CrafteaDragon

Hi there! I'm Veronica, 40, live in southern Sweden with my husband, my 12 yo son and two cats.

As you might guess from my username, the things I like include tea, crafting and dragons!

I have a whole cupboard full of tea and love trying new flavours. I find it hard to pick favourites but I do enjoy a nice breakfast tea in the morning, for the afternoon a good chai during the winter or citrus green tea in summer, and a relaxing sleep blent in the evening. There's a tea parlour in my city that does afternoon tea as well and I go as often as I can!

I love trying new crafts as well - right now, I am mostly into various papercraft and crochet.

I have a little collection of dragons too, and I love fantasy things in general.

Other things I enjoy include cooking, baking, reading, writing (mostly short stories), gardening, gaming (board- and computer- games).

Crochet is my big craft love. I started crocheting as a child, so this is a craft that has stayed with me for a long time. My favourite crochet things to make are doilies/mandalas, shawls and amigurumi. I mostly work with cotton yarn of fingering weight or lighter.

My other main craft is, of course, papercrafting. I like to make mostly anything happy-mail related, but my favourite is pocket letters. I just really enjoy creating the individual little cards and getting it to come together into a whole. I also like making embellishments like tags and altered paperclips, and recently I've been trying my hand at paper/mixed media ATCs.

I also cross stitch and have from a young age. This one is sort of on the back burner for now, other than one project I have in my queue, but I do enjoy it so I will probably pick it up again!

I also started sewing recently. I've made some simple clothes for myself and my son, as well as some furnishings. I also bought a book to learn quilting so that's my next project!

I try various other crafts here and there; I make some of my own jewelry and I just started using polymer clay. Both are a lot of fun, too!

Books: I love anything by Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, Deirdre Purcell, Anne Rice and Jane Austen. I also enjoy reading poetry.

Movies: Lord of the Rings trilogy, Disney movies (my fav since childhood is Beauty & The Beast), Rocketman.

TV shows: Babylon 5, Doctor Who, Star Trek, The Expanse, Good Omens, The Sandman, The Good Place, Lucifer.

Music: The Amazing Devil, Pink, Hanson, Taylor Swift, Fall Out Boy, My Chemical Romance, Elton John, Queen.

Colours: Purple, teal, and also any pastels and rainbows.

Tea: Earl Grey, rooibos, chai, flavoured green tea, and different "sleep blends" since I always drink a cup before bed.

Chocolate: Milk or white chocolate with nuts, caramel or praline.

Fruit: Mango, strawberries, blueberries.

Animal: Cats, wolves, squirrels, gorillas.

Season: Spring.

Holiday: Christmas.

Flowers: Roses, tulips, violets, forget-me-nots, orchids.

• Tea and anything tea related (such as teacup imagery, tea spoons, tea strainers etc.)

• Anything book related (esp anything Jane Austen).

• Anything with words/quotes on such as magazine clippings, quote stickers, book pages etc.

• Anything crochet or yarn related (I don't knit though), esp things like stickers or cards with crochet/yarn images.

• Blank notedcards (I do a lot of tea and washi sample swaps and like to tuck them into notecards so I go through a lot!)

• Lined writing stationery, note pad or list pad pages.

• Handmade envelopes.

• Washi samples (short ones are ok, I keep a sample journal and only need small samples for it).

• Stickers of any kind (kiddie and reward ones get passed along to my son though). I especially love happy mail stickers!

• PDT and address labels.

• Used postage stamps.

• Scrapbook papers of any size.

• Paper napkins (for decoupage).

• Die cuts and cuttings dies.

• Clear stamps and stamped images.

• Small bits of fabric, ribbon and lace.

• Buttons (I love cute buttons!)

• Ephemera, both vintage and reproduction (I just started junk journalling and don't have a lot saved myself yet).

• Any papercrafting destash (I really enjoy getting random bits to craft with!)

• Frixion and gelly roll pens.

• Anything handmade (I'd be happy to do private swaps for small crochet or papercraft items too!)

• Anything typical to your country/region.

Favourite Themes: Tea cups & tea pots, yarn, literary, postboxes, dragons, faeries, mermaids, mythology (esp norse), fantasy, vampires, werewolves, space/sci-fi, forests, flowers, animals (esp cats, wolves & woodland animals), rainbows, vintage, Wrendale Design, winter/Christmas, Halloween, pride/bi pride.

Postcard preferences: I like written touristic postcards with a little fact about the place on the postcard, as well as cards with mailboxes on them. I also love illustrated cards with cats, woodland animals, mythical creatures or fantasy themes. If you can't think what to write, I would love to know your favourite quote, song lyric or piece of poetry!

I collect: Written postcards, washi, stickers, dragons, enamel pins, tea cups & caddies.

I appreciate not getting sent:

• Scented items
• Items smelling of cigarette smoke
• Hibiscus and Jasmine tea
• Spicy snacks .

(These are all due to migraine triggers/sensitivities, so I'm really grateful if they can be avoided.)

I'm not religious so I have no use for overtly religious craft supplies or blank cards, but I don't mind some religious imagery or if you want to send me a card or item related to a religious holiday which you celebrate (do feel free to share actually, I enjoy learning about different religious traditions).

If there's a kid swap or you'd like to include something for my child, Thomas is 12 and likes:

• Anything children's art/craft related
• Stickers
• Plushies
• Lego
• Pokemon, Super Mario, Kirby, Minecraft
• Red, blue and rainbow colours
• Fidgets
• Gummy candy
• Any kind of blind bag or surprise egg

If you send me kiddie stickers and similar I will pass them on to my son since he loves stickers and I have no other use for them. :)