pianoheart

I am on swap-bot to make friends and have fun. If you would like to correspond with a friend from Hawai'i, please start by watching these two short videos and tell me what you think of them:

Simple Acts of Kindness

I love piano, ukulele, and stringed musical instruments from different cultures...the actual playable instruments and the music that they make rather than images of them or things shaped like them. I am interested in making/restoring ukulele. I make lei and jewelry using seeds from Hawaiian plants.

I welcome pen pals from the Hawaiian Islands who want to share friendship. Email pen pals from anywhere on Earth are also nice. I am more interested in forming friendships than accumulating stuff. I would like to find some like-minded people.

I love to cook. I experiment with adapting recipes for use with local Hawaiian ingredients. I grow many kinds of tropical fruit and like to use them in recipes. I cook mostly vegetables, fruit and whole grains. I don't cook with dairy, eggs or meat.

I follow an Earth-centered path. Everything I do centers around caring for her - reduce, reuse, recycle, planting trees, beach cleanups, water conservation, sustainable agriculture, plant-based diet, reducing fossil fuel consumption, any efforts to reduce greenhouse gases and climate change, replacing plastic with Earth-friendly alternatives. Tools for my path include musical instruments, gardening tools, work gloves, fossils, unusual shells, handmade wooden things, quartz crystal ball (to connect with ancestors). No need for altar tools, incense, images/statues of deities, or commercially produced things with images of witches/pentacles/cute sayings, but I do spiritually use plain black altar clothes, plain beeswax tapers, magnesium bath salts, natural bath soaps, handmade things made of natural fiber cloth.

It is difficult to remove plastic from an island. watch this to learn more
To learn more about how a plant-based diet can help Earth, I invite you to watch this YouTube film

Some favorites:

• Ocean - I love exploring the beach.
• Earth - I love being outside, hiking to waterfalls and great views, planting native trees.
• exercise: walking, hiking, mountain biking
• big tree forests
• pen pals
• musical instruments

• natural fiber cloth hair scrunchies

  A agriculture - plants

  B beach, bicycles with fat tires, bookmarks that are handmade, birds

  C carnivorous plants, chew toys for a medium-size dog, cooking

  D dog treats

  E Earth, essential oil soap bars, exfoliator, electric vehicles

  F forests, fruit trees, face scrub, forever stamps, friends, fossils

  G guitar

  H herb seeds from your garden

  I Ice sculptures

  J jars filled with shells from the beach

  K knots in wood

  L long-sleeved cotton t-shirts without words

  M music, musical instruments, magnesium bath salts, mbira, meditation

  N ngoni, natural fiber scrunchies (cotton, linen, silk, bamboo, hemp)

  O Ocean, oatmeal soap, origami, oven mitts

  P piano, pen pals, painting, puka shells, postcards mailed from different countries

  Q quartz crystal balls

  R rain

  S sundials, stretch tubes (for exercise), solar power, sumi-e, sterling silver jewelry clasps/rings/chains/findings/headpins, seeds harvested from your garden this year, stationery that is not girly or cutesy.

  T trees, travel, tea houses

  U ukulele, unused USA postage stamps

  V visitors, visual fireworks (colors, not loud sounds), violin

  W worry dolls, wishniks, white whippets, watercolor, water, waterfalls, wild rice

  X xylophone

  Y yellow

  Z zori, zafu and zabuton, Zen garden

  Things I Use:

• art supplies: No big craft stores here, so I love to receive tools and materials, like wood glue, small drill bits, decorative wide packing tape, white-out tape, small beads made of translucent glass/shell/nice metal, charms without words, small silver clasps, headpins, rings, findings for jewelry-making, and interesting tools for watercolor painting/sketching/drawing: pens and pencils, art paper, something new to try. I have had good luck with Pigma micron, graphic, and brush pens in all colors.

• thin, durable, handmade bookmarks - I use them in my cookbooks
• natural, plant-based essential oil soap
• I collect antique, old, and unusual switch plate covers and electrical wall plug covers (not plastic ones). If you would like to send one, please tell me about the type it is to see if I have a wall outlet that it will fit on.
• For flat swaps, I like: unused USA postage stamps, viable recently harvested herb and vegetable seeds from your garden
• I like drawing and watercolor painting.
• Things for the puppy: dog treats, squeaky, not stuffed, chew toys
• Things for the plants and farm: sharp hand-pruners , outdoor digital thermometer, solar powered anything, thick work gloves
• Sealed, unused packages of natural skin care samples/products, like exfoliator, face scrubs, face wash, moisturizer, magnesium bath salts, essential oil soap bars

• I collect very old picture frames, mostly wood, but sometimes metal, to frame my friends' artwork and photos of ancestors.

  Things I Don't Need So Much:

  • Please no food or drink (this includes tea bags). I don't drink coffee. If a swap I am in has a food component, please send a treat for my dog.
  • I do not collect used postage stamps, book pages, coloring book pages, or stamped images.

🎵🎹🎧 MUSIC I listen to instrumental music and folk music from different countries. I like experimental music and new music featuring folk instruments, but I will listen to anything except incoherent vocals and abusive language. Send me music from your local musicians and I will send you music from my local musicians.

For JEWELRY swaps: I love sterling silver chains, charms, beads, and findings, and things made with amber and coral. I wear delicate styles of anklets, bracelets, and necklaces. I have nothing pierced, so no earrings, nose rings, etc. I do not like plastic and avoid man-made materials.

• meaningful friendship exchange with age 50+ women who like to travel

• Anything handmade with care

• unused USA forever stamps: domestic and global

• Amazon electronic gift cards...I consider these profile-related and it saves you from having to pay postage.

• large, beautiful, mailable, handmade envelopes

• PDT labels

• something from my wishlist, favorites, or profile

My Book Wishlist

*** My profile is not meant to be a shopping list and is shared with the hope that you may choose to swap something that you already have on hand ♻ or may be inspired to create. Thank you for visiting😊