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My name is Cynthia from the Pacific Northwest (Olympia, Washington). I am 44 years old and living with my husband and two young adult daughters, on a tiny hobby farm with 4 dogs, 3 cats, and some chickens.

I also work part-time at a pack-and-ship shop. A dream job for a snail mail junkie!

I hope to gain inspiration to do more crafts, share those crafts, swap postcards, pen pal letters, and more! !

I absolutely love reading!! I am an avid reader, reading/listing to audiobooks up to 100 + a year.

I'll read just about any genre minus a few certain futuristic themes.

I have been crafting my whole life and have yet to find a craft I haven't wanted to try.

Favorites are (the list is constantly growing)

• Crocheting
• Cross Stitching
• Photography
• Pocket Letters
• ATC cards
• Geli Pressing
• Card Making
• Collage Art Projects
• Junk Journaling
• Bullet Journaling
• Small sewing Projects
• Flipbooks
• Watercoloring

I DISLIKE crude, rude, or vulgarity. Otherwise, my likes list can be endless. I am not religious but not against receiving religious-themed crafts.

I genuinely love it when others swap with their own hearts in mind.

I do not have small children so please no children/school-age stickers or foam stickers.

I can be a picky TV watcher because I have a hard time sitting still but when I do, I watch a diverse genre of TV shows ranging from Game of Thrones/House of Dragons, Pride, and Prejudice (BBC version), Sherlock Holmes (BBC version), Witcher, Stranger Things, Perry Mason (both old and new series), True Detective, Peaky Blinders, Vikings, Golden Girls, Law n' Order, Babylon Berlin, Deutschland, Murder She Wrote, and Longmire (just to name a few)

As far as movies go I'm a big Lord of the Rings/Hobbit and Star Wars fan, Classic Disney Movies.

I like classic black-and-white films, suspense/thriller (not horror), comedies, military, and movies based on books—too many to list. I'm not too fond of rom-com movies.

I do enjoy watching documentaries (all kinds from crime to nature, but especially Ken Burns)

The ABCs of ME

A- Animals, Audiobooks, ATC cards, Agatha Christie, Alice in Wonderland, Anne of Green Gables, Asterix and Obelix,

B- BBC TV, Birds/Birding, Books, Blue Cats, Book Binding, Beaches (rocky not sand)

C- Chickens, Cats, Crocheting, Cross Stitching, Coffee, Collages, Cottagecore, Collecting Things, Children Illustrations

D- Documentaries, Dogs, Daiso Stores, Disney, Daphne's Dairies, Dragons, DIY Projects

E- Europe, Eighties Pop/Country Music, Earth Tone Colors, Embroidery

F- Fairies, Flowers, Fabric, Family Time, Flipbooks, Fountain Pens, Friendships, Fantasia (Disney), Fairy Tales

G- Game of Thrones, Germany (I'm half German, Meine Mutter war Deutsche, aus Vonhausen/Budingen), German Foods, German Culture, German Language, Gnomes, Gardening, Green (the color), Geli Press Printing

H- Hippos, Harry Potter, Hobbit, Hobby Farming, Hiking, Hygge, Houseplants, Hockey, Homesteading, Handwriting, Hilda Pinup Model,

I-Inks, Illustrations, Inge Look (old ladies)

J- Jane Austen, Junk Journaling, Journaling, Junk Hunting

K- Ken Burns Documentaries

L- Lord of the Rings, Libraries, Laughing, Lace

M-Moomin Trolls, Mountains, Max Hastings, Magazines, Mermaids, Musicals

N- Nature, National Parks, Nineties Rock Music

O- Organizing

P- Pocket Letters. Pen paling, Postcards, Photography, Pens, Postage Stamps, Psychology, Pixar, Pippi Longstocking

Q- Quiet and Quality Time

R- Road Trips, Reading, Rocks, Routines, Rubber Stamping

S- Stickers, Star Wars, Snail Mailing, Sewing, Stationary, Sven Nordqvist

T- Trees, Tea, Thrillers, Thrift Stores, Traveling, True Crime

U-

V- Vegetables (eating them and growing them), Vintage EVERYTHING, Vintage Farmhouse

W- Washi Tapes, Wildlife Refuges, Wilderness, Walking

X-

Y- Yarn

Z- Zentangles