swimming in the river and just being in nature. I love listening to the howling coyotes at night. They make a group yipping noise when they catch their dinner! The stars are also so beautiful!

I live in a military town with a large number of hunters. Even the mail truck has a hunting sticker on it, which I find quite comical. This has taken some getting used to as a vegetarian who is not a fan of violence. I am not used to so many gunshots and explosions! I think, however, that it is important to be open minded to different perspectives. I really enjoy learning about different practices, behaviors (psychology), viewpoints and lifestyles. Please feel free to include your opinions, thoughts, lifestyle etc. in your swaps about any topic or perspective. I am not easily offended.

I have a dog named Koby, an Australian kelpie & husky mix, and a rabbit named Miss Maisy Bunjamin (Maisy for short), a French lop. They are good friends who play fetch together, do tricks together and cuddle together. They are both rescues.

I occasionally come home with injured or abandoned animals that I find on walks. Koby always helps me take good care of them, while my boyfriend shakes his head. When I told my friend that he's limited me to two pets she laughed and said "he'll learn." Haha!

I am an active artist and regularly show and publish my work. Please see my website above if you are interested in seeing my work.

I also guest lecture in animal behavior studies at Humber College. I do a lot of activism work for students with disabilities with a focus on making service dogs more accessible for people who need them. I started the first self-trained service dog legislation/testing program for high school students in Ontario and won a hall of fame award when the program went national!

• Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

• The Bad Girl's Guide to The Open Road by Cameron Tuttle

• The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

• The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

• Normal People by Sally Rooney

• Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

• Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman

• Chobits (Manga)

• The Categorical Imperative by Immanuel Kant

• A Beautiful Mind

• Captain Fantastic

• Gattaca

• Studio Ghibli Movies

• Midsommar

• I See You

• Weekend at Bernie's

• Shallow Hal

• Lars and The Real Girl

• Good Will Hunting

• Supernatural Horror Movies (ie. Insidious, Don't Be Afraid of The Dark)

• Bates Motel

• Black Mirror

• The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel

• The IT Crowd

• Any show with Tim and Eric

• The Office

• Anime: Chobits, Death Note, Yu-Gi-Oh and Bleach (LOVE Dalk, Koga's doll)

• The Original Pokémon animated series

• Ozark

• How to Get Away with Murder

• The Queen's Gambit

• Atypical

• Outer Limits

• Futurama

• South Park

• Bob's Burgers

• Nature Documentaries (Our friend has a giant projector that she uses to play nature documentaries in her backyard. She hosts campfire parties while playing music that syncs well with the documentary images. So cool!)

• Rick and Morty

• Stranger Things

• Channel Zero

• Watercolor painting

• Journaling (fauxbonichi / hobonichi style)

• Crocheting

• Creative Writing

• Film Photography (Nikon EM)

• Journal covers in the size B6 18x13x1.5cm

• 50s Style (ie. Pinups girls, fashion and home decor)

• Pastels

• Unused postcards

• Henry Darger

• Wax seals

• I love matchbooks!! Especially since I heard that people used to write their phone numbers inside when they first met a crush, so that the person remembered to call when they used the matches.

• Vintage things

• Pins and Dad Jokes

• Pens from odd businesses (I used to have a set that I loved from our local book store that had joke businesses on them. The idea was that when you lent someone a pen, they were freaked out or laughed at the business name. I'd love to get a collection going!)

• Quotes & Philosophy

• Rain (The smell, look, being in it and the green, happy plants afterwards. I enjoy photos of rainy scenes)

• Pictures of boho home décor, indoor swings/hammocks or window seats

• LOVE No-Face (From Spirited Away)

• Pokémon

• Old advertisements (40s-80s)

• Anything from the 50s-80s (especially 50s and 70s)

• Hippie / Boho style photos or items

• Candid Photography

• Anything to do with California / California girls

• Stuff for my dog, Koby, or rabbit, Maisy, (no food made in China please) my dog is about 60lb for reference. Maisy is the roughly the size of a teacup chihuahua/5lb.

• Old photographs

• Wildflowers

• Bugs and spiders

• Fun Facts

• Enamel pins or pin-on buttons

• Yarn (no animal fibers such as wool or angora please because I am allergic)

• Butterfinger chocolate bars

• Paper ephemera that I can glue into my journal layouts ie. illustrations cut out from magazines or old books

• Road trips (ideas, stories and itineraries)

• Hand-sewn items, especially journal covers in the size B6 18x13x1.5cm

• Bible Verses

• Embroidered things

• Anything with peanut buttaahhh

• All Animals

• Non-caffeinated tea ie. fruit or mint tea

• Black licorice

• My animal companions! Here is my rabbit, Maisy:

  

• Meat / meat recipes

• Gore & blood

• Violence

• Witchcraft/Occult stuff

• Crystals/real gemstones

• Glitter (As much as I love looking at it, I don't enjoy having sparkles everywhere)

• No wearable animal fibers such as wool or angora please because I am allergic (this includes yarn)

I listen to a wide variety of music, but here are some of my favorite bands at the moment. Oh and I love listening to Celtic music & binaural beats while I study.

• Tool

• Snotty Nose Rez Kids

• Puscifer

• Radiohead

• Ed Shereen (especially his collaborations with Passenger)

• 70s Disco Bands from Donna Summer to Kool & The Gang

• Weird Al

• Alec Benjamin