warheart

I prefer Quality over Quantity. While I appreciate you wanting to send me extras, please save them for someone else! I have more than enough goodies and would just like you to put your very best into the swap itself! Thank you!!

I am on an extended break. Dad is out of surgery and mom needs some help. I broke my hand/wrist on vacation in July!! I'm allowing myself time to heal as well as helping mom!! Nov 2024

Hello!

My name is Jen. Born & raised in western upstate New York (and now live in eastern NY, for about 15 years now, really love it over here). I have ventured into other states (and Canada) but have never been International yet!

Occupation: I am a RN and have been for 15 years now (I have a MSN). I love my work. I mainly work in Geriatric care. I love to sing to my patients, and they love it too!

I am a single mom, I have 2 teenage boys who are so different from each other yet still somehow the same! They are amazing kids. One is graduating this year (2024 and going to a local college) and the other will be moving up to Senior!

We have 2 Great Danes (Black/White Harlequin & Merle) who think they are lap dogs and a Miniature Schnauzer who thinks she is as big as the Great Danes! She runs the house and keeps the bigger dogs in line. We also have a Sphinx cat who couldn't care less about anything but eating, sleeping, wearing sweaters and zoomies!

“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” – Scott Adams

I love papercrafts such as mixed media/altered works of art. Love to draw and watercolor. I'm addicted to junk journals and planners. I currently use a hobonichi weeks. I love many different styles from cute to modern to vintage/antique.

I do a lot of woodworking on the side and like to create and build different things. I also do a lot of 3D printing and playing with my Glowforge! I have been dabbling in a bit of resin too!

I sew & quilt. I love creating all different things such as bags/totes/wallets. I also do mugrugs, tea cozies, etc.

“A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.” – Amelia Earhart

• I love different Architectural works and older buildings with lots of details.

• I love fantasy creatures (non-cute): dragons, tree spirits, faeries, dryads, centaurs, forest nymphs and gods, selkies, hippogriffs, mushrooms, mushroom nymphs, chimeras, elves, mermaids, elementals, unicorns, etc

• My music is all over the place. I love jazz and classical, some techno and electronica. Whatever suits me at the time.

• I love anything and everything to do with The Nightmare Before Christmas (I have 3 tattoos of NBC, 8 altogether). I am not big into sitting down and watching TV, I rarely have time for it. I do have Netflix, but my boys use it more than I do. We are always outside doing things and adventuring.

• I like to work in my garden. I grow various flowers as well as veggies too (tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, squash, etc). I have raised beds for a lot of my veggies and then I also have various areas in my yard for flowers. Wildflower seeds are fantastic - love seeing the bees

• I do enjoy some other Disney stuff/movies. I like Moana (the chicken is my favorite), Beauty & The Beast (animated), Aladdin (animated - Robin Williams is so missed!), Tangled (love the chameleon Pascal), Big Hero 6, Lilo & Stitch (one of my absolute favorites), Treasure Planet (such fond memories of my boys loving this), The Sword in the Stone.

• I also love Studio Ghibli. Nausicaa is one of my favorites. Also love Howl's Moving Castle, Princess Mononoke, Kiki's Delivery Service.

• I am into nutrition and fitness. If you have a favorite healthy recipe or smoothie recipe you would like to share, please do. I drink water or flavored water - no sodas or sugary drinks.

• I'm not a huge kawaii fan but I do like some of it. I like the little bears I've seen. I like the mushrooms and some of the cute little monsters. I don't know any of their names or what they are called. I do like the larger memo sheets.

• My favorite animals/critters include: foxes, raccoons, river otters, ferrets/weasels, goats, great danes, sphinx cats, bees, hippos, elephants, and sharks.

• Love Sarah J Maas and her books. Especially the ACOTAR series. The Romantasy genre - that's what I like. I also like fantasy/sci-fi as well as various thrillers/mysteries.

-LOVE Stickii Club sticker sheets, Pipsticks, Four Bears, Violette, and others

• ##Other likes include:
• hiking
• kayaking
• snow skiing
• fishing
• relaxing
• traveling (going to the city, the mountains)
• New England in the Autumn (maple syrup season, the first snow of the year)
• folklore (local too)
• old/run down graveyards
• old/run down buildings
• "haunted" areas
• hot air balloons
• thick socks I can wear without shoes/boots (wool socks are lovely)!
• candles or candle tarts (no vanilla scented anything please, I like fresh scents and woody scents)
• I love local honey, apple butter, maple butter, or fruit jams/jellies.
• Hand Creams - It does get very dry here in the winter and I use my hands a lot for work. Please only fresh or wood-y scents - no vanilla or bakery or candy scented!

I truly appreciate anything when someone puts the time & effort into putting a package together for me. I am really easy to please and truly appreciate the effort. There's a lot I like outside of what I've listed here, I just don't exactly know what to put. Or how I would want to change this up to reflect it.

“Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.” – Joseph B. Wirthlin

Please do not send me child/kiddie/alphabet/reward stickers, I will not use them, same goes for planner stickers. While I do use a planner, I don't really care for a lot of the planner sticker styles

I don't eat candy or too many sweets. I drink coffee, but drink it black. I do like teas, but only teas such as Earl Grey, English Breakfast and the like. I am not much of a fan of flavored tea or coffee. If you send flavored tea, that's okay, my youngest son will drink it.

I do not smoke.

PLEASE DO NOT SEND: Holiday themed items (unless the swap is specifically for that), anything religious or racist and sexual content, sequins, confetti, loose glitter, cosmetics/nail products, vanilla scented anything.

“Kindness makes you the most beautiful person in the world, no matter what you look like.” – Anonymous