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Date Joined: February 10, 2017
Last Online: April 25, 2018 Birthday: November 11 Country: United States Etsy Favorites My Amazon Wishlist |
Hello! My name is Analise, and I live in Seattle, Washington, USA, (with my German Shepherd/Rottweiler rescue, Rutherford) but I grew up in a desert in California. My favorite color is grey, and my favorite animals are sharks! I'm one half Mexican, one half Italian & Lithuanian, so feel free to write in any of the respective languages to help me learn. I've travelled to Canada, Mexico, England, Scotland, Ireland (and Northern Ireland for all you separatists), and France. I currently have seven tattoos, and can't wait to collect more!
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
I don't really have the attention span for reading anymore (argh) but when I can finally simmer down, I love postmodern literature (hence Greene!), and some modernist works (like Tennessee Williams).
Currently by my bedside are
Narconomics by Tom Wainwright (an analysis on the economics of drug cartels--so fascinating!)
Richistan by Robert Frank (was given by a friend to learn about wealth. Hmmm)
Feel free to PM if you want to swap for either of these books. :)
I don't watch TV unless I'm watching a documentary series on Viceland, or the nightly news. I'm so largely out of tune with TV and movies--I haven't seen anything.
It's an absolute cliche but I do really love most types of music--alternative, dance, rap, reggaeton amongst my favorites. My shower playlist currently includes "Si Tu Novio Te Deja Sola" by J Balvin/Bad Bunny, "Strict Machine" by Goldfrapp, and "Whole Lotta Lovin'" by DJ Mustard.
I try to go to shows often, and I go to Coachella every year (I grew up a few blocks away!). Other festivals I've been to include EDC Las Vegas, Bumbershoot, Capitol Hill Block Party, and 111 Music Festival.
I would be so happy to receive postcards, stationery, unused stamps, and washi! My only request with postcards (excluding those listed in Dislikes) is that if you are sending blanks, please don't send any touristy/destination ones. I think it's weird to get a card of a place I've never been to if there isn't a note that shows the sender has been there or otherwise has a connection to it, if that makes sense? If it's written, though, then I am so happy with tourist cards.
I myself am not much for stickers or coloring pages, but if I have young nieces who love things like that! They live pretty far so I like to send them mail regularly to surprise them. They are aged 10 and 8, and they love everything from Barbie to the Avengers!
Other than all that, my favorite types of art are drawing (charcoal, pencil), painting (oil, watercolor), and photography.
My favorite artists are:
Painting: Wayne Thiebaud, Ben Steele
Illustration: Henn Kim, Apollonia Saintclair
Photography: Mary Ellen Mark
I'll get on the ABC thing too! Here's "just a few of my favorite things" not mentioned already:
A - Aviation (esp. vintage) / Amusement parks / 80s Advertisements
B - Burlesque / Birthday Cake / the Beatles / Barbie
C - Cars / Cider / Catholicism (not Catholic anymore but it makes me nostalgic for home) / Coffee
D - Doughnuts / Del Taco (there's only 1 in WA!) / Daggers / Drag
E - Expletives / Eyeshadow
F - Fashion / Fireworks / Fairs & Festivals / Food / Film Cameras (I shoot 35mm)
G - Guns (not in the NRA type of way... & oddly enough I'm a pacifist) / Globetrotting
H - Halloween / Hotels / Herbal teas / Hiking (a new love of mine!!) / Heart-shaped things
I - Iconography
J - Juice / Jaywalking (hard letter)
K - Kit Kats / Kids (HA! Just kidding. Never having them)
L - Lingerie / Linguistics / LGBT+ / LA Dodgers
M - Mean Girls Quotes / Money / Memphis (design style, not city)
N - Neon Signs
O - Ombre / Opals / Outer Space / Okapis / Otto von Bismarck
P - Peruvian Lilies / "Painterly" & "Photorealistic" art / Pasta / Pulp Fiction
Q - Quartz / Quantum Physics (it's fun to read & talk about with my very basic, rookie level)
R - Records (LPs but I also have 45s and 78s) / Running / Reincarnation
S - Soccer / Sailor Jerry / Sewing / Skulls
T - Typography (fave font is Helvetica) / Triangles / Textures (you could send a picture of denim and I'd be happy!)
U - Unpredictability / Urbanity / Unsaturated Fats (yes? no? This letter was hard)
V - Volleyball / Vegetarian
W - World War II / West Coast / Wine
X - /
Y - Yoga / Yuletide
Z - Zombies (cute ones like pin-ups otherwise I get bad dreams, lol)
Please don't send items with religious or cutesy/kawaii imagery. I'm perfectly fine receiving vulgar, provocative, or otherwise obscene cards (in fact I encourage those)!
My least favorite colors are yellows and neon lime green. I'm embarrassed to admit they make me physically nauseous, lol! Not embarrassed to admit they're ugly anyway.
And please, please, one of my only true pet peeves is when someone misspells my name. I get that it is very unusual, but as I get older, it starts to bother me more to see people write "Ana" or "Annelise" when my name is literally typed out in front of them. Other than these few things, I am very easygoing and I am so happy to receive anything! :)
I've been amassing things of which I have no use but I can't bear to throw away. Please PM if you want them!
I have:
Yarn skeins & scraps
Fabric scraps (including lace and other trim)
I'll update this list as time goes!
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Comments
Wow, thank you so much for all the beautiful stamps that you used to send back my postcard in send 4 keep 1 swap! :D
Thank you SO much for the amazing art you did on my "Send My PC Back" card. I absolutely love it! It makes the card even more special to me.
I received my card back for Swap #14, thank you! I love not only the quote you added (NO, it's not too sappy!) but the beautifuly lettering you used. Love it!
i received my card back today thankyou very much :)
thanks you for coloring on my cat collab coloring card, You are right it turned out great. :)
Got your letter! I'm behind in my letter writing but yours just went to the top - so much good stuff to talk about!!
From Cheap Postage Group!
I received your letter today, and I'm so happy you enjoyed the music! I have a monstrous amount of playlists all set up on Youtube and 8tracks as well as on my computer. If ever you want a random shuffle of music just let me know. Beware, I have a very large variety of music in my collection.
Aspens, Thank you so much for my gifts. You stepped in and became my savior of the Wacky Silly, & Unusual Holidays for July. Again thank you.
*** I love my magazine.
Thank you for sending home my "Adventures of the Traveling PC"