Myself333

About Me

Hey there, I'm Jessie (she/her)! I enjoy movies, music, painting, and random crafting projects, and I look forward to the new art I find through this to admire and inspire me.

I'm somewhere in my mid 30's. I have 2 of the sweetest chihuahuas you'd ever meet, Loki and Dexter. I'm up to 4 cats now - My black cat Judas, a fluffy tabby girl Gizmo who I adopted as a kitten from a feral litter in my backyard, and two stray super sweet guys that lived in my backyard until they decided they didn't - Frank and Mr. Pickles. I'm an INFP, Aquarius (Scorpio Rising, Pisces Moon), LGBTQIA+, and Team Valor for those of you that play Pokemon GO! (My trainer code is 5137 4991 4113 - feel free to add me).

My craft stuff will probably always be the biggest space consumer in my place, so I joined this to help put it to good use! I'm a bit quiet, but I love making new friends & discussing my favorite tv media, stories, music, and philosophy, mostly. I'm part hippy, part metal head, part witch, part nerd, & part mermaid.

I cannot stress how much I love anything nautical! Vintage gothic and psychedelic/bohemian are a couple of my other favorites when it comes to home decor, and if I like the art I get through swaps enough, I try to find a place to display it, especially in those 3 categories. Mushrooms are included in the psychedelic category, but I love all mushroom stuff, including more vintage/biology book styles of art, which is what my kitchen is decorated in. I like to antique shop.

Neurodivergent & Not Interested in Drama

After a couple really unnecessary experiences I've had with swappers on here, I feel I should let it be known that I'm on the spectrum. It definitely came across to me that these experiences were over differences in communication styles and preconceived notions of what I'm like. I don't subscribe to hierarchy, I don't think anyone's better than anyone else. I'm an open book, and what I say is exactly and ONLY what I mean - there's no hidden intent. I'm not emotionally invested in either direction toward people I don't know, and if you don't like me I'm going to receive it as a projection of your own negativity and move on with my life. Also! Any other neurodivergents with life/cleaning hacks, I'm always interested in hearing them!

Swapping

FYI I use a sponge pen for sealing envelopes, so water is used, not saliva.

I pledge to rate
I give hearts based on effort. Be that how much you put into your art, or, especially for postcards, whether or not you took the time to look at my profile and pick something special to my taste, or for non-profile based, at least wrote or sent me something interesting, these all fit in that category. I believe creativity isn't as much a talent as it is a skill that has to be exercised. So, that's not the only thing I pay attention to when I receive something. I'm fairly generous with hearts, but not so generous that they've entirely lost their meaning when I give them.

I mark sent when the mail is "out of my hands," as per Swapbot rules, which in most cases means my mailbox. Therefore postmark may be a day or two after that, but I do try to get them out asap, before the deadline.

I also pledge: To always send my swaps on time, or IF some crisis comes up, to message you ahead of time about it being sent late. I am NOT a flaker, so please message me if you don't receive something and are worried! I've gotten to a point now where I send most stuff off well before the deadline. I have, however, lost much faith in the US Postal system - It makes me understanding of others' lost swaps, as long as they do me the same courtesy I would do them, by messaging before the deadline about sending a late swap, keeping in close contact, and re-sending when necessary.

I've been getting into Deco Books lately, so just putting a little note on here that homers are always welcome! I love sending home a finished product, especially when it takes so long to get passed around. Just please make sure it's one I haven't created or already done a page in. When sending one of my own decos back to me (completed), please make sure to put your swap-bot name or at least enough info for me to contact you in the envie too, so I can say or give you a thank you of some kind! Thanks :)

Too many to count, but I will note I'm a big fan of animation geared toward adults, as in the humor or content is commonly appreciated by adults, even if it's kid-friendly too. Examples include Venture Brothers (and pretty much anything adultswim), Gravity Falls, Over the Garden Wall, Bee and Puppycat, Steven Universe, Midnight Gospel, Castlevania, Rick & Morty, Harley Quinn (HBO series), Studio Ghibli, anime, and of course Adventure Time.

I know it's a long list - I like to give plenty of options in case people are working with limited supply. All caps are most liked.

• Favorite colors: Any shade of red or teal, especially dark, saturated shades. I also particularly like bright/neon colors and holographic/iridescent. Lately I've been really taking to orange.

• ADVENTURE TIME - I love ALLL the characters, but my absolute favorites are Marceline and Bubblegum, who I have tattooed on me, along with Catbug and Puppycat.

* Alan Watts & Terence McKenna (quotes would be lovely)
* Abandoned places & interesting Architecture
* Alphonse Mucha/ ART NOUVEAU
* ANIMAL BONES - the real thing or anything depicting them
* Animals in clothing, especially formal wear
* Anime
* Avocados
* Homemade bookmarks
* Bananas
* Brads
* CATS
* Circular punchies, but only if you can do unique 1" ones (for bottle cap magnets)
* CIRCUS & flow art. I do NOT condone animals in the circus, though.
* Colorful messages
* Coffee or tea stained paper!
* COTTAGECORE/ haunted cottagecore
* Deadly or otherwise odd or rare plants
* Dinosaurs & dinosaur birds (ostriches, emus, magpies, geese, flamingos)
* Embossed images, cards, etc.
* Embellishments
* Envelopes. Bought & made are both great, as long as they're not plain!
* Ferrets/ weasels
* Any FOLKLORE, mythical, or cryptid creature
* Garfield
* GELLY PRINTS
* Ghosts
* Hearts, especially anatomical
* Hemp or leather cord
* Hindu art. I find the colors, patterns, & depictions of deities absolutely beautiful and touching.
* HORROR and creepy things
* Hot wax stamps
* INAPPROPRIATE HUMOR, as long as it's not racist, homophobic, etc.
* Kawaii postcards or envelopes only, please
* Krampus
* Lace
* Llamas
* Lilies - tiger lilies are my favorite flower
* Mandalas/ bohemian patterns / PSYCHEDELIC
* MOTHS, especially lunar
* MUSHROOMS except morel. They don't mesh well with trypophobia!
* Music
* NAUTICAL! Especially mermaids, piratey things, narwhals, & creatures with tentacles
* Nudity is fine by me, as long as it's not an inappropriate selfie. :P
* OCCULT
* OPOSSUMS
* Organic beads/ charms (glass, stone, wood, etc)
* OTTERS
* Painting - acrylic & watercolor
* PAISLEY
* PHANTASMAGORIA, like Alice in Wonderland & Willy Wonka (older versions are preferred)
* Pinups
* Postcards
* QUIRKY/ ODD
* RACOONS
* Rainbow Brite!
* Recycled book pages or fabric
* Risque
* Roger Dean art!
* SEEDS (beginner gardener here)
* SNAILS
* SPACE
* Spiders
* Soft puffy stickers
* Stamps
* Stencils
* Steampunk/ dystopian
* Succulents, but not spiky cacti
* Sushi
* Tardigrades
* Tattoo style art, stickers, whatever
* Teapots/ Tea - art or the real thing. My favorites are thai tea, black tea and fruity/ginger/non-caffeinated, but I'll try anything
* Textures
* VINTAGE/ retro, especially antique portraits (1920's or before), or "ghost" photos, as I've sometimes seen them labeled
* Washi tape
* Witchcraft
* Woodland creatures (Foxes, birds/ owls, deer, worms, & forest folklore creatures especially)
* Zazzle
* Zodiacs

• ATC Note:

  I'm on the hunt for some quality coffee ATC's at the moment for a home decor project I have in mind.

• Ornaments

  Since I join homemade ornament swaps some years, my tree is now Krampus themed, so even if Krampus is too challenging, I would love ornaments in the red/black/vintage scheme of colors to add to it! Other creepy or occult ornaments also go on my tree.

In General

• Not a big fan of YELLOW but it's not going to bug me unless there's an obnoxious amount on whatever I receive.
• CHRISTIANITY, unless it's satirical, depicting an ophanim, or devil/demon related.
• KID STUFF, reward or planner stickers, etc.
• TRYPOPHOBIA triggers. Fractals are an exception; even though they still trigger it a little, I love them a lot.
• DISNEY, Looney Tunes, Tom & Jerry
• MODERN ART
• SOUTHWEST style
• COUNTRY LIVING, patriotic, "live, laugh, love", etc.
• SCENTED stuff - I have asthma and I'm picky
• CIGARETTE SMOKE - even when I smoked cigarettes myself, I was so grossed out by smoking indoors - the smell it leaves on everything is awful for me!
• COLORING papers or postcards. I have so many now and not enough patience for them!

Postcards

I now prefer postcards sent in an envelope, even if the swap says otherwise. You can still write on it, though; my collection is huge as is! I hate asking anyone to spend the extra postage, so I totally get it if you don't send that way. But pretty much every postcard I've been receiving arrives with parts of the front smudged out due the machine it goes through, and it stinks that I rarely keep what would be my favorites because of it.

I don't particularly care for touristy. Even if it's vintage. Please save those for someone who will appreciate it, if you have something else you can send that meets the swap requirements.

PLEASE no Disney, Looney Tunes, or otherwise kiddy cards. I've never been a fan, and don't have any kids to share it with. It can be assumed I only like the cartoons listed in "TV shows", unless you've watched enough of those examples to get my vibe.

Not generally a fan of scenery / landscape postcards if you can help it. I'd much prefer the weirdest PC you've got! Also any of my above likes are just as welcome on a postcard, especially antique portraits :D

My top genres are indie, folk/bluegrass, punk, electronica/EDM, rap, and metal (except 80's hair metal). I also take to a fair amount of 80's songs and oldies. I like just about anything except radio pop and pop country.

A good rule of thumb whatever genre you send, is that I don't care for love songs unless they're sad. I'm not a hopeless romantic, but I can relate to feelings of grief and loss. The more metaphorical or left leaning a song, the better. I use Spotify a lot.
Some of my current favorite bands: Aesop Rock, Buku, Caravan Palace, Clams Casino, Dan Deacon, Days N Daze, Eyedea, Flying Lotus, Glass Animals, Harley Poe, King Lazy Eye, Lorn, Poor Man's Poison, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Ratatat, Rone, Samsa, Snails, Tally Hall, Tipper, & Um...
Honorable mention to Mike and the Molotovs! They're not really interested in making it big, but they're a very outspoken, fun spaghetti punk band here in the Phoenix area.