Butterfly

hi this is butterflys daughter sky my mothers feet are so swollen that she can barley walk and her hands are so swollen she can't do much not even type.she is being tested for kidney failure please pray for her!!

UPDATE: 10/17- I got out of the hospital Tuesday and I'll get my swaps out as soon as I can. It turned out not to be my kidneys, but my heart has gotten weaker. I sleep most of the time. Sorry they're late.

I'm in physical therapy and might have to have surgery. It hurts to sit and stand, and I have trouble working on crafts for very long at a time, so it's taking me longer to finish my forum swaps than I would like. I am getting them done as soon as I can, and am including extras to make up for the lateness. Thank you for understanding!!

My name is Marci and I'm 41. I live in a small town in Oregon. I love all things arty and crafty! I paint and collage and make jewelry the most probably, but I also love fabric crafts. I recently became hopelessly addicted to crochet. I love matchboxes!

I have three children. Garrett is 12 and likes science and Star Wars and robots. Skylar is 13 and likes anything Bratz and animal stickers. Brianna, my oldest, is married and gave birth to my first granddaughter on Oct. 19th. Her name is Cyan Skye and she is the most beautiful baby ever born!

I love mail art, swapping, butterflies, pink roses, sunflowers, the Eiffel Tower, castles, velvet, tie-dye, shabby chic, pressed leaves, tiaras, anything French (especially vintage), maps, hearts, Dia de los Muertos, shrines, sequins and rhinestones, the Mona Lisa, rainbows, and anything/everything covered in glitter!

My fave color is any shade of PINK, but I also love ultramarine, purple, fuchsia, mauve, burgundy and red. Not fond of orange. Actually, I hate orange. And chartreuse. Hate. Them. My fave color combinations are pink/green, pink/brown, pink/yellow, purple/red/yellow and black and white checks with red. Also, anything metallic is way cool. I consider leopard print anything to be essential to my well-being. Pink AND leopard print together is the best! I love the ocean and go as often as possible.

I'm not the cutesy type; more the funky, bohemian type.

I collect funky purses, angels, butterflies, leopard print stuff, great quotes, pink things, tiny boxes, vintage ephemera, Ice cream theme stuff, Anything with cupcakes, Dia de los Muertos stuff, postage stamps, vintage postcards and foreign currency.

Favorite Crafts:

I make and sell my own jewelry and collages. I also love CROCHET, especially amigurumi, painting, art journals, handmade paper, art dolls, polymer clay, weaving, freeform embroidery, fabric collage, atc's, assemblage, mixed media, altered books, shrines, basically everything, LOL! I'm trying to learn how to sew (it's not going very well) and I want to learn how to knit.

MY WISHLIST:

*yarn- anything except wool, please, I'm allergic. * Kawaii items * stuffies in bright colors (not reptiles, please, I'm afraid of them!) * eyelets and brads (especially in neat shapes) * amigurumi * DIY craft kits * funky papers * beads * filled and decorated matchboxes * handmade items * anything sewn, crocheted or knit * bento items * anything PINK * craft supplies

Kawaii I like:

• Hello Kitty
• Charmmy Kitty
• My Melody
• Little Twin Stars
• Fuwawan
• Sugarbunnies
• Kiraxz Friends
• Sweet Friends
• Funny Park
• Tokidoki
• Usa Usa Cafe Mode
• Twin Panda
• Strawberry Milky
• Sweet Lily Bunny & Bear
• Nyan Nyan Melody
• Purin Ala Mode
• Squirrel and Bunny
• Candy Twins
• Sweet Party

Kawaii I don't like: Badtz-Maru, Monokuro Boo, kogepan, afro-ken, keroppi, mushrooms, bears, pigs, frogs and realistic animals.

I AM ALLERGIC TO ALL SCENTED ITEMS!

Please, especially do not send me anything citrus flavored or scented, I am extremely allergic and will have to throw the whole package away.

Please don't send me: tea, coffee, wax tarts, candles, incense, chapstick, gum, breath mints, or anything with artificial sweeteners.

THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE TIME TO READ MY PROFILE, I REALLY APPRECIATE IT!!!

I never thought I would do this, but allergies are serious business, and I think people need to pay closer attention to their partner's profiles.

stacirose

She sent me items off my allergies list, (which has been the same since my first day here, by the way) which triggered the asthma attack which landed me in the hospital for six days. I almost died. She never even answered my PM. She never apologized. What kind of person almost kills someone, however inadvertently, and never apologizes???

She now has the NERVE to list ME on her profile as a Bad Swapper- Flaker! I've NEVER flaked on a swap and what makes me a bad swapper, almost dying because of HER thoughtlessness?

HERE is a pic of what she sent.

Favorite Movies: Moulin Rouge, Chicago, Vatel, Dreamgirls, Take the Lead, Marie Antoinette, Thelma & Louise, Arsenic & Old Lace, 10 Items or Less, Spanglish, Memoirs of a Geisha, Europa, Europa, Yentl, Lord of the Rings, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, Farewell, my Concubine, Il Postino, Amadeus, The Ladykillers, The Big Lebowski, Barton Fink, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou, Cinema Paradiso, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bull Durham, Howard's End, A Room With a View, Much Ado About Nothing, The Wide Sargasso Sea, The Notebook, Hello Dolly, Big Fish, Camille Claudel, Shadow Magic, The English Patient, Rent, Pretty in Pink, L.A. Confidential, Life is Beautiful, The Tiger and the Snow, White Oleander, Hard Candy, The Player, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Princess Bride, The Station Agent, A Fish Called Wanda, The Goodbye Girl (the original), The Sting, Lucky Number Slevin, The Illusionist, Anything with Cary Grant!! ALL Hitchcock films, plus documentaries, foreign films and murder mysteries.

Favorite Television: Heroes, X-Files, Monk, Star Trek, That's Clever, Dr. Phil, Oprah, Roseanne, Boston Legal, Shark, The Pretender, Ugly Betty, The Closer, Dexter, all the Law & Order shows and I'm addicted to the food network and Democracy Now!

Favorite Music: What's on my ipod: ABBA, Voice of the Beehive, Enya, Paul Simon, Cher, Celine Dion, 2nd Chapter of Acts, Keith Green, Wilson Phillips, Wham, Jonathan Coulton, Toto, Shania Twain, Rick Astley, Queen, The Pointer Sisters, The Proclaimers, Paula Abdul, Norah Jones, Newsboys, Michael W. Smith, Mercy Me, Meredith Brooks, Maroon 5, The Manhattan Transfer, Johnny Mercer, Frank Sinatra, Jefferson Airplane, Jamie Cullum, Indigo Girls, The Go-Go's, The Bangles, Diana Krall, Christopher Cross, Bryan Adams, Barbra Streisand, Barry Manilow, The B-52's, Audio Adrenaline, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Allan Sherman, Starship, a-ha, Tori Amos, The Dixie Chicks.

Favorite Books: Anything by Jasper Fforde, 'The Thirteenth Tale', Victoria Holt, Robin Hobb, John Grisham (not all of them), Dumas, The Brontes, Daniel Silva, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Marcus Aurelius, Camus, Voltaire, Marquez, Flaubert, 'If on a Winter's Night a Traveler' by Italo Calvino, I'll add more later... this is gonna be a looong list!