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It's been a while since I've done SB swaps and I'm excited to get back into it!

I love to make collages including postcards and ATCs, and I'm interested in small container art, like miniature dioramas and matchbox shrines. I would also like to explore more zines, stamping, and woodblock printing.

I enjoy spending time in nature, and living in Oregon gives us access to cities large and small, the beach, the high desert, mountains and forests.

I like puzzles, mysteries, labyrinths and ghost stories.

I'm hoping to use Swap Bot as a way to learn more about the people who are creating all of this wonderful art: I want to know peoples' stories, about their home towns, their favorite things, and how that is expressed thoughtfully through their work. I hope to bring some of that beauty into my own home, with work or objects I can wear or display.

I read a lot! Everything from Italo Calvino and Haruki Murakami, to Ursula K. LeGuin and William Gibson, to Charles Dickens and H. G. Wells.

The one book I can read again and again is Jane Eyre.

I recently read and loved Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, and The Night Circus.

I've also been revisiting the lush and mysterious books I read as a kid, that I think deeply influenced me: The Westing Game, The Eleventh Hour, etc.

I watch a lot of films too!

Some of my favorites include Brazil, Amelie, City of Lost Children, Pan's Labyrinth, District 9, Lost in Translation, and Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind.

I like horror movies that are suspenseful, but not gory--less Hostel, more Hitchcock.

I'm interested in supplies I can use to make art for future swapping, like origami or textured paper, washi tape, little canvases or picture frames, cool stamps with old-fashioned engraved style... (Not so much for buttons, pre-cut shapes, confetti, or scrapbook elements.) I would love to get some empty matchboxes or tins.

I'm not religious, so I won't be able to make good use of religion-themed materials.

I also like scented candles (florals including rose and jasmine, or citrus).

My favorite colors are muted or jewel tones, but I also like to be surprised by bright things, as long as they're pretty.

I love bees!

But: I tend to not like cartoony stuff, unless it's beautiful (like watercolors, or some anime) or super cute/sweet/kawaii, like Capybara-san.

My favorite aesthetic is eclectic. I dig Victorian, Art Nouveau, 1920s/30s, Anthropologie, phantasmagorical...

Halloween is my favorite holiday. I like most Halloween imagery, but I'm partial to the vintage stuff and cute modern design.

I'd love to know more about your home town or country, be it a note, a postcard, a magnet, a smashed penny or your favorite local candy. We also drink a lot of tea and I'd love to try your favorite!

I'm very interested in folklore and mythology, and love regional creatures like the chupacabra and Bigfoot. Tell me about yours?

If you have any questions or want to know more about my likes/dislikes, please feel free to email me: [email protected].