BambooBailey

I am over 60, and I do not feel old, I feel matured, wiser and maybe even a little mellowed. I am a sister, a mother, a wife and a grandmother. I was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, but I spent most of my life living on Vancouver Island, BC, Canada. I grew up in a family of five girls and ended up getting married and raising three boys. I have five granddaughters and will have the fifth grandson in March. I miss them all very much. I am on my second marriage to a man I met on line in a chat room playing cribbage in 1999. We had a long distance relationship, each travelling to and from Vancouver Island, BC, Canada and Florida, USA until 2009. I got a fiancé visa and moved to Florida to be married in 2010. It was a long and expensive process, but we are very happy, and I have my “green card” – the process is nothing like the movie…LOL My husband is an engineer and he travels a lot or we travel a lot. We love doing things together, mostly cooking, taking road trips, going to second hand stores and garage sales, watching movies, gardening, playing cards…and more. .

• I love macaroni and cheese, fried spaghetti and noodle soups!
• I spike my coffee with Bailey’s Irish Cream.
• I do not mind being by myself.
• I love garage sales, thrift stores and the stuff that people discard.
• My favorite seasons are Spring and Fall.
• I am a crafty person, my sewing room is full of fabrics, lace, ribbon, pretty buttons and more…
• I love to be in the space that I have created with the things that I love.
• I collect cigar boxes, corks, seashells, buttons, and angels and hat boxes.
• I love good wine, Grand Mariner and chocolate.
• I love sunflowers and bamboo.
• My favorite color is green.
• I like bright and sunny days and taking road trips.
• I love reading swappers profiles.
• My favorite quote is “Drive no faster than your guardian angel can fly.”
• I love Salt Water Taffy, Gummy Bears, Werther’s candy, Brazil nuts, Pecans, Pretzels, and Chocolate, and my favorite Ice-Cream is Chocolate!
• Dirty rice is awesome!!
• I crochet and sew, have tried embroidery and knitting.
• I am a Capricorn.
• I like putting potato chips on my hamburger.
• I believe in angels!
  ****** I am open to private swaps! ******
• I will "Angel" a swap.
• Favorite Quote - "Drive no faster than your guardian angel can fly!"

what I pledged

I love to sew and I find a lot of my patterns and tutorials for my projects on the internet.

I have a lot of fabric that I inherited from an avid sewer and quilter.

I sew hand bags and pouches, aprons and place mats, oven mitts and pot holders, pincushions and all kinds of things for the home and swaps. I love trying new things when I find a good tutorial for something to sew.

I love to use the fabric I have but I also use clothing for fabric. I love using denim!

I crochet, and have tried knitting. I tried the Knook, but much prefer the Tunisian crochet.
Most of my crochet projects are pot holders, dish cloths, scarves and smaller things for swaps.

I save used tee shirts and cotton tops for making yarn and I have started a rug for the bathroom.

I have started making dream catchers using the grapevines in the yard and things that I have collected from garage sales and swaps. There are a few other projects that I love to try from inspiration of the internet especially Pinterest.

Postcards I love to receive!

• USA State maps, flowers, flags, animals, etc...
• Lighthouses
• Covered bridges
• Barns
• Recipe postcards and Food related
• Angels
• Vintage
• Nouvelles Images
• SUNFLOWERS
• Ad postcards
• Mushrooms
• Cows

* Owls (Inga Paltser)
* Evgenia Gapchinska Angels and artwork (http://polarbearstale.blogspot.com/2011/10/eugenia-gapchinska.html)

* Victoria Kirdiy (http://rememberingletters.wordpress.com/tag/victoria-kirdiy/)
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* Inge Look (the old ladies)

Things I would like in swaps....

• Wooden embroidery hoops without the screw
• Nice feathers
• Sewing accessories
• Stitch Rippers
• Flat Flower Head Iron Over Straight Pins
• Fabric marker pens
• Crochet Cotton
• Embellishments - suns and stars, butterflies and ladybugs, metal embellishments
• Old church keys
• Crystals
• Angels - anything angels
• Butterscotch candies, butterfingers chocolate bars, gummy bears, and Payday bars
• Brazil nuts and other nuts
• Ribbons and lace
• Old crochet doilies
• Freshwater Pearls
• Clock parts
• Sea shells
• Sticker Sheets for Swaps

I watch all of my shows on my computer through Netflix, Hulu Plus and Amazon.

• The Food Network
• The Bachelor or The Bachelorette
• Law and Order
• American Idol
• The Voice
• Shark Tank
• Chicago P.D.
• Project Runway
• and more....

I would prefer not to receive the following:

• Items that smell of cigarette smoke

• NO GLITTER

• Makeup and lotions.

• Bent items (please pack carefully) and note cards without an envelope.

• Postcards with perforated edges, bent corners and/or wanna be postcards (the ones made from flimsy cardboard, homemade, or are just not real store bought postcards)

• I am not interested in ANYTHING political or religious!! If you send me a holiday card, please keep it non-religious - Santa Clause, Christmas trees, candy canes etc - with the exception of ANGELS!! I believe in angels.

• Please do not send things that relate to paper crafts unless it is in the swap. I tried paper crafts and I am much more comfortable with fabric and yarn.

• Watermelon - I really detest this taste and smell, but they do look pretty