Chocopan

IMPORTANT!!!

Due to the over two weeks long postal workers' strike we had letter mail is moving slowly in and from Finland. All swaps will be sent on time but it might take them even two months to arrive. Please contact me if you haven't received the swap after eight weeks before rating! I hope the situation settles before the end of the year.

IMPORTANT!!!

Hi! I'm a 24 yo student from Finland, currently working full time and finishing up my studies at the same time. In my free time I like to write letters, do papercrafts, decorate my planner, read and watch Netflix. I love Japanese idols, k-pop and c-pop (though I still know very little about Chinese music outside of the few shows I've seen!). I mostly read mystery novels, I like old-fashioned and classic mysteries and historical novels when they aren't too serious - I don't need realism, a more romantic angle works well for me.

My favorite jpop groups are Keyakizaka46, Hinatazaka46, Morning Musume '19, Angerme and BEYOOOOONDS. Kpop favorites, even though I'm not as big of a fan as I used to be, are fromis_9, BTS, JBJ, Wanna One, IOI and gugudan. From cpop I only know/like Nine Percent and Rocket Girls.

My literature favorites are Swedish mystery novels - The Millenium Thrilogy is my all time favorite book (series), Terry Pratchett's Discworld series, and a random collection of other books, such as Q & A by Vikas Swarup, Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath and Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides. I'm somewhat active on Goodreads, my username there is siinasbooks. Feel free to add me as a friend!

I looooove sweets and junk food (trying to balance it out by doing sports and eating healthy most of the time...) I don't have any allergies but don't care for stuff that tastes like alcohol (like chocolates with alcohol filling) or plain dark chocolate - it's fine if it's mixed with some other flavors like mint or nuts though!

Mail art and paper crafts of all kind: flipbooks, pocket letters, hoop mail...

Crafting on my planner and my TN. I currently have two planners, one for stuff I need to do and remember, work things and appointments and such, and one for memory planning. In my TN I document my travels and try to do the same for all the museums I visit - though sometimes I skip some visits out of sheer laziness. I also crochet - not very actively at the moment, but I'm looking forward to getting back into it again next year!

Things I like to receive, swap or buy for myself:

• stickers and washi - I use this both in my planner and in mail art
• any planner accessories - as I said, I decorate my planner, so planner related stuff is most welcome!
• die cuts
• scrapbooking paper - scraps as well as bigger pieces
• enamel dots, brads, dimensional stickers like diamonds etc
• note pad sheets and small cards for writing notes to go with my swaps
• Japanese stationery, stickers, washi... I love everything cute, stuff from Daiso, Seria and Can Do, as well as Mind Wave, MT, Masté, Bande... Pretty much everything haha
• Characters I like: Snoopy and Peanuts, Sumikko Gurashi, Rilakkuma, Moomin, Ghibli films' characters (especially Jiji, Cat Bus and Totoro), pretty much all cute Japanese characters except for Hello Kitty
• sequin mixes or sequins in general - I love adding shaker pockets or cards to my crafts but for some reason making sequin mixes is super hard for me D: so if you have a spare one or like making them I'd be super duper grateful!
• postcards; I love art postcards most, like postcards with pictures of artwork, but also like other illustrated cards and in general just stuff that is pretty; I prefer getting my postcards naked with a pretty stamp, unless the swap calls for something else, of course. I don't collect stamps or anything but I enjoy looking at them and seeing what kind of stamps other countries have :D

Themes and styles I like:

• Japanese style stuff, both cutesy and the more traditional stuff
• Maggie Holmes
• Halloween, Christmas and Valentine's day
• seasonal things
• favorite colors are baby pink, yellow and pastel colors in general, though I do like bright colours too
• retro/vintage style Disney characters, especially aliens from toy story)
• animals and nature
• houses, cities, trains, bicycles...
• humans, especially in stickers (love the styles of La Dolce Vita, Pion, Meowmeowstar etc)
• all big planner brands (MAMBI, Heidi Swapp, Prima, Recollections...)

Stuff I don't like:

• Vintage style
• supplies targeted at children (like stickers with characters from kids' cartoons etc, unless mentioned on my things I like list)
• icons, as in Planner stickers that are just very simplistic pictures of garbage cans, utensils, cars etc
• getting money in swaps; if any way possible please don't send me any currency! I simply don't know what to do with that stuff (besides the obvious of course)

• Crate Paper - All Heart
• Crate Paper - Merry Days
• Crate Paper - Snowflake
• Crate Paper - Hey, Pumpkin
• Prima Marketing - Santa Baby

As you can see my Crate Paper love is overflowing once again... Can't wait to get Snowflake, it's so visually pleasing!

• A - animals, anthropology, autumn
• B - bees, books, bears, brushpens, bouldering, baking
• C - colours, Christmas, chipboard stickers, cooking, chocolate, candy
• D - dogs, doodling
• E - elephants, embellishments, Etsy stickers
• F - felt-decorated paperclips, flipbooks, florals
• G - girly things, girls
• H - Halloween, Happy Planner/MAMBI, houses
• I - illustrations, idols
• J - Japan, jellyfish, journaling, junk food
• K - karaoke, koalas, key rings, kawaii
• L - language learning, lemons, letters, letter paper & letter sets
• M - mailart, macarons
• N - 90's, Nuuna notebooks, Netflix
• O - Osaka
• P - paper, paper pads, Paris, pastel colours, planners/planner goodies, postcards, pink, pop music
• R - Recollections, rainbows, retro, reading, RuPaul's Drag Race, Rilakkuma
• S - stickers, scrapbooking paper, sun, seasons, 70's, socks, sunflowers, Sumikko Gurashi
• T - Tokyo, trains, tea, Tombow pens, traveling, tulips
• U - umbrellas
• V - vegetables, Valentine's day
• W- washi (samples/rolls, washi strips, washi stickers)
• Y- yellow