chaos55

I learned about swap-bot from friends who make ATCs at atcsforall. I am actively swapping postcards on postcrossing, and I participated in a recent postcard swap in Margrete Miller's Collage Collective.

I am somnia at AFA, ykarenes on Postcrossing, and ksomnia on IG

I like making postage stamp collages and other types of collaged postcards.

Feb 2023; I'm enrolled in Fodder School (I and II) so I've started accumulating lots of hand-made fodder to to use in my collages.

Dec 2022: I enjoy watching well-edited process videos on YouTube - bonus points if they make a mistake and explain how they moved forward with the project! Some of my current favorites are Cat Hand and Karen Burchill.

Likes

Used postage stamps. I use them to make ATCs and collaged postcards, so it's ok to send me low collector value CTOs, damaged perforations, and duplicates. I'm currently obsessed with Italian stamps. I also like US love stamps, colorful stamps, Christmas, butterflies, flowers, animals.... I can use almost anything except heads of people I don't know - I don't want to inadvertently use a controversial figure stamp in a collage.

I prefer to receive written postcards in an envelope with nice stamps if it costs the same for you. You can still address the postcard and put a used low denomination stamp on it so it looks like it was mailed "naked" if you want.

Coffee

Tea - I love black teas. Irish Breakfast and Darjeeling are favorites
Sadly I can no longer do tea swaps because Canada Post will not allow anything that isn't paper to be sent lettermail. Sending tea bags as packages is cost-prohibitive. I do still like to trade emtpty tea bags for papercrafting, though!

The color purple

Big cats - cheetahs, lynx, leopards tigers, etc.
Puffins, penguins and woodpeckers
Butterflies

Lichstenstein-style pop art
Murals and street art

Dislikes

Unicorns Horses Dogs Gore

Hobbies

Making atcs and handmade postcards. I'm currently into making maxicards using big postage stamps that would overhwhelm an ATC.

I have a perennial garden that more or less flowers throughout the season and produces a crazy amount of rhubarb.

I use the rhubarb baking muffins. I like baking but don't really like cooking.

For workouts I like swimming, Pilates and circuit training. I used to love to run but am having foot problems.

I'm re-watching Charmed. I can't remember if I finished it completely when it was first on tv, but I remember loving that show.

I've watched Dowton Abbey twice. I really like historical fiction like the Crown.

I'm trying to like House of the Dragon but I'm not really into it like GoT yet.

I am usually in a FitBit challenge, but I rarely win.