Hi swappers !

# I always post on time but mail from France can be really slooooow sometimes, please kindly contact me if you did not receive my envelope # #

My name is Delphine, I am a woman of 50.
I live in France, just next to Bordeaux city, with my boyfriend ('old boyfriend' as we know each other for 28 years now !) We are the human friends of 1 lady cat Moumoune.
I like hiking in the nature, taking pictures, traveling sometimes, doing some mail art and scrapbooking ! I also like home decoration and vintage furniture.

For me, the best in life is to be curious and open minded, that is why I love discovering and travers. Swapping is a good way to discover also.

This is a quote I like :
Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art. - John F. Kennedy

My favorite hobby is scrapbooking/junkjournaling and I really appreciate mail art, it is so fun to be creative !

I love to try to recycle coasters, bottles caps in metal or cardboard (beer, soda, milk caps for example), tiny stuff in metal I can find (mini keys, bucles...).

The type of paper I prefer is brown kraft paper, decorated or not.

I also try to doodle but it is not so easy. Then, it is easier to use ink stamps and good quality black alphabet stickers, love them for mail art!

I am used to swap with French people and I am interested in swapping with people around the world too. I see that on Swap-Bot many persons have the same kind of thinking as me : it is fun and I like this ! I always take the time to read the different profiles to get interesting information on the person I am swapping with.

I'd like to swap different kind of things but mostly tea now. I have a bunch of scrapbook items and ephemeras that I would be happy to share with you as I rarely make scrapbooking pages now.

Anyway, I stilI love to collect unused air mail envelops/air mail and travels related items as stickers/labels. Vintage food and drink labels as well as newspaper ads can be so charming sometimes with faded colors. They can really look great on journal pages.

Maps of all kind, especially vintage paper touristical ones are my prefered ones!

Cartoons with cats make me laugh, Cheshire cat and Garfield have interesting personalities, no?

I am a tea drinker: all organic natural green tea - no added sugar - , tea with red berry fruits (rapsberry, blackberry, cranberry...) and herbal tea in sealed tea bags will make my day. But please, do not send me any tea bags which are not correctly sealed as I will not use them. Just in case, I do NOT appreciate chamomille !

The scrapbooking pages I used to create were usually colored (my favorite colors are turquoise blue, fuschia, metallic grey) but with black letters/typo. I also like black and white pictures.

I do not collect specific postcards but I am keen on receiving snail mail in general (since I am a kid in fact!) I like photographies of nature views, cats (big or small), white and black pictures and mail art of course!

*** Please, do not send items with babies, Disney or Fantasy. I am not found of things like Hello Kitty or Disney for example, nor religious things or AI made.***

I like to cook, especially chinese dishes with soya sauce+noodles+marinated meat all shaked into a wok pan ! I like to hike in the nature and ride my bike when it is sunny but not too hot. But I also appreciate to walk into cities, just to contemplate what is around me...

About music : my tastes are quite large, I like listening to various types of music from pop, rock to electro music, except maybe heavy-metal.

I can watch different kind of programs on TV. My favorites are Two and a half men (in France, the translation is My uncle Charly), Friends, nature and home decoration programs.

Happy to be a part of Swap-Bot and ready to swap with you !