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My name is Cynthia from the Pacific Northwest (Olympia, Washington). I am 43 years old and living with my husband and two young adult daughters that still live at home, on a tiny hobby farm with 3 labs, 3 cats, 5 goats, and some chickens.

I also work part-time at a pack-and-ship shop. A dream job for a snail mail junkie!

I hope to gain inspiration to do more swaps crafts, along to share those crafts, swap postcards, pen pal letters, and more! !

I absolutely love reading!! I am an avid reader, reading/listing to audiobooks up to 100 + a year.

I'll read just about any genre minus a few certain futuristic themes.

I have been crafting my whole life and have yet to find a craft I haven't wanted to try.

Favorites are (the list is constantly growing)

• Crocheting
• Cross Stitching
• Photography
• Pocket Letters
• ATC cards
• Card Making
• Collage Art Projects
• Junk Journaling
• Bullet Journaling
• Sewing Projects
• Flipbooks

I DISLIKE crude, rude, or vulgarity. Otherwise, my likes list can be endless. I am not religious but not against receiving religious-themed crafts.

I genuinely love when others swap with their own hearts in mind.

I do not have small children so please no children/school-age stickers or foam stickers.

I am a picky tv watcher and have a hard time sitting still for very long to sit through an entire show (let alone a movie) but when I do, I watch a diverse genre of shows ranging from Game of Thrones/House of Dragons, Pride, and Prejudice (BBC version), Sherlock Holmes (BBC version), Derry Girls, Stranger Things, Perry Mason (both old and new series), True Detective, Peaky Blinders, Golden Girls, Murder She Wrote, and Longmire (just to name a few)

I do love watching TV shows based on books and documentaries (all kinds from crime to nature, but especially Ken Burns)

As far as movies go I'm a big Lord of the Rings/Hobbit and Star Wars fan. I like classic black-and-white movies, suspense/thriller (not horror) movies, comedies, military, and movies based on books—too many to list. I'm not too fond of rom-com movies.

The ABCs of ME

A- Animals, Audiobooks, ATC cards, Agatha Christie, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Asterix and Obelix,

B- BBC TV, Birds/Birding, Books, Bunnies, Blue Cats, Bea Arthur

C- Chickens, Cats, Crocheting, Cross Stitching, Coffee, Collages, Cows, Cottagecore, Collecting Things, Craft Challenges, Children Illustrations

D- Documentaries, Dogs, Daiso Stores, Disney, Daphne's Dairies, Dragons

E- Europe, Elephants, Environmental Issues, Envelope Art, Eighties Pop/Country Music, Earth Tone Colors, Embroidery

F- Fairies, Flowers, Fabric, Family Time, Flipbooks, Fountain Pens, Friendships, Fantasia (Disney)

G- Game of Thrones, Germany (I'm half German, Meine Mutter war Deutsche, from Vonhausen/Budingen) , German Foods, German Culture, German Language, Goats, Gnomes, Gardening, Green (the color)

H- Hippos, Harry Potter, Hobbit, Hobby Farming, Hiking, Hygge, Houseplants, Hockey, Homesteading, Handwriting, Hilda Pinup Model,

I-Inks, Illrustations, Inge Look (old ladies)

J- Jane Austen, Junk Journaling, Journaling, Junk Hunting

K- Ken Burns

L- Lord of the Rings, Labradors. Libraries, Laughing, Lace

M-Moomin Trolls, Mountains, Max Hastings, Magazines, Mermaids, Musicals

N- Nature, National Parks, Nineties Rock Music

O- Organizing, Origami paper, Oliver Sacks

P- Pocket Letters. Penpaling, Postcards, Photography, Pens, Postage Stamps, Psychology, Pixar, Pippi Longstocking

Q- Quiet and Quality Time

R- Road Trips, Reading, Rocks, Rabbits, Routines, Rubber Stamping

S- Stickers, Star Wars, Snail Mailing, Sewing, Stationary, Sven Nordqvist

T- Trees, Tea, Thrillers, Thrift Stores, Traveling, Tommie dePaola drawings, Taschen

U-

V- Vegetables (eating them and growing them), Vintage Everything, Vintage Farmhouse

W- Washi Tapes, Wildlife Refuges, Wilderness, Walking

X-

Y- Yarn

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