heidiblooms

I'm engaged! My wonderful boyfriend, Jeremy, proposed to me on 1/28/24 at a lake where we had one of our first dates. We're currently wedding planning and are over the moon excited! Our wedding is September 28, 2024👰🏼‍♀️💍🤵🏼‍♂️

My address has changed! I have mail forwarding set up, so all of my mail sent to my old address will be forwarded to my new one.

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I'm a member of Mrs. Grossman's Sticker Club! You can use code STICKERFRIEND for $5 off your first month at this link if you'd like to join. (I don't make money off of this, just sharing some stickery happiness!)

Hello! My name is Heidi and I've loved being here on swap-bot for the past few years. I graduated from college in December of 2021 and I currently work as a Christian preschool teacher. My dream is to be a stay-at-home mom!

I have a little bunny named Dumbledore (or Dumby for short) and a long-haired blonde hamster named Pancake. I also have notoriously neat handwriting. Some people have told me that it looks like a font or something printed off of the computer! I love handwriting penpal letters and swaps :)

I am a Christian and my faith is the most important thing in my life. I enjoy Bible journaling, keeping a prayer journal, and having fellowship with others. I am always willing to talk about Jesus to anyone who will listen! ✝️💒🛐

I LOVE the color pink💖 (it's my favorite color), hot air balloons 🎈, rainbows🌈, and strawberries🍓! If you send me anything with those on it I will love it!

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If you're sending a postcard, I enjoy these themes:

📌 Touristy from the area or country you live in (top favorite!)
⛪️ Churches, chapels, monasteries
📫 Maxi cards
✉️ Postcards with interesting stamps
🖼 Stained glass windows
✝️ Christian Saints
🕊 Christian iconography
🍓 Strawberries
🐹 Hamsters, squirrels, bunnies, chipmunks
🗺 Postcrossing meetups
🦋 Butterflies
🌸 Flowers
🌈 Rainbows or rainbow-colored things
✨ Special postcards (cork, wood, lenticular, shaped, seed packet, things like that)
(If you want to send me a previously used postcard, feel free to put a piece of paper over the back and reuse it!)

I frequently host Postcrossing meetups in the Dallas Fort Worth, Texas area with my friends. My username on Postcrossing is also heidiblooms, check out the forum there or send me a message if you are interested in coming to an in-person meetup with fellow postcard lovers!

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☕️ I love tea! I try to drink a cup every day and I've loved "tasting the world" through the teas that other lovely swappers have sent to me. Some of my favorites have been:
☕️ Fruit-flavored (blueberry, orange, strawberry, etc.)
☕️ Floral (lavender, chamomile, hibiscus, rose, jasmine)
☕️ Chocolate mint
☕️ I have no tea dislikes besides licorice

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A: Adult coloring pages (I like the simple ones as I can finish them in one sitting), animals, art museums, ASMR
B: Baking, bunnies, bookmarks, Bible verses, balloons, bees, butterflies, birds, Biblical Creationism, bird houses, bright colors, board games, Boggle
C: Cross stitching, cardinal birds, clouds
D: Decorated envelopes, Daily Wire, dot-to-dot, Christian devotionals, doodles
E: Envelopes
F: Flowers, fauna, fruits, friendship books, friendship sheets
G: Glue sticks, gardening
H: Hamsters, Harry Potter, hiking, handmade things, hearts, hot cocoa, hummingbirds, hot air balloons, hazelnut
I: Ice cream, ivy
J: Jellyfish, Jesus, jigsaw puzzles, journaling
K: Kaleidoscope patterns, kittens, koi fish
L: Letters, lilacs, lavender, lily of the valley, landscapes, ladybugs, lenticular things
M: Mrs. Grossman's stickers, Minecraft, mushrooms (red+white), modest fashion, magazine cutouts, Michael Knowles
N: Needlework, nature walks, national parks, natural history museums, Noah's Ark, nonfiction books
O: Orchestra, origami, outer space, outdoor running, oranges
P: PINK!!, plantable paper, penpals, plants, Pomeranians, pop-up cards, painting, playing piano, pressed flora, Postcrossing, postcards, Psalms
Q: Quotes
R: Ravenclaw, running, rainy days, rainbows, reading, rings, rock painting
S: Strawberries, Saints (my favorites are Maria Goretti and Michael the Archangel) stickers (preferably flat ones), stationery, stamps, Stardew Valley, sunshine, smiley faces, Scripture, sustainable living, squirrels, snails, Scattergories, Squishmallows
T: Thrifting, tea, thunder sounds
U: Upcycling, ukulele
V: Violin, vinyl records
W: Working out, whales, watercolor, wax seals, word games, Where's George (dollar bill tracking website)
Y: YouTube
Z: Zero waste
123: 40s/50s music (Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Doris Day, Bing Crosby)

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I always send my swaps out either by the due date or right after partners are assigned! If you live in the US, please let me know if you haven't received my swap 2 weeks after the deadline. If you are international, feel free to send me a message if it's been a while and you haven't received anything.

Feel free to send me a message if you're a newbie and would like to do a private swap with me, I know it can be hard to get ratings under your belt when you first join.

I trade and accept excess of the following:
* Friendship books / sheets
* Traveling postcards
* Slams
* Crams

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Just a few special things I've been looking for!

• Prayer cards (usually the size of a playing card, they have a Christian image on the front and a prayer on the back)
• "Please deliver to" labels for writing addresses
• Stationery paper
• Return address labels
• Strawberry, blueberry, or orange flavored teas
• Blank postcards

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Anything witchy (besides Harry Potter) / pagan / wiccan, swearing, and pride flags/insignia, as I am a Christian and these things go against my beliefs. I am okay with confetti as long as it isn't teeny tiny, but please do not send me loose glitter as my pets could get into it.

Other than that, I'm not picky at all! Send me whatever makes you smile, it'll probably make me smile, too!

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Letter updates for pen pals!

🇺🇸Ava C: Sent (22 Feb 24)
🇧🇪Bea DK: Sent (17 Jun 24)
🇺🇸Celery J: Received (2 Jul 24)
🇺🇸Debbie P: Received (18 Jul 24)
🇩🇪Hanna P: Sent (19 Mar 24)
🇯🇵Haruka K: Sent (15 Jun 24)
🇺🇸Indira D: Sent (15 Jun 24)
🇺🇸Jackie J: Sent (14 Nov 23)
🇺🇸Jane I: Sent (22 Jun 24)
🇩🇪Jaye S-B: Sent (1 May 24)
🇺🇸Jennifer dC: Sent (25 Jul 24)
🇺🇸Jodie B: Received (18 Jul 24)
🇫🇷Laure R-J: Sent (17 Jul 23)
🇱🇺Lolita D: Received (22 Jun 24)
🇩🇪Maren B: Sent (19 Dec 23)
🇺🇸Paula K: Received (18 Jul 24)
🇺🇸Sandra M: Sent (8 Jun 24)