I ❤️ watching🦄 unicorns jog by 🤣 it’s better than the T-rex GIFs I’ve been watching twerk to send myself into fits of laughter! 😆 Watch

Truly Happy Mail

5/2/2020: All type 2/3 swaps that I receive will undergo a 15 minute UV sterilization process. I am doing my best to stay healthy here at home! Hope and pray you all will too!👊🏽🤙🏽🙏🏼❤️

🌺Aloha!🌺 My name is Harmony Joy🎶🎵

My mother is a hippy, and my father is a musician. I am a Berkeley ☮️ -born and California foster-system-raised “love-child”, who currently lives on the other side of the nation. I have been married since 2009, and we have three children (2 daughters, 1 son). Being Momma Bear is my favorite part of life, and I literally ❤️ Mother’s Day more than my own birthday!🎁 Our current fur-family consists of 2 canine rescues: Kyna (a Rhodesian Ridgeback mix) and Ella (a Black Labrador mix), plus a pit-bull "grand-dog" named Luna, and a brown-tabby “grand cat” named Maximus.

My OHANA means everything to me.

Besides my “V.I.Peeps”, I also enjoy many HOBBIES:

• (indoor) Pressed Flower Craft (oshibana), Card-making, Coloring, Painting, Paint-pouring, Paper-making/marbling, Pottery & Sculpting, Genealogy, Crocheting, Listening to Music, Face-painting, Dancing, Reading, Weaving, Watching Movies, DIY, Diary-writing, Sewing, Scrap-booking, and Art-Journaling (I own a Sizzix Big Shot Plus, Portable Tim Holtz Sidekick, & The Cricut Explore Air2)

• (outdoor) Hiking, Scouting, Shooting, Thrift/Yard Sale or Estate Shopping, Horseback Riding, Kayaking & Swimming

• My current collections include: Philately, Numismatics, Deltiology, and Cartophilia to include ALL sizes & shapes of the 7-of-❤️’s playing card!!!

• I enjoy listening to all genres of music depending on my mood. I also like to listen to audiobooks. (I have an all-in-one CD/Cassette Tape/Record player/Radio in my craftroom!)

• I feel privileged to be a mother, artist, teacher, geek, and military Veteran!
• I am most comfortable at the ocean. I also enjoy spending quality time at libraries, museums, or art galleries and ceramic studios. This is because I REALLY enjoy learning new things and working with my hands!
• In my youth, I enjoyed traveling the Americas alone and spent time living in Chile as a foreign exchange student! Now, I prefer to travel in good company, whenever possible. However, most my traveling has been vicariously via postcards recently!

I 💜 snail 🐌 mail! 💌

• When handwriting, please print if possible, as I have difficulty reading some cursive penmanship.

A to Z’s of Me!

A: Ansel Adams photos, Autumn 🍁 , Abe Lincoln, Aquamarine, ATC’s & APC’s

B: Bob Marley, Bears 🐻 🐼 🐨, Blue (all shades), & Bald 🦅

C: Chinchilla, Clogging, & Steph’ Curry-GSW #30 🏀

D: Daffodils, Drums🥁, Duane “The Rock” Johnson, & Daiso-store stationery

E: Earth 🌎, Elvis Presley, & Eighties music

F: Friesian horses, Firemen, Fleur-de-lis ⚜️ & Frangipani (plumeria flowers)

G: Guitar Picks, Graphology, Good Luck Bear (green Care Bear with shamrock belly badge) & the color Green (all shades)

H: Huskies 🐾, Hula dancing, Heart-shapes in nature 💕, & Harmony Bear (purple Care Bear with flower belly badge)

I: Ireland, Icebergs, Inky artwork🎨, & Ikea

J: Juke boxes, 💚Jade, & Derek Jeter NYY #2 ⚾️

K: Koi fish, Klimt paintings, 🥝, & Koru ferns

L: Lucille Ball, Leaf rubbings, Levi’s tags, & Lace

M: My Fair Lady, Marilyn Monroe, Music notes / sheet music🎼, Megalithic arts, & Maple 🍁 syrup

N: Norman Rockwell paintings, Narnia, & Notes w/my Name on them 😉

O: Orcas, Otters, Optimus Prime, & Ombré arts

P: Pirates, Phoenixes, Purple (all shades), Pancakes, Pochacco Pup & Pekkle duck, 🍍

Q: Quails & Quotes ( I collect positivities to refer to when I need a morale boost!)

R: 🌈 ROYGBIV, Rocking Horses, Rapa Nui 🗿, & Redwood Trees

S: ☘️ Shamrocks, Smokey Bear, Sea Turtles, Swing dancing, & Strawberries 🍓

T: Tigger, Tie-dye, Tribal Tattoos, & Tulips🌷

U: Ukulele,☂, & Uniforms (scouts & military)

V: VW buses/bugs & Vintage tix-n-tokens

W: Wolves, Wicket the Ewok, Wonder Woman, & Wizard of Oz

X: Xylophones, X-rays, & Xeruses 🐿

Y: ☯️ Yin Yang, Yoda, & Yarn bits (for weaving)

Z: Zebras 🦓, Zines & Zentangle

Thank YOU for thinking of me!

My Top 10 Movies

• Return of the Jedi
• Braveheart
• Mary Poppins
• Tombstone
• Princess Bride
• Dances with Wolves
• Forest Gump
• Never Ending Story
• Moana
• Mulan

• Pin-ups (esp Bunny Yeager’s art)
• Post Office Buildings
• Mailboxes
• Maps & Flags (state & country)
• Alphonse Mucha
• TREES 🌳
• Sled Dogs
• Large-Letter (cities & towns)
• VW Buses & Bugs
• License Plate Art
• Graffiti/Street Art
• B&W Photography of:
  • People Dancing or Kissing
  • Close-ups of Hands, Feet, Eyes, or Paws
  • Vintage Hats, Boots, and Insturments
  • Abandoned Homes, Trains, Trucks & Cars
  • Old Books, Typewriters, Globes
  • LIFE or TIME Magazine Covers

Hakuna Matata!

• I genuinely enjoy sharing, earning ❤️‘s, and making others smile!
• I also avoid negativity!

200+=Good Vibes! 🤙🏽

• Having been diagnosed with the autoimmune thyroid disease known as Hashimoto’s means that stress is my kryptonite. Not all stress - just the negative “distress” that literally weakens my (already compromised) immune system.

• For this reason, I seek peaceful and positive things to help me focus on life’s pleasantries, be mindful of my blessings, and stay healthy for myself and my family!

• I am participating in Swap-bot to improve my health and hope in humanity.

• I highly value intelligent people who are capable of both self-reflection and empathy for others. Since one of my favorite books is “To Kill A Mockingbird” I often refer to my kind of people as those who can take a “Boo Radley” moment to walk in another persons moccasins!

• Genuine and kind people are my kind of people.

• Last but not least, I am a disabled American Veteran of the USAF. I struggle daily with the challenges posed by Anxiety, and PTSD w/major depressive episodes. My mental health challenges are a result of post 9-11 service to my country. And I pride myself on being one of the few female EOD 💣technicians to have served in the armed forces. I’ve worked hard to be this “gritty”!

• USA “private” swaps? Just message me! 😃 I am looking for some trustworthy swap-pals willing to drop postcards in the mail for me! They’re stamped, self-addressed PCs I have saved or been given for my collection over the years & I’d like to have them sent back with postal cancellation stamps from all 50 states. Eventually, these will be bound into a book!

• “FOR IT IS IN GIVING THAT WE RECEIVE.” (St. Francis of Assisi)

I have the following to offer ANYONE who is interested/in-need:

• Handmade Envies
• Pop-Tabs from Aluminum Cans
• Book & Dictionary Pages
• Children’s Book Illustrations
• Newspaper Comics (black-and-whites)
• Assorted Buttons (from/for clothes)
• Playing Cards (for altering/arts)
• Graphic 45 & Colored Card-stock Paper Scraps
• Alphabet Stickers & Thickers
• Assorted Teabags (factory sealed)
• Postcards (new & vintage, all unused)

Insta-❤️ worthy mail to me includes:

• Celtic knot & Clover 🍀 or Shamrock ☘️ Items
• Vintage Scouting Ephemera (GSUSA, BSA, & WAGGGS)
• Cookie Monster ATC's @georgiafae made me my first one and I fell in love with it...now I want a whole page full of them! Yes, please! Me want all the Cookie’s! THANK YOU @Autist and @chimerix for creating me amazing Cookie Monster ATC’s! That's three now, six to go! I'm so excited!

• I have learned that some people enjoy having a long list of ideas to “shop” for me, while others feel creatively squelched by too many ideas. For this reason, I have tried my best to create “harmony” in my profile by briefly listing some of the things I like.
• I have been asked to list any strong “dislikes” as this is often easier to work with. So, although I no longer have any “do-not-send” requests, if you’re a caring swapper with interest, these are the things I AM NOT FOND OF: claymation, sock-puppets, & zombies.
• I will unashamedly regift the worthy and recycle or dispose of the rest.
• Thank you for understanding, and I appreciate every kind effort with ❤️-felt gratitude!

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