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 - 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. No need for altar tools, incense, images/statues of deities, or commercially produced things with images of witches/pentacles/cute sayings. I can use 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, biking
• big tree forests
• pen pals

• musical instruments

  A agriculture - plants

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

  C carnivorous plants, cooking

  D dog treats

  E Earth, electric vehicles

  F forests, fruit trees, forever stamps, friends

  G guitar

  H herb seeds

  I Ice sculptures

  J joy

  K knots in wood

  L long-sleeved cotton t-shirts without words

  M music, musical instruments, mbira, marimba

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

  O Ocean, origami, oven mitts

  P piano, pen pals, painting, puka shells, postcards - only if written to me, stamped, and mailed naked from the place pictured on the postcard - tell me about the place - is it a place near where you live or are you a visitor to the place?

  Q quartz crystal balls

  R rain

  S stickers to decorate envelopes, sundials, solar power, sumi-e, sterling silver jewelry clasps/rings/chains/findings/headpins, seeds, stationery that is not girly or cutesy.

  T trees, travel, tea houses

  U ukulele, unused USA postage stamps

  V visitors, 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 small .925 silver clasps, chains, wire, crimp beads, headpins, rings, findings for jewelry-making, beads, old/broken jewelry that I can add to my creations.

• thin, durable, handmade bookmarks - I use them in my cookbooks
• 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 herb seeds

• Things for the plants and farm: sharp hand-pruners , thick work gloves

  • I collect very old, interesting wood picture frames 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, candy, snacks). 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, post-it notes, ephemera, or stamped images. I do not collect postcards, but would love to receive one from you that shows me where you live and tells me a bit about your place. Rather than sending paper things for crafting, please send big mailable handmade envelopes or an original letter to me from you, if you want to be pen pals.
    • No need for Christmas ornaments or decorations. They look too much like toys for the puppy, so they would not last long in our house.
• If I am blocking you, it is just a reminder to myself not to swap with you again.

🎵🎹🎧 MUSIC I listen to instrumental music and folk music from different countries. I like experimental music and new music featuring folk instruments. Send me music from your local musicians and I will send you music from my local musicians.

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

• Something handmade with care

• unused USA forever stamps: domestic and global, unused USA postage stamps in any denominations

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

• large, beautiful, mailable, handmade envelopes

• 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😊