laura987

"WARNING my blog may contain spoilers you've been warned ha ha"

Hi there thank you for being my swap partner! I'd like to let you know right from the start that I'm pretty easy going and I'm sure I will love whatever you take the time to send me. Also please don't feel obligated to send extras I'm very generous with 5s and hearts. Personally I sometimes send extras and sometimes not, if I have something I think you'll really enjoy I'll send it. I think we can all agree (or at least a lot of us) that it can be pretty nerve racking sending our arts and crafts out into the world to be judged by others and it's important to me that you know I love all kinds of arts and crafts everyone has there own style and technique and I appreciate them all.

So far I've only swapped ATC's on swapbot and that's the reason I joined so that's what I'll be focusing on here! I enjoy so many arts and crafts I'm always experimenting with new tools and mediums. I've recently tried conte crayons and have fallen in love! I love making prints with lino cuts although I'm still not really good at printing and am still learning but I'm getting there, actually if anyone has any advice on a good paper to use or getting nice prints without a press I'd be happy to hear it! I love graphite, watercolor, pen and ink, zentangle and lots of other mediums. I also enjoy making scrapbook style ATC's with rubber stamps, sometimes they can be a lot of fun! I also enjoy sewing and have made some fabric ATC's which are a lot of fun for a bit of a change sometimes.

A list of some things that I really love

Pretty much any animal but especially Octopi, cats, frogs, lizards, snakes ravens and crows

I love cryptology especially bigfoot, jackalope and any kind of lizard or dinosaur related creatures.

I love anything to do with the ocean

I love all things whimsical and woodland related

Fairytales especially the ones involving woodland settings

Mushrooms fascinate me

Wildflowers, calypso orchids being my favorite

Nature in general I guess ha ha!

Puss in boots the original or the Shrek version

Norwegian trolls

buttons

google eyes pretty much never fail to make me smile

grumpy cat

I actually also like bugs I think they're fascinating and this may be super strange to a lot of people but I love composting it's like magic to me ha ha.

These are just some of my likes but I like a lot of things. Please don't spend to much time worrying about sending me something you think I'll enjoy the wonderful thing about ATC's is that you get to see how other people will interpret a particular theme and get a glimpse of there personal style!

There isn't much I really dislike maybe strong artificial scents but I can't see how that would be an issue here.

I'm fine with nudity and swearing. Admittedly I'm a bit on the fence about gore sometimes it bothers me sometimes it doesn't. I'm fine with cartoonish gore, anatomically correct organs and bones and skulls. I guess it's more really realistic or disturbing gore. I can't stand horror movies especially those in the "torture porn" genre( for example saw and hostel just the trailers for these turn my stomach). Again though I can't really see how that would come up I'm certainly not gonna join any saw ATC swaps ha ha.
I think that's about it to be honest I get a little frustrated when people have super long lists of dislikes. I find it super intimidating, especially when I was very new to swapbot it's nerve racking enough sending our creations into the world. I feel like if you strongly dislike very cartoonish things for instance maybe avoid a swap for a silly, happy, google eye monster ATC, I"m just saying. Or if you hate scrapbook style ATC's maybe join hand drawn only swaps. As I said everyone has a personal style and for some people that style is fancy papers and cool rubber stamps, I mean I've gotten some lovely ATC's done in this style that people have obviously worked very hard on, but anyway that's just my little rant sorry and I really hope this doesn't offend anyone it's just my silly opinion after all ha ha!

Lastly I always send my swaps out on time or I will message you if I'm going to be late. If I haven't sent my swap and haven't messaged you I have been...

abducted by aliens.

I ate a delicious apple that a kindly looking old lady gave me but it turns out she was a witch and the apple was magic and now I'm in a magical comma.

I accidentally stepped into a tear in the space time continuum and was sent millions of years back in time (cause that's how time travel works trust me I read books) and have probably been eaten by one of the giant reptile creatures that roamed the earth at that time.

I somehow came into a whole bunch of money and as a result I was kidnapped and am being held for ransom.

An apocalypse and or doomsday scenario in which case I think we'll all have bigger fish to fry

I forgot to leave milk out for the fairies and everyone knows what happens when you make fairies mad, they mess with you're swapbot responsibilities.

I angered some kind of god and was turned into a cockroach or rock or something.

I got hit by a bus and am dead

I was trying to take a good picture of some cute animal or neat bug and int he process followed it deeper and deeper into the woods and am now hopelessly lost.

I decided to take a trip on an plane and it crashed on the lost Island and now I'm stuck there.

I didn't take the proper precautions and the monster under my bed finally got me

Hmm did I cover all my bases so anyway if any of the above scenarios happen I'm very sorry, otherwise if you don't get your swap please don't be shy about messaging me although I do try to keep and eye on my sent swaps and will probably message you if I notice it hasn't been rated. Speaking of rating I always do my best to rate as soon as I can so people know that there ATC's have arrived.

Anyway that's about it please have fun, happy swapping, and have a wonderful day!