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darkandstormy

darkandstormy
Date Joined: December 22, 2020
Last Online: April 18, 2022
Birthday: April 5, 1971
Country: Australia

About Me

I am an Aussie female. This year I will be turning 50...eek! I used to have penpals when I was in my teens and I remember how excited I would get receiving mail in the letter box. Heard about this website from a youtuber who does penpalling and thought I would give it a go! I'd like to get into the habit of writing more as I used to write quite a lot...thought this would be a fun thing to add to my writing practice. I am also interested in participating in some of the swaps...some sound really interesting :-)

Favorite Music

BIG music fan. I like most music except heavy metal and k-pop. Some favourites include Springsteen, Taylor Swift, Coldplay, Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, Colin Hay...way too many to mention and pretty eclectic. I love certain types of music depending on my mood. Sometimes I need chilled acoustic or classic music and other times something to dance around the house to can put me in a great mood. I particularly love listening music in my car or when I am walking.

Favorite Books

I LOVE reading! I love psychological thrillers, crime, true crime, some horror and some non fiction - especially if its about creativity or a person or event that interests me. Favourite authors include Stephen King, Fredrik Backman, Agatha Christie, Louise Penny just to name a few.

Favorite Movies

Is there anything better than a glass of wine, popcorn and a Hitchcock movie? The ones I've watched the most, would be Rear Window, Strangers On a Train, Rebecca and Rope (but I love most of them) I love old black and white movies, some horror and some rom coms, true crime, thriller and disaster movies.
Other favourites include Big Chill, Seven, Jaws and Jane Austin movies based on her novels.

Favorite Television

Like watching some Netflix. The last tv series I watched was Afterlife which I really enjoyed (I also loved the music in it) Broadchurch, Poirot, Marple, Vera, Gilmore Girls, Frasier, Friends (which I still find funny) mystery, true crime shows.

Favorite Crafts

I have always loved doing art/craft projects since I was a young child. In 2014, I started doing pocket scrapbooking (Project Life- which really resonated with me) Now I mostly do travelers notebook journals and use photos and other assorted crafty supplies to document and just play with assorted stationary, pens, papers and scrappy products. I really enjoy putting together small writing and ephemera sets for people to use in their craft projects. I'm using up craft supplies that I have collected over the years and love finding things I can re-purpose from Op shops {thrift stores}

Themes and supplies I prefer

Coffee/Tea/Chocolate

Travel

All animals, especially cats

Fussy cuts from mags

Note cards/envelopes/post cards

Stickers- animals, winter, arty, scratchnsniff, bright...all types except reward/religious

Washi samples

Colour and small fabric swatches

Pretty yarn/thread

Postage Stamps

Ocean, winter, autumn or seasonal, Chrissie/Halloween

All Colours!

Ratings

dmwcheng rated for LLU: current read PC #2 on Sep 21, 2022
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Comment: Thank you for the postcard, Charis. I'm sorry for the late rating.
christywebb rated for Decorative Napkin Swap on Mar 15, 2022
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Comment: Thank you for the great napkins!
DollyDotBoo rated for Decorative Napkin Swap on Mar 2, 2022
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Comment: Thank you so much for the pretty packaging and gorgeous napkins. I ❀ LOVE ❀ the napkin with koala on it (I love marsupials)
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Comment: Thank you for the postcards :)
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Comment: Thank you for the great selection of cards, I love them.
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Comment: Thank you for the postcard, stickers, stationary, and quotes/pictures. I hope you hand has healed.
kizzlets rated for 100 Stickers Destash (INT) on Jan 20, 2022
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Comment: My goodness!!! You are so generous, can’t wait to use all the stickers to decorate outgoing swaps! It arrived today in good condition!
ladygrey rated for For the love of Sticker Sheets #1 on Jan 16, 2022
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Comment: I love all the stickers. Thank you so much. I had to fight my kids off from stealing the halloween ones.
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Comment: Thank you very much for the complete sheets of stickers along with the swap, I love them all!
ariebearie rated for For the love of Sticker Sheets #1 on Jan 10, 2022
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Comment: Thank you for the postcard. Never heard of Jane Harper. Her books look interesting. Hope you have a quick recovery and best wishes for 2022!
Response: Thanks so much - jane Harpers books are pretty good- at least the 2 I have read so far have been. I have 2 more of hers to read. If you like psych thrillers, you might like them. Happy New Year!
thecolorofinfinity rated for 3 things about my cat on Jan 6, 2022
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Comment: Thanks for the swap! Your kitty sounds like a real sweetie. And I hope your hand is better soon!
Response: thanks so much - I am out of the splint now, so that helps and yes, my puss cat is a love xo....have a great new year!
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Comment: Thank you for the postcard! I haven't read any of the books you mentioned so I'll have to look them up <3 Happy 2022!
Response: Glad it arrived - thanks for the rating and Happy New Year to you too!
BobaBarb rated for For the love of Sticker Sheets #1 on Dec 23, 2021
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Comment: thank you!
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Comment: Mailed on: September 27th, 2021 Arrived Safely on: December 6th, 2021. Is that a new record for transit time for a swap? It is for me! You might have heard that here in the US we are having some delays in our mailing and overseas shipping, and that might be why this took so very long to get here. But either way, I'm so happy to have received it! Thank you so very much for the postcards and the stickers! I'm sorry you had to wait so long for your rating. I will be sending the postcards on to a new home very, very soon. Thanks again for the swap, and for your patience!
Response: So glad that it finally showed up. The mail is crazy at the moment- it takes ages to arrive here in Australia and whenever I send overseas, it takes a ridiculous amount of time to arrive. Luckily so far I have had very patient swap partners lol
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Comment: Thank you so much darkandstormy! I received your package today! I love all the stickers you sent especially the Plants and Vases! Botanical aesthetics are my favorite :)
Response: So happy that it arrived and you liked the items ;-)
tinybookwitch rated for LLU: current read PC #2 on Nov 30, 2021
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Comment: What an adorable postcard thank you! I have never heard og the Green River Killer so I'll have to look that up as I quite enjoy true crime :) Good luck with reading your physical tbr!
Response: Thanks- still trying to get through physical books. Green River Killer - very interesting but the Ann Rule book is a long slog and I had to have breaks from it, Happy reading:-)
Eulegirl rated for WTL: rainbow #2 on Nov 29, 2021
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Comment: Thanks for the gorgeous washi and the extras!!
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Comment: Thanks for a wonderful assortment of stickers. Especially loved the Australian animals and bird! Happy Mails
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Comment: Thanks so much!! I love everything!! Two hearts for you!! <3

Rating Overview

Overall Hearts Stars Hosted
5.0000 78 3 3
Completed Fives Threes Ones
68 91 0 0
Type 1 Type 2 Type 3 Uncategorized
4 51 13 0
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Comments

DakotaSkye93 on Feb 13, 2022:

Thank you so much for sending me back my postcard for the stickers around the world postcard swap! ❀ I really appreciate it! πŸ₯° So happy with your coffee themed sticker as well. Have a great week!

Trevismom on Jun 1, 2021:

Just noticed that I spelled your name wrong! I was concentrating on the late delivery! I'm sorry Charis!

Trevismom on Jun 1, 2021:

Hi Chris! I'm so sorry but I just received the package that I sent you back for postage due! So strange though because I took it to the post office and did not rely on stamps. It looks like it made it all the way there then came back! On the postage due tag there is not even an amount to additionally pay! So I wanted to apologize for how late it is and I will be taking it back to the post office tomorrow! Again I'm very sorry! πŸ˜ͺπŸ˜ͺπŸ˜ͺ

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