maggie16

2 December, 2024

Just starting to get back into swapping after a few years away.

In the process of updating my profile.

Hello fellow swappers, warm greetings from Melbourne, Australia!🙋🏻‍♀️🌏🇦🇺🐨🦘

I'm a bunny 🐰 mum...I adopted my rescue bun Gigi in June 2023, six months after my angel bun of ten and a half years, Cuddles, crossed the rainbow bridge. I miss her every single day, and always will. She will be in my heart forever.

I'll always advocate for animal adoption, and especially for rabbit adoption.

Here are some other things about me, in case you wish to know:

• I’m a highly sensitive person (HSP)
• I’m quite introverted
• I'm a homebody 🏡
• I have chronic anxiety
• I have a circadian rhythm disorder - delayed sleep phase syndrome (DSPS) 🛌☀️
• I have misophonia 🎧
• I'm a perfectionist, and it most certainly is a double-edged sword 🗡️
• I love nature 🌿
• I love animals
• I love children...in another life I probably would have been a school teacher 👩🏻‍🏫
• I'm interested in psychology, neuroscience and science generally 🧠🧐🧬
• I love being creative 👩🏻‍🎨
• I love paper, paper crafting, stationery, snail mail, art journalling, drawing, painting, collaging, and have loved all since I was little
• I love illustration and surface design, and love creating repeating patterns
• My favourite colours are pinks💗 greens💚 blues💙 + purples💜, but I'm a colour lover in general 🎨🌈=✅👍🏻

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If possible, I'd appreciate postage stamps on swaps, rather than printed labels. I love stamps and love seeing and collecting different ones from around the world! 🌎

I prefer quality over quantity.

I will ALWAYS complete swaps that I've signed up for, and will aim to rate my partners in a timely fashion. However, life happens, and if I will be late in sending a swap for any reason, I will always message the swap coordinator and my partner/s.

📮OUTGOING SWAPS

I always comprehensively read my swap partner's profile, and try my best to send something I think they'll like, and that may bring them some joy. If you don't receive my swap within a month of the swap deadline, please message me before rating. If necessary, I will re-send. Please keep in mind that I live in Australia, and international mail deliveries may take a few weeks, sometimes maybe even a month.

📬INCOMING SWAPS

If I don't receive a swap two months after the deadline, I will always contact my partner before rating, and give them a chance to re-send.

Paper crafting/snail mail/art journalling supplies:

• paper: patterned, scrapbooking, gift-wrapping...
• stickers
• washi tape
• postcards
• greeting cards/note cards (with or without envelopes)
• envelopes
• letter sets
• memo/note sheets
• wax seals

THEMES/MOTIFS

The seasons (Spring Summer, Autumn, Winter) nature, acorns, pinecones, gingham, woodland, cottagecore, strawberries, green apples, cookies, ice cream, ribbons + bows, teddy bears, anything mail/post related, clouds + sky, trees, tree canopies, plants + flowers (especially pink flowers, tulips, peonies + wildflowers), stars, hearts, dinosaurs (fave = Stegosaurus), rainbows, suburbia, houses, Betty & Veronica comics, 80s + 90s nostalgia, quotes (especially pertaining to creativity, nature, introverts, science), Sanrio (Little Twin Stars, My Melody, Hello Kitty), animals (I have a soft spot for: baby animals, rabbits, dolphins, horses, elephants, polar bears, snow leopards, hedgehogs, narwhals), the ocean, beaches, jungles, forests, prairies, meadows, desert, rivers, lakes, waterfalls, space/astronomy, things that sparkle...

I love holiday themes and birthday themes! I'm happy to receive holiday/birthday themed items year-round, even if the swap isn't a seasonal swap. Motifs I especially love for each celebration:

💝VALENTINE'S DAY

Hearts, handmade Valentines, roses, love notes, shades of reds and pinks, children or animals celebrating.

🐣EASTER

Easter eggs, bunnies, chicks, Spring, baby animals, children or animals celebrating.

🎃HALLOWEEN

Pumpkins, ghosts, bats, spiders+ spiderwebs, candy, children trick-or-treating/in costumes. Nothing overly gory or gruesome though...more cute and "spoopy" than "spooky"! 👻

🎄CHRISTMAS

Traditional, wintery/snowy scenes, Christmas village, snowflakes, rocking horse, reindeer, snow globes, woodland animals, pinecones, wreaths, holly + winter berries, Christmas trees, ice-skaeing, mittens, ornaments, stockings, vintage toys, Santa's workshop, gingerbread cookies

🎂BIRTHDAY

Cake, sweets, gifts, bows + ribbons, confetti, bunting, children or animals celebrating.

• USA STATE MAPS 🇺🇸

I love USA state map postcards, and have built a collection of cards from almost all 50 states, thanks to many lovely swappers! I would welcome any state maps, and would love to have different ones from each state.

STILL LOOKING FOR...Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Vermont.

If you can help me out with my USA map postcard collection, please message me and we can set up a private swap! Thank you in advance :)

• 'GREETINGS FROM...'

• Anything related to/featuring any of my 'Things I Love'

• Lovely/cute/whimsical illustrations

• Beautiful landscapes

• Nature: trees, jungles, prairies, greenery, plants, flowers

• Animals

• Tourist postcards (especially beautiful scenic ones)

• Creative, handmade postcards

I love both clean, blank postcards in an envelope, and naked, written + stamped postcards...please send the way the swap outlines.

If sending naked, I love personalisation from YOU on the back with a handwritten message...and sticker/washi decoration if you're feeling creative!

🎬🍿 Jurassic Park (childhood fave + all-time fave), The Lost World, Jaws, Alien, Aliens, Twister, Apollo 13, Contact, Home Alone, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, Napoleon Dynamite, Dumb and Dumber, Liar Liar, There's Something About Mary, Wayne's World, Spinal Tap, Aladdin, The Mighty Ducks, Three Men and a Baby, Mrs. Doubtfire, Grease, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest,

📺 It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia, Everybody Loves Raymond, Full House, The Nanny, Will & Grace, Family Guy, Arrested Development, The Office (US), Eastbound & Down, Vice Principals, Parks and Recreation, The League, 3rd Rock from the Sun, LOST, Whose Line Is It Anyway?, The Baby-Sitters Club (90s series), Captain Planet

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager🪐🛸🌌

🎶🎸 Talking Heads, Kiss, Journey, Kate Bush, Fleetwood Mac, Stevie Nicks, Bob Marley, 80s rock

I wish to swap paper items and flat stationery/craft items only - postcards, letters, greeting cards, stickers, paper crafting supplies, etc. Items that aren't flat and/or light cost a fortune to mail internationally!

Australia also has very strict rules for what can and can't be mailed here. Please do not send any magnets/anything magnetized, animal products, or any perishable foodstuffs 🚫.

I kindly wish NOT to receive the following:

• Food/drink (including candy, gum, tea, chocolate 🍫🍬🍭🫖)

• Items that smell of cigarette smoke 🚭

• Items with pet hair on them...but please say hello or give your pet/s a cuddle for me 🤗

• Anything scented (with the exception of scratch and sniff stickers!) - I'm very sensitive and certain scents often trigger migraines 👃🏻🤕

• Items with LOOSE glitter or glitter that sheds easily

• THEMES: animal cruelty (hunting, animal racing, circus animals, and anything depicting animal mistreatment/abuse), clowns, pirates, goblins, gnomes, witches, wizards, gothic, vintage (pre 1950), masks, coffee, owls, snakes, toads, cockroaches, military/war, gun culture, The Wizard of Oz

  🐎🎪🤡🏴‍☠️🧙‍♀️🧙‍♂️🎭☕️🦉🐍🪳🪖🔫