SharMarie513

Thank you to all my amazing partners in the Christmas stocking stuffers and gift exchanges for 2022. I loved each and every item that I received!

Hello! My name is Sharon, I've been married for 24 years and am the mom of 3 adult children, my youngest just turned 18 this past July. Born and raised in Florida..I haven’t traveled to very many places, so I love hearing about where you live! I have a few kitties that started out as feral litters that we rescued, and a handsome bearded dragon who is my daughter’s. I just love and adore all animals. I love taking pics and gardening. Watching the birds and squirrels playing in my yard..Sitting on the porch with a hot drink or cold sweet tea and someone to chat with is one of the greatest things in life! Especially when I have the birds, dragonflies, butterflies, and other wildlife all around me. I have big beautiful Southern Live Oak trees surrounding my home, with a view of the Indian River which is a block away. I feel so blessed to have all this nature around me. I'm definitely an animal and nature lover. I love being out in the sunshine and fresh air. Although I do enjoy a good summer afternoon thunderstorm. I am very spiritual in nature. I respect all beliefs and walks of life..I feel like we are all here to help each other through life, and make life a bit easier and happier for others.

I really get into and enjoy all the holidays...my favorite is Easter! Spring is my favorite season. But Halloween and Fall are also my favorite time! I love Christmas but I don’t love cold weather...at all! Good thing I’m a Floridian where cold weather doesn’t show up too much lol!

I really enjoy decorating my home with vintage items and I put a little out for each and every holiday.

For Halloween I don’t like gory stuff, I prefer cute or vintage, or the older type scary stuff. I have a Raggedy Ann witch doll that sits in my bedroom year round, she’s really cute! Got her on a trip to Salem I took with my daughter. That was so much fun!

I love any and all history, I will read anything historical! I also love to read about paranormal and the metaphysical. Also love magazines, any food or home decorating mostly..especially decorating with Vintage, thrifted items or repurposing I love Edgar Allan Poe

I want to start collecting vintage Nancy Drew books

I am really into history, home decorating, cooking, baking, being out in nature, gardening, bird watching, photography, stargazing, and learning about other people and cultures. I hope to travel to Europe some day.

I believe in natural and alternative healing...and the power of prayer ❤️

I also love jewelry, especially vintage or vintage style. Boho, artisan, handmade. Love dangle and hoop earrings...bracelets, rings. Also I am starting to collect brooches. Also jewelry made from crystals for healing. I have lots of different crystals but I also collect other things found in nature like cool rocks and shells. I also collect coffee mugs, though I have favorites I alternate what mugs I use depending on the season and holiday. And I love to drink coffee!

I love handmade mug rugs and potholders and change them out with the seasons.

Anything related to native Americans. Two of my great grandmothers were both Native American, (Seminole and Cherokee) and I am very interested in anything and everything relating to that.

Anything from the 1982 World’s fair in Knoxville Tennessee. We went there when I was 9 years old. Every summer my family would go to the Smoky and Blue Ridge mountains. I have so many happy memories of that! It helps me feel connected to my daddy who passed in 2007, he loved the smokies. So if you live in that area, anything, even a tourist map, I’d love!

I LOVE history! If you have a cool story about the history of your area I'd love to hear it!

Any vintage items, home decor, ornaments, etc

I love to shop antique malls and thrift stores! So if you spot anything you think I’d like, I don’t mind if it’s not brand new! I like things with a history and a story!

Anything with dragonflies

Vintage beads, buttons, jewelry, even broken jewelry for crafting

Stickers

Soft plush socks, my favorite is Therapeutic Earth but I like all cozy soft socks especially ankle ones

Jigsaw Puzzles

Postcards (and Zazzle postcards are ok with me, even if the swap says it’s not)

Anything Edgar Allan Poe

Vintage stationery , cards, stickers, notecards, etc

Earrings and crystals made into earrings

Brooches/pins

Anything Antique or vintage

Anything ravens or crows

Finished needlepoint

Easy needlepoint kits

Vintage or new buttons

Fabrics for crafting projects

Homespun fabrics and ribbons

Bath and Body Works small hand sanitizers

Anything Bath and Body Works really!

Anything that has to do with history

Vintage Nancy Drew books

Ornaments (especially handmade)

Nativity or Jesus ornaments

Anything with birds

Magazines especially home decor or history, archeology

Handmade and unique jewelry

Harry Potter

Thomas Kinkade

Debbie Mumm

Susan Winget

Lighthouses

Handmade primitive items

Anything to do with trains

Coffee Medium Roast

Any type of tea, mostly to pass along to my mama

Chocolate especially dark

Caramel especially sea salt caramel! Yum!

Brach’s Jelly Beans

Candy Corn

Saltwater Taffy

Maple candies

Anything unique from your area

Anything made from nature

Historic books, biographies

Vintage cookbooks

Kitchen hand towels (also I love the towels with the crochet tops to hang)

Vintage sugar spoons (I collect these and use them with coffee every morning)

Tea light candles

Wax melts mostly clean or apple and fall scents

Vintage Halloween (especially 70s and 80s)

Anything to do with space, the stars, universe, sun, moon

If you have any favorite recipes you’d like to send me I’d love that!

If we are in a gift swap and you don’t know what to send or run out of time, small gift cards are fine especially Bath and Body Works, Michaels or Starbucks 😁

I really love everything! It's fun to get to know people and I love getting something that someone else enjoys with a story behind it....I love to connect with people.

If you live in a place where anything historical happened or a good story please share!!! I'd love any type of little newspaper clipping or tourist map, anything from your area you’d like to share!

I love any type of postcards, especially vintage or vintage reproductions! I also love tourist postcards from places you have visited or live. I'm happy with ANY though! I keep ALL of them and from time to time will go back and read them again.

I sometimes will frame postcards and hang above my writing desk.

I also collect postcards that were used and postmarked early 1900s up to 1980s. Love these and I put them in albums.

Any postcards from The Smoky or Blue Ridge Mountains

Savannah Georgia postcards

Boston or Salem Massachusetts postcards

Tourist postcards

Historical postcards

Vintage postcards

Trains

Birds

Flowers

Trees (especially pine trees)

Vintage Disney World

Postcards with books or libraries

Any other postcard you’d like to send me!

I always try to rate the day I receive a swap in the mail! Also, if you haven’t received a swap I’ve sent within a reasonable amount of time please contact me. 🥰