shirleyinCA

SOME NEW INTERESTS

(in case you've been sending to me for years and are tired of my profile)

• Postcrossing pc's
• Button Box pc's
• Legos Still Life with Bricks pc's
• vellum stickers
• dried flower/leaf stickers
• cactus
• bees, ladybugs
• vellum print paper
• vinyl stickers or any large stickers
• Kerstin Frykstrand
• Strawberry Shortcake
• Smokey the Bear
• Belle and Boo

I love to do many kinds of paper art, scrapbooking and journaling. Jesus loves me & I am eternally grateful. I love being a wife, mom, Disneyland tour guide and former teacher.

Passions for Handel's Messiah, country music, zydeco, CS Lewis, e e cummings, Max Lucado, Gaudi, French Impressionist painters, The West Wing, Amazing Race, NYC, Broadway, France, Yosemite, Santa Barbara, the Tour de France, Siamese cats. My favorite travels have been to France, New Zealand, Switzerland, Barcelona, London and the Cotswolds, Yosemite, Kauai and a Disney cruise anywhere!

I collect old and new Golden Books and pop up books for kids and adults, Disney and Disneyland items (the older the better!) Nativities and vintage 1930's, 40's & 50's Christmas ornaments & cards.

My happy place is the beach/ocean. Sitting in solitude on my verandah on a Disney cruise ship, enjoying the sea, clouds and sunshine is perfect!

One of my favorite things about my job is that I get to assist many precious families visiting Disneyland through the Make a Wish Foundation!

• watercolor
• paper cuts (Scherenschnitte)
• 1950's & 60's
• Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Beauty & the Beast, Cinderella, Pocahontas & Dumbo
• vintage Disneyland
• retro/vintage
• elegant
• Paris, Provence & all things French

Currently crazy about:

• letterpress
• paper dolls
• pop-up cards
• anything by artist Shinzi Katoh
• anything by Rifle Paper Company
• Little Red Riding Hood
• need Little Man of Disneyland Golden Book
• 3" square little Little Golden Books, too
• images of pens & pencils, bicycles & typewriters
• La Sagrada Familia
• Snow White & the 7 Dwarfs, Dumbo, Bambi, Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket, Belle
• the original Mickey Mouse Club
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Postage stamps/bookmarks/postcards featuring children's literature or Disney

Also:

• children's book ephemera: dust jackets, ABC's, Caldecott nominees, stickers & book marks based on classic characters, bookplates.

• school theme, especially vintage: pages from readers, vocabulary/math flashcards, spelling & penmanship books, report cards, class photos, logos.

• Anything Disney, especially older items, pins, Mickey, Dumbo, Snow White, Dwarfs, Jiminy Cricket, Mary Poppins, Bambi, Thumper, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast

• Anything related to the Original Mickey Mouse Club and Mouseketeers from the 50's ( I got to spend a whole day as Tour Guide with 7 of them at Disneyland for a special event - amazing fun!)
• Anna Griffin
• Susan Branch
• Tim Holtz
• 7 Gypsies
• Stampington & Co
• for Kawaii I like owls, Hello Kitty/Sanrio and Disney
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Eloise Wilkin
• Alain Gree
• twill tape (plain or with words)
• glitter mist
• pressed flowers
• glassine bags
• quirky little items to add to journal pages
• bookplates
• view master reels, especially Disney
• paper dolls
• anything cruise related

If you have a Sizzix/Cricut type machine (I don't) I love the real intricate designs, any Tim Holtz, damask cartridge, etc.

bug/insect themes, stationery, notecards, ribbon, lace, buttons, recipe cards, magnets, post-its, quotes, --vintage postcards (unless Disney)

My PREFERENCE is always BLANK CARDS SENT IN AN ENVELOPE (if you don't mind.)

My favorites would be:

• Maxicards (postcard with matching stamp and cancellation on image side of card)

• cards from Daring Dames: a Kyler Martz Postcard set

• paper cut postcards

• Sanrio pc's (Helllo Kitty, Spottie Dottie, Twin Stars, etc. especially with foreign language on front)

• Cavallini postcards, especially eager for those from Paris Christmas Glitter Greetings - I only have one

• cards of watercolor art by Chihiro Iwasaki

• cards by artists Shinzi Katoh, Mila Marquis or Cathy Delannsay

• map cards, especially foreign countries or unusual maps rather than states

• cards with cut-outs

• Mithila art

• watercolor cards

• Kawaii

• sketch cards

• travel poster art cards (like Anderson Design Group art cards of National Parks)

• nouvelle images cards

• Gotochi postcards (especially doll, character, food) - previously mailed are OK, too

• Disney cards

• US National Parks (I need American Samoa, Cabrillo, Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Channel Islands, Congaree, Gates of the Arctic, Guadalupe Mtn, Hawaii Volcanoes, Harpers Ferry, Isle Royale, Katmai, Kenai Fjords, Kobuk Valley, North Cascades, Organ Pipe Cactus, Pinnacles, Valley Forge, Virgin Islands, Wrangell St. Elias)

• postcards of fog, rain, amazing clouds

I'd also love these themes:

• Coca Cola
• Joan Walsh Anglund
• Mary Engelbreit
• Richard Scarry
• classroom/teacher scenes
• 1950's
• artwork of Gauguin or Andrew Wyeth
• France - prefer artistic but photo images are nice, too
• NYC prefer artistic, but photo images are fine
• Barcelona and Gaudi
• giraffes & owls, but art not photo
• koalas
• dancers (any type)
• National Park art cards
• ocean, surfing, cruise
• fairy tales, children's literature
• typography/alphabet
• typewriters
• bicycles
• steampunk
• lilacs or lily of the valley
• Tour de France
• cards by Rifle Paper Company
• Flow magazine postcards
• Big Letter "Greetings from" state cards (have AK, AR, CO, MN, NH, NJ, NM, VA, WA)
• quirky, weird, odd, unusual postcards!!

I love:

• vellum stickers
• vinyl stickers for water bottles
• botanicals
• ocean or cruise theme
• ad stickers
• Sanrio (especially Spottie Dottie, Kerokerokeroppi, Twin Stars, Hello Kitty)
• retro/1950's look
• typewriters, bicycles, clocks
• large stickers

NOT INTO: alphabet, kid stickers, unicorns, hearts, rainbows