Kshiou

Hello Swaplovers!!! I am a 40 years young passionate and enthusiastic woman. I love travelling and discovering foreign cultures. I am mostly attracted to asian, near eastern and north African civilizations... What fascinates me most are rich mythical religions and legends; I find it so thrilling to study!

My latest passion is gardening. I live in an apartment, but have the lushest balcony garden. I just love to watch plants grow and growing things you can eat is just an added bonus!

For international swaps, please be patient if you live outside of Europe; packages can take up to 15 days or a whole month to get to you! (It apparently even took one and a half month once to Singapore). I will never hit the "items sent" button if it isn't actually already in the mail! And I hope I will always be able to send items on time; if not, I will PM you to let you know! So if time goes by and you don't get anything please let me know!

In my free time, I enjoy sitting at my kitchen table and creating things with my own hands. When I was younger, I studied Fine Arts, and I guess it just stuck to me... I used to do a lot of painting, but as the years went by, I started to have a preference for creating "useful" things, as opposed to just decorative objects. And I try to put my artistic sense in everything I make... I started with "pimping up" pieces of furniture (such as lamps or tables) and then went to making some out of cardboard. I also do some scrapbooking, and sewing. I am always open for a new challenge!

It comes now to music... What can I say?! I live my life to music!!!! I listen to all kinds of music... no matter the style, as long as the song is good! To give you an idea, here are some of my all time favorite bands or singers: No Doubt, Sublime, Rise Against, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Jason Mraz, NTM, Ren, Stereophonics, Pennywise, Pink, The Beatles, The Who, Deportivo, La Mala Rodriguez, Alanis Morissette, Sheryl Crow, Blur, The Beastie Boys, Bowling for soup, Weezer, Dashboard Confessional, Pink Floyd... Well that should do the trick to let you see a glimpse of my musical horizons...

As far as books go, I don't really take time to read anymore... I do still love books and the idea of them... and I still tell myself I'll get around to reading more someday. I must say that what I usually enjoy the most is fantasy and sci-fi. I also love poetry: Byron, Shakespeare, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud... Oh!! And I have tones of cooking books! But of course, I don't just read them... Yes, I love cooking too (should that go in the "favorite crafts" section?!)

There are soooooo many!!! To give you an idea, I possess about 1400 DvDs... and I just cannot part with them. I would say my top 5 is: The Princess Bride, Mad Love, Guardians of the Galaxy, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs...

I'm gonna go with the top 5 for this section too:The Last of Us, Game of Thrones, That 70's show, Battlestar Galactica, Rome...

All types of paper and scrapbooking supplies, beads and buttons, pieces of fabric, lace and ribbons, colourful fabric, stationary, candles (if they are soy based), flower, vegetable and herbs seeds, cooking/baking receipes or anything typical from forein countries and kawaii goodies... I love geckos in my kitchen and butterflies in my bathroom... I love TEA, but send me "tea time" accessories rather that tea bags (I already have so many different kinds!) I like a colorful world but I just love contrasts! ... I love giving and receiving gifts... You could just as well surprise me with anything that fancies your imagination! I can find a use for anything and everything!

Food, perfume, animal pictures (such as dogs and cats) and political or religion related items (it's just not my thing, no offense!)...