princessblueberry

9/11/26~ finished canning yesterday…2 days with no problems loading swap-bot sight Aug/Sep 2026 ~ Been trying to check in every day…it gets from Alaska to Portland, Oregon and doesn’t quite make it to swap-bot. So far I’ve gotten all 3 swaps this year out on time. Am waiting for feedback to start showing up for last month’s swaps and this.

Hopefully this resolves soon! I’ll be able to check more then 1x a day when I’m done smoking my outhouse sized smoker full of salmon and canning it. Have items prepared for the 2 swaps I’m waiting for partners and just need yo personalize and address envelopes. I’ll be done before partners are assigned…

Advent: most have 25 days. Me, being Orthodox Christian...we have 40. Thus the signing up for or hosting copious amounts of advent swaps. Am a paper crafter and would love little surprises weather they are supplies or something you made… a fun pice of paper (One of my favorites is a 1875 Spanish dictionary) Scrapbooking stickers Piece of a snipet roll Punched out shapes (We all have different punches) Used postage stamps expecially foreign or old Vintage Ephemera 1980 or older Foreign Text ATCs Inchies Tags Clusters …you get the idea.

0 of 40 Advent Envylope

I'm a crafter and mostly sign up for swaps to make things...

Brave Girls Club ~ proud member from back in the day. Found Melody Ross online classes looking for inspiration for an ATC swap on here. Took her classes while I saved up to to get Certified to teach them. 3 business name changes and over a dekaid of dreaming March 2026 dreams came true and I flew down to Utah and am the 1st BGC & Soul Road Master Certified Teacher in Alaska.

As my children are preparing to launch into this world I’m getting started teaching. Weather it’s just volunteer, part of a day job or as a business remains to be seen. Lots of dreams and ideas, exciting to see where it goes! Those of us taking the classes free refer to it as our Art Therapy but I learned the week before I flew down you need a College Degree to market it as that. Honestly I’d rather volunteer with those who can’t afford to pay for the classes than go to college at this point in my life, lol!

If your another of Melody’s Certified Teachers I’d LOVE to have you host swaps in the BGC group and if needed so you can help you get started on Swap-Bot with ratings.

I'm a soon to be 45 year old Orthodox Christian stay at home mom. Loving hubby & 2 kids (boy 18 & girl 16). If I'm signing up for a swap I want to make you something. If possible for ATCs, blind or theme swaps, I like to make things before I sign up.

Likes: cooking, baking, crafts, Tea, ATCs, inchies, butterflies, unicorns, poetry, steampunk, Narnia, Christmas, Pascha (Easter), tea parties, vintage Valentine's, lace, dread ponytails (I like to pretend my dr didn’t tell I’m going bald 10 years and still have hair)…

Tea ~ am mostly loose leaf with tea bags as emergency backup when I’m running late

Favorite; Earl Grey variations, peppermint, chai, ones with rose, Lipton Apple or Mikan (it’s Japanese) Likes: black, herbal, floral Dislikes: green, matcha, Market Spice

Japan ~ my aunts have been missionaries there 1 longer than I’ve been alive. Made it to her 50th Anniversary Dec 2025 for my first trip/visit. Am not so much for the kitschy of my childhood like Sanrio, Kawii and like like…more of the artisan, handmade, craft supplies and treats I found in my trip. Rationing out my candy and fruit still. Have milk bottles filled with dry Mikan peels from my trip that I’m adding to tea and coffee. Their hard candy tastes a million times better than ours.

WIP am working on updating my likes as I participate in new swaps after removing all the outdated info 🤪

Dislikes: cinnamon scented anything, onions, Scarry Halloween, sculls (unless medical journal in decoupage...)

Don't need:
ATC card covers. Pickled up thousands of them dirt cheep.
ATC backgrounds... Kids should stickers

Once I had to bow out of a year long bday swap due to family death and another swap, my only low rating, I had to resend because numbers in the address got transposed. Sent in time originally but was at hospital.

I will always make a swap right and like to send extras if and when I can.

Flakers! Flaked on me :-( lexi83 ~ Flat Advent Calendar 3/4

sharingink~ Ultimate Year of Happy Mail #17 R.A.K.

ilikepink~ 100,000!, swap box 100,000 swap

reauk~ mums know best. > WTA November

MsSuzanne~ mums know best. > WTA November

shortmommy23~mums know best. > WTA November

personal will not swap with list

ariestess ~ advent swap partner 2014

Zoebolt ~ advent swap hostess 2014

TC ~ after reading her responses to things