MiaEllington

Note on Shipping: I am new to shipping mail internationally, if you do not receive your mail please let me know and I will send it again and figure out what went wrong! For USA mail - it seems to take on average 10-14 days for my more involved letters to get to where they are going. Anything more than just two or three pages in an undecorated envelope will take significantly longer. Thank you for understanding!

~+++~ Hello! I'm am somewhat new to Swap-Bot now. I love sending snail mail and decorating letters. I have so many different sides to my personality and things that interest me. I live on both sides of light and dark: I love soft, cute, and pretty things and I love scary, gross, and weird things. My favorite color is black, but my hair is champagne pink. You can find this duality anywhere in my life, from the food/music/movies I consume, to the art that I make and the things I collect. I like to think I can find something I like anywhere.

Currently I am studying and practicing ceramic pottery and learning Japanese on Duolingo. I adore Japanese pottery and it is my current obsession. I am also a self taught silversmith (jewelry), have a bachelors in Horticulture, and spent 4 years learning from and working under a French pâtissier making pastries.

~+++~ I can't wait to get to swapping!! =^_^=

I tell people "I like everything!" a lot, as I have a broad range of styles I like. I really love anything artistic. I love so much art and different styles.

((Colors)) +Dark colors and neutrals. +Black, gray, green, purple. + Deep and rich colors + vintage or vintage looking materials - NOT a huge fan of neon and exceptionally bright unless very artistic.

((Images)) I like dark themes, but also cute/kawaii too!

+Dark Academia, Books, Botanical anything, and Witchy anything, celestial themes, bugs/moths

+Monsters, ghosts, ghouls, horror film and horror novel themes, gore, macabre, gothic anything and everything, snakes, spiders and creepy crawlies. They might not be for everyone but the certainly are for me.

+Cute/Kawaii: san-x characters and badtz-maru. Bunnies are my favorite cute animal to receive. Anime is good too, and anything japanese kawaii I love.

+Animals: I like forest creatures (squirrel, rabbit, bear, badger, fox) and ocean creatures (jellyfish, whale, creepy fish, octopus) the most and frogs, snakes, and turtles! also LOVE any bugs.

((Aesthetics))

I love anything Asian, especially patterns like on origami paper, fabric, washi tape, stationery and cards.

Cottagecore is lovely. I like woodsy themes: foxes, mushrooms, bears, squirrels, badgers, rabbits, ferns, trees, and cabins.

((Books)) I love to read, and I read a lot but usually potato-chip romance! I love book themed mail so much.

++ high fantasy, urban fantasy if it is done well, horror, mystery, thriller, romance (no spice is too high, I will read anything) sci-fi.

++ poetry. I like to write and read poetry and would absolutely love to receive poetry either original or one you just happen to like.

++manga and comic books when they are not superhero ones (think more indie and art based), and zines.

((Music)) Electronic, Metal (any subgenera), Shoegaze + Goth of all kinds, Lo-Fi, Classical, Experimental, Indie, Hip-Hop, and international music I rarely listen to country or blue-grass, or jam-bands

((Movies+TV)) I rarely watch movies or TV - but I love vintage sci-fi film aesthetic.

+Horror: anything to do with Hannibal Lecter. Silence of the Lambs is my favorite. I like most horror films.

+Sci-Fi: the old ones are amazing! 2001 space odyssey, silent running, martian chronicles, alien, blade runner. New ones are good too: Dune and Prometheus specifically were beautiful.

+anything studio Ghibli - I love Miyazaki's films.

+I also like very visual films: the fall (movie) and the cell are my favorites.

((VideoGames)) I recently started playing them due to the pandemic

+Animal Crossing and Skyrim are my #1 games and I like playing any mario games.

I love crafting and have so many hobbies.

+making stationery, junk journaling, making stickers and ephemera, watercolor, and drawing

+jewelry making, I have a full silversmithing studio and have been smithing since 2019

+pottery, I am learning wheel thrown ceramics

+baking, cooking, sewing, gardening, houseplants, canning and preserving

Personally, and without judgement to those who enjoy these things, I am not a fan at all of sports, athletics, religious iconography, table-top games or role playing games like DND, cosplay, disney, or superhero iconography, or kid/children things. I do not have kids so I don't have anyone to pass them on to except other swappers. But I will receive anything you would like to send me with thanks and happily pass it along to someone that looks like they would like it more.