Goetterblume

Hi there :-) My name is Josi, I am 36 years old and I live in Germany.

Yeah, another life-update...I had to take a little break. My body just said enough is enough and I had to take a step back. I try to come back to the surface again.

I am penpalling for some time now and I find happiness and relaxation in it. It is a way of calming myself down after a long day of work. I do like to try new things. Right now I find myself making a book journal and doing some junk journaling :)

If we are swap-partners and you haven't received my mail, please conract me!

As a member of the snail mail community I love decorating letters or envelopes and make some little crafts like flipbooks or wallets and I do love making pocket letters, but I haven't received one yet. I am always searching for new inspiration and ideas.

I enjoy working with die cuts or washi stickers, flake stickers or sticker sheets and of course paper, paper, paper 😅 there can't be enough paper. I do love making my own envelopes using old children books or 30x30 paper.

I like all kinds of stationary. I am a huge fan of washi stickers and die cuts (everything is beautiful and usefull), writing paper, paper in all forms and sizes, sticker flakes, postcards with themes I like (preferably written).

I am also a member of the postcrossing community 😊 and I like to decorate my cards with washi tape and stickers. I don't make my own cards yet, but perhaps in the future 😊

Lately I am trying out ATCs. It is quite difficult, but I have so much fun decorating them 😊 I still don't feel good enough to participate in a swap, but 2021 is very young and I have a goal!

To make it easier for you, if you just scrolled down here, I made you a little list 😅 no hard feelings here! I know I tend to write to much 🙈

I enjoy:

Everything related to books! Stickers, pictures, postcards, Bookmarks, book recommandations, everything :D

🏷 Die Cuts, Tags

📃 Paper in all shapes and colours

🗺 postcards

🌸 Stickers, Sticker sheets, Sticker flakes, washi stickers

🌈 colourful things

📜 Washi Tape

🍵 Tea

✉ writing paper and envelopes

🦄 Stationary in general

What I like to craft/do:

✉ Flip Books, Envelope Flip Books ✉ Pocket letters ✉ ATCs ✉ Envelopes

📖 Journaling, Bullet Journal, Junk Journal, Travel Journal, Book Journal

Most of the times I just enjoy the creativeness of my penpals. I appreciate the things they send me and the way they decided to create the mail 😊 But of course there are some themes I do love more than others. For example

🐲 Everything related to Studio Ghibli

🦄 Unicorns and other mystical creatures

📖 Everything related to Jane Austen

📖 Bookish themes

🎠 I enjoy vintage themes

🎶 Everything related to music

🌻 Flowerthemed things

🔖 I love bookmarks

🧙‍♂️ Everything related to Harry Potter

🤴 I love the Little Prince

🍵 I love tea and getting to know new flavours, but no artificial flavours like vanilla or so.

🥘 Everything related to food is great 😅 I love food!

🗺 I love everything related to travelling. Stickers, quotes, postcards, pictures, anything ❤ I love to get to know new places 😊

🌈 Everything related to the LGBTQ+ community

📃I would appreciate some recommendations for books or music :) I am always looking for new inspiration!

Fantasy is an all time favourite genre. Movies like Pan's Labyrinth or Harry Potter or all the Marvel Movies are just good! But I also like watching Rom-Coms like Set it Up, Sex and the City 1 or While you were sleeping. And don't forget Science Fiction like Star Wars, Star Trek or Alien :-) I do enjoy independent and arthouse movies like Amélie or Heaven and the queer cinema :-)

Well, I can enjoy mostly every genre and movie, as long as it is no horror or scary movie like The conjuring or It. I can't stand horror-movies and if a group of friends would watch such a movie, I would leave the room.

I have some feel-good-TV-shows, I can rewatch over and over again, like: Gilmore Girls, Friends, Queer as Folk or Supernatural :)

Of course I do like other stuff too like: Game of Thrones, Eureka, Sex Education, Criminal Minds, Big Bang Theory and many more :)

I really like the books by Mhairi McFarlane, Sebastian Fitzek and Jane Austen. My favourite authors :-)

Of course I am a huge fan of Harry Potter! I loved the books and the movies and the whole magical world around it :-) every year around christmas I watch the movies again :-) the perfect time for me.

And I love 'The Neverending Story'. As a child I had a cassette with the audiobook. Fantasia is just a wonderful place where everything lives in a state of balance and everyone is loved by the childlike empress equaly :-)

My favourite ones in 2021 are: The midnight library Queenie The rivers of London Cyril Avery Mein Amrum

I have a huge bookshelf and I love to decorate it with crafts and goodies I get from my penpals and swap-partners :)

You've made it! Thank you so much for reading my profile 💖