bearswearinglotusflowers

Just a person who enjoys the arts and the process of making things. I enjoy painting, drawing, sculpting, and many other hobbies such as flower pressing and book-binding. I enjoy creating art surrounding fashion, animals, and occasional landscapes. Food is a big motivator for me.

When I'm not making some sort of visual art or craft, I enjoy sewing, reading, writing, and researching random topics.

I joined SwapBot as I enjoy making and sharing art, and I would like to collect more art from around the world. I also have an affinity for the topic of mail itself, and I consider myself to be an amateur philatelist :D

Swap Likes

• Any Stationery-- stickers, washi tape, notepads, etc.
• Art, any kind!
• Notes and Letters
• Recipes
• Zines
• Chocolates and candies
• Writing Utensils
• Collectibles
• Postcards
• Accessories
• Handmade Goods
• Oddities
• Hot Chocolate Packets as alternative to tea/coffee

Themes: cutesy, weather, nature, fashion, botanical, vintage, tracking, cats, bears, ducks. Note: Please don't go by just these, I enjoy most themes these are just my top ones :]

Swap Dislikes:

• Coffee
• Tea
• Travel Brochures/Promotional
• Pet stuff, I like animals but not personal pet stuff please.
• Mass Produced stickers found on Amazon
• Strongly-scented items
• Anything Adult-Themed or Nudity
• Hateful Themes

Everybody has some kind of collection, here are some of my own :D.

• Foreign Currency
• Stationery
• Stickers
• Postage Stamps
  • Seals, Bears, Owls, Otters, Walruses, Narwhals, Cats
• Ink Stamps
• CDs
• Buttons
• Lace & Ribbons
• ATCs
• Postcards

• Painting (Acrylic, Gouache, Watercolor)
• Drawing (Ink, Pencil, Digital, Traditional Colors)
• Metalwork (Casting, Welding, Blacksmithing)
• Bookbinding
• Stickermaking
• Sewing and Embroidery
• Thrifting
• Flower Pressing
• Jewelry-Making
• Printmaking/Stamp-Carving

A: animals, art, axolotl, accessories, astronomy, aquariums

B: bears, brownies, baking, birds, bread, barbecue, buttons, breakfast, beading, bubbles, blacksmithing

C: clay, cutesy things, coins, collecting, cats, corvida, crows, charms, clovers, chocolate, commonplace books,

D: drawing, dark chocolate, dark colors, dragonflies, ducks

E: eating, eggs, evenings

F: flowers, fish, fries, fruit (but not eating them), French toast, fries, fudge, foxes, fur seal, fashion

G: gyros, goats, grid paper, gardening, ghosts, geocaching

H: hearts, hibiscus, hot chocolate

I: insects, ink

J: journaling, jellyfish, jellyfish

K: kebab, kakapos, kitties, keys, kawaii stuff, kpop

L: letters, lamps, Legos, libraries, locks, lace, letterboxing

M: moon, mushrooms, milk chocolate, music, mangoes, mail, metal, mofusand, metalcasting

N: notes, notebooks, noodles, nail polish, night time. newspapers, nature, navy blue

O: opossums, oatmeal (chocolate), olive oil, opals, omelets, owls, onyx, otters

P: painting, papaya, pancakes, pens, potatoes, penguins, photography, pajamas, postcards, post-punk, patterns, polka dots, pastels, postage stamps, philately

Q: quotes, quarts, quasars

R: rice, radios, ribbons, rain

S: stationery, stickers, soup, steak, seals, stingrays, stripes

T: trinkets, thrifting, tote bags

U: umbrellas

V: video games, voice notes

W: writing, welding, waffles, wax, water, washi tape

X:piXels

Y: yin and yang

Z: zodiacs, zines

As a sender

• I try to put a bunch of effort into my swaps! If you are receiving from me, expect some handwritten notes, I think it makes swaps more special!

• I tend to prepare swaps quickly, so I will always send on time!

• If I have sent something out, please let me know if it's been a bit of time before you have received it. (Around a month for domestic swaps and 1.5 months for international swaps) I also like to reach out if I notice that something I sent out is approaching 4 weeks of transit with no registration of being received.

As a receiver

• Please check above for swap dislikes for non-sender's choice swaps or if you are planning to add extras (extras will not affect my rating).

• I rate the same day or the next day after receiving your swap :]

As a host * I am understanding of ratings so if you do not meet the rating minimum, please contact me and I can consider allowing you into the swap depending on your circumstances!

• If I notice you haven't yet sent out your swap part to your partner, I will contact you the day before the swap deadline as a reminder and as an opportunity to let me and your partner know if you need a mailing extension. Things happen, it's no problem :]

Here are all of the swaps that I host!

Series: * Themed Mail Club Swaps [Monthly]

One-Off: * Shrink Plastic Charms