shirleyinCA

SOME NEW INTERESTS

(in case you've been sending to me for years and are tired of my profile)

• Button Box pc's
• umbrella/rain/cloud images
• vinyl, vellum or any large stickers
• dried flower/leaf stickers
• Kerstin Frykstrand
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Smokey the Bear
• Belle and Boo

I love to do paper art, scrapbooking and journaling. Jesus loves me & I am eternally grateful. I love being a wife, mom, former Disneyland tour guide & teacher.

Passions for Handel's Messiah, country music, zydeco, CS Lewis, e e cummings, Max Lucado, Gaudi, French Impressionist painters, The West Wing, Amazing Race, NYC, the Tour de France. My favorite travels: France, New Zealand, Switzerland, Barcelona, London & the Cotswolds, Yosemite, Kauai and a Disney cruise anywhere!

I collect old and new Golden Books and pop up books for kids and adults, Disney and Disneyland items (the older the better!) My happy place is the beach/ocean. Sitting in solitude on my verandah on a Disney cruise ship, enjoying the sea, clouds and sunshine is perfect!

One of my favorite things about my job is that I get to assist many precious families visiting Disneyland through the Make a Wish Foundation!

• watercolor
• paper cuts (Scherenschnitte)
• 1950's & 60's
• Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Beauty & the Beast, Cinderella, Pocahontas & Dumbo
• vintage Disneyland
• elegant
• Paris, Provence & all things French

Currently crazy about:

• letterpress
• paper dolls
• pop-up cards
• anything by artist Shinzi Katoh
• anything by Rifle Paper Company
• Little Red Riding Hood
• need Little Man of Disneyland Golden Book
• images of pens & pencils, bicycles & typewriters
• La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona
• the original Mickey Mouse Club
• Joan Walsh Anglund

• Postage stamps/bookmarks/postcards featuring children's literature or Disney

• Anything Disney, especially older items, pins, Mickey, Dumbo, Mary Poppins, Bambi, Thumper, Cinderella, Beauty & the Beast

• Anything related to the Original Mickey Mouse Club and Mouseketeers from the 50's ( I got to spend a whole day as Tour Guide with 7 of them at Disneyland for a special event - amazing fun!)
• Anna Griffin
• Susan Branch
• Tim Holtz
• 7 Gypsies
• for Kawaii I like owls, Hello Kitty/Sanrio and Disney
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Eloise Wilkin
• Alain Gree
• twill tape (plain or with words)
• pressed flowers
• glassine bags
• quirky little items to add to journal pages
• bookplates
• view master reels, especially Disney
• paper dolls
• anything cruise related

If you have a Sizzix/Cricut type machine (I don't) I love the real intricate designs, any Tim Holtz, damask cartridge, etc.

bug/insect themes, stationery, ribbon, lace, buttons, recipe cards, magnets, post-its, quotes, vintage postcards (unless Disney)

My favorites would be:

• Maxicards (postcard with matching stamp and cancellation on image side of card)
• cards from Daring Dames: a Kyler Martz Postcard set
• Sanrio pc's (Helllo Kitty, Spottie Dottie, Twin Stars, etc. especially with foreign language on front)
• postcards of fog, rain, amazing clouds, umbrellas
• Cavellini cards, especially Paris Christmas Glitter Greetings
• cards by artists Chihiro Iwasaki, Shinzi Katoh, Mila Marquis or Cathy Delannsay
• map cards, unusual maps rather than states
• cards with cut-outs
• Mithila art
• watercolor or sketch postcards
• Kawaii
• travel poster art cards (like Anderson Design Group art cards of National Parks)
• nouvelle images cards
• Gotochi postcards (especially doll, character, food) - previously mailed are fine
• US National Parks (I need American Samoa, Cabrillo, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Channel Islands, Congaree, Gates of the Arctic, Guadalupe Mtn, Hawaii Volcanoes, Harpers Ferry, Isle Royale, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, North Cascades, Organ Pipe Cactus, Pinnacles, Valley Forge, Virgin Islands, Wrangell St. Elias)

I'd also love these themes:

• Coca Cola
• Joan Walsh Anglund, Mary Engelbreit, Richard Scarry
• classroom/teacher scenes
• 1950's
• NYC - prefer artistic, but photo images are fine
• owls & Siamese cats - prefer art more than photo
• dancers (any type)
• National Park art cards - like Lantern Press
• ocean, surfing, cruise
• lilacs or lily of the valley
• Tour de France
• cards by Rifle Paper Company or Flow magazine
• Big Letter "Greetings from" state cards (have AK, AR, CO, MN, NH, NJ, NM, VA)
• quirky, weird, odd, unusual postcards!!

• vellum, vinyl or large stickers
• ocean or cruise theme
• ad stickers
• Sanrio (especially Spottie Dottie, Kerokerokeroppi, Twin Stars, Hello Kitty)
• retro/1950's look
• typewriters, bicycles, clocks, botanicals

NOT INTO: alphabet, unicorns, hearts, rainbows