LittleCatKenma

Hi! My name is Gabrielle, or just Gabi 😊 I was born in a small inland town in the state of Paraná, Brazil – but a few years ago I moved to Curitiba, the state capital, to attend college.

I've always liked the idea of exchanging letters and postcards. My father was a mailman his whole life, so I spent a lot of time as a child in a post office, playing with stamps and covering my arms with all the postmarks I could find. I've always loved looking at all those letters and packages being sent, and wondering what they contained and where they were going.

In 2020, during the pandemic, I discovered penpaling, and soon I came across Postcrossing – since then, postcards have been one of my passions 💌 I found out about Swap-bot while searching for a place to exchange handmade postcards, and I hope to have a good time here!

My other hobbies include reading, writing stories, cooking, making amigurumis, playing cozy videogames and scrapbooking ✂️

❗ If you have any issues with receiving your item, please send me a message before leaving a negative rating, whether it’s regarding the items sent or the delivery time. I always try send my swaps by the deadline — however, if any unforeseen circumstance arises, I will always let you know in advance.

Shipments from Brazil usually take 20 to 50 days to arrive at their destinations, and up to 60 days depending on the country, so please be patient and reach out to me before anything! With communication, everything can be resolved 💗

I read almost exclusively fiction! My favorite books are those with adventure, fantasy and friendship. I also love romantic comedies, as well as mystery, thriller, and suspense books (nothing too scary though, I'm too afraid for horror).

💚 I’m obsessed with Percy Jackson series. Percy is my favorite fictional character – I have plans to get a tattoo of it in the future. I also love Percabeth (Percy and Annabeth, as a couple).

💚 I love Harry Potter series too, especially Draco Malfoy, and especially Drarry (Draco and Harry, as a couple. Don’t laugh).

💚 The Hunger Games

💚 Agatha Christie

💚 The Selection

💚 Clare Vanderpool's books

💚 Pax, by Sara Pennypacker

💚 To all the Boys I've loved Before

💚 Heartstopper

I love stories about adventure and friendship, and I'm passionate about animations!

💛 Cartoons/animated shows: my favorites are Gravitty Falls, Miraculous Ladybug and She-ra and the Princess of Power (2018), but I also love Over the Garden Wall, Star vs. the Forces of Evil, The Owl House, The Amazing Wordl of Gumball, Steven Universe, Adventure Time, Big Mouth, Scooby-doo, The Powerpuff Girls, Shaun the Sheep, My Little Pony: the Friendship is Magic.

💛 Disney and Pixar, mostly: Tinker Bell, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, The Lady and the Tramp, Aristocats, Brother Bear, Mulan, Tangled, Frozen, Toy Story, Brave, Coco, Luca, Inside Out (please, check my unlikes!)

💛 Studios Ghibli, mostly: My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away, The Secret World of Arrietty, From Up on Poppy Hill, When Marnie Was There.

💛 Anime: Haikyuu!, Free!, Dungeon Meshi, Barakamon, Boku no Hero Academia, Shingeky no Kyojin, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Yuru Yuri, Non non Biyori, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun, Wotakoi, Shigatsu wa Kimi no Uso, Orenchi no Furo Jijou.

💛 TV shows: Anne With an E, Stranger Things, Austin & Ally, Atypical, Friends, Grey's Anatomy, Brooklyn 99, The Good Place, The Queen's Gambit, iCarly.

💛 Movies: Titanic, Pride and Prejudice, Love Rosie, To all the Boys I've loved Before, The Twilight Saga, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Monster House, Fear Street, The Spiderwick Chronicles, The Addams Family.

🧡 Billie Eilish

🧡 Ed Sheeran

🧡 The 1975

🧡 Taylor Swift (mostly her old songs), Bon Iver, Rex Orange County...

🩷 I love all the cute, soft and adorable things!

🩷 Pastel colors (my favorite is baby pink, followed by baby blue, white and yellow. And green. I love all the colors!)

🩷 Holographic, shiny, kawaii

🩷 Cottagecore, fairycore

🩷 Anything from the books, TV shows and movies that I mentioned

🩷Food! I would be very happy if you could include a reference to food or drink in your piece of art!

🩷 Funny things

🩷 LGBT+ pride, bisexual flag and colors

🩷 Animals (anything with a fox. 🦊 It's my favorite animal! I also love rats, bunnies, squirrels, raccons, hedgehogs, deer, sheep, goats, pigs, cows...).

🩷 Illustrations of cute animals in clothes, like Beatrix Potter and Jill Barklem’s drawings

🩷 Fairy tales (my favorites are Hansel and Gretel, and Goldilocks and the Three Bears)

🩷 Sylvanian Families (I'm obsessed.)

🩷 Dolls of all types, Barbie, Blythe

🩷 Teddy bears and plushies

🩷 My Little Pony from the 2000s (and Friendship is Magic too)

🩷 Sanrio characters, especially Cinnamonroll

🩷 Teeth, tooth fairy (I'm a dental student)

🩷 Babies and children in vintage style

🩷 Firefighters and fire trucks

🩷 Videogames: Spiritfarer, Stardew Valley and The Sims 4

🩷 My two favorite characters of all time: Percy Jackson (from the books) and Kozume Kenma (from Haikyuu)

🩷 Monsters, vampires, ghosts (no really scary, just slightly spooky!)

🩷 I like weird or somewhat bizarre things, in a curious way. Please, no explicit images of horror, blood, gore, paranormal or horror movies – I get scared very easily. I just like bizarre art out of curiosity

🩷 Halloween and Christmas (I LOVE it, but just in their respective times of year)

⭐ I’m open to receiving all styles of art and crafts! Just be mindful of my dislikes. More than anything, have fun creating it, and I know I’ll love it!

💜 Recipes (veterarian, please! I really enjoy making the recipes I receive, but I don't consume any kind of meat/chicken/fish, honey or gelatin (eggs and milk are okay, I'm not vegan, for now)

💜 ATCs

💜 Collages!

💜 Free embroidery, cross-stitch, quilted

💜 Dioramas in matchboxes

💜 Art with pastel chalk

💜 Art with crayons

💜 Art on CDs/DVDs

💜 Watercolor

💜 Screen printing

💜Sketches. If you're sending a drawing, please try not to erase your sketches!! I love seeing the pencil lines beneath the final line :)

💜 Postcards, especially handmade (if you are sending it alone, without any items included, please send them without envelope)

🩵 Happy mail pockets

🩵 Illustrated, unique, or creative playing cards

🩵Tarot cards

🩵 Coins, banknotes

🩵 Paper dolls

🩵 Teabags individually packaged by the factory (no honey flavored teas, please)

🩵Hot chocolate sachets, cappuccino/coffee with milk sachets

🩵 Washi tapes

🩵 Paper clips in different shapes

🩵 Ink stamps

🩵 Things that glow in the dark (with a note, or I'll never figure it out!)

🩵 Pretty food packaging

🩵 Nice die images (for scrapbooking)

🩵 Cool business cards (I collect them)

🩵 Pretty bookmarks (I also collect them)

🩵 Handmade stickers

🩵 Cute/vintage paper letters

🩵 Pretty papers

🩵 Enamel pins

🩵 Small notebooks or journals

🩵 Cute buttons or badges

🩵 Colored pipe cleaners

⚫ Student/teacher reward stickers

⚫ Childish stickers, like those from Disney movies, even though I enjoy those films. I mean, I appreciate Frozen and Inside Out, but I can't do much with stickers like that. Items from the cartoons I mentioned (Gravity Falls, Adventure Time...) and Studio Ghibli are welcome, as long as they're good quality. No one likes receiving those small, low-quality child stickers.

⚫ AI generated images

⚫ Advertising

⚫ Politics

⚫ Cruelty, aggressive, prejudiced or negative image/message

⚫ Gore, violence

⚫ Soiled, torn or damaged items that cannot safely be repurposed for art projects

⚫ Anything with a smell of cigarette

⚫ Loose leaf teas, without individual packaging by the factory

⚫ Marvel/DC (except for Deadpool and Venom, I like them)