MintSwaps

I love paper, writing, folding origami, drawing and painting, hiking and camping, arts and crafts, collecting postage stamps, doing calligraphy, the outdoors, and many other things. I love fine art, especially Impressionist (my favorite painter is Van Gogh, though technically he is post-impressionist) and I very much enjoy going to art museums and galleries. I'm a vegetarian and I love animals (foxes, chipmunks, black bears and terrestrial turtles - not sea turtles - are at the top of my list) and I wish humans in general respected animals more; they are smarter than people give them credit for. I believe that we all need to do what we can to help our beautiful planet and be more conscious of our impact on it.

THINGS I LIKE: Pressed flowers and leaves, postage stamps (user or new), real feathers, junk journal clusters / embellishments, photo corners.

FAVORITE SCENTS: Floral!!!: rose, gardenia, geranium, lily and jasmine are at the top of my list. Floral teas are lovely, and one can never go wrong with a nice Earl Gray or English Breakfast, but it is nice to try new things.

FAVORITE THEMES/ITEMS: Botanical and floral, pine cones, sea shells, bird's nests, foxes, chipmunks, black bears and terrestrial turtles (not sea turtles), Hokusai -Hiroshige, etc Japanese woodcut art, Van Gogh and Impressionism, Woodland: animals, forests, woods, etc, art nouveau like Alphonse Mucha and William Morris.

DISLIKES: Stuff that is too cutsie, too catoonish or too kawaii. Religious, Disney, Pokemon, Halloween, Superhero. I have too many postcards, buttons, notecards, sticky notes and ribbon already so please don't send any. I do like lace.

I can speak, read and write in English, Spanish and Italian and I am currently polishing up my French.