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Date Joined: January 31, 2008
Last Online: October 15, 2024 Birthday: February 17, 1974 Country: Germany My Flickr Photos My Amazon Wishlist My Etsy Favorites International Amazon Wishlist |
Hi there, I'm Mello!
I'm an Occupational Therapist. As OT I love everything creative I can get my fingers dirty with!
I'm very open minded and a strong believer of equal rights for everyone. I don't like people telling me what is right or what I have to believe - I want to draw my own picture and decide for myself. I'm a protester and speak up when I face injustice. I feel that I have to show my son that it is necessary to take a stance.
I‘m proud to support my kid as a parents-for-future activist.
I love sewing and I'm knitting Socks (sometimes Hats or Gloves, but nothing bigger). I'm totally mad about Fabric and craft magazines, I'm so glad we have a big Attic I can store all that stuff! I love anything about Color: Pencil, Crayons, Watercolor, Brushes, no matter what. I like to doodle but I don't do scrapbooking or stuff like that, so I have no use for that kind of supplies.
I couldn't crochet if it meant my life! Whenever I try, it just turns out as a brick - good enough as a rough potholder, but that's it. So nothing crocheting for me pretty please.....
SciFi - I love Star Trek, from the original Series to the newest Enterprise Movie. Firefly to bad it never made it to another season..... Star Wars here I'm more for the classic 70s Trilogy though. Hitchhikers guide through the galaxy, Stargate Atlantis And Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant will always be my favorite Doctors!
Canada, esp. Toronto and anything Canadian
Snowflakes
Stars
Calvin & Hobbes
Krtek the mole
Pippi Langstrumpf
Heather Ross
Tone Finanger
Andy Goldsworthy
Mailart
Pirates, Robots and Rockets
Chocolate - milk chocolate is my favourite.
Handmade/crafty things
anthroposophic Crafts
Fabric - from japanese kids design over retro to novelty, anythings for me, I prefer cotton and cottonjersey.
Scents: everything green and natural, like lemon, orange, green tea, fresh cut grass......
Flavours: chocolate, orange, mango, pineapple, lemon.....
I like warm, bright and earthy colors -my favourites are the range from dark red to warm yellow, moss green, olive, chocolate brown and really dark blues. When it comes to clothing I prefer the dark colors - greens, blues, browns, greys and black.
Craft Magazines
T-Shirts with cool prints - I bring at least one T-Shirt from every Trip. I prefer the ones with room to move - XL mens is fine - but not those tight girly-Shirts!
Did I mention the 80s? I like all stuff with Magnum P.I., The Fall Guy, A-Team, M°A°S°H°, Fraggle Rock, Muppets, Ghostbusters, Goonies, Gremlins, Indiana Jones, The dark Crystal, Star Trek, Star Wars, Back to the future,....
Jim Henson - simply everything he made!
Environment-friendly
Fair-Trade
Organic
handmade with love
Vintage is okay for me - just another form of recycling!
Red Tea, Chai Tea, Yogi Tea
dark chocolate, Marzipan or Licorize
Marshmallows (I know I'm weird....)
I have no use for Scrapbookingsupplies like Brads, Scrapbook Stickers, etc.
Crocheting stuff
Cinnamon-, Cherry- and Grapeflavoured things. I love the real stuff, but not the fake flavour that's found in candy etc.
Butterscotch flavour - yuck!
Acrylic Fabric or Yarn, such as in those fuzzy Socks - I can't even touch this Material without shuddering.....profoundly!
Flowery heavy scents, patchouli, opium, vanilla, Lavender, etc. oh, and though I love anything chocolate, chocolate scented stuff mostly doesn't work for me.
Hot Spices - I'm really a sissy here.
Neon Colours and anything in the range of Pink/Purple
Any kind of Jewelry
sparkly/shiny/glittery things
Alcohol - I occasionally drink a Beer, but most time Alcohol free. I just don't like it.
Plasticbags
I'm not a girly girl so I don't have any taste for Make-Up, "Barbie" pink style, puppies, kittens, dolphins, bows and stuff like that.
I'm not really fond of Dotee Dolls or sewed ATC's.
Blythe Dolls are creepy.....
It's not really that I don't like them, but after just a few swaps I have a biiiig stash of Stickers, so no more Stickers for me please....
My tastes are all over the place, just about everything except Horror.
BOOKS
- J.R.R. Tolkien
- Douglas Adams
- Robert Asprin
- Dieter Kreutzkamp
- Ellis Peters
- Maurice Sendak
- Eric Malpass
- Oliver Sacks
- Henry David Thoreau
- A. A. Milne
- John Seymour
- Leo Hickman
- Diana Gabaldon
- Astrid Lindgren
- Sven Nordqvist
- Janosch
- Ngozi Ukazu
And of course anything Crafty....
MOVIES
The Magical Legend of the Leprechauns - The Dark Crystal - Major League - The 70's Star Wars Trilogy - Brother of Sleep - Blues Brothers - Star Trek - Dances with wolves - Threesome
- Le Dernier Trappeur - Seven Years in Tibet - Pollock - Avengers-Series - Loving Vincent
TV
Torchwood - Doctor Who - Cadfael - Firefly - Queer as Folk - Enterprise - Stargate Atlantis - Queer Eye - Good Bones - Documentaries about history, archeology, science and nature
Art
Hundertwasser - van Gogh - Monet - Gaudi - Larsson - Goldsworthy - Magrite - Klimt - Rizzi
In case you want to send something for my son, here is what he likes at the time:
Scooby Doo
Mice
Romans, Greek and Egyptians
anything The Hobbit
Marvel
Indiana Jones it startet with a Lego-Set.....
Harry Potter
Doctor Who
Star Wars
Lego though he is no fan of Lego Technic
He is a Fair-Trade and Fridays-for-Future activist.
He is quite good in english, so he would love to receive Magazines of the above mentioned themes.
He loves special edition Oreo Cookies - his favorites so far are the holiday edition with red filling - he hates anything with mint though
My husband Johannes loves Baseball (Toronto Blue Jays & Mainz Athletics). Here in Germany Baseball is quite an exotic sport, so anything related to it (Magazines etc.) will be highly appreciated! Also he likes anything native american/canadian. Canada is his favorite destination - likes anything Toronto and Algonquin Park esp.. He's quite a history geek (esp. the romans and WW I and II) and is passionate about genealogy. He is a TV Addict, can stay up all night to watch - has all the DVD Boxes of CSI (Grissom is his fave) , CSI Miami, NCIS, ER, Without a trace.....he likes SciFi as well, but anything Fantasy scares the crap out of him. (Nearly broke my hand while watching Harry Potter :o) He collects Baseballcaps and is loosing them constantly - so there can never be enough of them.
Oh, just to mention: he's a vegetarian! He is more for the salty/spicy side of food and he loves to cook. Soups are his favorite dish to make and he gets quite fancy with them. He loves Indian/Asian Cuisine as well as TexMex. He loves exotic and hot spices and is always the first to handle the Barbecue. He loves to cook over open fire - one of his faves is Pizza Calzone on the grid. He gets excited about new gadgets for his cooking - he even goes to a Mens-Cooking-Club and assembled himself a Hardware Toolbox with all his Gadgets to take with him. He cooks the field-kitchen of our local red cross section and always looks for new inspiration there. (last time he "cooked" Cake in Glassjars in the fieldkitchen, ha!) He has huge piles of cookbooks and -magazines.
He is a selfemployed Tax consultant, but also volunteers as Paramedic and collects Patches and T-Shirts (he is a 2XL) from Emergency Medical Services around the world! We can set up a private Swap on that any time!
By the way, my little brother is a police-officer and a volunteer firefighter, he loves patches and T-Shirts (L), too. :o)
From the UK/Ireland:
Cadbury Fudge Chocolate Bars
Seeds of change organic chocolate (I had dark with orange and figs - delicious!)
Anything Doctor Who
Doctor Who Character Building Micro Figures
McVities Hobnobs
Handmade Living Magazines
From France:
From the Netherlands:
Chocolate Covered Kruidnoten
Tony's Chocolonely Chocolate
Chocolate Letters "J" & "M"
FLOW Magazine
Fred & Ed melk vlokkies
From the US or Canada:
Purity Peppermint nobs
Hersheys Cookies'n Cream Bars
Celestial Seasoning Tea: Country Peach Passion, Lemon Zinger, Sleepytime
York Peppermint Patties
Swiss Miss Milk Chocolate Flavour
Wonka Candy - Kazoozles!
Twizzlers - plain red ones, the rainbow version, Sourz or the filled ones - any of them! Twizzlers Twerps! oh my!
Clover Flower Head Pins
Living Crafts Magazines
Uppercase Magazine
Cloth Paper Scissors Magazines
Cloth Paper Scissors STUDIOS Magazines
Martha Stewart Kids Magazines
Martha Stewart Magazine Holiday Issues
ReadyMade Magazines
Stitch Magazines
From Asia:
Cotton Time Magazine
Any of the Paumes Books, esp. the "Family Style" Editions!
Japanese Kids Fabric (something like the ones on superbuzzy.com :o)
Pocky (we only have the plain chocolate ones)
Shinzi Katoh designed stuff
I can always and easily get anything Diddl, german candy, german gummibears, Kindereggs, Kinder Happy Hippos, german or swiss chocolate (e.g. Milka, Lindt, Toblerone, Ritter Sport), any german souvenir, german magazines,...... So, if you're interested in a private Swap, just send me a mail!
I recycle envelopes and boxes to protect the environment. You can do this too when you send to me. :-)
I also don't wrap the swaps I send in nice papers. It may look nice, but I think, it is not necessary. Another way to protect the environment. That doesn't mean, that I don't wrap them up carefully if necessary!
I collect used stamps for Charity. They are payed per Kilo, so I would really appreciate it, if you put loooots of real stamps on the envies and boxes you send to me! Thanx!
BeccaBecca - Forums Tag: Profile Surprise and BentoBox Senddate February 2008- @Weeatcrayons angeled this one, as it was for my son! Thanx again!
lunagodesswithin - Suns, Moons and Stars Swap II
fii - My Big Fat European Stuffed Envelope
ElizabethRollins - Boys Christmas Present swap @vidalia68 angeled this one - Thank you so much!
hjshort72 - Amazon Wishlist or Etsy Favorites + a postcard #7
Pinkfootballs - Something for a rainy day @kittenred angeled this one and added wonderful stuff for my little boy - Thank you so much!
Treksek - Big Fat Envie:Winter Wonderland Intl The wonderful @suessstoff angeled this one. Thank you so much!
giramondo - Cakes addict #2 @vidalia68 angeled this one, too! Thank you so much!
lilpuddin - Private Space themed Swap for our kids @Batmamma and @Morwesong angeled for my little boy - Thank you so much!
Comments
Thank you for the generous Christmas surprise package! It arrived just in time for Christmas. :-) The awesome towel is my favorite thing and is already being put to good use in my kitchen! The kids are quite happy with the sweet goodies. I am working on a package to send your way. Let me know if there's anything in particular you'd like from here? Hugs from Texas! :-)
You are so welcome for the Nasa goodies! I loved you star swap package so much, I wanted to treat you. That little rocket stamp will forever be my favorite stamp! :-)
Thank you so very much for the lovely postcard from Bavaria! Your vacation sounds magical, even with the rain!
Thank you SO much for the surprise fruit soup (LOVE it!) and the postcard from your vacation (beautiful!). I recently bought something fall-ish I'm planning to send your way soon. Take care! :-)
So glad to hear that the postcard made it to you safely! I was hoping the old address I had for you was still current :)
Thank you so much for the great package again!!! It's all so exciting! I love the German cloth bags you sent, and they will always remind me of you when I'm shopping. The kids and I are in heaven with all the gummies and other treats. Thank you!
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Package 1 has arrived. Thank you for the calendar and gummy mix. The kids and I are finding it difficult to resist! My parents will love looking through the calendar. Germany is beautiful! Hope you don't have to wait much longer for my package to arrive. :-)
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