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ankabake

ankabake
Date Joined: March 5, 2024
Last Online: October 28, 2024

Country: United States

About Me

Hello! I'm Annie from Kansas. I love the tallgrass prairie and gardening with native perennial grasses and wildflowers. You can find me spending evenings on my front porch swing watching the sunset. I live in a nearly 100-year-old farm house. My backyard looks out onto a cow pasture and beyond my front yard is a wheat field. I once drove 3 hours to help dig up and rehome a 30+ year old prickly pear cactus from another gardener.

Favorite Crafts

I do love snail mail and enjoy exchanging letters with friends. I have a handful of great friendships with seniors, and they like to write!

I like to be creative. Happy to be building up my craft stash again after many years. An amateur when it comes to drawing, but getting back into doodling (Zentangle style). I am drawn to paper crafts. I inherited a needlework stash from my grandma and great aunt (crochet, embroidery, cross stitch, rag rugs) which I have been meaning to learn.

Swap formats I would love to participate in:

  • Collaborative/traveling (journals, craft, notes, etc.)
  • Swaps to exchange favorite things
  • Swaps to exchange junk drawer/geocache type misc. cool items
  • Notecard, postcard and stationary swaps that aren't written on.

Interests

Swap topics I search for may give you a glimpse into my interests. If you know of a swap you think I may like, feel free to message me!

In no particular order:

  • Moon
  • pressed flowers or leaves
  • coffee
  • linocut/printmaking
  • mantra or affirmations
  • yoga, mudras, meditation
  • tarot
  • houseplants
  • seeds
  • mushrooms, moss, fungi
  • rural life
  • podcasts
  • embroidery
  • ephemera
  • wind chimes
  • bookmarks
  • rocks
  • fossils
  • marbles
  • book recommendations
  • playlists (Spotify user)
  • printed photos
  • collage
  • nature
  • autumn/fall season
  • sun catchers
  • sun dials
  • labyrinths
  • birds
  • Boston Terriers
  • poetry
  • rituals, traditions
  • tattoos
  • song lyrics, movie lines, book lines
  • fairy tales, folklore
  • origami
  • board games
  • tea swaps: I love mints and herbal tea, nettles, dandelion. Anything crisp and refreshing that would make an excellent iced tea! I am not a fan of anything overly floral (like rose or hibiscus). Decaf please.

Favorite Books

Surprise book of 2024 so far ... Stoner by John Williams.

I love StoryGraph for tracking my reads. Here is a link to my 2023 read list cover graphic from the app.

I wouldn't really recommend much of what I read last year. Big yes, however, to both reads by Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead and Flights. My 5 star recommendation from 2023: Brandon Sanderson's Mistborn trilogy.

I'm waiting patiently for the return of Severance, which 100% parallels Haruki Murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World. The last movies I really liked were The Great Beauty, Inherent Vice and Dune.

Favorite Music

I especially love live music. The last several shows I went to were AJ Lee and Blues Summit, Jeffrey Martin, Pokey LaFarge, Adam Greuel and the Space Burritos, Lyxe... Amazing! I enjoy outdoor and/or intimate, smaller venues.

I have an opportunity to accept an impeccable collection of Americana, folk, roots, and bluegrass (in the form of 3,000 CDs) from an aging friend. Should I do it??

Here is a link to my Shazam tracks.

Does anyone else miss thesixtyone?

Lately, I've been listening to the following on Spotify:

  • Pretty Sad Songs, playlist by Vertigo Vinyl
  • Clap Your Hands and Say Yeah radio
  • Teenage Dirtbag Radio, playlist by Jacob Feder
  • Road Trip 90s/00s, playlist by Mons
  • Art Room Mix 2023, playlist by Joseph Bertsch.

Rural Life = Slow Post

Please note I live in the country and will mark "sent" after I put your note in the mail. However, that may not mean your note will get postmarked the same day. (Example, it recently took 12 days for a regular envelope to go from my home in Kansas to a friend in Wisconsin.)

If for any reason you are ever unhappy with a swap from me or mail transit time, please reach out before rating. I will do what I can to make it up to you.

I will always rate as soon as I receive your note. If I have not rated you, I have not received your note. Message me to check in. Cheers.

Ratings

lefisher9227 rated for Used Stamp Chain Card Round 54 on Oct 28, 2024
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Comment: thank you soo much :)
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Comment: Thanks for the cards and your note - OMG the Northern Lights were spectacular, even here in Virginia - I cried to see them! I still want to see them dance, like you described - still on my Bucket List!
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Comment: Thank you for the lovely note! I love it when SB brings out our similarities and common interests! <3
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Comment: Thanks for the cards and for telling me about your drive to Sante Fe - I would love doing that too. I love the SW!
Rainydancer rated for SSM: Collaborative Story #24 on Oct 3, 2024
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Comment: I love that paper and your start! It makes me want to write and add to it!
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Comment: Thank you!
photovivie rated for Traveling book card #74 on Oct 1, 2024
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Comment: Thank you very much for your mail! It brightened my day reading about your recent read books on a bright and nicely shaped paper!
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Comment: Thank you! Virginia didn’t get a big emergence of cicadas this year either, but the yearly ones’ call made up for it. So loud!
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Comment: arrived safely. will pass along! would love to see all the wild sunflowers blooming!
RiverTopanga rated for Used Stamp Chain Card Round 53 on Sep 15, 2024
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Comment: Annie, love the stamps you chose! I don't think I have many from "the old days". But I always love birds of any kind, having worked at the Massachusetts Audubon Society in my early 20s I think Autumn in the midwest is nice too. Always grew sunflowers in NE... I just didn't like that it meant winter was coming.... Would love to see the blue sage and purple blazing star! Against fall grasses, bet they are beautiful 🌾🌻 Wish I could keep the pc and stamps, but must pass on. Enjoy the future swaps. There is one just about every 4-6 weeks 🙂
MNJoviGirl rated for Stationary Swap #1 on Sep 11, 2024
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Comment: TY
catlingmex rated for Stationary Swap #1 on Sep 9, 2024
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Comment: Lovely sets, thank you. What a treasure trove to get your great aunt´s stash!
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Comment: 85 and rainy today in Wisconsin.
Response: Love it!
Neenarneenar rated for Traveling Book card #72 on Sep 1, 2024
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Comment: Received thank you
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Comment: Thank you Annie for the beautiful print. I've taken a printmaking class before too - it isn't as easy as you think! You did a fabulous job. I will be writing in one of the notecards you sent later today for a letter writing swap. I also really enjoyed the poem you included too. It is perfect. Have a fabulous week!
Response: You are welcome! Happy fall!
DreamCloud rated for Traveling book card #73 on Aug 29, 2024
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Comment: Annie, thank you so much for your lovely letter. Have fun with your quilt work 💜
Response: It has been enjoyable!
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Comment: They have arrived safely :)
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Comment: Thankyou!!!
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Comment: Thank you for the #173 travelers. I fell for the Jackalope trick when we traveled out west. I was so excited to find postcards of a new animal! haha Thanks for the pretty pink envelope and stickers!🩷
Response: I love quirky postcards - it was one I received from a fellow swapper!
Cocpufffs rated for 💖Tea & Stickers in July 💖 on Jul 29, 2024
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Comment: Thank you. The weather here has been nice. Warm enough for summer activities but not suffocating.
Response: You are welcome!

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Comments

WhimsicalWildflower on Jun 13, 2024:

Hello Annie! Hope you are having a wonderful month💛

“Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

Swap: Comment a Quote Take Care, Laura Beth

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